LAist & NPR present 'Inheriting' Episode 2 - Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 2
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4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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.
How can I support? Inheriting is entirely funded by supporters like you. If you want to hear future seasons of the show, go to LAist.com/Inheriting and click on the orange box to donate.
If you want to learn more about any of the historical moments we talk about on our show, visit our website: LAist.com/Inheriting. We have a variety of resources for you, as well as lesson plans from the Asian American Education Project.
- Lesson 5.2.1 (Grades 1-5)-Asian Americans as Activists and Accomplices
https://asianamericanedu.org/activists-activism-accomplices.html - Lesson 5.2 (Grades 5-12): The 1992 LA Civil Unrest https://asianamericanedu.org/1992-la-civil-unrest-systemic-racism.html
- Lesson 5.3 (Grades 7-12): Building Community Consciousness and Coalitions https://asianamericanedu.org/building-community-consciousness-and-coalitions.html
Transcript
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| 0:33.6 | From LA's studios and the NPR Network, I'm Emily Kwong. |
| 0:38.6 | On this show, we take one historical moment and explore how it ripples through the generations of a family. |
| 0:46.3 | I facilitate conversations between parents and children, spouses, and siblings and grandparents |
| 0:51.8 | about how their most personal private moments are part of history. |
| 0:56.9 | This is the second of a two-part story about Koreans in Los Angeles in the 1990s and Carol Kwang Park. |
| 1:03.4 | Go back and listen to episode one, if you missed it, and for resources on processing this moment in history, |
| 1:08.5 | check out at laus.com slash inheriting. |
| 1:14.1 | Carol Kwong Park grew up selling gas and reading. When a customer came to the window, |
| 1:20.0 | she would use gumsticks as bookmarks, silver and softening in the heat of the cashier's booth. |
| 1:25.8 | Honestly, she wanted to be anywhere else but the gas station. |
| 1:29.1 | Did I hate the job? Absolutely. |
| 1:30.9 | A lot of it had to do with the customers. |
| 1:33.1 | When they came up to buy gas, some of them would yell or call her names for what felt like no reason. |
| 1:38.9 | God damn it, I'm a kid, right? |
| 1:41.3 | I'm 12. |
| 1:42.5 | Please. |
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