Harvey Milk White night Riots

[Seattlecarnut]

I remember first watching this documentary when I was in high school, and being livid that Dan White was allowed to be released after only a few years in prison. I remember thinking "Why the hell was he released? He killed two people! And they gave him only 5 yrs? That's bullshit! They should've given him the death penalty!"

[redrusty66]

It isn't nice to block the doorway,

It isn't nice to go to jail,

There are nicer ways to do it,

But the nice ways always fail.

It isn't nice, it isn't nice,

You told us once, you told us twice,

But if that is Freedom's price,

We don't mind.

Somtimes you got to burn it all down before the blind will actually see that you are serious!!!

[gojira931]

that black guy had a really good point. if he had done that he would have gotten life, if not death

[loner1878]

At least the piece of shit Dan White did us all the favor of offing himself not long after being released.

Kudos to all the participants in the White Night Riots.

[52questionmarks]

To all the gay activists out there I'd just like that thank you for all that you've done and what you continue to do for human rights.

[kepone405]

1:58, almost looks like the Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables album cover (Dead Kennedys)

[Attmay]

Harvey Milk was a saint. Dan White was a piece of human garbage who should have been lynched.

No equality, no peace!

[ETworldjone]

Was Milk killed because he was gay or because the assassin lost his job?

[KOHF34]

That elderly woman couldn't have said it better. Dan White should've never walked the streets again after killing two human beings.

[peerkbh]

I wish I had been there. Every single one of you protestors were heroes who dared stand up in the face of blatant injustice and homophobia. You paved the way for future generations and helped the world realize that homophobia is NOT ok, but being gay certainly is.

[hoosierkate545]

@peerkbh thank you.

[DadsBlueAngel]

That demonstration started when the verdict was announced.

[Fointainebleau]

gay is power!!!!

[NewMadrid01]

Peace can wait, if there is no justice involved. RIP Harvey Milk and George Moscone

[fishhead06]

No justice, no peace.

[ejboy360]

the 1970's was full of corruption, everywere from the NYPD in new york, who serpico investigated to the jury in the twinkie defense in 1979

[hig]

I was in high school and closeted when this all went down. Young people today who are gay don't know how good they really have it.

[b017ni3]

white knight? he wasn't riding in on his horse, rescuing people like a KNIGHT would do...jesus, do some research...

[craigsgirl48167]

I had never even heard of this part of the story. Was this riot widely covered in the news at the time? I wonder why it isn't as well-known today. I guess that's a good thing but a bad thing at the same time.

[NewMadrid01]

The DA is a fucking idiot!

[MrMusicFlood]

The people united, will never be divided

[carrotjuse]

U. S. Senator Dianne Feinstein: "His homosexuality gave him an insight into the scars which all oppressed people wear. He believed that no sacrifice was too great a price to pay for the cause of human rights.

[QuanPete]

Dan White can Suck My Infected Ass, as well as all the homophobes leaving dumb ass comments. US QUEERS BASH BACK!!!!!!

Watch your backs Hater's. FU2.

[bckm54]

@QuanPete marry me! :)

[QuanPete]

@bckm54 what's that marvin gaye song; "Let's Get It On". Lol

Keep in Touch, .......Lover.. LOL LOL LOL |:D

[texaska20]

and you are a true american idiot..

[texaska20]

is this supposed to excuse your ignorance?

[missfaustus]

@ohiostmarine29203 yeah, and he killed himself like a coward.

[gino454]

dan white is a martyr! HE WAS A MARTYR FOR ANYBODY WHO HAS BEEN FUCKED OVER BY SOMEONE ELSE. milk fucked white over in so many ways.dan white had a beautiful young family..u know there was something deep inside him to push him to that extreme measure and throw away his precious family. for whatever reason gay people think milk was killed.he got killed bcuz the same system milk fought out to change he became part of. screwing over other people laughing at and fighting against things white wanted

[ronnykmarshall]

@gino454 Go to hell.

