I don't doubt you. From reading news and articles I know about crime, gun and drug problems among the AA and Mexicans. Other problems can surely be found among other communities. Law should be applied without any bias and yes maybe the AA and Mexican communities will be prosecuted more for high crime rates. But singling out certain groups of people for certain traits normalizes the general approach of singling out. One time AA will be singled out, other time somebody else. It's not good for the long term health of a nation.
What you might read about Mexicans is very different from Mexicans in real life. Mexicans aren't running around terrorizing random people.
Mexicans and AAs are way different. The fact is that El Chapo and Pablo Escobar make for way more interesting television than an ordinary Mexican who comes to the United States and works as a migant farm worker or construction worker and so the media will give a very distorted perception of what Mexicans and Latin Americans are actually like.
The kind of stuff that is seen in the video in the OP.... this is not really all that unusual or surprising. But this kind of thing doesn't really happen in a Mexican neighborhood.
There are anti-immigrant groups who would like people to think that Mexicans are running around terrorizing random people and that Pakistanis in the UK are running around forming "grooming gangs" left and right. I've never been to the UK and I'm sure there are some Pakistani brothers who may have done some wrong stuff but I also seriously doubt that it's common.
If you or anyone comes and visits California, I encourage you to come visit a Latin neighborhood. You come to the Latin neighborhoods, you can have a great time. Good food, interesting culture, etc.
Mexicans on a mass scale are not running around terrorizing random people like AA's in California are. And if there are Mexicans running around and terrorizing people, I want them to be dealt with. But it's way different. You go to a Mexican neighborhood and you go to an AA neighborhood- way different. Mexican neighborhood is fun, friendly and peaceful. You don't have to fear for your life. AA neighborhood? Watch your back and exit as quickly as possible.
Of course, Mexico itself is a different story, depending on where you go..... but that has really been since the mid 2000's under Felipe Calderón and it wasn't like that before..... the US is backing the cartels in order to destabilize Mexico for the sake of whatever agenda......
I don't buy at all that people out here have to sit back and allow AA's to run around and terrorize people and businesses on a mass scale and pretend nothing is happening.
Mexicans out here do not commit crime on the scale AA's do. It is way different.
I am not saying law should discriminate. But if AA's on a mass scale are running around and terrorizing people and businesses, I think the public should be told the truth and that it should not be swept under the rug.
The statistics have shown that AA criminals are targeting Asians. So we should simply allow this to continue and not address it? Sit back and let Asians be victims of the crime so that we can be politically correct?
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a lot of people who I think have not really been that much around Mexicans and AAs lump the two together
but in reality hanging around AAs and hanging around Mexicans is way different........
you can see here.... yes, the Hispanics get incarcerated more than the whites but look how way different the rate is when compared with blacks..... this is why an AA neighborhood in California is way different than a Mexican neighborhood- where the people are friendly and family-oriented.... often devoutly religious as well..... Mexicans are not criminals......
also the Latin criminals are way different than the AA criminals..... you look at the AA thugs.... the video pretty much shows you how a lot of them are.......
but for example.... I came across a Latin person selling drugs recently.... he offered me drugs, I simply told him I wasn't interested and that was it..... the AA drug dealers might be the same...... but my thing is..... this is really how the Latin criminal is...... a lot of the Latin criminals are drug dealers who are interested in making money but not in irrationally terrorizing random people..... I think we should go after drug dealers too, sure and I'm all for that but the more immediate need is to go after people such as the ones in the video who are a threat to random innocent people........
anyways, though look how different that statistic is to how Latin people are portrayed in English-language media.... in Spanish-language media, you see Latin people portrayed as the ordinary people who they actually are but in English media it's like all you see are drug cartel people whereas in reality those people are only a small fraction of the population
