Ethnic Cleansing in America

You would think the oppressed peoples of America would unite against their oppressors, but instead, they are turned against each other.

For example, ethnic cleansing in Los Angeles.


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http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/winter/la-blackout

Anthony Prudhomme was slain by members of the Avenues, a Latino street gang. But he was not a rival gang member, or a police informant, or a drug dealer. The Avenues did not target him for the content of his character, or even the contents of his apartment.

They targeted him for the color of his skin.

Prudhomme was murdered because he identified himself as black (he was in fact mixed-race) in a neighborhood occupied by one of the many Latino street gangs in Los Angeles County. Incredibly, even though these gangs are fundamentally criminal enterprises interested mainly in money, gang experts inside and outside the government say that they are now engaged in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" -- racial terror that is directed solely at African Americans.

"The way I hear these knuckleheads tell it, they don't want their neighborhoods infested with blacks, as if it's an infestation," says respected Los Angeles gang expert Tony Rafael, who interviewed several Latino street gang leaders for an upcoming book on the Mexican Mafia, the dominant Latino gang in Southern California. "It's pure racial animosity that manifests itself in a policy of a major criminal organization."

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Obviously not identical, but I believe it is related in attitude.

Beyond that, time for some housecleaning. If you've ever worked in a job where people open up about their feeling and opinions, you will hear some disgusting opinions from people you would not expect. Lesbians talking about how they "hate *censored*" (gay men). African Americans telling their mom "It's OK, he's a white guy. I know better than to trust my money to a *censored*". Pro gay liberals who hate blacks as much as they hate Republicans. Pro AA liberals who think gays should be quarantined.

It's time to wake up and clean out the cupboards of our own wrongheadedness if we really want to seize the moral imperative.

Klansman teabaggers hate almost everyone, but many self identified liberals / progressives and members of oppressed groups are not pure of heart and deed.