[gino454]

@ronnykmarshall why did u even type that...talk to me and let me hear what u think about the subject not what i said...u don't like it tell me why

[SearcherForETI]

@gino454 I understand why you're visiting gay videos constantly gino and why you say the things you do, you're jealous of us -- I know you find us hot and threatening--but don't worry, maybe one of us will give you a sympathy fuck to make you feel better

[gino454]

@SearcherForETI...first i'm not lookin at "gay videos"i seen the movie milk and was interested in seeing what actually happened. second ur approach of insulting me is funny. i'm not jealous of ur lifestyle...and i don't have anything against it. if a guy is goodlooking i'm secure enuff to actually admit that...idk if i'd ever say "hot". so ur way off...sympathy fuck???? maybe if u dressed as a girl and were hot enuff i'd let u blow me haha. well maybe not, but i'm def not against gay people

[SearcherForETI]

@gino454 Glad to see I was right to see your lack of a sense of humor--I responded to you stupid comments with a stupid one of my own. Saying you have no problem with gays and then praising Dan White as a martyr is the same logic as saying you're not a racist but called James Earl Ray a martyr. What next? Should we praise the Columbine kids for killing because we hated high school too? Don't throw shit in our face and claim to be not hostile to us

[gino454]

@SearcherForETI do u know what a martyr is?if u do then u'll understand what i meant. all of those people u mentioned above r martyr's it depends on what perspective ur seeing it from...if it's bad or good it's up too the person who see's it that way. i don't think anyone deserves to be murdered. i don't have a problem with gay people, the mother of an ex g/f i had was gay and she was the best person. the way i see it is ur hostile towards straight people for attacking me with cruel intentions

[SearcherForETI]

@gino454 Actually gino I am not hostile to straight people (I oppose this social order not the people who compose it), I oppose STUPID people of any background. To say that assassins and mass murderers are all martyrs from a certain perspective is a grotesque example of the most rank relativism. I am a staunch atheist and radical Leftist but I believe in an objective, progressive ethics, by which to judge the actions and events of history

[gino454]

@SearcherForETI ehhh ur goin way off course of the topic...i stated dan white stood as a figure for anyone who got screwed over by someone else...that's all, plain and simple.i don't like it and u don't , but that's what it is rank relativism or whatever.the truth sometimes hurts and some people don't wanna hear it. life isn't all rainbows and butterflies. u oppose the social order and not the people...then who the hell composes this social order u speak of?

[MamaMario13]

@gino454 u deserve to be tortured lol

[gino454]

@MamaMario13 for what? stating my opinion? yeah and u should be sitting right next too me u fuckin idiot!!! so u don't like what i said,don't comment on it.comment on the fuckin video u just watched, but i guess ur original comment show's ur intelligence level. tell me why should i be tortured? i didn't gay bash or anything, all i said from what i remember was that milk kind of instigated his own death.tell a guy u'll help him if he helps u no one deserves to die but being used is just as bad.

[silverbonn]

"If you want peace--work for justice..." FYI: Dan White committed suicide shortly after being paroled... PS: The inside "joke" RE: White's light sentence? Got 8 yrs for killing a mayor (who was a FRIEND of "an f-word") but did NO time, for *killing* a "f-word." God(dess)! When I think what I've witnessed in just this one lifetime! (Am 53 11-09.) HANG IN there, Friends! Change takes a HECK of a long time to actually take root! (& yes, young'un. LEARN the 'Family's' His/herstory!

[rich107s]

They really showed those Police cars who was boss !. Takes a lot of guts to burn a empty Automobiles.There actions hurt there cause.

[rich107s]

The President should have enacted the Insurrection Act and sent the Guard in and busted there heads open.They show there outrage at an act of violence by committing acts of violence ? Geniuses. Well I guess they found out ,you need more then Flowers in your hair.

[SearcherForETI]

@rich107s First of all, thios was not an insurrection, secondly, how American! Lets have a totalitarian state insitututed. Have you forgotten American's right to revolution? "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"

[crazedmongoose2003]

The two people below me on the comments firstly has the combined IQ of a particularly dense gnat and secondly deserves to fucking die.

