Why the 1992 L.A. uprising may hold the key to a better future in 2020 | By Betsy Hodges for CNNOpinion
Betsy Hodges is a former mayor of Minneapolis and fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. The views expressed here are hers. View more opinion on CNN. Before that night, I was working the late shift at a home for people with major mental illness. That's where I was when I turned on the TV to watch Dennis Miller's show. Yeah, that Dennis Miller. Yeah, he had a liberal talk show back then. I liked it.
When citizens film police: Does anything change? 03:37In the events of that late April, I saw that white people had not only been the police officers but also most of the jury. I saw that white people had made a decision, again, that dehumanized black people. I saw that this decision implicated all white people, that racism was a white people problem. It was about us, and it was up to us to do our part to end it.
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