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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Niggas vs Spics!


Armed Troops in Liberia
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.
Ya know what the social topic of the month is in LA? A surprising strange rise of Spics killing Niggas in the mean streets of LA -- and not for drug beef, but still a simple factor of territory control.

It seems that latinos in LA are looking to reclamate certain parts of the city from the "negro menance" and they're killing innocent Blacks (like 14 year old girls) to send a message -- "Darkies get out!" The ghettos of LA have given

This one spic fool was interviewed on the radio talking about how Black people are "unclean and that they bring ghettoism." Like that's a word (more on that in a sec). Quite frankly I was shocked, because if you look at these poor Hispanic neighborhoods that have their own style of ghetto traits and sanitary habits that would make a OCD Victim kill themselves... not to mention the smell of refried beans permeates the air, the carpet and the walls of low income and poverty level latino communities.

Who would think that these two groups -- both people of color with an oppressed past in the US -- would turn on each other! Just goes to show that Afro-Americans never catch a break.

However these latinos need to recognize that all the Civil Rights work that Black people spearheaded, took the most ass-beatings and raised enough shit so MEXICANS could get a fair shake -- and here they go capping niggas for kicks and claiming that all niggas are good for is bringing ghettoism to their 'hoods.

The thing about Latino/Black gang violence is that the concept of "stopping it" has to come from a pure desire to reconcile in respect to a purely subjective issue -- it's not about drugs, it's just about skin color -- the perpertual problem of America for all times.

But back to this term "ghettoism" -- the way that word is used in popular culture days lets me know that Black people took ownership of that word throughout the mid 90s in rap music and made it a badge of dubious honor. So much so that the rest of the American population use the word ghetto as an adjective to describe behavior that is decidedly classless, behavior that has no shame, behavior that is indicative of generations of institutional racism, poverty and iirational assault by whites.

I don't know how this new crop of racial violence is going to pan. I assume that it'll only get worse and the reprisal attacks will get more and more random, striking complete innocents and then when it encroaches into the white part of town, then and only then will the police and maybe even the national guard come out and crack down on the bullshit.

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