Newark Execution Slayings Tragic Sign of Black and Latino Violence

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Author and political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson details the rising incidences of violence between African-Americans and Latinos in several of America’s big cities in his forthcoming book The Latino Challenge to Black America. The slayings of the three African-American students in Newark and the arrest of several Latino suspects purportedly illegal immigrants, confirms what Hutchinson warns of. There is a new phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence in America. Violence can no longer be framed as white on black or black on white violence. The majority of the hate crimes in major urban areas such as Los Angeles are now committed by blacks and Latinos against each other. The majority of the gang killings are now either black on Latino or Latino on black in several major urban areas.

Hutchinson says that violence between blacks and Latinos could increase, and there could be more tragedies like the execution killings in Newark as the number of Latinos continue to grow in urban inner city neighborhoods that were once predominantly or exclusively black. The violence between blacks and Latinos is a racial and ethnic tinder box.

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“The murder of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old black girl, and the wounding of two other young blacks in one day of by Latino gang members in Los Angeles violence in December 2006 drew gasps of disbelief that in America in 2006 in a big, cosmopolitan city with a Latino mayor, and that routinely back-patted itself for its ethnic diversity, there was an entire area that blacks were banned from on pain of injury or death at the hands of other non-whites. “

Excerpt From Chapter 4 “The Forbidden Zone,” in The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African-Americans and Hispanics

(Middle Passage Press, Los Angeles, October 2006).