Uncensored Reporting of today's incidents at Norte Vista High School (all names excluded):

At least a dozen or more police squadrons arrived on site, with helicopter following overhead to continue to control the situation.

One student described the scene as two very distinct massive lines of students--brown vs. black, formed during late morning break, appearing "like the old days, like battle formation" as the fighting was launched.

Repeated rumors of guns being involved were spreading, though people seemed in concensous that no gun was fired.

Other students described rushing into the fight trying to grab their younger brother(s), or cousins, smaller in size, and getting punched or socked several times before they'd loose sight of their loved one entirely in the massive braul. Versions of this story were told by *many* students.

Shortly after the fight was quieted, the whole school went on "lock down" for over the length of 2 whole periods, running into the lunch time. Police officers and administrators searched through classrooms, according to several other students, pulling out all sorts of students based on what appeared to looks alone.

Then, with no discussion addressing the student body about what had just happened, students were released for a late lunch only to fight several more pockets of fights breaking out throughout the lunch period and into the end of the day.

Submerged in white-washing public schools with little opportunity for deviance between the assimilation system--their options are clear: assimilate to the White Corporate Machine, or find ways to rebel that are too often in the form of gangs, drugs, etc.

The policing on school campuses continues to rise, with gang profiling a big part of the "remedy". And, those who do not succeed academically, are already pushed down the rode of criminalization simply by the way the are profiled and treated by the schools when they fail to succeed or accept their limited educational options.

Uniform education standards set out for an entire country--REGARDLESS of students' actual needs, is not serving the youth of our society. Instead, it is nurturing the corporate greed machine in producing compliant workers to enter the workforce, and channeling the rest into crime and prisons to keep one of the nation's best kept secret industries in business: the PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.


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PRESS ENTERPRISE ARTICLE:

Students arrested in campus scuffles

RESPONSE: Police go to Norte Vista High in Riverside because of fights.

12:30 AM PDT on Saturday, April 16, 2005

By SONJA BJELLAND / The Press-Enterprise

RIVERSIDE - A fight involving about 15 students at Norte Vista High School in Riverside prompted officials to lock down campus Friday morning.

About 10 a.m., students took their first nutritional break of the day and a skirmish erupted, said Principal Santos Campos. At least three students had minor injuries, ranging from bruises to an eyebrow ring being pulled out.

"This had to be done in the name of safety," Campos said of the lockdown as he spoke to a group waiting at the school's main entrance.


Silvia Flores / The Press-Enterprise
Riverside police Officer Felix Sorio, left, tries to control a fight Friday at Norte Vista High School in Riverside, while Detective Ken Tutwiler takes down a boy.

Students said the fight evolved from a racial comment made during a party at Incahoots, a dance club in La Sierra, last week.

On Thursday night, police broke up a potential fight at a nearby park. Riverside police Lt. Ed Blevins said investigators are determining if that factored into Friday's scuffle.

"We don't know what the motivation was at this time," Blevins said Friday morning.

Police arrived on campus Friday shortly after school officials quelled the fight. Students were held in classrooms for an extended third period and the campus activities resumed at lunch. A few more incidents occurred at lunch as tensions ran high.

Police arrested at least three boys, Blevins said. A few of the students involved recently had transferred from La Sierra High School, he said.

Parents arrived at the campus to pick up students who had notified them. Some called for increased supervision during the breaks. Campos said schools officials would review the security plan in the wake of the fight.

Von Foot arrived to pick up her children after her daughter called and said someone had hit her. She said she has heard concerns about racial issues in the past but this was the first big incident. After taking her daughter home, she returned to pick up her son.

"I don't want something to happen to him," she said as she left with her son.

Ninth-grader Mark Castillo said he became involved in the fight as it spread. Mark, who was not arrested, said he was disturbed by the number of times other fighters hit girls and was surprised it exploded that way.

"I don't think it was a racial thing," he said as his dad was taking him home. "It was just friend on friends and enemies."

THERE HAVE BEEN SO MUCH DEATH, AND STRUGGLE ON THE FREEWAYS AND STREETS FROM L.A. 2 RIVERSIDE 2 O.C. 2 POMONA...I'M LEARNING THAT PEACE TAKES COURAGE TO. WENT TO MY LOCAL 711 FRIDAY 15 ABOUT 9:00PM IN THE OC AREA.......THERE WAS THIS BLACK BROTHER IN THE STORE BUYING A DJ MAG. CLASSIC YELLOW WALKMAN BOBING
HIS HEAD...JUST DOING HIS THING COMES UP WITH JOY ON HIS FACE TO ME HANDS ME THIS CARD THAT HAS, AS HE SAID HIS DREAMS...

