The video that kicked it all off staring Jason Ryan, Jose Yanez, Lucas Mucous, Dead Saylor Taylor, yours truly and a whole host of shady characters. Had that one cop not been stupid enough to tear up the protest sign, change could have been years in coming. This was the opening salvo against Site Design Group, California Skateparks, DC Shoes (who ironically had BMX riders on their team), Thrasher Magazine, and ultimately resulted in a giant FBI bust, a new mayor and the ousting of a police chief. Shortly following the Integration Now! movement, Jim McCasland of Prescott Parks and Rec showed the whole country just how easy it was to let the bikes in, and the battle went like a wildfire across the country. There were and are still setbacks, but even more popular protests, like The Great DC Shoe Burn (psychicflyingmonkey/theveritablecornucopia/great-DC-shoe-burn-story.htm ) made change inevitable, and only a few bigot holdouts are left, sadly some of them fellow old school Hawaii skaters who ought to know better in cities like Seattle, but the change is in the wind youtube/attribution_link?a=GMNUXe-HMJE&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DS2lVf3Y33Cg%26feature%3Dshare
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:11:14 +0000
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