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The Watts Riots by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Forty-three years ago on this day in people’s history the Watts Riots engulfed the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood for five days. On August 11th, 1965, residents gathered as Lee Minkus, a white California Highway Patrol officer, arrested Marquette Frye a 21-year old African-American. Building racial tensions in the city encapsulated an ensuing altercation between the crowd and the police. Some eyewitness accounts claim an officer on the scene began hitting people with his baton. Rioting ensued afterwards which by the end claimed 34 lives. Reactionary explanations as to why rioting erupted included incredulous claims about communist agents influencing or directing the events in Watts.

If that was the case, I wonder who was influencing and controlling the LA Riots of 1992, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

Let’s keep it real! For Uprising, this is your truth professa saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our history!