Sunday, January 6, 2008

Black vs Brown


Recently I read an article about LA Mexican gangs killing Blacks in neighborhoods for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. This is amazing to me, first we have whites throughout history lynching Blacks and now Mexicans? These gangs are out of control including the Black ones because they've been preying on their own people as well. 
I'm not going to get pulled into hating Mexicans because of the thugs that don't represent their whole race just like the Black thugs that don't represent all of Black society. But this must be stopped, especially now that the gangs are starting to prey on the innocent people in their neighborhoods. I just thought that Mexican and Black people wouldn't be dumb enough to turn on each other. I shouldn't be so naive, human nature tells me that people can't get along even when they are the same color.
What disturbs me the most is I don't hear anything from our so called Black leaders. When the Don Imus or Jena Six mess started, it was all over the news and so were our so called Black leaders. No one was killed in those incidents like the Mexican gang killing the Black man at a bus stop or the 14yr old Black girl, where's the outcry? And even with the hype of the Mexican gangs guess who still kills the most Black people? That's right other Black people. In Philly and New Orleans their were numerous killings per month by Black people. Where are Sharpton and Jesse Jackson when a hundred Black men are killed in one month by their own people? I guess it isn't as sexy as an old white man calling black girls nappy headed hoes which rappers taught him to do or a noose on a tree with no one in the noose. 
These incidents make headlines and maybe they should, but not more than Black on Black, brown on black, or brown on brown  hate crimes. Oh yeah, and if the White population doesn't think this violence won't spill into their world, they're mistaken, but maybe some white people getting hurt will be what it takes to get some action on this crisis.