American History X

576 00:39:42,854 --> 00:39:44,395 Now! Now! 577 00:39:47,397 --> 00:39:48,808 All right, let's go! 578 00:39:49,274 --> 00:39:50,270 Come on! 579 00:39:50,733 --> 00:39:52,357 Come on, let's go. 580 00:39:57,403 --> 00:40:00,734 No green card, no fucking work. Comprende? 581 00:40:03,281 --> 00:40:04,063 Come on! 582 00:40:04,531 --> 00:40:06,440 We're fucking going! Come on! 583 00:40:32,628 --> 00:40:36,162 Dad was gone, but things were almost normal again. 584 00:40:36,631 --> 00:40:37,875 Derek had a good job. 585 00:40:38,340 --> 00:40:39,798 Mom was starting to live a little. 586 00:40:40,257 --> 00:40:43,956 Everyone was feeling so good, we just didn't see it coming. 587 00:40:44,426 --> 00:40:45,885 Maybe we should've. 588 00:40:46,927 --> 00:40:48,088 The irony is that most of the stores... 589 00:40:48,553 --> 00:40:50,841 destroyed during the riots were owned by black people. 590 00:40:51,304 --> 00:40:54,007 That's stupid,though. Why trash your neighborhood? 591 00:40:54,472 --> 00:40:57,009 Well,that's my point. It's an irrational act. 592 00:40:57,474 --> 00:40:59,015 It's like an expression of rage... 593 00:40:59,475 --> 00:41:03,056 by people who feel neglected and turned away by the system. 594 00:41:03,519 --> 00:41:08,758 It's like we had in Watts or the riots in Chicago in '68. 595 00:41:09,229 --> 00:41:10,261 I don't buy that. 596 00:41:10,730 --> 00:41:12,888 Calling a riot an irrational expression of rage. 597 00:41:13,357 --> 00:41:15,763 That's such a cop-out. It's opportunism at its worst. 598 00:41:16,233 --> 00:41:17,892 It's people grabbing any excuse they can find... 599 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:19,900 to go and loot a store, nothing more. 600 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,102 The fact that these people ripped off the stores... 601 00:41:22,570 --> 00:41:24,146 in their own communities, all that reflects... 602 00:41:24,612 --> 00:41:27,066 is that they have no respect forthe law at all... 603 00:41:27,530 --> 00:41:29,902 and certainly no concept of community... 604 00:41:30,365 --> 00:41:31,480 or civic responsibility. 605 00:41:31,949 --> 00:41:32,779 Now wait a minute. 606 00:41:33,241 --> 00:41:35,198 White people commit crimes against white people,too. 607 00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:38,825 Yeah, but they're not offing each other in record numbers. 608 00:41:39,286 --> 00:41:40,827 Look at the statistics, for Christ's sake. 609 00:41:41,286 --> 00:41:42,910 One in every three black males... 610 00:41:43,372 --> 00:41:45,281 is in some phase of the correctional system. 611 00:41:45,748 --> 00:41:46,826 Is that a coincidence... 612 00:41:47,289 --> 00:41:49,495 or do these people have a racial commitment to crime? 613 00:41:49,958 --> 00:41:51,915 Not only that. They're proud of it. 614 00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:53,750 Maybe it says something about prejudice... 615 00:41:54,209 --> 00:41:55,158 in the judicial system. 616 00:41:55,627 --> 00:41:57,536 If you want to talk about criminal statistics... 617 00:41:58,004 --> 00:42:00,919 take a look at the social inequalities that produce them. 618 00:42:01,380 --> 00:42:03,123 That's exactly what I hate. 619 00:42:03,590 --> 00:42:06,257 You're taking one thing and calling it something else... 620 00:42:06,716 --> 00:42:08,791 and just alleviating the responsibility... 621 00:42:09,258 --> 00:42:10,290 these people have for their own actions. 622 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,842 It's like saying, it's not a riot, it's rage. 623 00:42:14,302 --> 00:42:17,302 It's not crime, it's poverty. That's just nonsense. 624 00:42:17,762 --> 00:42:19,257 It's exactly what happened in this trial... 625 00:42:19,722 --> 00:42:21,001 because the media twisted things around... 626 00:42:21,473 --> 00:42:23,631 so people got all focused on these cops... 627 00:42:24,099 --> 00:42:25,262 and whether or not they were going to get convicted... 628 00:42:25,725 --> 00:42:28,297 and whether Rodney King's civil rights had been violated. 629 00:42:28,768 --> 00:42:30,641 Everybody lost sight of old Rodney King himself. 630 00:42:31,103 --> 00:42:33,722 The guy's a multiple felon by his own admission. 631 00:42:34,188 --> 00:42:35,597 He's high as a goddamn kite... 632 00:42:36,064 --> 00:42:38,270 driving 120 miles an hour down the highway. 633 00:42:38,732 --> 00:42:40,309 He gets pulled over by a bunch of cops... 634 00:42:40,774 --> 00:42:41,853 and he attacks them. 635 00:42:42,316 --> 00:42:43,099 He attacked police officers. 636 00:42:43,567 --> 00:42:44,730 That's the bottom line, and he walked. 637 00:42:45,194 --> 00:42:46,936 And there's some yahoo there with a video camera... 638 00:42:47,402 --> 00:42:48,433 who turned it on halfway through... 639 00:42:48,904 --> 00:42:50,859 so that all we see is them hitting him. 640 ...