[AdvisorB]

Nicholas Vaca, the author of "The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict between Latinos and Blacks and What it means for America," has postulated that the Latino population in 1980 was about 18% of Californias population, and the African-American population was about 7.7%. Today the Latino California population percentages hover around 33%, and the black population has dipped to 6.6%. In Compton the Latino population has surged to over 60% of the population.

Vaca says that currently 73% of the identified suspects in anti-black crimes are Latino, and 80% of the suspects in anti-Latino crimes are black, according to a report by the county Commission on Human Relations.

As the Latino numbers continue to swell, it will exacerbate the potential for ethnic and racial conflict between the two groups.

[TruthConquers]

Having gone to school in the mist of the San Fernando Valley, I most heartily concur. I went to Jr. High with a homeroom that had two individuals who spent three years arguing who was darker, one latino, one black. It will not be pretty.