[Creep5]

That homo and liberal mayor should not have been taunting that man that way. Fuck em'.

[flagwaver1969]

Nothing's changed. The radical communists, homosexuals, and ethnocentric groups are still destroying America. Give no quarter and no mercy.

[castillianwagon500]

Plenty of Gays are anti Communist.

[fishhead06]

Britt was absolutely right

[Germany124]

Seriously? Your a fucking bigot, I hope you burn in hell. I know a few straight people that have AIDs, so I'm not sure what you're trying to prove there... the safest sex is lesbian sex btw.

[moosenduck519]

shit like this pisses me off...why would they jus let him off like that? this is ridiculous. but i am so proud of the gay community and or everyone who had the balls to see how wrong that was. "i know your angry. im angry." -harvey milk (rip)

[paladin0711]

I was there that night of the riot.. right on Market Street.. what a memory.

[QuanPete]

@paladin0711 Me Too. it was a Major rage of a night in S.F. all those police cars horns screams while on fire (by city hall) I think we did Harvey some justice that night

of course NOT ENOUGH. just glad the younger GenX can see what we lived through.

Ciao. XxQP

[ghosthunterdan]

Dan White is a murder and God have mercy on him, what he did was inexcusable.

[ScipioXXX]

You know most cops still think Dan White is a hero and are mad at Gays for "making" Dan White become a killer - - my question is then, why do we tolerate the police?

[macrent2]

I know after seeing this, that I will never think of a twinkie in the same way again!

[EMPERORMIKI]

Grandma got it right.

[VetteGirlC6]

Wow, being from a younger gay generation, i never even realized that something like this happened. I was shocked to see this, but at the same time proud of my fellow gay community for standing up for themselves even if it means starting a few fires. I wish the gay community develops the balls that are brothers & sisters had in the 70's ......"Liberties are not given, they are taken." - Aldous Huxley.

[StaticJolts]

@VetteGirlC6 It doesn't tell the full story of the riots. After the police realized they lost control at the city hall, the police marched to the Castro area and raided a bar called the Elephant Walk...beating patrons and smashing the place up pretty bad. Th Elephant Walk was a gay bar at the corner of Castro and Market streets.

[macbrack04]

@StaticJolts British police haver done the same on numerous occasions....when they dislike GLBT demos or parades they will get out of the cameras and attack a gay bar or beat gays somewhere out in suburbia.....I was in the Royal Vauxhall Tavern once when police unexpectedly wrecked the bar and arrested dozens...all officers were wearing surgical gloves and some masks......but. ! the customers fought back and several officers were injured......a small victory but not a 'war won'....even now !!

[enzedbrit]

@VetteGirlC6 I'm so pleased to see a younger gay person become aware of their heritage :)

[idaltuguy]

The worst thing about this, was when the gays started slapping each other....."Bitch!"

[OSTARAEB4]

At some point, the gay community will explode again. It's unfortunate, but the anger we feel is still very real. Interesting the prosecutor states how those" will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law" Yes, would that be like Dan White being prosecuted to the full extent of the law given that they watered it down? Prop 8 and Amendment 2 in Florida has thrown lighter fluid on us! But, the rub is New England is going in our favor! That's what makes them SO angry! It's we who are laughing now

[themodpoet]

We are right to be angry when we are attacked. It's as simple as that. Don't like the anger? Eliminate the cause of it: homophobia.

[Raidenx3499]

@themodpoet

Anger doesn't give anyone the right to destroy property, or assault policemen. Don't try and argue that it was somehow justified by past homophobia either. It doesn't matter what someone has done to you - doing harmful things back in turn solves nothing. Try to be the bigger person. The more mature person. The better person. Until then, go out and smash things and burn cars when you're mad. You'll just give people more reasons to hate you. It's people like you that keep hate alive.