FLYERS FOR ONE OF HIS DJ GIGS TOLD ME HE WAS GOING TO SCRATCH HIS WAY OUT THE GHETTO AND THE HOLD GIG WAS ABOUT PEACE AND TO COME WATCH HIM SPIN.....HAND ME 4 CARDS AND TOLD ME TO BE THERE AND IT WASN'T ABOUT GUNS DEATH IT WAS ABOUT JOY AND THE PURE LOVE OF MUSIC....(((RASTA LOVE)))))..HE DIDN'T DIDN'T JUDGE ME OR MY OLD NINE INCH NAILS T-SHIRT I WAS WEARING.

ASK HIM HOW LONG HE WAS SPINNING HE SAID ABOUT A 3 YEARS NOW .

TOLD ME GOD BLESS SHOOK MY HAND
I TOLD HIM I PASS OUT HIS CARDS AND ASK MY GIRL IF SHE COME.....HE SAID HES BEEN UP ALL NIGHT AND THE THRILL HE FELT TO HAVE HIS NAME ON A FLYER
DAM I ASK IF HE COULD GIVE MORE FYLER CARDS HE

PULLS OUT 100 MORE SAID THANKS BRO
AND WENT TO THE FRONT TO PAY FOR HIS MAG..
3 GUYS WALK IN THE STORE LOUD DRUNK.....AND FORGETTING THERE'S VIDEO CAMS IN THE STORE.

ONE OF THEM START FUCKING WITH THE CLERK CALLED HIM NAMES ASKING FOR FREE SHIT,
GOT THE WANNA BE PUNK ROCKER CLOTHES FROM THE MALL KINDA OF VIBE...THEN TOSH
GOES TO ONE OF THEM NO FEAR NOTHING AND START TELLING THIS PUNK ROCK GUY ABOUT HIS GIG THE GUY WAS TOTALLY TAKEN BACK BY TOSH...
THERE COMING IN ALL HARDCORE LIKE BUT MOSTLY LIQUID BEER COURAGE...THESE GUYS DON'T LOOK LIKE THE GO SEE A DJ KINDA OF GUYS .
TOSH DONT CARE AND I NOTICE THEY WERE SO OFF ON THIS BLACK GUY JUST APPROACHING THEM THERE FOCUS WAS OFF THE CLERK AND ON HIM--((( I THINK THATS WHAT HE WANTED)))

THE CLERK LOOK MAD AND SCARED BUT TOSH TOOK ALL THE HEAT..HE GAVE THE GUYS THE FLYERS THEY PAY FOR THERE STUFF AND THE DRUNK ONE CALL TOSH A NIGGER.
TOSH SAID NOTHIN DID NOTHING BUT ASK THE CLERK COULD HE PAY FOR HIS STUFF NOW...TOSH WAS AND IS NO LITTLE BOY WELL TONE BUT THE KINDA GUY YOU MIGHT MISTAKE HIS KINDNESS AS A WEAKNESS AND END UP IN DEEP SHIT..
ME BEING THE OUT OF SHAPE PERSON IAM STILL FEELING RAGE IN WHAT THEY CALLED HIM I ASKED HIM ..." WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING BACK TO THAT ASSHOLE?
FIRST TOSH SAID HIS NAME WASN'T NIGGER ITS TOSH..SECOND FIGHTING A DRUNK GUY AIN'T NO FIGHT THEY GET OVER HYPED OVER A DAM BEER PUNCH IN THE GUTS ONCE AND ITS OVER. THIRD....THERES ENOUGH VIOLENCE GOING AROUND PEOPLE SEEM TO BE GETTING SHOT JUST DRIVING THERE CARS AND I JUST CANT BE APART OF HATE ANYMORE NOT FOR IMAGE OR TREND.
WE BOUGHT OUR STUFF CAME OUT THE STORE WATCH THOSE GUYS DRIVE AWAY.
THEN ANOTHER CAR COMES UP 2 BEAUTIFUL CLUB GIRLS DRIVE UP WITH THERE SUPER STONED HOMEBOYS IN THE CAR ...
WITH OUT A BEAT MISSED TOSH WALKS UP TO THEM STARTS TELLING THEM IN THE CAR THAT HES HERE FOR PEACE HERES MY CARDS COME TO THE GIG EXTC.EXTC.
THE YOUNG HOMMIES IN THE BACK WERE NOT TO EXCITED IN TOSH APPROACHING THERE RIDE,SEEING THIS TOSH PULLS OUT FOR CARDS TELLS THE HOMMIES NO MORE DEATH JUST MUSIC
THEY KINDA OF EASE BACK THE GIRLS WERE COOL.
THEY GO IN THE STORE I ASK TOSH AGAIN MAN YOU RUN WITH NO FEAR , OH I WAS NERVOUS AS SHIT TOSH SAID BUT CANT LIVE IN FEAR.
THATS WHAT THEY WANT.

