Posted on 08/12/2006 1:18:42 PM PDT by World_Events
LOS ANGELES - Alejandro "Bird" Martinez and a crew of fellow gangbangers were joyriding in a stolen van when they came upon a black man parking his car — and decided to kill him.
Three of them riddled Kenneth Kurry Wilson and his Cadillac with bullets from a .357-caliber revolver and a 9 mm semiautomatic and blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun.
This month, Martinez and three other members of the Avenues, a Hispanic gang entrenched in one Los Angeles neighborhood, were convicted of federal hate crimes usually tagged on white supremacists.
Although the slaying was seven years ago, the verdict this month was one in a series of reminders that racially motivated black and Hispanic gang violence is still a Los Angeles reality.
While some police, academics and even gang members insist racism isn't a factor in the violence, a pair of headline-grabbing killings — of a Hispanic teen by a black assailant described by witnesses as yelling a gang name as he fled and a drive-by shooting by a pair of black gunmen who killed three Hispanics — suggest otherwise.
"If it's not race motivated, if it's not gang motivated, then what the hell is the motivation?" asked South Los Angeles activist Taylor Mayfield after the June 30 drive-by.
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How can you back that statement up statistically?
90% of all Mexican gangsters kill other Mexicans.Same with the black thugs who blast each other and leave whitey alone.
Those killings that DO cross ethnic lines as outlined in the article are anomolies,not the norm.
Verrrrry shrewd wording! You're left with the impression that statistically this will show that HISPANICS committed a hate crime on a black guy, right?
Wrong!
They'll go to jail, sure, but STATISTICALLY, this will STILL go down as racist WHITES murdering a black guy!
It's a fact! Statistically, hispanics are classified as WHITES for the purposes of hate-crime statistics.
That goodness that Black Supremacists never pose a reacist threat.....!
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How are the Black Muslims, by the way ??
Another unintended (?) aspect to this nonsense is the fact that the way hate crime labels are applied it tends to diminish the value of a normal hetero white person's life vs. that of a gay, black or some other media anointed disadvantaged class.
I agree. There's no such thing as a "hate crime." The law is stupid and meaningless.
The only question is why the system is making a point of racial violence between blacks and browns now. What is their political goal here? Some sort of defense of the policy mass immigration?
"Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton have been trying to gain solidarity between blacks, latinos."
My question is, solidarity against who?
If you really want to see some hate speech go to the nation of islam website. They've been spewing a lot of hate-monering, vile, fairy tale crap on there. Below is a link to what they want. I didn't include the article which calls for the "elimination of the destructive species (whites)."
http://noi.org/muslim_program.htm
This is a very good read. We must know what the enemy is thinking. Every democractic leader prior to WW2 should have read Mein Kampf. The president should read this today.
http://www.muhammadfarms.com/Dear_white.htm
I'm afraid to click on that link. I might blow up or something.
12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.
Maybe Ahmedijenad will have a "fatwa" declared against the Nation of Islam for blasphemy.
Pass the popcorn!
Meanwhile, black folks (and less often hispanic folks) beat up white kids on a regular basis in the nation's public schools, and nothing is done.
Did you get beat up?
Going by your logic, most racism would be black against black.
Nah, I went to a "segregated" school (de facto, not de jure). Have friends and relatives who were though, just for being white in a black area/school.
Going by your logic, most racism would be black against black.
That would be true if it was possible to be racist against your own race. Dave Chapelle had a skit about the blind black white supremacist, but I'm not aware of anybody who's racist against their own race. Maybe Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton qualify, simply because their modus operandi is to keep black people impoverished.
Why wouldn't it be possible? I've seen instances of it, especially in Louisiana. There are a lot of things you don't know about black people when you are on the outside looking in.
The point is that you are trying to finagle an extremely high crime rate within black America that spills over to white America into evidence of racism whereas those very blacks committing crimes against whites have probably victimized a greater number of blacks.
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