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Yeah, I've only been social friends with guys from San Salvador, Honduras and Colombia. We're a ways from Mexico, so that immigration has occured in the last 10 years, and I try to avoid nightclub brawls in my wiser old age. But, for some reason in the early 80s, Minnesota was a place where the combatantas in those civil wars in El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua came to cool their heels and hide out when they'd done something really really naughty. All rich kids, tough as NAILS. My amigo Juan saw his 18 year old cousin take a head shot from a Rebel sniper while sitting in the front seat of his car right next to him. Juan and his friends' violent retribution led them to MN. I never asked. Yikes. This was in Minneapolis in the early/mid 80s, but my brother lives in Newport Beach now, and his two best pals are Mexican and Guatamalans and they are the same way about black guys. I have a longstanding and very friendly business relationship with a couple of guys from Queens who are from Puerto Rico and the DR, and they don't even pretend to hide their dislike for Black folk. It's uncomfortable for me, cause I can't see what they see but the thing is real. So, I'm not really that connected to the vibe, but I hope it's smoothed out to nothingness, because THAT ... we do not need. I probably shouldn't have brought it up, in retrospect. But, it's been by observation.