Of course, the media and talk radio at the time BLAMED the Cubans for the blacks rioting, claiming that they had "displaced the poor blacks" and "created tension in the city."
Cuban Americans and Christian Anglo males are the only two groups in this country it is OK to bash.
I'm sure I have missed this in all of the thousands of threads, but I get this impending doom that Al Quaida is just rubbing their hands in glee watching all of this chaos. They are probably watching our every step, confirming their theories that our rescue operations are totally overwhelmed. Their thinking now has to be, "let's strike 10 or fifteen cities and send them into chaos". If that were to happen, I think we would definitely be considering abandoning our efforts in Iraq.
Well I can tell you.
The black rowdies from Opa Locka and Lib City and whatnot north of the Miami River were moving South and the Cubans strapped down and met them at that bridge by Jackson Memorial and the rioters-looters turned tail.
and that was over a jury verdict too and 10 years or so before Rodney King or OJ