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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 03:36 PM Original message |
The growing brown/black conflict in Los Angeles: unimaginable violence and bloodshed |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Wow. Please don't turn this thread into a flamewar about white v. minority discrimination. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 04:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. Don't expect the corporate fascist structure in this country to step in and do much |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Sadly, I think there's a lot of truth to that. |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. No it tearing the lower economic apart. The rest of LA doesn't care as long |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Then you don't understand LA very well. |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I view LA as the whole megalopolis |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I stand by my statement. It's nowhere NEAR as black and white as you suggest. |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 05:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Given the economic issues, espcially housing, few people have time to do much outside their own |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 05:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Well, considering I live in Hollywood (and have for years)... |
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huskerlaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 02:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. I'm with Shakespeare |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 05:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Shakespeare, the entire area, dubbed the |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 02:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. I once actually heard an L.A. cop refer to gang neighborhood ... |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. not much to say about this, other than |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Its real and its happening, and not just in gangs |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. There's been a lot of unrest in area high schools, too (RE not just gang-related) |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. wait - didn't Miss Laura take care of that? |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 06:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Apparently, she never got the memo about LA as the mother of all gang hotbeds. |
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troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 06:43 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Hard to see any solution until there are decent JOBS. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-07-08 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
17. The gang bangers were one of the reasons why we left So Cal. |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 02:40 AM Response to Original message |
20. following example - usa is war bully and uses bombs, bullets, to kill - same thing n/t |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 08:43 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. yes - i've been saying much the same for years. |
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elizfeelinggreat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 09:11 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. so true |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. many in the service are there for a sense of family and belonging - |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
23. this story says nothing about who killed this child |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-08-08 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
25. I saw something quite scary about this on some TV show called 'Gangland' |
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Irishonly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. It's Happening in the Inland Valley also |
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GreenTea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-09-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
29. What in the fuck are you talking about? Are you for real? |
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