I would have understood that the city once erupted because Latino and black residents were no longer willing to be crushed into neighborhoods too densely populated, enrolled in under-resourced schools, stuck in low-paying jobs, and living under a majority white law enforcement organization who saw them as bodies fit for extrajudicial liquidation. And to not retell, reclaim, and rewrite that history here would perpetuate the lie that the city I was born into was a hood simply because of the black and Latino working poor who live there.
