Ethnic Cleansings in Los Angeles - Why Aren't You Fighting a Battle Against Real Racism?

Hate crimes are targeting young, black Americans right now. True, and real, despicable hate crimes that put black American children in danger. If the first thing that comes to mind is a small town in Louisiana, you should be ashamed of yourself. There is no excuse for the amount of saber rattling thrown at Jena as there is today, when 18 year old black workers, young honor students, and anyone else in the "wrong neighborhoods" are being purged by aggressive gangs bent solely on ethnic cleansing.

Things have gotten bad in Los Angeles - so bad that gang related murders have shot up 15% this year alone as an aggressive surge by opposing gangs to root out the blacks of Los Angeles has taken hold. Fourteen year old Cheryl Green was murdered while playing on a skateboard. The Observer Guardian highlights just how frequently opposing gangs will target young, black girls for extermination in the hopes of driving black families off their turf.

Where are the marches? Where is the outrage? There are only two possibilities I can think of for why the black community has stayed its hand and neither one bodes well for the alleged new "civil rights movement". Either the lack of outrage is because of a genuine fear of retaliation by those cleansing Los Angeles of the black ethnicity, or more deviously, the absence of a white antagonizer is just enough for them to decide that, hey, maybe there isn't any racism involved. After all, without whites, how can there be racism against blacks?

Unfortunately, all modern politically correct terms aside, black children are dying. They aren't misinterpreting jokes gone awry. They aren't getting harsher sentences than you would approve of after ambushing a fellow student. They are dying - they are being attacked in the streets, murdered in their homes, shot, stabbed, and killed because of their ethnicity.

Does the absence of ropes mitigate the racism involved? Because there are no nooses dangling from trees, the southern symbol of prejudice and hatred, the specter of intolerance doesn't exist in Los Angeles? Maybe it's because the city council has decided to ban the use of the word "nigger" - that must be why the tragedy of Los Angeles is being overlooked.

But the situation gets even more dastardly - as Mayor Villaraigosa has remained steadfastly silent in the face of these killings. A man whose entire career is bent around pandering to Latino minorities does not surprise anyone with his silence in the face of this inhumanity, but where are the Al Sharptons? The Jesse Jacksons?

This is not a suburban malaise, this is not a white man whose spent his whole life around other white men not liking the black guy at work - this is a genuine series of racially motivated killings.

Is this not racism?

Is this not worthy of protests and marches?

At the time of this article's publication, there are no current articles on Associated Content about the ethnic cleansing. Those who have taken the mantle upon themselves as defenders of the black cause have remained as silent as the mayor that allows it to happen. What are they writing about, one may wonder?

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This white male who looks upon this ethnic cleansing with disgust suggests that one stops beating the drums of Jena for a little while and focus on a real calamity. Justice has shown itself, the Jena Six aren't going anywhere.

So why don't we try to stop horror and mayhem in its footsteps?

Sources:

http://www.alternet.org/story/46855/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5t_Di6a6NM
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2036580,00.html
http://www.infowars.com/articles/immigration/mexican_gangs_ethnic_cleansing_blacks_in_la.htm
http://www.newsweek.com/id/61950
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=747