Roots of Latino/black anger Longtime prejudices, not economic rivalry, fuel tensions.

THE ACRIMONIOUS relationship between Latinos and African Americans in Los Angeles is growing hard to ignore. Although last weekend's black-versus-Latino race riot at Chino state prison is unfortunately not an aberration, the Dec. 15 murder in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old African American, allegedly by members of a Latino gang, was shocking.

The thing is, the blacks were just starting to work their way up the economic ladder, in the wake of the civil rights movement, when the government opened the immigration flood gates, both legal and illegal, and knocked some of them off the ladder altogether, depressed wages at the bottom of the ladder for them and expected them to welcome the competition with open arms. Whether deliberate or not, Sen. Kennedy’s 1965 immigration bill totally screwed black people, whom I think had a right to expect better.

And that's by far not the worst thing about the Democrat Party--the Party of Sociopaths and Morons.

My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were all Democrats. If they were alive today, they would repudiate and denounce the Democrat Party, everything it stands for in the 21st century, and all that it has become--immediately and in no uncertain terms!

My children are ALL Republicans--I am very proud to say!

Yes, in the Miami stockade I noticed they keep the latinos and blacks separated, but had no problem housing blacks and whites together.

I also had a Cuban friend who had a latino father and black mother, and told me his lighter skinned siblings always treated him as lower classed because of his dark skin.
It seems to me this is common in hispanic culture.

Que heavos!

Sneak into a country illegally and declare war on a faction of it's citizens based on racial superiority of the peasant invader.

At least American blacks belong here and are a big part , good and bad of our history.

Regards.

Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods.

The LA Times would never use the phrase "ethnic cleansing" to describe the earlier displacement of whites. But then that's the kind of ethnic cleansing they're into, especially since the poor and middle class were mostly affected.

Multiracialism and multiculturalism are unnatural and people won't choose to live in such social arrangements unless they are forced or in some cases paid to do so.

Upper middle class and wealthy people who call the shots in this society tend to live in neighborhoods that are to varying degrees segregated. They are chickenhawks in the diversity experiment. Their neighborhoods may not be lily white or all brown but certainly they avoid any of the real costs of multiculturalism. They have gates and guards. They have police who act as their private security and they have politicians willing to reroute roads or rezone areas in exchange for support. The poor have only guns (in the case of the cleansers in any given situation) or their feet (in the case of the cleansees) to cope with the stress of diversity.

Hispanics will embrace racial correctness only as long as it is a useful political tool, that is, as long as being members of the anti-white coalition brings them benefits. When whites become a minority in America it will no longer benefit hispanics to go along with the pretense of racial correctness in the areas where they are the overwhelming majority. Guilt trips aren't going to work with them, and you can see the worry the establishment has about it in articles and campaigns like this one.

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