And Then There Were None (Where is black leadership?)

Specifically: Gregory Kane, in a commentary at eblackamericaweb.com, states, “Black Americans are engaged in a race war, but it’s not the one you think it is. And you can bet our traditional “misleaders”—the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus and Julian Bond and Bruce Gordon of the NAACP—won’t ever talk about this race war.”

The race war Mr. Kane is referring to is what LA County Sheriff Lee Baca (in a Washington Post article) calls the, “daily ‘brown on black’ violence” occurring inside California’s penitentiaries.

Referring to the Washington Post article, Mr. Kane asks if, “investigators said they traced the riot to Aryan Brotherhood gang leaders, who they said ‘greenlighted’ white jail inmates to attack blacks. Do you think we’d have heard from Jesse, Al, Julian, Bruce and our illustrious CBC then? Of course we would have...But when it comes to “brown on black” violence, we don’t get so much as a grunt from our misleaders.”

In fact, Miss Hernandez refers to the murder of 14-year-old Cheryl Green at the hands of Hispanic gang members as, “a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods” and refers to a trial of four Hispanic gang members during which, “prosecutors demonstrated that African American residents (with no gang ties at all) were being terrorized in an effort to force them out of a neighborhood now perceived as Latino.”

Miss. Hernandez states, “as the violence grows, the “diasporic” origins of the anti-black sentiment — the entrenched anti-black prejudice among Latinos that exists not just in the United States but across the Americas — will need to be directly confronted.”

I can’t disagree with Mr. Kane’s disparaging assessment of Black “misleaders”.
I agree there is a war going on in this country. I also believe Kane and Hernandez’s concerns are legitimate, but they are mistaken in referring to that war as a brown on black race war. The war they describe has produced devastating consequences that go far beyond the Black community.

This war is a brown against non-brown war with thousands of reinforcements streaming across our southern border every day. It is a war encouraged and supported by “Blue Dogs” like Rep. McIntyre who allow operations like Smithfield to flourish. It is a brown against non-brown war that has already destroyed American communities, American culture and American citizens. It is a war like the jihad, where the ultimate victory is the destruction or enslavement of the American people.

Hernandez cites the need to directly confront entrenched prejudice, but American citizens are doing just that from coast to coast. She should look to her fellow citizens for relief and support.

Twenty or so plus years ago Jesse Jackson began making it a point to include hispanics into his “we be oppressed” speeches in order to build his base. Never mind there were more poverty stricken whites in actual #s back then. All of his rantings together with white guilt, political correctness and the consequent chilling effect helped lead to the illegal alien invasion over the same period.

To the so called black leadership: As ye sow, ye shall reap

From Gregory Kane's column:

So far, only two prominent blacks have had the backs of the black inmates in the Los Angeles County jail system, who are outnumbered by Latino inmates by two to one. These brothers must be getting that sinking George Armstrong Custer feeling along about now.

One of those blacks is author, columnist and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. According to a Feb. 10 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Hutchinson “called upon political leaders, particularly Latino elected officials, to speak out against the jail attacks. ‘We have got to stop the code of violence,’ he said. ‘The silence by every major Latino leader in the city is troubling.’”

The other prominent black is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Last year, Thomas voted with a minority of two other justices who said that California could indeed segregate inmates by race for security reasons.

Had the five other justices who ruled on the case voted likewise, Wayne Tiznor might still be alive.

Now, however, an increasing number of African Americans are taking and winning cases against employers who have hired Latinos instead of them, she said.

Not only blacks, anyone who isn't Hispanic. Whatever you want to call them, Latinos/Hispanics/whatever, are increasingly acting as the gatekeepers for employment, particularly for entry level, low skill jobs.

My son-in-law went to a temp agency, and the favoritism was blatent, with Whites and Blacks leap-frogged over for jobs that went to Hispanics, many of which did not speak English.

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