Michael E Johnson
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Below is an interesting thread.
PS Butterfly Effect should interest anyone thats interested in alternate history and the ideas behind it. Now if we could get Hollywood(or even the history channel) do pay more attention to alternate history. Ashton Kutcher as a young James Dean that survies the autocrash and goes into politics ? Maybe not.
From: Jordan Abel (jmabel@purdue.edu)
Subject: Re: WI wider race riots 1992
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Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if
Date: 2004-02-04 05:20:06 PST
I'm replying to this with an alternate topic because people seem to be
skipping over it as it is, and not having the discussion it seems to be
indicating trying to start
Dan Childers wrote:
> A possible butterfly event I was personally
> involved in:
>
> Saturday, May 2 1992. The Rodney King riots have
> been raging in Los Angeles since April 29. Much of
> the media is predicting that the riots will spread
> to other US cities. IIRC, a few reporters are just
> starting to wonder why this hasn't happened yet.
>
> I am going into Baltimore to pick up my friend Ray.
> Ray is black, and lives in a black neighborhood.
> I am white. I am a bit nervous about this trip, but
> I'm not going to break a promise just because CNN
> is predicting mob violence. (Normally I was
> unconcerned with driving through these neighborhoods,
> but May 2 1992 was not normal times.)
>
> OTL: nothing happens. At one point, in one of the
> black neighborhoods I'm driving through, a young
> black man,in gang colors, holding a stick jumps
> out in front of my car; I swerve around him; he
> hits my car with the stick as I drive by. Nothing
> else happens. I pick up Ray, we go hang out with
> our friends, everything is cool.
>
> ATL: I sneeze at the wrong time, and hit the guy
> with the stick.
>
> Do I get dragged from my car and beaten? (I think
> this is fairly likely--there were several other
> young black men in gang colors watching nearby.)
> Does this trigger a race riot in Baltimore? If so,
> do the riots spread?
PS Butterfly Effect should interest anyone thats interested in alternate history and the ideas behind it. Now if we could get Hollywood(or even the history channel) do pay more attention to alternate history. Ashton Kutcher as a young James Dean that survies the autocrash and goes into politics ? Maybe not.
From: Jordan Abel (jmabel@purdue.edu)
Subject: Re: WI wider race riots 1992
This is the only article in this thread
View: Original Format
Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if
Date: 2004-02-04 05:20:06 PST
I'm replying to this with an alternate topic because people seem to be
skipping over it as it is, and not having the discussion it seems to be
indicating trying to start
Dan Childers wrote:
> A possible butterfly event I was personally
> involved in:
>
> Saturday, May 2 1992. The Rodney King riots have
> been raging in Los Angeles since April 29. Much of
> the media is predicting that the riots will spread
> to other US cities. IIRC, a few reporters are just
> starting to wonder why this hasn't happened yet.
>
> I am going into Baltimore to pick up my friend Ray.
> Ray is black, and lives in a black neighborhood.
> I am white. I am a bit nervous about this trip, but
> I'm not going to break a promise just because CNN
> is predicting mob violence. (Normally I was
> unconcerned with driving through these neighborhoods,
> but May 2 1992 was not normal times.)
>
> OTL: nothing happens. At one point, in one of the
> black neighborhoods I'm driving through, a young
> black man,in gang colors, holding a stick jumps
> out in front of my car; I swerve around him; he
> hits my car with the stick as I drive by. Nothing
> else happens. I pick up Ray, we go hang out with
> our friends, everything is cool.
>
> ATL: I sneeze at the wrong time, and hit the guy
> with the stick.
>
> Do I get dragged from my car and beaten? (I think
> this is fairly likely--there were several other
> young black men in gang colors watching nearby.)
> Does this trigger a race riot in Baltimore? If so,
> do the riots spread?