i watched it on television in 92 from the safety of england. a year later as a student in a us college i attended a lecture by spike lee and had to listen to him mumble incoherently about the riots of the previous year. i then mocked him in the review i wrote in the college newspaper and questioned why they'd wasted $10k to have this idiot mumble like a fucking retard for an hour and get the facts about the rodney king beating actually wrong. the funny thing was about half of my fellow newspaper guys were black and had all gone to the lecture, and they'd all sat down to type glowing praise; but one of them glanced at my screen and burst out laughing and then read it out. this caused all of them to start to rewrite their articles too to heap criticism on him. those were more based times, i'd get crucified if i did that on a college campus today.
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