Posted on 05/26/2005 10:54:33 PM PDT by greatgranny
Definitely thinking of moving out of state. But it's hard, with family here, and a perfect climate where we live on the So CA coast. One thing pushing us to leave is of course the fact that our little 1941 cottage is worth about a million dollars at this point. Sigh.
Couldn't happen to a nicer city.
Until it happens to your own. Best of luck to you when (not if) that day comes.
I'm not so sure that the emnity between black Americans and Latinos is universal.There is a notorious high school in my hometown that was the scene of some vicious battles between black and brown in the late Nineties.Now you go out there and there is almost no tension whatsoever-lots of"mixed"friendships,etc.The school is now about a fifty-fifty mix from being almost all black in the Seventies and Eighties.If trends continue the school will be mostly Mexican within five years or less.
Either way,the school is at the nadir as far as test scores,graduation rates and college admissions go.All the blacks and many of the Mexicans who could afford to leave are out of there and what is left are the very poor,most of whom are actually very good kids on a personal level but the dysfuction of the community at large cripples any progress they might want to make academically.
The vast majority of crime here is black on black and Latino on Latino.Whites are virtually irrelevant to the situation.
In any serious prison there is a virtual state of war between pretos and canales.
Prison is a sweet barometer to see how well social engineering really works when no one is watching and making folks adhere.
It's ugly.
It is indeed...we already have fights between Blacks and Hispanics as we speak. I was just watching the news, showing fights at Jefferson High in LA between Blacks and Hispanics.
They closed the school, police had to intervene etc.
I do not know how the Black/Hispanic relations are in Nashville, but here in Los Angeles and surroundings are pretty bad.
I would not discard an outright uprising Blacks vs Hispanics any time soon, the situation is so charged.
Villaragosa is a very, very polarizing Mayor and IMHO he should pay the price for his stupid remarks.
Ha! this fool is dreaming. President Bush is the most anti-illegal president in the history of the US! the piddling little mayor will have W to deal with if he tries to suck up to Mexico!
That has been my observation since living in Miami....though Cubans are quite a different breed of Hispanic cat to be sure.
During the McDuffie riots in 80(?), the Cubans armed themselves en masse and stopped the riotous blacks from crossing the Miami River southward in their march of mayhem and murder.
This jackass is a mayor and he already believes himself to be God? Stupid fool just shot himself and his policies in the foot. Just like Islam, never show your hand when your position is waker than dog crap on a pile of horse poop.
Indeed they are...;I am talking about your regular Indian type of Mexican(no skills) working for ...whatever.
Working bellow market value, it upsets even the market for low skilled Mexicans making them mad too!
The big loser's in this game are the Blacks, big time.
I do not look forward to it but I sense a steady tension building up in the Black block vs Hispanic block.
Yes, let them come through Ellis Island.
It's been 10 days since I e-mailed this letter to President Fox. I'm still waiting for a response:
Querido Señor Fox,
No nos diga cómo conducir nuestro propio país, Vicente. Los Estados Unidos de América nos pertenece a nosotros, no pertenece a Ud. ni a los Mexicanos pobres que manda aquí.
Ellos no son "trabajadores sin documentos." Son ILEGALES. Son invasores. Han violado nuestra frontera sin permiso, y están viviendo y trabajando aquí ILEGALMENTE. Si quieren vivir y trabajar aquí, deben solicitar permiso por medio del proceso LEGAL de inmigración. Somos una nación de leyes, y los ilegales no respetan a nuestras leyes. No merecen quedarse aquí.
¿Qué me pasaría si yo entrara a México sin permiso, y si yo tomo un trabajo que "no hará ningún mejicano"? Claro. Me echarán en la cárcel.
Vicente, Ud. es un sin vergüenza y un enemigo de los Estados Unidos de América. Estamos viviendo en una época de guerra. ¿Cómo se atreve decir Ud. que no tenemos el derecho, como un país soberano, de defender nuestra frontera? Arregle a su propio país y economía, en vez de mandar acá a sus necesitados.
