Posted on 12/14/2005 5:05:00 PM PST by rmlew
Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition has a ways to go in Los Angeles, where Mexicans and blacks are killing each other at record rates. The action is particularly hot in South Central Los Angeles and in nearby Compton, two areas that have undergone a dramatic shift during the last two decades from virtually all black to half or more Hispanic.
Most of the schools in these areas are now majority Latino, something I could not possibly have imagined when I was in high school in the early 1960s. By that time South Central and Compton had made a transition from virtually all white during the 1930s to virtually all black. They remained that way into the late 1970s, when the effects of illegal immigration from Mexico first began to be felt. By the 1990s, entire neighborhoods had been transformed. Terry Anderson, a black auto mechanic from South Central, describes what it was like at the end of the decade:
Today, teenagers can’t get after-school or entry-level jobs—something to put on a resume. When I was 16 and 17, I had jobs at McDonald’s, Burger King, Jack in the Box. Now these jobs in L.A. are held by 30- or 40-year-old immigrants—100% Spanish-speaking and probably 90% from Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at amconmag.com ...
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I thought blacks and Hispanics COULDN'T be racist. As Al Sharpton so intelligently puts it, they have no way to enforce any of their ideas. They're both disempowered groups - so why is this considered racist?
It's more like ...angry youths...
That's quite a story. I can't imagine living like that, or anywhere near a place like that. Thankfully, I don't. It's hard for me to even imagine that there are such places in this great country.
Ain't diversity great.
That being said, the folks most adversely affected by the illegal aliens are blacks and native-born Hispanics. Which makes it interesting that most folks involved in the immigration issue are white conservatives.
Folks who were raised in Outerwhitelandia don't understand, or refuse to remember, that racial violence is as old as America itself. The deadliest civil disturbance in American history were the 1863 New York draft riots, when Irish immigrants ran around Manhattan lynching every black they could find, even burning down a black orphanage.
Last week I visited my father in Yonkers, NY, and I just had to stop in at the Nathans Famous on Central Ave, a place I used to hang out when I was a kid...
None of the people working there were teenagers, they were all in their 20s to 30s, and not a one spoke english clearly. Every one spoke spanish to each other, and I could barely make out what they were saying, and they seemed to have trouble interpreting my order of "2 frank special with a medium coke."
I wish I had visited the bathroom before ordering and eating. If I had, I wouldn't have stayed there. It was disgusting. I'll never go back, and I'm going to fire off a "nasty gram" to the operators.
Mark
Speaking as someone who is from the New York area, all I can say is that I have always encountered neighborhoods where English speakers were in the minority. Luckily, I speak Spanish, but I still have a problem when the shopkeeper speaks Arabic, Chinese, or Korean.
According to Thomas Sowell, the waves of Chinese in the 1800's probably suffered more than any racial group, much of the suffering instigated by Jack London who was a socialist union leader. The Chinese were not allowed jobs accept in a few industries (hence the Chinese laundry) and they died like flies. Nevertheless when Chinese gangs began to appear in California, Chinese leaders went to the police and asked them to lay on more with the billy-clubs and the gangs were defeated.
I'm well aware of that incident in 1863. I don't live, nor do I ever wish to live in such a place as that, either. I'm not sure what the point of your posting that in this situation was, but I take it that it must mean that since I choose to live in "Outer Whitelandia", I must be ignorant of all the enlightenment that there is all around me if only I would look. I might say that people in the places spoken of in the article are like animals but that would be an insult to all animals.
As Thomas Sowell pointed out, the massacre of Indians in Colorado was widely condemned by the New York press in the 19th century, yet was greeted with cheers by folks in Denver, who were closer to the "problem."
Do you really want the eloi to remember those days? You see part of the script given to us proles is that everyone who comes to the US becomes just like us and that is what we say because that is what is expected of us. You know those quaint little civil unrest periods called riots would last about a day if the proles remembered those days and decided to participate in their own gang fun.
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BTW: I piss on Morlocks and Eloi.
Chilling article. I've expected a rivalry between Blacks and Hispanics to form for years, but not in this way and certainly not violent. One would think that black community leaders would be SCREAMING that we need to control our borders at this point.
Have your vision checked.
I didn't suggest that.
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