Academia, the Press and the LA Riots

Analysis and reflection 30 years after America’s worst riots

Thirty years ago this week, the nation’s second largest city erupted in anarchy. The mass murder, looting and destruction was caused, sanctioned and, since then, rationalized, evaded, ignored and forgotten fundamentally by America’s academia, press and state. The LA riots, as this historic mayhem became known, remain perhaps America’s single worst unche…