http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/220107mexicangangs.htm
The next article that I would like to pose a comparison about is the article that I have listed right above. It is one that recalls back in 2007 how in Los Angeles latino “american” gang members are continually discriminating and trying to rid the city of Blacks. The way they do this is actually by killing them randomly, without fear of concequences, and without memorse. It is set in their way of thinking because of the theology of the Neo-Nazi liberation known as “La Raza,” which basically suggests that all races except for Hispanics are to be eliminated by any means necessary. Now, what I more closely link this to is the way that the Nazi’s treated all of the people that they conceived as unfitting for their own society and vowed to eliminate, but in a way, it can be related back to when the whites of the Colonies in America pushed for the Native Americans to be removed. A big difference in these two situations is the act or the performance of how the white colonists started the movement against the Native Americans, but the way that they are similar is in the prejudices and discrimination towards the other race in both of these articles. The Native Americans where definetly, though some mixed with white, were still very discriminated against because they were “violating” the purity of the American “white” colonies that the Protestant Anglo Saxon had so pushed to enforce upon this new nation.
The way that the Latino “Americans” are blatently making it a known fact that they do not want the Blacks in their neighborhoods and that they will kill those that stick around is a much more violent act of discrimination that any other Native American had ever felt. Even President Jackson stated that he would like to see the Native Americans learn the ways of the whites, take up wifes of different race, and have the blood of both Native Americans and Whites run and share the new nation that is forming.
The way that I look at these two articles as being similar in nature is defined upon the intelect of the people doing the discriminating against the minority in these articles. In the book, Takaki reveals that though many Native Americans had been educated and held high positions of authority, taken up the white lifestyle, and had intellect in fields of study, they still were unable to withstand the prejudices that the unknowing, undereducated, and missunderstood, everyday, white man had come to put on every one of those people with the same skin color, heritage, and way of life. In a similar way, the uneducated, unknowing, and missunderstood, and/or missled latino “americans” have an undying prejudice against the Black people living in LA. The reason behind these attrocities is because of uneducation, intolerance, and just bad mentors/role models.
In the situation that came up when the whites pushed the Cherokee out of their land and onto the Trail of Tears is a horrific sight of being able to call the white legislators murderers because of their inability to think through they way they planned on moving so many people without themselves being able to provide a regular source of food, water, and warmth to stay alive to make it to the other side of the Mississippi. This lapse of thought could be thought of as murder and would never happen in this day and age.
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