L.A. riots: Good Samaritan remembers his scary truck-driver rescue

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CrazyPaul said:
I thought so, too because I remember the news talked about it. Maybe it was misinformation from media. In other words, it might be bullshit.
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now you know why I'm asking Steinhauer?
 
CrazyPaul said:
It doesn't say what kind of drug abuse. It could be weed, coke, heroin or other substance.

Did you watch the show?
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true but since he was a poor person, I doubt he could afford heroin or coke. since steinhauer said he was a "crackhead".... so that means he was using crack. Did he? that's what I wanted to know.
 
Jiro said:
true but since he was a poor person, I doubt he could afford heroin or coke. since steinhauer said he was a "crackhead".... so that means he was using crack. Did he? that's what I wanted to know.
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Why don't you google it instead of waiting for Stein's answer and then let us know? :)
 
his life since has not been easy. He has had several run ins with the law, and has battled depression, alcohol and drug abuse

Has battled depression, alcohol, and drug abuse since the incident. Steinhauer's post was talking about at the same time as the incident. Going through what he went through he probably would have problems afterwards. But at the time he was beaten by the cops, there was nothing about any kind of drug use.

Plus, drug use is pretty wide open. Could be anything from weed to prescription drugs to street drugs. Doesn't say crack.
 
Steinhauer said:
Nope, I have never labelled Jennifer Lopez or Ricky Martin as a "white hispanic". YOU have been the only one carrying around the labeller.

The term "white hispanic" did not exist until Zimmerman shot Martin.

Jst more of your BS.
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No, "white hispanic" has been around for very long time, especially in California and there are many Cubans in Miami that identified as white hispanic.

I'm white non-hispanic and the hispanic isn't come from my family.
 
LOS ANGELES (AP) — We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him in the interim.

He's been a record company executive and a reality TV star among many other things.

To millions of Americans, though, he will always be either a victim of one of the most horrific cases of police brutality ever videotaped or just a hooligan who didn't stop when police attempted to pull him over.

He's indisputably the black motorist whose beating on a darkened LA street led to one of the worst race riots in American history.

It's been an up-and-down ride for King since he went on television at the height of those riots and pleaded in a quavering voice, "Can we all get along?"

He's been arrested numerous times, mostly for alcohol-related crimes. In a recent interview with The Associated Press he said, "I still sip, I don't get drunk."

He has been to a number of rehab programs, he said, including the 2008 appearance on "Dr. Drew" Pinsky's "Celebrity Rehab" program.

Still, he was arrested again just last year for driving under the influence.

It was his fear of being stopped for drunken driving on March 3, 1991, King said, that initially led him to try to evade police who attempted to pull him over for speeding.

After he did stop, four LA police officers hit him more than 50 times with their batons, kicked him and shot him with stun guns. A man who had quietly stepped outside his home to observe the commotion videotaped most of it and turned a copy over to a local TV station.

After a jury with no black members acquitted the officers on April 29, 1992, the city's black community exploded in rage. Fifty-five people died, more than 2,000 were injured over three days.

King received a $3.8 million settlement from the city, but said he lost most it to bad investments, among them a hip-hop record label he founded that quickly went broke.

He makes money these days taking part in events like celebrity boxing matches. He's also promoting his just-published memoir, "The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption

Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot - Yahoo! News

Nothing about crack. Just alcohol. Especially at the time he was beaten.
 
CrazyPaul said:
Why don't you google it instead of waiting for Stein's answer and then let us know? :)
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I already post a link of story. nowhere in the article said he was using crack at that time of beating.

why don't you let steinhauer answer my question?
 
Waterboy said:
I got told not to use links like this because they were only opinion. But they are the opinion of the people being labled.

But it is a good example from a Black person about why they don't want to be called African American.
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The author wrote that he preferred to use "black" not "Black."
 
Reba said:
The author wrote that he preferred to use "black" not "Black."
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If you will read the link way back that I gave, you will see why black is used in some places, and Black in others. A difference in adhering to different acceptable formats of writing. AP style (that journalists and such use) it is in the format not to capitalize. In other formats, it is in the format to capitalize.

And he also said he preferred black to African American.
 
Waterboy said:
Yeah, negro was another term that was given to the Blacks by the whites. And it was a politcally correct form for another word that begins with an N. So, politically correct in one person's mind isn't always acceptable to the person they are talking about.
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Negro (uppercase N) was in use before, during, and after the n-word was used. The n-word was a slur of the word Negro.

