1992 Los Angeles riots

Um, this will come up later, that's why I'm mentioning it, that Brian Eno and David Bowie were kind of back in a musical, uh, conversation.

Um, let's get to the LA riots and what happened there.

Eric, do you have anything before I move on? And while I drink some water.

Uh, oh, you're going, oh, you're going to drink some water.

[laughs]

Yeah.

[laughs] Um, so we talked about the LA riots, and Eric, did you catch that "Black Tie White Noise" is connected to that? [laughs]

Um, no, I haven't really had a good chance to listen to the lyrics too closely yet.

One note on language.

You might notice in this episode that instead of calling it the Los Angeles Riots or the Watts Riots, as many people have since these events happened, we've referred to them as uprisings and rebellions.

As you've no doubt noticed in this series, the language that we use really matters.

The word, riot, has often been used by many people to describe moments when Black people pushed back against the violence being enacted on them.