Yes.
The institutional enmity between American native blacks and Mexicans is a little discussed issue.
It's profound on the "street".
They regard one another with a racial hostility that would not be tolerated were Anglos involved. Kobe Bryant's cutie Mex wife is an exception to that entrenched rule. Here in Nashville, I see no Mexicans with blacks...never.
All hispanics are not alike are they?
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.
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.