“When we reduce it to simplistic narratives — that this is a Black thing, this is a white thing — and we can’t take the extra step in telling it in its complexity, we’ll keep getting blindsided by events like 1992,” said LMU Professor Rubén Martinez, who covered the civil unrest as a reporter for L.A. Weekly.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Column: He Was Murdered During the L.A. Riots. We Can’t Forget Latinos Like Him
