Killing of Latasha Harlins

Let's think about what was happening at that time.

So 91, 92, you're talking Latasha Harlins.

You're talking Rodney King beating.

You're talking the rise of gang violence.

I think one of the scariest things about, for example, a Black Panther Party was the fact that they were creating dual power.

They were creating systems that would allow the people to be able to sustain themselves without the intervention of the government that was currently repressing them and still is you know like even you know back then like 40 50 years ago you know you had a government and say okay we give you welfare but like we only we want to keep you in this box and they did the same thing with asian american communities you know where we only gonna keep you in this lane right here and we pit y'all against each other and then y'all can stay busy fighting each other instead of looking at the real enemy you know and that was you know it played out after the Rodney King, um, incident with Latasha Harlins, you know, um, it played out again, um, with, uh, Rick Chow, uh, where you have these people that are unwittingly are wittingly, you know, depending on how you look at it depends on the situation being, um, placed as a buffer against the people that have perennially been the threat and also the engine of capitalist, um, you know, the capitalist system here in, well, I should say the American empire in the world.

Yeah.

Cause I mean, the American empire is in decline.

That's-

Uh, when I see something, even from a kid, when I saw, you know, Latasha Harlin killed in my community, uh, this little girl cleared up, killed at the liquor store, um, you know, the first thing I thought was 'Cause I saw it all over the news.

It was one of the first things to go viral after Rodney King was, a lot of kids die here.

Um, I see memorials on every corner, on every block, right? Um, um, it seems that the media only pays attention, the world only pays attention when there's a racial dynamic going on.