An educated person might say to himself, there was a time in America that African Americans were oppressed, they came out a lot from that oppression, and unfortunately one day there was the Rodney King incident, then after that improvements were made, for African Americans.
Does that sum up the basics of LA history?, well something better than nothing, unfortunately might be the way on the lay for some, and unfortunately it might either be about the extent some will learn with illiteracy rates still dismal. (Of course the answer is, of course not, it is far from the totality of LA's history.)
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In the 1940s there was turbulence over the Zoot Suit.
This back about 80 years ago, for those that are still alive that witnessed the developments, and incidents, they might be getting near centenarians.
Do the Zoot Suit arrests, among other things, and then things got better, sum up the totality of LA history?
The answer is about the same as the first abovesaid, over Rodney King.
Of course the answer is, of course not, it is far from the totality of LA's history.
In terms of the concept, a people overcoming, such as overcoming racial, economic, socio-economic, stereotypes and all that other type of stuff, it is plausible that sometimes perceptions of a timeline might become limited in one's perceptive eye, a shrunken warp from some of the realities of a whole.
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One day around ten years ago, I until this day think that a set of information I came across had the biggest impact on understanding the history of California, which houses LA, it had to do with Russian exploration and settlement along the US West Coast, which of course included at least portions of California.
For now, these are some, not all by any means, a list of events that occurred that if combined together, could affect perceptions of what really happened in LA.
Keep in mind, the Zoot Suit arrests made by the folks in uniform, or folks in plain clothes business suits that almost looked like the Zoot Suits, but weren't, and the mob-like lashing out by sailors on Zoot Suiters, back in the 1940s, did not happen all by itself.
Neither did the Gold Rush, neither did 'extermination efforts of certain Natives and American Indians, (which the realities of that chronology is planned to be gone into more, or said, rolled out in piece by piece baby feed, because some of what went on is evident from where the larger conversation is going), neither did lashing out against Chinese Americans, reference Exclusion Act era, neither did did Internment Camps of Japanese Americans, and more recent various 'hate infused trends' in this post 2000 millennium. All of these and more were in a timeline, or timelines if one wants to be 'advanced', they did not magically appear as isolated sudden events, then drop off in the same way.
What brings me to this writing, in the effort to not only help organize a timeline and collect the notes in one place to refer back to, and then hope to see a clearer forest from the trees, it is pretty sure that some of the other current baloney that emerged or could emerge because of the warped ideas of history in people's minds, could subside.
Here is the start of the, a, timeline:
The coast of what is now the Continental US sits next to the Pacific
Russians plausibly marrying American Indians and Native Americans, (=children), if gray areas of the difference between one in the same and European Russians meet with descendants of portions of geographically deeply removed India, (a conception)
European immigration and settlement starting from around 1550, (picking a round number) from present day regions like the Emerald Isles,
'Westward Expansion' (ie of mainly European stock)
What was deemed to be considered American Indian, some came under attack, (keep in mind the part about Russian/ American Indian/ Native)
Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882
Intermittent Filipino migration
Internment Camps, WW II era, affected the region - roughly 1942 to 1946
Japanese were not the only ones taken to the camps
Bengali immigration, large amounts of marrying between Bengali and Latinos (=children) - markedly apparent in about the mid 1940s
WWII winds down - around 1945
Watts Riots - 1965
Vietnam War winds down - around 1975
Rodney King incident
LA riots - 1992
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Water usually flows, if it moves by itself in the same liquid state, from point A to B, not hop up, fly over a stretch, land, then roll a while, then hop up or disappear, arrive suddenly from a 45 degree angle, make a right, then roll.