Reply #26: Anytime you hurt someone, I think qualifies as a hate crime. [View All]

[Cleita]

However, I lived in the Los Angeles County area of Southern California most of my life. Long Beach had a history and reputation of racism among the white people living there against African Americans and Mexican Americans back then. The Long Beach police were notorious for it. I don't think that much has changed since I left more than a decade ago.

It's no surprise that there is bad blood between AA's and whites there. I'm not making excuses for the African Americans involved here. They were very wrong and do display a racial hatred with their actions. What I'm saying is that there is a history there to explain their actions. I saw the same thing in Kansas City, where you went into a black neighborhood at your own risk. A friend of mine from Detroit said the same thing happened there. The same goes for East L. A.. Non-hispanics enter at their own peril.

There are decades of racial hatred on all sides that need to be studied so that a solution to the problem can be formulated and put into action.