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I confess....I just read the title about the tension between the two.

Which having lived in Miami and elsewhere is no secret to me even though the hustlas try to lump anyone with a tan into the same victim group.

Colombia has a fair amount of blacks on the coasts.

Hmmmm....I have always thought Mexicans were the least compatible with blacks....from observing.

Someone said earlier about tension between Islanders and indig blacks here....toss in Africans too and yes that is true.

I wonder about folks.

South Jamaica is this world (the one of the article) in microcosm. Native born, multi-generational Blacks with pre-war roots in the more agrarian southern states like Alabama and Mississippi (as opposed to Harlem with roots back to Virginia and the Carolinas) displaced Irish and Italians (who moved, not fled, to LI) are duking it out with first and second genetration West Indians (mostly Trinis and Guyanese) and the first generation Mexicans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans (Puerto Ricans and Dominicans don't factor in this area). The newest twist is muslim Pakis. All vying for one bone. I don't know who will win but I know who will lose. And, in this part of America winning is defined as moving out and up.

btw...did you notice that the thugs belonged to a gang calling itself "bajan" badboys....Bajan? Not likely,

Here there is some tensions, mostly between black gangs and latino gangs though. If there is tension for any other reason it's because the latinos think they're better because they're not black, and blacks resent latinos because they network and get into self employment faster.