[UA] Thoughts on LA riots of 1992?

[Timothy Toner]

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From: Epoch <msulliva at wso.williams.edu>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: [UA] Thoughts on LA riots of 1992?


> 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?"

Oh, SUURE he disappeared!  Didnya know that the Rodney King involved in the
beating ascended in the patrol car, and that the UCD (Unclassified Crimes
Division) of the LAPD had to pop a few fleshcrafters out of San Quentin to
make up a look-alike?

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

That's the point in these postmodern times.  KIng, like Reginald Denny are
the Martyrs without a Cause.  Denny could more correctly be channeling The
Victim's Victim.  I mean, how weird is it that we had t be constantly
reminded that in the Rodney King Trial, Rodney king wasn't being tried?  And
yet he was--as many survivors of rape are when their attackers come to
trial.  In our world, it creates the worst kind of mojo, so imagine what it
would do in the UAniverse.

>
> Mike



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Timothy Toner / thanatos at interaccess.com
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