Post by ifayomi on Jan 19, 2007 12:39:09 GMT -5
The Forbidden Zone For Blacks In 2007
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist
There’s no physical sign, barrier, or even a chalk line that marks the zone where a black can’t enter at the risk of grave harm. But the zone is there, and blacks know that if they enter it they can be beat, shot at, or killed. The twist is that the forbidden zone is not in a redneck, backwoods, and Deep South town during the rigid and violent Jim Crow segregation era. The bigger twist is that the Klan, Neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, and bikers didn’t establish the racially restrictive zone. Purported Latino gang members established it. The forbidden zone is in a small, mixed ethnic bedroom community in Los Angeles. The year is 2007, not 1947.
A black family that recently fled the community in fear for their lives bluntly told a reporter that they left because blacks there are scared to death. In the past year, the hate terror escalated to the point where blacks tell tormenting tales of being harried when they leave their homes, or their children walk to school. They say that they are forbidden to go into a park, and a convenience store.
This is not a bad case of racial paranoia run amok. Blacks have been taunted, harassed, beaten and shot at in this community. But the tragic murder of a 14-year-old black girl and the wounding of two other young blacks in the forbidden zone sparked anguish, rage, and finally drew some local media attention. The murder drew gasps of disbelieve that in America in 2007 in a big, Northern cosmopolitan city, with a Latino mayor, and that routinely back pats itself for its ethnic diversity, there is an entire area that blacks are banned from on pain of injury or death at the hands of other non-whites. And city officials seem powerless to do anything about it.
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Mo dupe for this post. Things remain the same, some say have we progressed
I say things remain the same we are still where we were, we get what is allowed no more. When we as a people realize this we will get somewhere. And on that note, I was viewing footage of Dr. Martin Luther King's marches etc. you know the non violent approach etc. What do you think would have been the outcome of such a organized collective, of instead of non violence a violent approach. In the era of Dr. King we had the numbers we had the organization as well as cooperation, what if on a large scale there had been violence. killings etc (of oyinbo) do you think we would have been contained, or do you think things would be different. I personally believe that we had the momentum and would not have been stoppped, Oyinbo (white folk) would have been shaking in their socks, if when we were marching and rioting, if we had chose them as a target, their communities etc, what would have been the outcome. Remember power only moves or backs down in the face of greater power, also there has never been change without bloodshed. My only query is what would we have done in gaining power, would we have been as the white supremist, would we have realized that this land is American Indian land, would we have remained humble after the overthrow of white supremacy, I wonder. But I believe if other strategies had been used, we would not still be in the margins
Peace Osunkoya-Ifayomi
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, BlackNews.com Columnist
There’s no physical sign, barrier, or even a chalk line that marks the zone where a black can’t enter at the risk of grave harm. But the zone is there, and blacks know that if they enter it they can be beat, shot at, or killed. The twist is that the forbidden zone is not in a redneck, backwoods, and Deep South town during the rigid and violent Jim Crow segregation era. The bigger twist is that the Klan, Neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, and bikers didn’t establish the racially restrictive zone. Purported Latino gang members established it. The forbidden zone is in a small, mixed ethnic bedroom community in Los Angeles. The year is 2007, not 1947.
A black family that recently fled the community in fear for their lives bluntly told a reporter that they left because blacks there are scared to death. In the past year, the hate terror escalated to the point where blacks tell tormenting tales of being harried when they leave their homes, or their children walk to school. They say that they are forbidden to go into a park, and a convenience store.
This is not a bad case of racial paranoia run amok. Blacks have been taunted, harassed, beaten and shot at in this community. But the tragic murder of a 14-year-old black girl and the wounding of two other young blacks in the forbidden zone sparked anguish, rage, and finally drew some local media attention. The murder drew gasps of disbelieve that in America in 2007 in a big, Northern cosmopolitan city, with a Latino mayor, and that routinely back pats itself for its ethnic diversity, there is an entire area that blacks are banned from on pain of injury or death at the hands of other non-whites. And city officials seem powerless to do anything about it.
www.blacknews.com
Mo dupe for this post. Things remain the same, some say have we progressed
I say things remain the same we are still where we were, we get what is allowed no more. When we as a people realize this we will get somewhere. And on that note, I was viewing footage of Dr. Martin Luther King's marches etc. you know the non violent approach etc. What do you think would have been the outcome of such a organized collective, of instead of non violence a violent approach. In the era of Dr. King we had the numbers we had the organization as well as cooperation, what if on a large scale there had been violence. killings etc (of oyinbo) do you think we would have been contained, or do you think things would be different. I personally believe that we had the momentum and would not have been stoppped, Oyinbo (white folk) would have been shaking in their socks, if when we were marching and rioting, if we had chose them as a target, their communities etc, what would have been the outcome. Remember power only moves or backs down in the face of greater power, also there has never been change without bloodshed. My only query is what would we have done in gaining power, would we have been as the white supremist, would we have realized that this land is American Indian land, would we have remained humble after the overthrow of white supremacy, I wonder. But I believe if other strategies had been used, we would not still be in the margins
Peace Osunkoya-Ifayomi