“If I’m a young black man in South Central L. A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the court’s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldn’t I vent my anger?”

To U.S. Republican. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), April 15, 1993, Today. Real Video http://www.mediaresearch.org/rm/projects/99/Gumbel4/segment1.ram

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