President Ronald Reagans First Inaugural Address - Article Example

Reagan contends that special interest groups should only be a particular group that feels it has been neglected but instead American society should consider each and every individual as worthy of special interest (Bartleby.com 1). One of the most interesting aspects in Marc Cooper and Greg Goldin’s article “Some People Don’t Count is the racial aspect that the authors brought out. The two argue that the Los Angeles riots were largely the fault of Chief Daryl Gates who did little to put in place fair measures to ensure that the riots did not occur in the first place (Cooper & Goldin 1).

Arrests were distinctly racial in nature as evidenced by the fact that the large majority of men who were arrested were from the Black and Latino community. The media did little to calm racial tensions constantly referring to these communities as violent. Another interesting aspect is the fact that the black leadership also did not do their part to provide support to the black community leaving gay organizations to do a large amount of encouraging activism (Cooper & Goldin 1).