Thread: Forbidden Zone Where Blacks Risk Death

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Believe it or Not in America in 2007 There's A Forbidden Zone Where Blacks Risk Death If They Enter

Earl Ofari Hutchinson


There's no physical sign, barrier, or even a chalk line that marks the zone where a black can't enter at the risk of grave harm. But the zone is there, and blacks know that if they enter it they can be beat, shot at, or killed.

The twist is that the forbidden zone is not in a redneck, backwoods, and Deep South town during the rigid and violent Jim Crow segregation era. The bigger twist is that the Klan, Neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, and bikers didn't establish the racially restrictive zone. Purported Latino gang members established it. The forbidden zone is in a small, mixed ethnic bedroom community in Los Angeles. The year is 2007, not 1947.
A black family that recently fled the community in fear for their lives bluntly told a reporter that they left because blacks there are scared to death. In the past year, the hate terror escalated to the point where blacks tell tormenting tales of being harried when they leave their homes, or their children walk to school. They say that they are forbidden to go into a park, and a convenience store.
This is not a bad case of racial paranoia run amok. Blacks have been taunted, harassed, beaten and shot at in this community. But the tragic murder of a 14-year-old black girl and the wounding of two other young blacks in the forbidden zone sparked anguish, rage, and finally drew some local media attention. The murder drew gasps of disbelieve that in America in 2007 in a big, Northern cosmopolitan city, with a Latino mayor, and that routinely back pats itself for its ethnic diversity, there is an entire area that blacks are banned from on pain of injury or death at the hands of other non-whites. And city officials seem powerless to do anything about it.
Though two reputed Latino gang members are charged with the teen's murder, and were slapped with a hate crime charge, the arrest and the hate charge didn't calm the jitters and fears of blacks that live there. Even after the arrests, a number of blacks still said that they planned to get out of the area as soon as they could.
Latino on black (and black on Latino) violence is hardly an aberration in Los Angeles (and other places). According to police reports, there have been more than a dozen murder attempts in other parts of Los Angeles by alleged Latino gang members on mostly young blacks that have no known gang involvement in the latter part of 2006. A Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission report on hate violence in 2005 found that overall Latinos committed nearly half of the hate attacks in the County, while blacks committed thirty percent of the hate attacks. But when it's Latino and black violence, the figure for hate violence soars. Latinos and blacks committed the bulk of the racially motivated hate attacks against each other.
The easy explanation for the hate terror is that the perpetrators are bored, restless, disaffected, jobless, untutored, violence prone gang members, and the violence is a twisted response to racism and deprivation. The attacks no doubt are deliberately designed by the gang hate purveyors to send the message to blacks that this is our turf, and you're an interloper. But despite arrests, police crackdowns, gang injunctions, assorted anti-violence marches and rallies, and community peace efforts, the black and Latino low intensity battle has shown no sign of abating.
Then there's the vehemence of the racial hate. The dirty, and painful secret is that blacks and Latinos can be racist, maybe even more racist than whites, toward each other. It's easy to see why. Many Latinos fail to understand the complexity and severity of the black experience. They frequently bash blacks for their poverty or type them as clowns, buffoons and crooks. Some routinely repeat the same vicious anti-black epithets as racist whites. The color complex reinforces the notion that blacks are a racial and competitive threat, and any distancing, ostracism, avoidance, and even violence is a rational response to keep blacks at arms length.
On the other side, some blacks feed the same myths and racial stereotypes, and bash Latinos as anti-black, and violence prone, gangsters that are a menace, as well as ethnic and economic competitors. The warped misconceptions and fears have so far trumped the loud calls and efforts by black and Latino activists and many residents for unity and peace.
The murder of a black teen, and the gradual dawning that racially motivated hate attacks are happening right under the noses of a slumbering, maybe indifferent public, and impotent city officials, in a modern-day city like Los Angeles.

The easy explanation for the hate terror is that the perpetrators are bored, restless, disaffected, jobless, untutored, violence prone gang members, and the violence is a twisted response to racism and deprivation.

These days when I read comments like this, I realize how hard the writer is trying to wrap his old way of looking at things away the new facts he/she is confronted with.

To claim these racist attacks are a twisted response to racism and deprivation is outlandish!

W

I agree. This is a blatant racist attack against another ethnic group.

Using pathetic excuses to try to justify racist attacks is just beyond comprehension. Hate is hate no matter how you slice it.

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Blacks are repressed in Mexico and South America so it does not surprise me that illegals have brought these attitudes to America with them. It's ashamed because America has worked very hard at eliminating this from our society, to only have it unwillingly revived with the inflow of illegal aliens.

Dixie

Blacks need to talk to the black cacus in congress and the NAACP which all support illegals. The black leadership is not different than the white politicans who support illegals. All Americans and legal immigrants regardless of color are in the same toilet and it is being flushed by our politicans. More and more cities are having illegal gang related problems and still leaders and politicans support illegals and amnesty.

12/19/2006
19 Year Old Dies from Stab Wound
On December 18, 2006, at 9:30pm Police responded to a group of subjects fighting at the Gresham Transit Station, located at 400 NE 8th. When Police arrived they discovered 19 year old Gresham resident Javier Arteaga had been stabbed. Gresham Patrol Officers located and arrested the suspect shortly after. The suspect was identified as Portland resident 18 year old Thaymon Earl WATSON.

The victim, Javier Arteaga was transported to OHSU where he later died from his injuries.

Mr. WATSON was arrested and is currently at Multnomah County Detention Center charged with Murder.

Detectives from the Major Crimes Team and members of the East Metro Gang Enforcement Team are still investigating the case. They ask that anyone having information regarding the incident call the Gresham Tip line at 503-793-2719 or 1-888-989-3505.

Mug picture of WATSON is available.

This murder happened in the heart of Gresham, right across the street from where my 24 year old daughter works. The young man who killed this Latino gang member was black, but he was only known to have friends within a gang, but not to be a member of.

Yesterday my 13 year old son was sitting in the coffee/sandwhich shop with his sister (she was alone, he was waiting for her) near closing time, and there was a gathering on the spot where the young man was killed, in force was numerous gang members, as well as police from our city and others just sitting by to watch. My daughter said she has never been more nervous.

They also reintroduced TB. Ironic that the only thing on Bush's agenda that he can get past congress is amnesty. Wierd times...

Since I'm not familiar with the source, is this in LA?

If so, Villaraigosa should stop coddling illegal aliens and spend that money to put a policeman on every block.

No citizen in the US should be afraid to walk down the street.

The democratic party is supposed to be the champion of the minorities but they encourage illegals to come here and take the jobs of poor americans who for the most part vote democratic. The democratic party is shafting the poor black people in this country and most of them don't even realize they are doing it.