not specifically any one course but a general attitude they were not counted as humans and they deserved more rights cause of their color and if anybody questioned why they needed more rights then others that they were racist.
Just look at affirmative action cases such as where Ohio is being forced to accept people even though they have lower then the standard test scores just cause of their color. Eric Holder said that pointing out that the black panthers were violating the rights of voters by their presence demeans his people.

Inaction by the State government which had a Democrat Governor and Mayor.
the residents of LA was giving one too two weeks warning where as the people of Japan had none. the procedure for the Federal Gov to aid a state is for the Gov of that state to ask for assistance. and the left wing media was doing nothing but fear mongering. And why was the Democrat Gov violating the 2nd Amendment rights of the law abiding citizens instead of working to bring chaos under control.

I kind of know that the Japanese are like this. ;) I don't need to be reminded that if there's an disaster shock horror people won't loot! It's almost as if it's a new piece of information! Yeah,I wasn't terribly surprised that they weren't nicking stuff.