watts

[terrence oflattery]

1965 blacks

1992 multi-ethnic

1965 scla

1992 scla-north, korea-town, hollywood, pico-union, working-class neighborhoods

1965 white guilt

1992 neo-con exhaustion

1965 black hope, the vote, "american dream", rising black bird expectations

1992 black despair, hopelessness, black bird singin a song in a hole nutha language

1992 deindustrialization, domestic disinvestment & go-global, can you say ASIAN Markets up on the hill....?

1992 unemployment ain jus a black thang, ain jus a poor thang niether

1992 polarization of the working class: high-tech and unskilled goin up, traditional blue-collar labor goin down 

1992 new white collar goin up, but meanwhile back in scla area, there go gm, goodyear, firestone, beth steel.

1992 is worse: poverty, incomes, unemployment, black tax, caught in a pickle wit out none of ronny's trickle 

1992 asians be gettin all them high-tech type of jobs, them right off the boaters be workin all docile & diligent

1992 meet the new asian landlord & boss 

progessive to neo-con on the white

side of things

inter-minority conflicts

korean/black, black/latino

on the back side of things

police brutality and black peril justice

and who be rude to who?

we got the new merchant class

sellin plastic products

never givin no brotha a J O B

we got the latino brotha swetin it out

we got the ice next time

some say fire

and some say ice

we got the ice

we got the ice

we got to ice them motha fuckas


		
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