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The Blue Flower

(6,355 posts) Fri Jun 13, 2025, 06:34 PM Jun 2025

"A long, hot summer"

Does anyone else remember this description of summers of rioting in the 60s? The media repeated it like the unrest was a seasonal act of nature. I was a teen then. The memory came to me last night after I turned off the news.

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"A long, hot summer" (Original Post) The Blue Flower Jun 2025 OP

I had the same recollection SheltieLover Jun 2025 #1

Jaywalking OC375 Jun 2025 #2

I remember it quite well, in reference to the Watts Riot of 1965 iirc Hekate Jun 2025 #3

SheltieLover

(76,808 posts)

1. I had the same recollection

Reply to The Blue Flower (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2025, 06:36 PM

Jun 2025

OC375

(445 posts)

2. Jaywalking

Reply to The Blue Flower (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2025, 06:38 PM

Jun 2025

I remember as a kid wondering what the big deal about jaywalking was, as the message was the riots started over a jaywalking arrest. Ah, the innocence of youth.

Hekate

(100,132 posts)

3. I remember it quite well, in reference to the Watts Riot of 1965 iirc

Reply to The Blue Flower (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2025, 06:41 PM

Jun 2025

It’s a grim reminder

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