SEE THEN
I START TO THINK THAT I MIGHT
PROTEST THE WAR AND WALLMART AND ARNOLD STOLEN SCHOOL MONEY GOVERNOR BUT THIS BRO GOT TO BE ON POINT ALL THE TIME AIN'T THAT MEANY BROTHERS LIVING AROUND THE O.C.

I WANTED TO REMEMBER ALL OF THIS I WAS A WATCHING THIS GUY APPROACH PEOPLE BUT ALL I SAW WAS FEAR ON THERE FACE FIRST BEFORE TOSH COULDN'T EVEN SPEAK.....TOSH SAID THATS WHY HE ALWAYS APPROACHES PEOPLE WITH HIS HANDS KINDA OPEN NOT IN HIS POCKET NO GUN HERE.
I JUST DONT SEE THIS KINDA OF STUFF EVERYDAY HES PASSING OUT HIS DREAMS AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO KICK HIS ASS
AND HES STANDING ON
HIS DREAMS OF BEING A DJ AND GETTING TO SPIN THE MUSIC HE LOVES KRS1-MOST DEF-PUBLIC ENEMY--- RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE---TRIBE CALL QUEST--
HE WENT THROUGH A LIST OF MUSIC AND EVEN NAME 2 SONGS FROM NIN PERFECT DRUG AND DOWN IN IT ... I JUST LEARN YOU CANT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER ((((TOSH THANK YOU BRO))))

I ASK HIM IF I COULD WRITE ABOUT ALL OF THIS FOR MY SCHOOL NEWS PAPER HE SAID SURE JUST SPELL MY NAME WRIGHT.

COOL HE PUTS ON HIS HEAD PHONES GIVES ME PROPS AND SAYS I HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE SHOW.
I TELL HIM YOU KNOW ILL BE THERE EVEN IF MY STRESSED OUT LADY DUE TO TAXES WONT GO. I GET IN MY CAR AND THIS ONE GUY WHOSE STANDING OUTSIDE THE 711 TALKING TO THIS WHITE DUDE.

STARTS YELLING AT TOSH...I GET OUT MY CAR AND YELL TOSH'S NAME HES GOT ON HIS HEAD PHONES SO I START HONKY MY HORN.
THE GUY IS YELLING AT TOSH.'' WHY DID YOU TALK TO THOSE GIRLS WHAT DID YOU FUCKING SAY TO THEM''
TOSH TURNS AROUND TAKES OFF HIS HEAD PHONES AND I'M JUST HONKY MY HORN LIKE CRAZY.
THE WHITE GUY IS TELLING ME TO STAY OUT OF IT IAM LIKE FUCK NO HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING FUCKING WRONG!

I NOTICE THE COMMON THING THAT WAS GOING ON HERE THIS IS THE SECOND TIME SOMEONE
WAS FUCKING WITH TOSH
DUE TO HIS COLOR OF HIS SKIN THE FIRST GUY WAS WHITE THIS SECOND GUY WAS MEXICAN .
I'M LEARNING THAT RACISM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COLOR..... SEEMS THIS MAN WAS
PISSED OFF THAT ONE OF THE GIRLS WHO WAS ALSO MEXICAN THAT TOSH GAVE HIS FLYER TO
SAID
''THAT BROTHER WAS FINE''
BUT THE GUYS THEY WERE WITH
WENT IN THE STORE FIRST AND DIDN'T HEAR THEM SAY THAT.
THIS GUYS WAS PISSED OFF HE DIDNT KNOW THE GIRLS OR TOSH HE WAS STANDING AROUND DRINKING WITH THIS WHITE BOY WHO HAD TO BE 15 AT LEAST TRYING TO PUMP HIM
UP TO TAKE OUT TOSH.

