How right-wing bloggers would have covered Watts riots

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http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002466.html

The riots that summer were sparked by the arrest of a Baptist motorist, Marquette Frye, for drunk driving. When Frye's mother intervened, a crowd gathered and the arrest became a Bapto-fascist flashpoint for anger against police. The deeper causes, as documented by the McCone Commission, which investigated the riots, were religious intolerance and the failure of Baptists and those of similar African-American denominations to assimilate with the broader Californian culture.....

After nearly a week of rioting, 34 people, 25 of them Baptist, were dead and more than 1,000 were injured. More than 600 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Thriving business districts, their stores mostly owned by non-Baptists, were burned to the ground. Eventually, the National Guard put a cordon around a vast region of South Los Angeles...

....The relevance that most of the rioters are Muslim may not be completely nil, but it's pretty far down the list behind poverty and government indifference. You wouldn't know that from reading the right side of the blogosphere -- where if you weren't paying attention you'd think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Ayman al-Zawahri, carrying lighted torches, were marching a band of future suicide hijackers down the Champs Elysees and under the Arc de Triomphe.