Those who co opt and meme ify korean shop owners speak of them reverentially.
Roof top korean meme.
Anyway there was a rumor that judge lee was a rooftop korean the name was given to the many korean immigrant business owners who did one of the most indelibly american things during the.
Angry korean store workers who prowl their store roof tops wielding nagasaki rifles and wearing their korean pride bandannas during the baltimore riots to keep their store from being looted by protestors.
Remember that the korean store owners had to do this because the lapd started a riot by brutalizing someone yet again then abandoned minority neighborhoods to the riots.
This is what makes the rooftop korean meme frustrating to so many korean americans.
Rooftop koreans is a meme but in modern america it s also a seductive fantasy for those who feel true liberty is the ability to levy fatal danger against anyone who dares to intrude.
The police were overburdened one man explained in a viral tweet so the people of koreatown become peak american citizens by exercising their god given and constitutionally protected rights.
Fwiw i read a first hand account of what it was like to be a rooftop korean in giant robot some years back.
This was regarding an actual gunfight between rooftop k s and looters and it wasn t the rambo fantasy that gun larpers expect.
Lol at those 2 downvotes people should fight for their rights no no not those people and not those rights between roof koreans and hong kong i find it almost amusing how quickly racist some of these looters get when a minority mostly asians like me disagrees with them.
It was uncomfortable and felt wrong and appeared that combatants on both sides regretted it in the moment.