[UA] Thoughts on LA riots of 1992?

[Epoch]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Matthew Rowan Norwood wrote:

> Yo!  Aaron, you rock.  A black American man ascends as the Martyr (I'm
> going to take it to the high-level archetypes here), sparking the riots
> in LA.  He represents the idea that the black man will never have
> justice... this is both the strength and weakness of the archetype, his
> light and dark sides.

Er...  Y'know, Rodney King didn't, like, vanish or anything.  We even got
to see him on TV during the riots, saying, "Can't we all just get along?"

Besides, doesn't a Martyr have to have a cause?

Mike

--
And smale foweles maken melodye

  --Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales


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