Sinceramente,
Los CIUDADANOS de los Estados Unidos de America
I read your letter when you first posted it, and agree completely with you. I do not believe that you will get a respose from him. However, if you do, I would certainly be interested in what he had to say.
I don't live in cities. Ever.
Get out.
I think you may be right on that one.
It's gone beyond cities by this point, and is spreading to small towns all across the country. And small towns are even less equipped to deal with the encroaching crime, gangs, etc.
As for getting out of the city, thanks for the advice. Believe me, I'm working on it. It's just that there's less and less "somewhere else" to escape to as time goes on. Strange times a-coming, my friend.
Seen the latest?
Sunday, May 29, 2005
All-night search follows shooting at Marriott
Torrance police suspect a failed carjacking started a chain of events that ended in eight arrests.
By Larry Altman
Daily Breeze
Would-be carjackers shot at Torrance Marriott security officers early Friday and fled into a nearby neighborhood, provoking an all-night search that brought eight people into custody.
Helicopters circled the neighborhoods off Cabrillo Avenue behind Charles Wilson Park for 7½ hours, as police with dogs on the ground combed bushes and an apartment complex for the suspects.
By midmorning, seven San Pedro gang members had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and attempted carjacking, and a woman -- an aunt of one of the men -- was taken to jail for trying to furtively whisk him from the crime scene in the back seat of her car, Torrance police Lt. Brad Wilson said.
The early-morning crime wave began at 2:15 a.m. when a man walked up to a woman in her car in the 3700 block of Garnet Street, pushed a gun into her face and tried to take her car, Wilson said.
Fearing for her life, she pressed the accelerator and sped away, Wilson said. She was not hurt.
Ten minutes later, security officers at the Torrance Marriott became victims after one guard encountered a man he considered suspicious in the parking structure.
The security officer approached the man, who joined three other men.
The other security officer arrived to help and saw the four men jump into a van -- the same van allegedly involved in the carjacking attempt -- and take off. As the van pulled away, several shots were fired at the security officers. No one was hurt.
The van fled east on Fashion Way. Again, occupants fired shots toward a security officer following them. On the east side of Wilson Park, the security guard again came under attack, Wilson said.
The gunmen abandoned the van in the 1800 block of Plaza del Amo.
Police swarmed into the area, catching the driver. For the next few hours, aided by Redondo Beach and Hawthorne police, and a helicopter in the air, officers rounded up all of the suspects.
Some were found in an apartment building in the 1700 block of Lincoln Avenue. One man, found in an apartment, had a gun on the couch next to him and another hidden under a sweater, Wilson said.
Another suspect was arrested when his aunt, who lives in that complex, tried to drive him out of the area.
Police believe the men drove into the parking structure at the hotel to wait for another victim they could carjack, Wilson said. The security officers apparently interrupted the plan.
Arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy and attempted carjacking were Frankie Fernandez, 18; Albert Alfred Contreras, 18; Steven Mendoza, 19; Ricardo Thomas Hernandez, 18; Sergio Gonzales, 20; and George Padilla, 20, all of San Pedro; and Carlos Rivera, 20, of Carson.
Arrested on suspicion of harboring, aiding and abetting was Lisa Marie Azevedo, 35, of Torrance.
Each of the men was held at the Torrance jail on $1 million bail.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/1584776.html
Torrance Marriott, Wilson Park, Garnet Street - these aren't exactly slum areas. But gosh, those young men are so "hardworking"...
Since when are elected officials allowed to allow a foreign government to dictate how any area of this country is run. He needs to be recalled !
maybe LA has to hit this low for people to wake up
You, your wife and I are the "genuine article." I know Frog Town, it was near my high school, Belmont. I remember the gangs of those days, Clanton being one. The Asian gangs had the worst reputation. But also, those were the days when they didn't randomly kill innocent bystanders; they had some rules of engagement so to speak.
The S.F. Valley may form its own city, but there are already millions of minorities there. Van Nuys Blvd. is heavily Hispanic, as well as other areas of the valley that look very run down.
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