A Painful Dirty Secret: Latinos and Blacks Commit Hate Crimes—Against Each Other

The Hutchinson Political Report ^ | October 18, 2007 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson

[flowerplough]

A "reason, ... subtle and nuanced, as to why some gang members commit racial attacks. The violence is a source of ego gratification for them; negative stereotypes provided a convenient rationale for their violent acts. University researchers found that those individuals who suffer low self-esteem or have serious self-image problems are much more likely to view others, especially those they consider rivals, through the warped lens of racial stereotypes.

Then there is the vehemence of the racial hate. The dirtier and even more painful secret is that blacks and Latinos can be as racist toward each other as some whites can be toward them. It’s easy to see why. Many Latinos continue to demean blacks for their poverty or type them as clowns, buffoons and crooks. Some routinely repeat the same vicious anti-black epithets as racist whites. A 1998 poll by the National Conference, a nonprofit organization that promotes racial dialogue, found that Latinos were three times more likely than whites to believe that blacks were incapable of getting ahead. These myths and stereotypes bolster the notion that blacks are a racial and competitive threat, and any distancing, ostracism, avoidance and even violence toward them seems a rational response to keep blacks at arm’s length."

[flowerplough]

Some (Latinos) routinely repeat the same vicious anti-black epithets as racist whites. Or maybe they're just "singing" along with certain rap "songs".

[OKIEDOC]

This whole hate crimes agenda is just another way for liberals to affect how you think and is a slow infringement on free speech rights.

This kind of thinking is getting our soldiers killed in the Middle East and effects our rules of engagement with the enemy.

Putting Blacks and Hispanics together can be accomplished but our prison systems shows that it isn’t a great idea.

[lesser_satan]

No surprise. I live in Minneapolis, which has a huge Somali population. Somalis and native-born blacks posses an irrational hatred for each other that’s beyond my comprehension.