Why did the 1965 Watts riots happen?

Answer 1

There was NO legitimate excuse for what blacks did in Watts in 1965. To commit racist acts against another people (whites), who had done them no wrong whatsoever, to loot and burn their businesses, to attack white police officers who were simply doing their job (black officers were responsible for patrolling the streets of Watts in 1965), obviously, has nothing to do with the concept of equality. Further, for blacks to imply to white people that all they want are racial acceptance and cooperation - a brotherhood of one - and then set upon this group and brutalize and beat them, for no other reason than their race, as well as loot and burn their stores, there seems to be a tremendous inconsistency here. No person of common sense should see it any other way.

Here are 5 common sense reasons for the Watts riot :

1) blacks migrated to LA from the South (almost 300,000 in the previous 20 years!) and provided for themselves and their people insufficient job opportunities and no housing (i.e. they made themselves dependent on another people); 2) white males provided them housing and jobs - blacks provided no jobs to whites. However, a critical mass level had finally been reached i.e. white people could no longer keep pace with providing housing & jobs to the great numbers of blacks ... who had come to expect - and now DEMAND - this of white people ; 3) the Civil Rights Act implied to blacks that they had a historic "right" to integrate, and this denied historic right (by whites) was the source of all their real or perceived ills in Watts (and America); 4) blacks perceive the white police officers as the enforcement arm that had, and still did, maintain the color-line (remember, the black man now believed - by 1965 - that his freedom, his dignity and even his very manhood are all achieved through integration with whites - the very people he's also calling his brutal oppressor); 5) the TV networks provoked a continuation by providing a national audience and failing to condemn the behavior.

Answer 2

there was a huge riot that lasted a week had killed 32 people gotten 8000 wounded and 3000 arrested