SHIT ILL BE HONEST I CANT FIGHT WORTH SHIT BUT THAT NIGHT I WASN'T GOING TO STAND BUY AND LET THIS BE A 2 ON ONE THING.
NO SO I WENT TO MY TRUNK GRABBED A TIRE IRON AND TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND SAID TO MY SELF IF THEY MOVE
ON TOSH I'M MOVING ON THEM.
BUT TOSH TOOK OFF HIS HEAD PHONES I'M YELLING AT TOSH THESE GUYS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOU!!!!!!

WITH THE TIRE IRON BEHIND MY BACK NOT GOING TO PULL IT OUT UNLESS I HAVE TO...TOSH RUNS UP TO THE GUY YELLING AT HIM AND SAYS WHAT THE PROBLEM!!!!!
THE GUYS GOES OFF ''WHY DID YOU TALKED TO THOSE GIRL LEAVE THEM ALONE''?
TOSH SAYS LOOK IVE GAVE THEM DJ FLYER'S AND WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHO AND WHAT I CAN OR CANNOT DO ?
THE GUY YELLS "FUCK YOU BICTH LEAVE ARE GIRLS ALONE"

AGAIN I MUST STRESS THIS GUY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GIRLS TOSH WAS TALKING TO HES GOT A BEER IN A BAG HAD TO BE ABOUT 30-40 YEARS OLD TOTALLY OUT OF SHAPE.

I BEING THE WANNA BE HERO I
LOOK AT THE WHITE BOY THAT WAS THERE AND TELL HIM DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT
IT..
HES LAUGHING AT ME YA I'M FUCKING NERD GEEK BUT I'M ONE WITH A TIRE IRON YOU WANT SOME--
-COME GET SOME.
TOSH SAYS WAIT LOOKS DEAD IN THE EYE AT THE GUY THAT WAS YELLING AT HIM AND ...THROWS A BUNCH OF FLYER'S IN HIS FACE FROM OUT OF HIS POCKET THE GUY DIDN'T SEE IT COMING DROPS HIS BEER LOOKS DOWN TOSH TRIPS HIS FEET..


THE GUYS ON THE GROUND I GOT THE TIRE IRON IN MY HAND GETTING READY TO SWING AT THIS KID IF HE THINKS OF JUMPING IN HE SAYS NOTHING...
TOSH TELLS THE GUY YOU HAVE A CHOICE GET UP PICK UP WHATS LEFT OF YOUR BEER AND ONE OF MY FLYER'S COME TO MY GIG AND LEARN SOMETHING BESIDES WAR---
OR MAKE ME DO SOMETHING TO YOUR LEG THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO HAPPENED..TOSH HAD HIS FOOT ON HIS KNEE WITH JUST ENOUGH PRESSURE ON IT IF THAT GUY WOULD OF MOVE TOSH COULD OF SNAPED IT INTO A THOUSAND PIECES,,
HE HAD THE ADVANTAGE
AND HIS OTHER FOOT ON THE GUYS CHEST..
.

WITH THAT LOOK ON HIS FACE YOU BEST MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE I'M TIRE OF FIGHTING WITH OTHER BROTHERS...
THATS RIGHT HE CALLED THE GUY A BROTHER..........TOLD ME TO PUT DOWN THE TIRE IRON AND TOLD THE WHITE DUDE TO GET ON HIS BMX BIKE GO HOME NOW OR HE WAS GOING TO SNAP THIS GUYS KNEE..

..BY THE WAY I WANT TO THANK THE POLICE IN THE O.C. FOR NOT BEING THERE IT COULD OF ENDED UP ALLOT
WORSE JUST KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DO NOTHING....

I THINK TOSH DID THAT TO GET ME OUT OF THIS SITUATION...I THINK I WAS ABOUT TO PISS MY PANTS.......THE WHITE KID
TOOK OFF....THE GUYS TOSH HAD ON THE GROUND WAS FUMING IM THINKING PLEASE DOG
BE COOL OR HES GOING TO PUT ALL HIS WEIGHT ON YOUR KNEE OR YOUR CHEST EITHER WAY SOMETHING GOING TO BREAK..

