Actually, I think they are far more racist than whites. I have seen blacks and Surenos rioting. It tended to get bloody. The Norteanos and Surenos hated each other too.
The rumor going around, was it was over a disrespect incident, concerning a pair of shoes, back in the 1950s. They have been fighting about it for 60 years.
Since conventional wisdom says only whites can be racists, this is kept hush hush, but they are not fooling many people.
I have also known a few white crips. They wrote the book on self hating.
I teach in Los Angeles, and let me tell you, I have heard as much open racism from Latino kids as I heard in the Midwest in the 1970s. I mean, they whisper “fried chicken” at black kids, they tell black jokes openly, toss the ‘N’ word around casually, and don’t even get them started on how Chinese people can’t drive, because the stuff they’ll say if I don’t stop them is just... whoa.