The Territory, My Enemy: Rudy Salas, Sr., a sculptor and painter, his father's hatred of gringos stemmed from fighting against them when Pershing went after Pancho Villa in Chihuahua. When he went to first grade he realized that the gringos were his “enemy,” but was told he was inferior simply due to the fact he was Mexican. Also, knew that his teachers, white teachers, were his enemy as well, but he did not know why. He refers to his feelings of racism as an "insanity" he developed after being beaten by police in 1942 when he was a zoot-suiter. His eardrum was soon fractured, and then became deaf because of the retaliation amongst the officers from a punch he had thrown. He says he does not like feeling the hatred toward white police officers. Going back and forth with this story, but saying, ”But you see, I’m still prejudice against whites, but I’m not a racist!”

Here’s a Nobody:
These Curious People, goes over the time Stanley K. Sheinbaum, former president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, talks about the time that Maxine Waters, congresswoman from Los Angeles, asked him to go with her to Nickerson Gardens to view the police response to gang meetings. She explained there meetings as “gang member coming together to form truces.”
Josie Morales in Indelible Substance is a clerk-typist for the city of Los Angeles who witnessed the Rodney King beating. She lived in the apartment next to that of George Holliday, the man who shot the videotape of the beating. Morales reports seeing ten or twelve officers in a circle around King and began to hit him. They hit him with sticks, kicked him, and one officer pummeled him in the face.
Michael Zinzun, a representative from the Coalition Against Police Abuse, discusses his personal experiences with police abuse in the article, When I Finally Got my Vision. Continuously demanding for the beating to stop, but its not as easy at it seems, going to the hospital after a bad beating. He states, “I aint got no Cadillac, I aint got no gold, I aint got nice shoes, but what we do got is an opportunity to keep struggling and to do research and organize. He represented a very positive outlook on such an awful experience.

War Zone: This War Zone was the video of Reginald Denny's beating on the day of the riots. Judith Tur, reporter for the LA News Service, talks about the video as it is being shown. The video shows the beginning of the riots when several men beat Reginald Denny. “Each time I see this I get angrier and angrier.” A Weird Common Thread In Our Lives tells the story on Reginald Denny, whose beating on the day of the Rodney King verdict was videotaped and repeatedly shown to the public, describes how he had made that same trip in his truck every day. “if its not a color, it’s a person” really states a great message in this excerpt. To look like Girls from Little shows Elvira Evers, a Panamanian woman who is a general worker and cashier at Canteen Corporation, discusses the looting that went on after Rodney King verdict. Evers states that everyone was taking things and was acting as if they were at a carnival. Feeling a weird tingling feeling after a riot from a bottle bring thon, she didn’t realize she had been shot, not mentioning she is pregnant. At the hospital, the doctor explains to her the bucket went through the placenta, but the baby caught it in her arms just amazingly. She was realizing if she hadn’t caught it, her and her baby would not be here. “See? Open you eyes, see what is going on.” Katie Miller, a bookkeeper and accountant, explains the problems between Blacks and Koreans in Just Another Story. It was the same during the riots in 1965, and everyone tried to make an issue of the relationship between blacks and Koreans then too. “Lootin stores, but that’s just another story.” The Unheard, just like the others ties into police brutality just like the others telling a story in which Waters reminded listeners that there had been an insurrection in Los Angeles before the Rodney King disturbance and that it had resulted from police brutality. She reminded them of the Kerner Commission report issued after that insurrection and how the report discussed the ills of society, institutionalized racism, lack of services and the lack of government response to people.

Twilight: “So I remember hiding behind this collar for protection,” he states sadly a minister at Westwood Presbyterian Church. He wore it for protection because he was afraid someone would mistake him for a Korean shop owner. He is disappointed in himself because he knows this is not an appropriate reason for a minister to wear his collar. He stood out, and he stopped wearing that collar, and realized “if there’s any protection he needed its whatever love he has in his heart to share with people that proved to be enough.” “This twilight moment is an in-between moment, a moment of dusk.”Homi Bhabha starts off with. Twilight challenges us to be aware of how we project ourselves into a situation and how we are part of an event. We have to react to an event in twilight in a more interpretive and creative way, seeing boundaries in a much more faded matter.

Justice: “How can you change things in this country? Its is impossible.” Lucia begins. That is always a question, and in school asking yourself, how can such a young person make a change? She admits that in the process of change some people died. She had a nom de guerre in those days: Lucia, which means, "light". Light is what happened in Los Angeles, she says. Calling it, “social explosion,” when people can no longer take it and boom. People die, but why? Why so often? Maybe because they feel they don’t have the power within themselves, that they can change things.