The L.A. Clippers may have found themselves a new owner

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/27/texas-man-whips-daughter-with-a-belt-for-dancing-with-a-black-friend/

A Houston man was charged with injuring his 14-year-old daughter out of anger that she chose a Black friend to be her dance partner for a traditional Mexican event, the Houston Chronicle reported on Tuesday.

Police said 37-year-old Aaron Aranza attacked his daughter on April 11 during a rehearsal party for her upcoming quinceañera, an event celebrating girls’ 15th birthdays that typically features a spotlight dance between the honoree and a partner. The rehearsal was held at her maternal grandmother’s house.

After finding out that the girl chose her friend, a 15-year-old Black boy, to dance with her at the event, Aranza allegedly told guests it was canceled before pushing the boy and using a racist slur against him, stating, “I don’t care that you are a kid.”

The suspect then allegedly took the girl into the residence, where he whipped her with a belt and threw her, injuring her arm. Aranza also reportedly threatened to take the girl to his house, even though she lives with her mother, then forced her back outside and dragged her across the front yard before leaving.

[Initech]

1. WTF does this have to do with the Clippers?

[KamaAina]

4. Forbidding a woman to associate with Black men

that's what.

[temporary311]

2. Certainly doesn't leave one wondering

why she lives with her mother instead of her father. Sounds like he shouldn't be allowed around his kid(s) at all.

[kelliekat44]

3. Everyone who comes here gets their chance to discriminate against blacks...nt

[Gman]

5. ??????

The Clippers???

[KamaAina]

6. Both this moran and the disgraced Clippers owner

forbade women from associating with Black men.

[Gman]

7. I don't see the relationship.

Seems a stretch....

I see it as the pervasive racism among Mexican-Americans against Blacks. Of course, not all Mexican-Americans, but what I've seen is often much worse than whites against Blacks. And I've seen it up close and personal in the Democratic Party too.

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. There's a good book about Black/Latino interactions

"The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America" by Nicholas c. Vaca

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues-jan-june04-vaca_5-24/

The Presumed Alliance with Author Nicholas Vaca

RAY SUAREZ: The book is “The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and what it means for America.” The author is Nicholas Vaca, an attorney in the San Francisco Bay area and a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. The book examines the economic, social and political realities that sometimes unite and often divide the country’s two largest minority groups.

Nicholas Vaca, I think a lot of people from outside these two groups might say, “look, they’ve got a lot of the same battles, whether it’s housing, education, employment, access to elective office.” How did it end up being an unspoken conflict?

NICHOLAS VACA: Well, I think actually you had this conflict going on even in the ’60s and the’ 70s, though in a subdued basis. What has happened, I think, is largely the Latino population explosion. I was really piqued to do the research and write this book because of the 2000 census, which predicted that Latinos would outnumber African Americans by the year 2005. In fact, in 2003 that came to be the fact.

So I was intrigued by that. I think what has happened now is Latinos are growing and trying to assert their own political empowerment, you’re having this conflict, even though you’re absolutely right– they both suffer from the same kind of racial profiling, discrimination, prejudice. Those similar kinds of problems affect both groups, but in fact you still have a conflict because it is to some extent a zero-sum game, and each group wants to have its own for its own.

[Gman]

10. I know there is some resentment on the part of Blacks

who were there at the time in the 60's that feel Latinos just piggy backed on the civil rights movement and didn't put in the blood, sweat and tears that Blacks did. To a large degree they are right that Latinos did not have an Edmond Pettus bridge moment, or a Rosa Parks type of figure. I know Latinos argue vehemently that I'm wrong. But I've lived in South Texas all my life and I watched it unfold.

But make no mistake, Latinos had their fair share of discrimination in the same ways as did Blacks. But the big difference is Latinos were never slaves, much less for 400 years.

It all came to another head in Texas Democratic politics in 08 when Latinos overwhelmingly supported Hillary and Blacks Obama. I was a Hillary delegate to the state convention that was so disgusted with the blatant, unabashed racism toward Blacks and Obama supporters that I started voting with the Obama people for their candidates for convention positions. If I could have and still been seated as a delegate I would have changed my preference to Obama.

[Lancero]

9. You're forgetting where this person attacked her...

But hey, whats child abuse matter when you can compare this guy to a rich racist?