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

I call bullshit. Murder more than justifies the response. You leave out something very important: Dan White murdered two people and got away with it, asshole. What you're saying is that certain people should lay down and die because bigots say we should and we should NOT respond. Thanks for letting everyone know which side you're on, coward. Fuck liberals and their bullshit defenses of homophobic murder.

[LegalEagleX]

@Raidenx3499 two words: GET REAL

[Seattlecarnut]

@themodpoet I totally agree.

[mozfreak84]

"we want justice!" Dan White should have gotten life in prison. What a shame...I wish I could have been there to show my anger for the verdict.

[OSTARAEB4]

Sadly, but very understandably, those burning police cars represent the anger many gay people still have at being discriminated against. We've had many victories, yet endure setbacks and hurdles to still overcome. Milk voiced what many of us were afraid to say to ourselves and friends and families. I am who,and what I am and owe an apology to nobody. If people shun me, they're not my true friend. It's OKAY, because we as gays WILL endure!Never let them hold you down! They hate us for our LOVE!

[emptybliss2]

he killed to men, and yet he fucking gets gets out just because he ate to much junk food ? you for real!! Glad he fucking killed himself

[brandoncipelle]

twinkie gate was so sad

[daffylatke]

Dan White should have been hung by his balls right there and then. He killed two public officials = death sentence. Lawyers are the scum of the USA. The American justice system is an embarrassment to the world of civilized man.

[Necramoniumvideo]

What is more satisfying,killing him fast with a lethal injection or let himself go nuts in jail and than kill himself...

[Unbiased007]

I wouldnt say the American justice system is always scum. But in this situation they failed.

[cobolsaurus]

GAY POWER!

[Pwells1]

It's White NIGHT riots, not KNIGHT.

The White KNIGHT (with a K) was Harvey Dent, not Milk.

[lisaishere0919]

A HA~

[MrVandresan]

If Proposition 8 passes, the same thing is going to happen. I guarantee it.

[dopeshows]

I don't understand why he would kill these two men because they were in his way and did not want him back. then go to trial and fight for less prison time. just to get out and kill himself. he accomplished nothing so what is the point?

[lilnaughty1]

Exactly....I pointless crime, and the world was less 2 great men because one evil man couldn't except his own shortcomings...so horribly sad

[bckm54]

@dopeshows he was a complete coward. cowards have no point. they represent nothing, stand for nothing, create nothing but destroy many things. he felt like he deserved more cause he was white, straight, and conservative, like that would actually take the place of KNOWING something. when there was nothing left of him but his cowardice, and when he couldn't deny it any more, he did the only logical thing he ever did--kill himself.

[shindra86]

I mean wow, they never even put this kind of stuff in the history books when i was in high school. though I'm not gay, i can understand how they feel when someone treats you unfair for being different

[xoangel2789xo]

I know, this is one of those things that I can't believe I didn't know about in high school.

[DocGorilla]

hahah wow! well, theres a hell of a lot of stuff they did not teach you in high school....

just wait....

[thelastsongster]

I know! In my history book last year, the only thing they said about Harvey Milk was that "San Francisco was becomming more progressive". They left out so much...

[nostromo7694563]

the filmmakers didn't want to sully his reputation by tying it to violent attacks performed by his constituents

[nostromo7694563]

make that months

[nostromo7694563]

where's this in the movie?

[erkekler]

It's not in the Milk movie. This is archived news footage from 1978.

[nostromo7694563]

my point being why did the film end on a candlelit vigil without alluding to the riots in the aftermath granted it was some years after his murder but i feel its a necessary part of the overall narrative arc of milk's legacy

[erkekler]

Oh, sorry, yes I agree with you.

I think the riot should have been included at the end of the film and put into context.

The suicide of Dan White is mentioned, but not the riots, which was a bit odd.

[spamvicious]

They do mention the riots in the film, after they mention the verdict on Dan White

[erkekler]

The name of the is event was White Night Riot - there is no "K" in Night.

(It has nothing to do with a proverbial "White Knight" coming to someone's rescue.)

[andyastro1]

that was all just five years....

[6118californiast]

Burn Baby Burn