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The Common Thread of racial and income inequality that pushed the community to a hair trigger condition before the riot was the fact that the city’s black and Latino residents were excluded from the high-paying jobs, affordable housing , educational opportunity, and politics available to white residents . The riots were also a response to Proposition 14, a constitutional amendment sponsored by the California Real Estate Association that had in effect repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act. The proposition gained the endorsement of many large conservative political groups, including the John Birch Society (the societies founder, Fred Koch is father to the Koch Brothers) and the California Republican Assembly Ronald Reagan was a supporter of Proposition 14. In 1964 Ronald Reagan stated in a press release as "an ardent supporter of Proposition 14, and later explained, “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his home, he has a right to do so.” Reagan felt fair housing laws and the Rumford Act were (Liberal) attempts " to give one segment of our population a right at the expense of the basic rights of all our citizens." he stressed the need for " voluntary action on the part of individuals" to put an end to " the cancer of racial discrimination " , in other word restrain yourself from being a bigot. by definition ALEC is Fascist in nature and is a danger to democracy in America The 1983 American Heritage Dictionary defined fascism as: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."