Pavichaya Sirikayon

Professor J Rodrick
English 115
13 November 2017
Unequal Life

United State of America is a country of freedom. Everyone who are citizen of this

country, have an equal life and free speech. People who live in this country are come from

different country, different race, different religion or even different gender. This creates big

space between people. Because the space made people had their own lifestyle or their own

though, they use their belief to against other people and make other people to believe in their

though such as, some body get attack by Black people and that make them believe that Black

people are dangerous. But, the truth not every Black people are bad. It depends on their own

person. People cannot judge other race by only one bad person action. During the past until

today, many people still against other people by judge only one person from different race

action still happen endless, and it seem that this case hard to solve it.

There are many case of violence that happen in this country. For example, In los

Angeles, California. From the book, Another City (writing from Los Angeles) edit by David

L Ulin, a book that based on true story that happen in Los Angeles. On this book there are

one story that the family tell their son to aware from black people because his son get attack

from them. The story name Trouble man by Jervey Tervalon. The conversation of the

character that talk about the topic. Daddy started. Those niggers. I told you about hanging

around those people. Liking people like that. But now you cant. Youve got to hate them

Then, the son said, No, I dont. Dad said, Dont be no fool, boy. When somebody beat

you, you got to hate them. And, the son said,It dont matter, It dont make no difference.

They beat me cause theyre fools.(David L Ulin, Jervery Tervalon, Trouble Man Another
City pp.237-256 ) These show that his family scare all Black because his son get beat against

by a gang of black people.

Another case that happens in America and very big topic is the case of Riot. Back

to 1992, Korean American had to fight for their freedom because they get boycott from

African American people. This case is the one of a race violence that happen in here. Because

Korean people scare Black people, one of Black people try to steal money from the Korean

convenience store and hit the owner, so the owner shot him at his head to protect herself.

This is the one popular case that happens and creates Black people against Korean people.

Like in this paragraph from IMMIGRATION, RACE, AND RIOT: THE 1992 LOS

ANGELES UPRISING article said, At 3:00 P.M. on April 29, 1992, the acquittal verdict of

four white Los Angeles police officers charged with the beating of the African American

motorist Rodney King was announced by a jury in Simi Valley, California (see Jacobs 1996).

Almost immediately, crowds gathered in South Central Los Angeles to protest the verdict. By

4:15 P.M. there were reports of looting at the intersection of Florence Boulevard and

Normandie Avenue, and by 5:45 there were reports of motorists being assaulted. At 8:15

P.M. the first fatality was reported, and in the next six days of rioting 2,383 people were

injured, 8,000 were arrested, 51 were killed, and over 700 businesses were burned. Property

damage was estimated at over 1 billion dollars (Webster 1992:23). The hardest hit areas were

South Central Los Angeles and Koreatown. It was the largest outbreak of racial violence

since the riots of the 1960s. Previous explanations of the 1992 riot have been based on

interpretations of employment, poverty, and immigration statistics (Baldassare 1994; Chang

and Leong 1994; Gooding-Williams 1993; Hazen 1992; Morrison and Lowry 1994; Oliver,

Johnson, and Farrell 1993), but these studies do not systematically test hypotheses purporting

to explain the riot's underlying dynamics. In this paper we formally test a variant of ethnic

competition theory (Olzak 1992) as an explanatory model of the L.A. riot. Previous empirical
research has primarily used city- level aggregations of economic, political, and demographic

data (Lieberson and Silverman 1965; Myers 1997; Olzak and Shanahan 1996; Olzak,

Shanahan, and McEneaney 1996; Spilerman 1970, 1971, 1976). While such studies have

made important contributions to understanding city-level differences in the frequency and

severity of rioting, this high level of aggregation may not fully capture the ecological

dynamics of group contact that have been hypothesized to underlie the L.A. riot (Davis

1993a, 1993b; Miles 1992; Oliver, Johnson, and Farrell 1993; Olzak et al. 1996). For

example, re- search has shown that people tend to engage in riot activity close to where they

live (Capeci and Wilkerson 1991; Porter and Dunn 1984; Webster 1992:134), making the

estimation of economic and demographic characteristics of local neighborhoods central to

any explanation of why and where rioting takes place( Bergesen, Albert, and Max Herman.

Immigration, Race, and Riot: The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. American Sociological

Review, vol. 63, no. 1, 1998, pp. 3954. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2657476) This

situation waste many things. Power of the anger, impetuousness of people destroy other

people. They have to protect themselves and fight for their life.

There also another big case that just happen in Las Vegas, California. That one guy

with his gun shoot many people and he is ISIS member. In the L.A. Times said, At least 58

people were killed and more than 500 injured when a gunman opened fire on concertgoers at

a Las Vegas country music festival on Oct. 1, police said, making it the deadliest mass

shooting in modern US history.

More than 22,000 people were gathered at the Las Vegas Village, an open-air concert venue,

for the Route 91 Harvest Festival. The shooter, identified by the Las Vegas Metropolitan

Police Department as 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock of Mesquite, NV, opened fire just

after 10 p.m. from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay Hotel.
"We believe the individual killed himself prior to our entry," LVMPD Sheriff Joseph

Lombardo said, noting that a cache of weapons had been found in Paddock's room, which

included 10 rifles.

The 2016 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL which took place less than 18

months ago had previously been considered the worst mass shooting in US history, with

49 people losing their lives. The Las Vegas attack, with at least 58 casualties, is now the

deadliest mass shooting in the United States since 1949.( CHELSEA HASSLER At Least 58

Dead, More Than 500 Injured in Deadliest Mass Shooting in Modern US History October 2,

2017 https://www.popsugar.com/news/Las-Vegas-Mass-Shooting-Near-Mandalay-Bay-

October-1-2017-44096503) Most of people know that ISIS is a Muslim group, try to destroy

many country and try to be the most powerful in this world. ISIS makes most of people scare

Muslim people. ISIS makes all Muslim people look terrible. This is only one group from that

religion did, but it effect to all people from that religion.

Cite Work
David L Ulin, Jervery Tervalon, Trouble Man Another City : writing from Los Angeles
pp.237-256

Bergesen, Albert, and Max Herman. Immigration, Race, and Riot: The 1992 Los Angeles
Uprising. American Sociological Review, vol. 63, no. 1, 1998, pp. 3954. JSTOR, JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/2657476.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657476?sid=primo&origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_con
tents

CHELSEA HASSLER At Least 58 Dead, More Than 500 Injured in Deadliest Mass Shooting in
Modern US History October 2, 2017
https://www.popsugar.com/news/Las-Vegas-Mass-Shooting-Near-Mandalay-Bay-October-1-
2017-44096503