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Tensions between American servicemen stationed in Southern California and Los Angeles' Mexican-American community were at a fever pitch. Group of white sailors on leave clashed with a group of young Latinos in the downtown area. One sailor was stabbed. The violence escalated against “zoot suiters.” An eyewitness to the attacks, described the scene as follows: "Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot suiter they could find. “ The local press lauded the attacks by the servicemen, describing the assaults as having a "cleansing effect" that were ridding Los Angeles of "miscreants" and "hoodlums." The Los Angeles City Council issued an ordinance banning the wearing of "zoot suits" after Councilman Norris Nelson stated "The zoot suit has become a badge of hoodlumism". A week later, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt described the riots, which the local press had largely attributed to criminal actions by the Mexican American community, as having actually been "race riots" rooted in long-term discrimination against Mexican-Americans.
Who's that whisperin' in the trees It's two sailors and they're on leave Pipes and chains and swingin' hands Who's your daddy? Yes I am Fat cat came to play, Now you can't run fast enough You had best stay away, When the pushers come to shove Zoot Suit Riot Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot Suit Riot Pull a comb through your coal black hair A whipped up jitterbuggin' brown eyed man, A stray cat frontin' up an eight-piece band Cut me Sammy and you'll understand In my veins hot music ran You got me in a sway And I want to swing you dove Now you sailors know, Where your women come for love You're in a Zoot Suit Riot, Oh you got me in a sway And I want to swing you dove Now you sailors know, Where your women come for love! (scat singing daddy-o)
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