Lalo Alcaraz's La Cucaracha comic strip was eerily timely Thursday -- made coincidental by the long lead time necessary to get the funnies to newspapers.
Obviously, the L.A. County prison riots have brought to surface the larger issue of tension between African-Americans and Latinos.
Coincidentally, Alcaraz addresses the issue in bringing up the recent beating, caught on tape of a Latino airman by an African-American sheriff in Chino.
Despite the sense at the time (just two weeks ago) that this story had legs (with at least one TV news director even comparing it to Rodney King), it appears the beating has already been forgotten. Was the video simply too blurry? The facts less clear? Or do these kind of videos no longer make the same kind of impact they once did?
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