Six Days of Watts Race Riot 1965/08

A large scale race riot breaks out in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In the aftermath 34 people had been killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested.

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[annelucienne]

@smokefreak2006 As an American Indian woman, I believe that we have come to a point where many Whites believe, deep down, that we only "riot" and "act up" because we are stupid, poor, and too lazy to be involved in government. What most fail to realize is that one can only put so much pressure on a specific culture before it explodes. When we are not heard, we become angry, and often resort to violence because we feel we are out of options. Chi miigwetch.

[jimmyhd1969]

These riots only caused more suffering and punished the black community.

[bshaun2]

If that's what you really think, it's because you are stupid, poor, and too lazy to be involved in government

[Kevontae678]

The Negro section LMFAO!

[dreandMrCashmoney]

My dad and his family (i.e., my grandma and uncles) moved from racist Mississippi to South-Central Los Angeles (near Watts on Avalon Bl. and 101st Street) in 1964, which was one year before the Watts Rebellion. My dad told me that he didn't participate in the so-called riots. I guess being a countryboy from the South the city life in L..A. was too overwhelming. I probably wouldn't have been born had he participated in the so-called riots. Everything that went up in smoke blacks didn't owned.

[Blahblobify]

@GermanShepardd

Yes everyplace Africans go becomes just like Africa, no matter how many generations they are removed from "tha muthaland"..

Why does the white race not see this and put an end to their monkeyshines? Negroes destroy everyplace they infest, then blame the white man for how awful they themselves have made things.

[GermanShepardd]

@annelucienne The blacks are just envious and jealous and want to steal and destroy, so any pretext will do, if just given the chance.

[BillionGODSun]

Black August/Ramadan 2011!!1

Black August 11, 1965: Watts Rebellion Began

[dave2806]

i fail to see how burning your own houses etc solves anything ?

[Ramal123]

My mother grew up in Watts, and was a year old when this happened. Times like this make me grateful she enlisted in the military in order to get out.

[darrylhaynes]

i was there.