Los Angeles County officials along with the city council have issued an apology for the “shameful” Zoot Suit Riots 80 years later. In 1943, white, uniform servicemen attacked young Mexican, Latino, Filipino and Black men for wearing the suits in a series of riots that swept the city for a week.
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American Me (prison gang movie for the younger folks)
Mostly set long after these events, though the opening of the movie portrays them.
Prison wasn’t the main focus.
Racists are always looking for a reason to hate.
this had nothing to do with rationing… the poor cannon-fodder in the military experienced culture-shock when they saw a bunch of Chicanos with better clothes, cars and women than they had… this was jealousy… Zoot suit culture was like today’s “baller” culture… the peasants about to get shipped off to die couldn’t handle seeing Latinos with $$$$
That’s the most ridiculous thing ever lol.
You mean virtue signaling white liberals want to forget what grandad did?
You don’t even know wjat liberal means lol
If hard times come, and you previously purchased something nice, wear it. Don’t let the moths eat it.
Truth
WW2 was a banker orchestrated fraudulent war. All that was achieved from it was the creation of Israel, destruction of Germany, and the destruction of the West.
California will be apologizing a lot at some point in the future
Sure they will, Benedict.
What about Texas and Florida?
Has your personality’s changed any?
👍👍👍IT’S ABOUT TIME AMERICA 👍👍👍
don’t give us a thumbs up so fast, there are southern states that refuse to apologize for SLAVERY.
@Auden HarperWhy should they. They didn’t own any!
@LadyKate it’s about healing, and the legislature is representative of the state so in a way they did. That’s like saying that because Hitler died, the German government wasn’t responsible for genocide. The government is an entity by itself, it’s not just specific people. If we go by your logic, the United States technically doesn’t exist because all the people that started the country are dead. But no that’s not the case because the United States is an entity separate from people. I don’t know how to make you understand this concept, if you don’t get it.
@LadyKate Every flyer of a Confederate flag today is pronouncing their support of slavery. Facts matter.
Took ‘em long enough.
🎶ZOOT SUIT RIOT!!! RIOT!!
Throw back a bottle of beer!!🎶
🙄🥱😴 words mean nothing! Apologize with reparations!
Davon you just prove your not a man a man never asked for anything for free no matter what be a man work for it instead of being a coward standing with your hand out cause clearly you never had a father to teach you to be a man if you want something for free
@Davon LloydTell it to your useless president. You wanted Marxism. Learn to love it while you’re suffering.
Something for free.
You didn’t suffer…reparation should be paid to that generation who suffered..not people several generations after them who think they are owed something for nothing…what is wrong with you and you’re train of thought.
@Davon Lloyd Illegal immigrants don’t get any of those things. Stop lying.
@Davon Lloyd 51 million? Lol. Yea ok.
Stop killing one another in Chicago,cloumbus,philly,st Louis…..I can go on.
80 years i guess nobody that was actually there is going to apologize 😂
Marxism..never worked before and millions die. It’s happening again, and it’s going to be horrific.
This is stupid. Nobody alive today did any of those crimes. Why should “we” apologize for something we did not do? It’s history, learn from it and move on. Not everything needs to be apologized for or given reparations for. Especially after almost three generations have went past.
@shawn michaels You said “everybody apologizes for everything” which is objectively a false statement. Stop speakiing in absolutes like you are five.
@MrMarkOlson you got the point that I was making. No, the literal world population obviously doesn’t apologize for everything they’ve ever said or done since the beginning of time. Don’t be so obtuse.
@shawn michaels Then, by your own admission, try to be a tad more accurate and a tad less in error.
@MrMarkOlson perhaps you should learn how expressions work. it was clearly not meant to literally encompass everybody in the world. Don’t be a troglodyte.
You’re not getting respirations, Tyrone! Stop trying to grift off the Chicano struggle.
*Yawn* What a waste of time.
With the track record USA has there will be a lot more apologies in the future.
@Billy The Kidder Yeah, go ahead and try to back up that ridiculous statement too. The only thing you’ve established so far is that you wish you were the class clown. Keep practicing.
