G&R Episode 34: From "Burn, Baby! Burn!" to Black Lives Matter--LA's Watts Uprising 55 Years Later

This week, 55 years ago, the Watts Uprising in Los Angeles began amidst a traffic incident with a black motorist and the California Highway Patrol in the South Central neighborhood of the bustling city.  By the end of the week, 34 had been killed, hundreds injured, over $40 million in property damaged and destroyed, 16,000 national guardsmen and police deployed to quell the uprising and a new chapter in black radicalism began. A popular saying after Watts and after similar uprisings in in Detroit and Newark, NJ in 1967 became popularized-- "Burn, baby! Burn!"  Green and Red dives into the Watts uprising and talks about parallels to 2020's summer uprisings.  Plus we take this moment for a couple of jabs on our favorite red-baiting neo-liberal ex-president Bill Clinton.  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/GreenAndRedOnYouTube Read more: Mike Davis and Jon Weiner, Set the Night on Fire: https://bit.ly/31M7koK Gerald Horne, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s: https://bit.ly/2DRxFJS Guy Debord,The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy:https://bit.ly/2DJYxf1 Follow us at:  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/GreenRedPodcast  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PodcastGreenRed  Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/greenredpodcast/ Keep Green and Red Podcast Independent: Patron:  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Green and Red's website:  https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/ This is a Green and Red Podcast  production. "Green and Red Blues" by  Moody. Editing by Scott. Produced by Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob  (@bobbuzzanco).