PLATFORM : No One Was Listening

I do not condone the actions of the rioters in South Los Angeles and other areas of our country following the acquittal of the four policemen who brutally beat Rodney King. I do not condemn them either.

Accept it or not, the riots had to happen. Why? Because no one was listening to the cries of the spirit of Latasha Harlins; no one was listening to the spirits of the victims of the hundreds of drive-by shootings; no one was listening to the spirits of the thousands upon thousands of those who had lost hope and become drug addicts, alcoholics and homeless; no one has listened to the spirits of all those persons who have been and are victims of a racist, hard-hearted, don’t-care system of injustice, and for sure no one listened to the hurts and the pains of Rodney King.

We had to have the riots because the powerless were tired of sitting doing nothing.