The Washington Post, May 4th, 1992
At ground zero of the Los Angeles riots of 1992, sightseers today scampered about taking pictures of a torched community. A 57-year-old black man who raised three children here sat on his back steps and said the good, law-abiding residents of his neighborhood have been smeared along with the bad. A pair of white men pulled their car into a driveway, parked, climbed on its roof and hung a cardboard placard in a tree. "Real Equality Now," it read, and "Love Equals Compation." Calla lillies were attached to the placard. And a black youth, who said he was there when other young men he knows pulled...
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