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Gunned down for the color of your skin
Mar 5, 2008 | 7:47 AM
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 Back in college my boyfriend innocently asked, "Wouldn't you like to live back in the 50's and 60's when life was simpler?"  I remember looking at him in utter amazement.  Why would I want to go back to a time when blacks were being lynched just because of the color of their skin?  Why would I want to go back to a time when businesses proudly displayed signs on the windows saying "No mexicans and dogs allowed"  Why? Nothing reinforced my fears more than the movie "Mississippi Burning", which was based on the true story of three civil rights students killed in 1964.  

 I told my boyfriend, "No, thank you. I like the way things are now."  


  It's now 2008 and things have changed a lot since I made that statement.  Now, the two groups who were once persecuted by racists and could have united to fight that kind of hate are out killing each other. Sometimes for no other reason than the color of their skin.

   Last week, five children and three adults were shot as they waited for the bus.  The gunman? A black man who witnesses say fired about 15 rounds from a semi-automatic handgun. 

    On Sunday, Jamiel Shaw, a black high school athlete with a promising future was shot and killed by a group of latino gang members.  On Tuesday, a 6 year old African American boy was shot in the head as he was inside a vehicle with other children and his mom.  The suspects? Two young latino men who flashed gang signs. 

  The boy is 6 years old!!!  Is there anything sacred with these hateful gangs?  A homicide detective tells me the racial war between latino and black gangs in many Los Angeles neighborhoods has been going on for years.   But they're not just killing each other. They are out killing innocent people who aren't in gangs.  People who in their eyes happen to have the wrong skin color.  Isn't that ironic? 

  Despite this madness, there are plenty of people working hard to find solutions to this problem.   Just last week, I went to Cleveland High School for a  "Black-Brown love" assembly.   Students used the power of words to talk about ending the horrible violence plaguing so many black and latino neighborhoods.  One female student read a short poem she had written. Here's a part of it.


     "We should be a generation of peace.  

      But all the hate just won't cease 

      and all the murder won't decrease. 

      And....we give another statistic to police

     when we could be bringing the world peace....."


I couldn't agree more.  How do we stop this insanity?

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rockstar93065
Mar 5, 2008 | 12:04 PM

ginau r way too hot 2 start worrying
rockstar93065
Mar 5, 2008 | 12:06 PM

sorry.. responded to wrong story
beepbeep read my blog view my photos
Mar 5, 2008 | 1:01 PM

I normally don't respond to these types of blogs, but since you're my favorite reporter, and the most beautiful, i'll respond to yours.

Cut the top heavy administrative brass. Stop creating specialty administrative positions when there's a budget crisis.

All of the districts seem to be doing this. It gives the public a poor perception of how the various districts spend money. Then, when a bond initiative comes around, the school districts are amazed why the people vote against these initiatives like bond measure "W" in the Antelope Valley.

I say put more security on the ground. Visibility is a great deterrent to crime. And fix all of the fences and gates, which protect the campuses. I bet if you went to any one of these schools you would find security breeches (easy access to the campus--by anyone), which are maintenance errors.

Going to the gym...see ya Gina.
dasvics read my blog view my photos
Mar 5, 2008 | 1:45 PM

How sad. Where are the parents? How could parents allow their children to be part of a gang? I would never allow my kids to dress, talk, act, or hang around gang members just like my dad didn’t allow my brother and I. I remember bringing home a pee-chee all tagged up with gang sings, I did make a few friends that where in a gang when I was in HS, but when my dad saw that folder, well lets just say they where no longer my friends and never again did I even think of hanging out with gang members. So I hold the parents responsible for teens that turn to gangs. If parents where involved in their children’s lives and spoke to them, and prohibited certain behavior, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen at all.
DfDeportation read my blog view my photos
Mar 5, 2008 | 5:12 PM

"And fix all of the fences and gates, which protect the campuses. I bet if you went to any one of these schools you would find security breeches (easy access to the campus--by anyone), which are maintenance errors." - BeepBeep

Tear all the real fences down! Who needs them? Physical barriers don't work and are symbols of hatred and racism! We need VIRTUAL FENCES! Those are the most effective...
scooch read my blog view my photos
Mar 5, 2008 | 7:29 PM

Ah such sad News. This time of year it comes out even worse Daylight Savings. Does that get earlier every year or what?
Beep There you are miss ya. Need ya.
dfd you were so on a roll until about 45 mins ago. You have so much info that is so important and then you get mean. Or is it me?
Why is protecting our children ever a question? There are some sure fire {My Grandmother channeling} ways I could suggest to protect but then perps have rights. That is where we should start! Nothing wrong with an eye for an eye.
Blcoffman who did I tell you said that only "makes us blind?"
craftyguy read my blog
Mar 5, 2008 | 7:42 PM

if anyone is to blame for any of this its ourselves..we cut out after school programs closed libraries to pay a bunch of teachers who are nothing more than glorified baby sitters ..both parents have to work when there are two so nobody has time to spend with their children so gangs open their hearts to theses kids and they get sucked in by false love that their parents can give because they are never home..the police becomes their parents to give then discipline..the youth authority becomes their grammar school jail becomes their high school and prison becomes their collage in a never ending revolving door the state gets rich and everyone else suffers ..except politicians who get rich over stupid programs that don't work just waist more money while they try to make out like they give a damn when they don't ..
Phil_Shuman read my blog view my photos
Mar 5, 2008 | 9:27 PM

I think it was a man named Rodney King who said...." Can't we all just get along "? It is insanity and there is no solution . If there were, it wouldve been implemented already..... One heartless pyschopathic bastard undoes all the progress everyone is working towards
Liz_Habib read my blog view my photos
Mar 5, 2008 | 11:53 PM