@Billy The KidderThe insanity we’re seeing today is off the charts. I mean, apologizing for crap we never did? This Marxism garbage is literally destroying this place.
And our history.
“Those who don’t learn from it, are doomed to repeat it.”
Pointing fingers but at who?!
I think Clinton handed out the most apologies on behalf of the us
It was a purposefully wasteful use of fabric in a time of war when everyone else was conserving commodities.
Dosen’t mean we had to ATTACK them.
WW2 was a banker orchestrated war. All that was achieved from it was the creation of Israel and the destruction of Germany and the West.
The punkery goths of their time !!!! Respec !!!
The anti-maskers whi didn’t want to give into government regulations
Notice how a lot of the racism seems to originate in California?
Well,it was Mexico at one point.
BLACK & BROWN UNITE. LEARN YOUR HISTORY AND SEE THESE OPPRESSORS FOR WHO THEY WERE AND CONTINUE TO BE
And continue? Lol. No one’s oppressing ya’ll except yourselves.
Keep that gang culture alive and well……keep thinking you can only play sports or rap. Lol.
https://youtu.be/JZm1krVKzBY
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These Hispanic Americans need California to pay them reparations
A what America needs to do is send all this Hispanic back where they belong then cause only a coward put there hand out expect something for free nobody owes them anything cause if that’s so as a American I want my payment to for having to deal with this illegal in my country
Once everyone realizes where this leads, millions will be dying or suffering.
That’s not happening.
Nbc just prove what kinda coward network they are by report this ridiculous
Part of the Marxist agenda. They’ll be running more propaganda than most of us should tolerate.
You just proved you are a bit slow and probably also a Benedict
What
The same people apologizing for it are the same ones who’d be the modern version of the racist mobs mad about Zoot Suits today.
The zoot suits were simply an excuse for race hating whites to justify their mob mentality and thirst for violence towards People of Color. It was always present – then, and now.
Lol yea ok.
No worries sorry for the beaten sailors and soldiers
The sailors and soldiers were doing the beating. How did you miss that?
zoot suits does represent gangs of the latino community, others who says different are lying ..
Stop defending a mob that criminally attacked people for their race and the clothes they were wearing. What”s wrong with you??
@MrMarkOlson
stop wearing clown pants past your belly button and take those hair nets off your heads, maybe you won’t be label as a gangbanger, dress appropriately like everybody eles and don’t have your pants below your knees, maybe you won’t get stereo type, ever thought of why people judge you, and not your race … i have plenty of hispanic friends and they all agree with me
Yeah, let’s do this instead of cleaning the streets of bums and drug addicts.
The insanity is real my friend. To what end do not even want to know.
So instead of recognizing this past violence as bad, you call for more violence?? Sick dude.
I’m more concerned about the hate groups, they’re getting more violent by the day.
Now apologize for making marijuana illegal . . . …
@GreaseMaster2000 No one should drive stoned.
@MrMarkOlson Agreed. But the moment they legalized in our state _for home use_ with a specific prohibition on driving, that was when every Cheech just _had_ to push that much further, and everyone was blazing up in traffic. Because we just can’t have nice things, everyone has to play outlaw and take a mile after being given an inch. And she died because someone did. Every few months, someone on foot is run down by someone driving baked here. Just on my side of town. We have dispensaries _everywhere_ and it smells like a Jamaican sauna at red lights.
@GreaseMaster2000 one person that you know of does not equal many lol.
@GreaseMaster2000 dude cope harder lol. It’s not the weed. It’s people on their phones distracted driving. Being a pedestrian In the u.s. is dangerous. It’s the 3rd leading cause of death in my state. And it’s not from stoned drivers. You are ridiculous. Go back to the 1950’s with your dumb takes.
@Billy Yank been spending too much time yanking Little Billy
80 years later. Keep that BS!🖕🏽
Think the black community will ever apologize for the rioting a destruction they have caused to our lives? Nahhhhh. They the victims 🤭🤣
Apologize for something they had zero to do with doesn’t sound like an authentic apology.
Oh sorry for something that happened 80yrs ago and i sincerely mean that😐
Sure I’m sad it happened but we had no part of that..maybe LA should have apologized nearly 80yrs ago.
