Criminal Justice System the cases will show if we do and lets see what happens. Host a history professor at ucla former chair of the history department. Where were you . March 1991 i had just moved to a los angeles i had just begun and as an assistant professor in january. I was living in faculty housing trying to figure out what l. A. Was all about and was coming from austin, the deep south and raised in virginia, the upper south to school in the northeast i wanted to know what the west was about the most racially diverse city in the world at the time possibly. I turn on my television the day after rodney king was beaten and i saw the videotape then two weeks later i see Latasha Harlins and i thought what have i done to come here . [laughter] when i left texas and came to california i expected something very different so these captured my imagination and immediately as a scholar of the africanamerican tradition. Host when did you start writing the book . Mr. D interview in 1993 with f
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The starkly different reactions of Black and white Americans to the O.J. Simpson verdict exposed the persistent and extensive history of racial disparities in the American criminal justice system, where
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in the back of the head. - that it should come so quickly after king, and both should be on video, i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what we ve been complaining about. - a jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce karlin sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. - she got away with murder. - you can have a black person killed with a video, with eyewitnesses, and this is what you will get. [together] stop killing our children. we want justice. - the case has become a symbol of tensions between african-americans and the koreans who ve become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. - south los angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. there weren t many markets, so liquor stores became, like, the stand-in, the place that you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. - why don t you open a market that we can use for our family? - or go