The Zoot Suit Riots were a black mark in Los Angeles' history between Mexican Amercans and let's just say it, Whites, and it still is prevalent today in 2014. Times have changed throughout the years with minorities making major advances not only academic wise but in other avenues such as politics and population as well(POPULATION,PEOPLE!!). Mexican Americans, it seems though, along with African Americans, seem to be the minorities that receive the most criticism, some deserved, a lot unwarranted. For me, being a native Angeleno(not too many natives left unfortunately), learning about the Sleepy Lagoon trial and the eventual Zoot Suit Riots that followed made me realize that as far as we may have thought we have came, there is always evidence that we are not too far removed from the past.
*http://research.pomona.edu/zootsuit/en/zoot-suit-la
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