Of course, in order to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the Rodney King Uprisings/Riots(the term used depends a great deal on your political outlook), a group known as the Friendship Boxing Club(!) has deemed it necessary to plan an event to promote "Memorial Harmony."
What sort of event you might wonder? Maybe A)a peace rally attended by a few local community figures giving featureless speeches devoted to breathless ideals such as friendship, racial harmony, and anti-consumerism?Nope. Umm, B)a charitable gig featuring Chuck Norris, Soliel Moon-Fry, Gloria Allred and other readily-available C-list celebs including, perhaps, Mr. King himself? Nope. C)A Multicultural Book Fair featuring independent bookstores to compete, in numbers and diversity, with the Borders/Barnes & Noble-dominated Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA? Try again.
The answer is D)A boxing match.
Nice going guys. We all know that boxing, unlike the aformentioned-pastimes, promotes tolerance and racial harmony unlike any other activity, and it will surely inform future generations that we truly learned something from the images of Los Angeles burning under curfew fifteen years ago, even if really we only watched from the entirely-safe vantage point of our own living rooms and armed solely with a remote control.
Thanks Friendship Boxing Club for your efforts to promote a more-liveable future in our city.
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