Its the anniversary of the 1992 riots in LA that gave us that unique subset of Americans – the Roof Korean. I have mentioned Tony Moon here before. Short version is that Tony is the OG Roof Korean. What I didn’t know is that he had no idea of his meme-ness until a few years ago. He’s leaned into it though, and apparently has a book coming out.

Anyway, he wound up being a guest on the Unsubscribe, which is a podcast of a roundtable of guntubers. An interesting watch for some of the back history from the Rodney King Riots over 30 years ago.

What really makes Moon’s, and the other Roof Korean’s, story so interesting is how it fits almost perfectly into the narrative about how ‘no one is coming to save you’ and that sometimes you need to ‘be your own first responder’.

And, according to the interview, Mr Moon still has his Daewoo rifle three decades later.

Its always fun, and low-hanging blog fodder, to laud the Roof Koreans but their actions and what they represent transcend racial identity. It’s less about a particular demographic group and more about how a community had a shared value that worked in a crisis.