I'm sure you've heard by now that Rodney King is dead, his fiancee finding him unconscious in his swimming pool in California on Sunday morning. Rodney King, as everyone in the world apart from the guy in the above screencap knows, was the man whose racist beating at the hands of the LAPD led to the LA riots. Which were a pretty huge bummer.Anyway, after a couple of people I follow RT'd some pretty hateful comments from internet racists, I thought I'd check in quickly to see if their feelings towards Rodney have mellowed at all in the last decade:
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Nope, turns out they're still the worst people in the world.:(Follow Jamie on Twitter: @JLCTShould being racist on the internet be illegal? We debated it a little while back here.
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