We have to keep caring. Every day, with every story. With every shooting with every negative comment we hear. One day the lynchings did end, and Rosa Parks took a seat on the bus, and there still is so much work to do. A 6 year old being killed in the crossfire is nothing short of a lynching...
sebar read my blog view my photos
Mar 6, 2008 | 1:17 AM

First off the most violent gang bangers who have committed murder should themselves visit a new electric chair in California. We could call it old sparky and distribute the videos on youtube, sit back, have a diet cola and popcorn of the bad guys executions. The problem is that these are domestic terrorists or foreign terrorists on American soil. The other problem is that the State laws need to execute them. Have a fast appeal process and get rid of the bad guys, all of them. You get rid of enough of them and they will not return to do it again, because they and their gangs and cultures of death will themselves be dead. If they don't like the electric chair then reactivate the gas chamber and tell them all to go take a good whiff! Works for me!!!

American Author, Poet, Songwriter and Filmwriter
"Mark Paul" Sebar
The Power To Write The Best!
sebar read my blog view my photos
Mar 6, 2008 | 1:21 AM

By the way, cheers to Rosa Parks. Too bad that poor lady had to go through that. We have come a very long way, but what you have now are mindless thugs Gina. Execute the bad guys if they have killed. Time for great folks to enjoy life, free from this rubbish of gangs. There shouldn't be gangs to start with, and why this government allows it is beyond me.

P.S. Liz Habib you finally replied in a blog...amazing!!!

American Author, Poet, Songwriter and Filmwriter
"Mark Paul" Sebar
The Power To Write The Best!
samo714 read my blog view my photos
Mar 6, 2008 | 7:46 AM

we should just try to round them all up, send them off to war to do the suicide missions, and if they live maybe lock them up still, or take a few years off their sentence. great way to stop over crowding in the jail, and to get rid of bad guys that won't change. just a odd idea i came up with.
gelatoprobono read my blog
Mar 6, 2008 | 8:12 AM

racialize yourself, and you get racialized. stupid people get what they beckon.
theaveragejose
Mar 9, 2008 | 12:58 AM

What’s happening is beyond stupid.
Gangbangers (all colors) are the most cowardly people around us. They are afraid of their own shadow. That’s why they pack, that’s why they run in groups. It takes a few of them to make a “pair”
I too was going down that path in the early 80s. Amazingly enough, it was a couple of old “veteranos” that convinced me not to follow in their footsteps. The people that I wanted to be like, told me that I could do better. Being shot at, burying young friends, fighting to a bloody pulp did not deter me one bit from wanting to be a hardcore hommie. But the words from those veteranos, changed my whole thought process, and I was lucky enough to leave that lifestyle before I became totally brainwashed into it. We have to get to the young ones before the leeches do. Given a choice, kids just want to be kids.

(we have to start somewhere)
LOOK AROUND YOU

look around you
don’t pretend to be naïve
“brown hommies” are killing blacks
‘cause of the color of their skin
while cheering Kobe and Fisher
as they notch another win

“we don’t want them in our hood
don’t cross the line there will be strife”
brown hommies loudly exclaim
while proudly wearing 81-
Tim Brown-Raiders for life

look around you
at gangbangers uniforms
oversize pro-sports jerseys
seem to be the norm

if the pro sport leagues cared more
than just the bottom line
they would discourage use of their image
by those hell-bent on committing crime

come on pro leagues
show us you really care
bombard the airwaves
radio tv and internet
with adds like
nosy4 read my blog
Mar 9, 2008 | 10:43 AM

IM NO SMART AZZ BUT I AM HERE TOO SAY I LIVE IN GANGVILLE USA,THE BLKS.AND BRWNS.NO ONE ANSWER IT'S FAMILIES,CHURCH,SCHOOLS,GET INVOLVED,PUT CAMERAS IN NEIGHBORHOODS,NOT IN TRAFFIC WHO CARES ABOUT ATICKET? my daughter was murdered in 1996,three people in one house and DNA DID'NT HELP SOLVE THE CASE NOBODY TALKED,THAT IS ANOTHER PROBLEM PEOPLE AFFRAID TOO TALK,I STILL WONDER WHY DO LATINO'S HATE BLACKS THESE ARE THE TWO MOST HATED PEOPLE ON EARTH AND THEY FIGHT EACHOTHER WHY,JOIN HANDS PROVE BOTH THAT THEY ARENT ANIMALS AND ARE CAREING PEOPLE,EACH CARES ABOUT THEIR FAMILIES FRIENDS, SO WHAT MAKES THESE PEOPLE KILL EACHOTHER? DON'T YOU FEEL WHEN YOU BROTHER IS SHOT DOWN WELL SO IS IT TRUE FOR THE OTHER FAMILIES GANGS ARE COWARDS,AND THEY SHOULD BE SENT TO IRAQ BRING OUR MEN HOME LET THEM GO THERE AND KILL IF I WERE A JUDGE THATS WHAT I WOULD DO WITH GANGBANGERS,THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHTS IT'S NOT DIRECTED AT ANYONE PER-SAY comments that's all.
gelatoprobono read my blog
Mar 9, 2008 | 10:14 PM

Racialized people; LOL!
gelatoprobono read my blog
Mar 9, 2008 | 10:17 PM

WE ARE NOT NAZI'S; WE CANNOT ELIMINATE GROUPS OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR BEHAVIOR, EXPECTATIONS, AND PERCEIVED CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY. EACH PERSON IS SCRUTINIZED BY THEIR INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR. cool, huh? I love living in America.
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