Currently California is about 38% Hispanic and about 6% Black. So over the past few decades some areas that were traditionally black have changed. There's been some friction as there would be in any changeover.
What's more ominous than the friction or even minor bigotry is the hateful actions by some Hispanics (and to a lesser extent by some blacks) that may have grown out of gang activities but has morphed into generic attacks on people who are the "wrong" color or in the "wrong" neighborhood.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/06/08/latino-gang-targeted-blacks-in-california-city/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/05/AR2008010502838.htmlhttp://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/05/jamiel_shaw_murder_pedro_espin.phpThese are of course quite small activities in the larger scheme of things but it is interesting to me that these areas/incidents have not become symbolic rallying names the way that "Howard Beach" or "Bensonhurst" did in an earlier generation. Bottom line though however many of these incidents occur, most murders are intra, not inter-racial.
Yup it always was funny to me that people can enjoy the culture, music or women
of groups that they otherwise despise but that's human nature. No doubt some of the hoodlums that ran downtown to beat up civil rights demonstrators in the fifties were also Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley fans. So it goes...
