Comments on: Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Spike in California in Possible Trend

By: Sam Molloy

Sam Molloy — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:54:00 +0000

Gareyes, I believe that the rich White Conservatives in power try to keep all us little folks fighting with each other to avoid our ganging up on them.

By: Gareyes

Gareyes — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:49:27 +0000

I have read on this website about gangs trying to ethnically cleanse their towns of African-Americans. we can all acknowledge there are conflicts within those communities but I don’t read anywhere that black or Latino politicians are going around stoking fears of other people. If anything, I hear their leadership calling for those communities to work together. Right-wing politicians are going around creating hysteria about immigrants and many of them also make obnoxious statements about the president’s race as well (Senator Coburn’s most recent comments) for instance. the fact is that conservative whites are much more likely to be in power, and to provide an aura of legitimacy towards racist attacks which are spread in mainstream media and have a greater reach than isolated incidents of blacks attacking other races or Latinos for that matter.

By: A.D.M.

A.D.M. — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:16:27 +0000

Jazz, are you being sarcastic?

By: A.D.M.

A.D.M. — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:16:07 +0000

Jon and Richard Farnsworth, you two are stupid. Have any of you ever decided to look in the archives before coming down with a case of verbal diarrhea? About a month or two ago, SPLC had an article about federal charges being brought against a Mexican gang called Azusa 13 for trying to, in their words, “ethnically cleanse” Southern California towns of African-Americans. Last year, August 2010 to be exact, SPLC had an article about black folks committing hate crimes against so-called “Latinos” in the New York City borough of Staten Island. Jon and Richard Farnsworth, you two clowns should quit while you’re ahead and get a cure for your verbal diarrhea. It’s not SPLC’s fault there are white nationalists who want to be big and bad. Oh, and don’t try to deny you have some anti-black sentiments because your comments are a reflection of that sentiment.

By: Sam Molloy

Sam Molloy — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:06:11 +0000

I read today in El Dia, and my Spanish is not that great, that Kentucky’s DMV no longer will take an ITIN number as documentation to register a vehicle. No law here says you have to have an SSN to register a vehicle, but the DMV on it’s own now requires a nine digit number or the computer won’t take it. That little bit of Fascist A###olism now greets people just trying to renew their tags.

By: Richard Farnsworth

Richard Farnsworth — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:02:30 +0000

Why do you never mention the anger,hatred and acts of violence committed against and between Latinos and Blacks when it is well known that the greatest of bad blood ,especially in the Ca,Az,NM area is between those two groups?
Steet gangs in LA have long held intense hatred between those two races way out of porportion to anything committed by whites against either of those two?..Why do you select what you will print to make whites look the worst?

By: Marcia

Marcia — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:12:53 +0000

I don’t condone violence but I also don’t believe that trying to understand actions are condoning them. I suspect that with this struggling economy and the threatened cutbacks for those who need help the most (middle class and poor), that immigrants (particularly those viewed as illegals) will be seen as siphoning off diminishing funds and reducing even more the smaller pieces of the American pie. Unfortunate for everyone, especially when the people who could most pay their fair share will not.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:01:27 +0000

“I can only hope for the day when the SPLC is defunct.”

Me, too, Jon. I look forward to the day that this and other hate-watch sites are no longer necessary. You are right, the bogeyman is not *always* white, but he is always much more empowered, above the law, wealthy enough to make the laws, and mostly not subject to the laws that his victims are strangled with.

So, along with you, I hope for a day when none of this will be true.

By: MST

MST — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:27:07 +0000

Please provide links.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:59:35 +0000

I can only hope for the day when the SPLC is defunct. You refuse to cover the racially-motivated attacks of whites by blacks across the nation and you refuse that the rise in anti-Latino hate crimes are also because they’re being targeted by blacks. You never cover the rise in attacks on Asians in this nation by blacks. Nope, the boogeyman always has to be white people of any age and gender.

By: Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:19:15 +0000

“California, along with Arizona, has been the scene of much conflict between native Americans and immigrants,”

The amiguous term “native Americans” in this article doesn’t explicitly say which “Americans” are at “conflict with immigrants”. But we already know which group of Americans are ardent foes of immigrant/Latinos.
The so called “native Americans”(ergo not to be confused with Indigenous Native Americans) in this case are generally known as nativists, which comprised of “Americans” who are commonly associated with the Minuteman, Tea Pottiers, their rabid wing-nuts enablers/politicos and a host of other far right extremists groups, make up the vast majority.
Notwithstanding the fact that most Americans are somewhat anti-illegal immigration, yes Indigenous Native Americans included as welll as Blacks and native born Latinos.