I don’t live in Los Angeles or the West Coast so I cannot bare direct witness to what is going on. That said, I have a problem with what I am reading about black and Latino gangs in LA engaging in a racial turf war. All the headlines I have read characterize an equality of intentions and actions to eliminate the other race from integrated or integrating neighborhoods. However, when I read the detailed accounts in these articles there is no evidence that blacks are trying to eliminate Hispanics from communities, but there is plenty of examples of Hispanic gangs attempting to do this.
Why is the media bent on making each side equally complicit in this phenomenon? From the information the media itself has provided and from interviews of blacks living in some of the affected communities, it’s some Latino gangs attempting to drive out or keep out blacks and not the other way around. I am sure that some black gang members have killed a Latino person, but no media has presented any evidence that any such killings are an attempt to ethnically cleanse or preserve the black community. If anything, battle for supremacy in the California Penal system, between black and Hispanic gangs, has carried over into the streets. I personally believe that Hispanics males may fear the strength and attraction of black males and see them as a threat to their ambitions, be it territory or women.
The white media is obviously averse to frame black people as “victims” because of their race. There seems to be a push in America to create a moral equivalency in regards to racism, as represented in the movie “Crash”. In other words, all groups are equally racist and damaging toward other races. It’s all offsetting in such rationalizations. Whites seem to find comfort in the belief and accusation that blacks are just as racist as whites. This belief or accusation helps to “normalize” the racist behavior of whites and makes them feel less guilty about their own racism. If all groups are guilty of this then why should white people feel guilty or be singled out? So now it seems that the white dominated media is pushing the idea that all racism works both ways and this is why the Hispanic assault on blacks in LA is being characterized in the headlines as an equal exchange of intentions and actions on behalf of black and Hispanic gangs.
The truth be told, black folks are far too busy cannibalizing their own people than they are focused on ethnically cleansing other groups. The greatest release of negative energy from black people is nearly always aimed at other black people. What ever our frustrations may be, and there are many, we physically release those frustrations upon other black people. The reason that is so comes from centuries of conditioning. Even though many groups deserve to be the physical target of the release of our frustrations, given that they helped to foster them, they surprisingly are not.
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