Inheriting: Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 2

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🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we bring you an episode from Inheriting Season One. Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.

In part two of Carol Kwang Park’s story, we follow Carol’s journey to connect more deeply with her family – and introduce the family-led conversations that are central to Inheriting. Decades after the 1992 LA Uprising, Carol finally learns what her mom experienced during the riots and how she made it back home. It allows for a better understanding of her mother, as well as her family’s journey leading up to the Uprising – which she never had as a child. For the first time, Carol also talks to her brother, Albert Park, about what it was like to work at the gas station as kids, especially around the time of the Uprising.

Content Warning: This episode contains racial slurs and discusses police brutality. If you want to learn more about any of the historical moments we talk about on our show, visit our website: LAist.com/Inheriting

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0:34.3	Hey, California love listeners.
0:35.5	It's Emily Kwong.
0:39.1	Back in your feed with another episode of Inheriting,
0:44.1	the Asian American and Pacific Islander family history show where the past is personal.
0:48.7	We wanted to bring you the second part of Carol Kwong Park story. If you miss part one,
0:52.9	I recommend you listen to that first in this podcast feed. Go do that right now.
0:55.1	Okay, picking up where we left off, Carol was a kid cashier working in her family's gas station in Compton. She and her family lived through
1:00.2	the 1992 L.A. Uprising, and Carol's mom never talked about what she experienced from that week in April
1:05.7	until now. Here's part two of Carol's story. Carol Kwong Park grew up selling gas and reading.
1:14.0	When a customer came to the window, she would use gumsticks as bookmarks, silver and
1:18.9	softening in the heat of the cashier's booth.
1:21.8	Honestly, she wanted to be anywhere else but the gas station.
1:25.0	Did I hate the job? Absolutely.
1:26.8	A lot of it had to do with the customers.
1:29.0	When they came up to buy gas, some of them would yell or call her names for what felt like no reason.
1:34.8	God damn it, I'm a kid, right?
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