Why would racist people apologize for something they wanted to do?? Take some accountability like La is doing now😂 white men have been oppressing minorities and stealing cultures for over 500 years in the US
Humans know no limit to their depravity. Just like today’s people who still support Trump.
Well isn’t that a DRAG!
How convenient when everyone involved is dead to apologize.
Reparations!!!! Lol I don’t live in LA but it doesn’t matter. CA is about over apologizing for everything.
Wow! Stay stupid!
Reparations are dumb. They don’t work.
Sheesh, 80 years later. Well, better than ever.
That is the drama that USA shows to everyone after 40 to 80 years that they did mistake. Question is what happens with them when they treat others brutally and don’t show their shame. Their history is full with these incidents whether it is a matter of wrongful conviction, or whether to provide justice to the real victim , they do same and will continue this without any shame as they know one tactics , saying apologize or feeling sorry after decades. Shame on you
@Don Jindra I was also victimized in this country and so far no one has said Sorry to me . Old traits of USA
@Per Iqb1 You were not. You’re pretending.
You’re not getting any respirations, Tyrone! Get over it and stop trying to grift and extort innocent people for something you weren’t directly involved in or affected from.
What do you mean by they? Lol
@Per Iqb1 cope harder.
Still waiting for Africa to apologize for invading and enslaving my Sicilian ancestors. Let’s apologize for something none of us did to people no longer alive. Makes no sense.
Proud to be Chicano!
😂😂😂😂
Everybody’s crazy ‘bout a sharpe dressed man!
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Better late then Never for the apology from LA County Supervisors who tolerated injustice to the Cultures of Latin population decades past; their actions are solely derive from prejudice. Every culture under the Freedoms of America are allowed to wear their own customs as choose, and not be labeled as criminals nor outlaws of the USA. The America is built on the melting pot of many cultures mixed together as Citizens – not Anglo of one culture to dictate what clothing is proper and what is unacceptable – Facts. Among millions of Chicanos who served in all branches of the USA Military as proud Men representing this America, hence, at home can wear their own culture clothing as proud men as well. Thank YOU Chicano Men who wore the Zoot Suit with dignity and Style. WELL DONE!! 🙏🙏❤❤
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Wow 80 years later what’s the point ???
They said , It was Un-American to wear that ” ZOOT SUIT ” uniform . And the hippies with long hair ,un-American , Puerto Rican waving their own island flag was ,Un-American , Rock & Roll was call , Un- American , Girls wearing min-skirt was un- American , speaking your mind , was UN -American , fighting for freedom was , UN – American , playing Jazz was , un- American , not speaking English was , un- American , writing a book on the United States was , un-American , not going to a undeclared war , was un-American .I can talk about 500 more un-American acts in the United States , but I don’t have 24 hours to write it all down . Janis Joplin , rules .
This kind of apology is ridiculous. Is anyone even alive who participated in this?
It should not have happened, the riots, but it was a different era back then, ideologies were different back then also.
Zoot Suit Riot!
Throw back a bottle of beer.
Zoot Suit Riot!
Pull a comb through your coal black hair.
Go yank them out the nursing home and throw them in jail
Lol statute of limitations passed 75 years ago.
People of color continue to find victimhood as if they were the only ones victimised. Now as we see the cartels killing our children and latin and chicano gangs committing violence all over America. Who is victimizing whom?
So if the Navy sailors started it then why is the city of Los Angeles apologizing?
Doesn’t make sense.. City of LA is Hispanic led lawmakers.. Cali is no longer white in majority. So Hispanics apologized for whites? huh?
Big brains over there lol.
Why are they so violent for no reason?😳
Who’s they?
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Why are they spending any time on a forgotten riot? The “Zoot suit “ started in London in the 3Os. Fashion always repeats itself over time. It’s come back 2 or 3 times already.
Why are they making an apology that happened 80 years ago? its the past, learn from it and don’t repeat it.
Apologizing takes the thunder out of the Zoot suiters story of the struggle. If they stoop to accept “sorry” there is no more oppressor and no need to rebel.
California is a REAL JOKE
Help Help me Rhonda
These riots are not well known here in the UK. I just found out about them for the first time … and I ain’t young.