If you consider Negro a politically correct word, then I guess that would put Caucasian in the same category. Those were the contemporaneous classifications that were used on official documents, such as the Census, during the 20th century. There were Negro/Negroid, Caucasian/Caucasoid, Mongolian/Mongoloid, and later, also Australian/Australoid (the older form was Aboriginal).

Of course, that only applies if one believes that there is more than one human race.
 
Reba said:
Negro (uppercase N) was in use before, during, and after the n-word was used. The n-word was a slur of the word Negro.

If you consider Negro a politically correct word, then I guess that would put Caucasian in the same category. Those were the contemporaneous classifications that were used on official documents, such as the Census, during the 20th century. There were Negro/Negroid, Caucasian/Caucasoid, Mongolian/Mongoloid, and later, also Australian/Australoid (the older form was Aboriginal).

Of course, that only applies if one believes that there is more than one human race.
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Who said it was a PC term now? It was correct usage back then because that is what the whites assigned it to be. Since when has Caucasion ever been used to degrade or oppress? And it was considered more polite than the other N word.
 
Waterboy said:
If you will read the link way back that I gave, you will see why black is used in some places, and Black in others. A difference in adhering to different acceptable formats of writing. AP style (that journalists and such use) it is in the format not to capitalize. In other formats, it is in the format to capitalize.

And he also said he preferred black to African American.
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That's right. He preferred black over either Black or African American.

That's an example of what one black writer prefers to use.
 
Waterboy said:
Like I said, I identified that a few days ago when I was asked. It was a discussion with several people. Seems like when people ask a question here, it is just because they want to start something.

How about if all the white people identify themselves as white, and then all the Black people can identify themselves as Black.
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Problem is that you have no credibility to bring that suggestion in here. You're an unknown. You've been here only but a few days or so. There is no proof that you have shown to us that you are indeed "Black." You have no other people in AD to confirm that you are actually a "Black" person. No one knows you. You are an unknown. And yet you come in here and start this whole "Black" meme crusade and we're supposed to believe you at wholesale? You are not in the position to suggest that others bring up what race they are be it black or white or whatever. And to think that you have instant credibility just because you stepped in here claiming that you are a deaf male and "Black"? You are an unknown with no ounce of credibility to say what you are while packing in this holier-than-thou race attitude. There's nothing tangible here at all coming from you. None at all.
 
Reba said:
That's right. He preferred black over either Black or African American.

That's an example of what one black writer prefers to use.
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No, he used the lower case letter because he was using AP style. Like I said earlier, had he been using another format for another type of publication, he would have used the format of that other style. For instance, MLA, Chicago, or AMA, or APA. It would be incorrect NOT to use a capital when using the word Black to refer to a person in many other styles. It depends on the style you have to use for the publication you are writing for. And editors and proof readers will change it if it does not adhere to the style of the publication. Newspapers, etc. use AP style.
 
kokonut said:
Problem is that you have no credibility to bring that suggestion in here. You're an unknown. You've been here only but a few days or so. There is no proof that you have shown to us that you are indeed "Black." You have no other people in AD to confirm that you are actually a "Black" person. No one knows you. You are an unknown. And yet you come in here and start this whole "Black" meme crusade and we're supposed to believe you at wholesale? You are not in the position to suggest that others bring up what race they are be it black or white or whatever. And to think that you have instant credibility just because you stepped in here claiming that you are a deaf male and "Black"? You are an unknown with no ounce of credibility to say what you are while packing in this holier-than-thou race attitude. There's nothing tangible here at all coming from you. None at all.
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I say same to you. You don't hold much credibility either.
 
kokonut said:
Problem is that you have no credibility to bring that suggestion in here. You're an unknown. You've been here only but a few days or so. There is no proof that you have shown to us that you are indeed "Black." You have no other people in AD to confirm that you are actually a "Black" person. No one knows you. You are an unknown. And yet you come in here and start this whole "Black" meme crusade and we're supposed to believe you at wholesale? You are not in the position to suggest that others bring up what race they are be it black or white or whatever. And to think that you have instant credibility just because you stepped in here claiming that you are a deaf male and "Black"? You are an unknown with no ounce of credibility to say what you are while packing in this holier-than-thou race attitude. There's nothing tangible here at all coming from you. None at all.
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:laugh2: Prove I'm Black? Prove you're white. :laugh2:
 
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