TOSH PUTS HIS HAND OUT TO HIM THE GUY SAYS FUCK OFF
TOSH YELLS...THINK YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ME WAKE THE FUCK UP 2 MUCH CHEAP ASS FUCKING BEER BRO WAKE THE FUCK UP.

TOSH IS SCREAMING THIS FROM THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS....BY THE WAY KNOW-BODY CAME OUT THERE HOMES TO SEE WHAT WAS UP KNOW-BODY STOP THERE CARS,,,
THE STORE GUY AND THE GIRLS IN THE CARS JUST WATCHED OUT THE WINDOW.....I'M THINKING THE POLICE ARE GOING TO COME ...NO........


THE GUYS SAYS OK FUCKING OK JUST GET
OFF ME.
TOSH TOOK AWAY HIS FOOT OFF HIS CHEST SLOW THEN REALLY SLOW OFF HIS KNEE....SO JUST SO THE GUY WOULDN'T CHANGE HIS MINE TOSH PULLS OUT THIS UTILITY TOOL OUT LONG AND OPEN THAT WAS TUCKED IN HIS BACK..
PULLS IT OUT FAST AS SHIT BLUE AND SILVER HOLDS IT IN HIS HAND TAPPING IT ON HIS LEG LIKE ONE FALSE MOVE AND I'M SWINGING ......THE GUY STAGGERS UP SAY OK I'M DONE PISSED OFF ABOUT HIS BEER OF COURSE.....
AND TELLS TOSH TO BACK OFF HIM

TOSH

STILL WITH THAT TOOL ON HIS SIDE ..GOES IN HIS POCKET THROWS HIM SOME MONEY AND SAYS THIS SHOULD REPLACE YOUR BEER..

THE DRUNK GUY STARTS LAUGHING STARTS LAUGHING AND WALKING OFF.
TO GO REPLACE HIS BEER.....GIVES TOSH THE FINGER AND GOES IN THE STORE THEN TOSH
ASKS ME IF I'M OK I'M SHAKING LIKE A GEORGE BUSH HAVING TO FACE NAACP....
WHAT THE FUCK I SAY....DAM BRO YOU WANT A RIDE HOME..TOSH SAID NO...HE SAID JUST CAUSE I PRAY FOR PEACE DOESN'T MEAN ALL DO.

SHOWS ME THE TOOL AND SAYS 10 DOLLARS AT ROSS I USE IT TO
OPEN MY MIXERS AND REPLACE FADERS.......FUCK ITS LIKE YOU CANT GO NO PLACE ANYMORE WITH OUT
SOMEONE STARTING SOME FUCKING BEEF...
TOSH SAID THESE DAYS HE MUST PREPARE FOR EVERY THING THAT COULD HAPPENED BAD TO HIM

BUT I DON'T GO RUNNING AROUND LOOKING FOR IT........
ASK IF HE WANTED A RIDE AGAIN HE SAID NO ASK IF I WAS OK AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING MY BACK AND HE NEVER FORGET IT ....DIDO BRO I SAID
TOLD ME WE BEST SPLIT JUST IN CASE THE COPS DID SHOW ..I HAD ASK WHY DO YOU LIVE IN THE O.C.
HE SAID THATS WERE HE MET HIS WIFE SLASH BEST FRIEND AND THEY WORK TOGETHER HERE IN TOWN,,
AND SHES GOT A BUSINESS HERE BUT WHEN THE TIME COME THERE OUT OF THIS TRICK ASS TOWN TO MEANY WANNABEES.....HE WAVES GOODBYE AND TAKES OFF DOWN THE STREET STUFF HIS TOOL IN HIS BACK.........

YELLS PEACE TO ME AND TAKES OFF DOWN THE STREET NOT MISSING A BEAT HE WAS AND IS MUSIC.

NOW I GO BACK TO CAR THROW THE TIRE IRON IN THE BACK SEAT AND START WRITING ALL THIS DOWN IN MY LITTLE NOTEBOOK.
I LOOK UP AND SEE THE GIRLS AND THE GUYS THAT TOSH TALK TO COME OUT THE STORE THE DRUNK GUY YOU COULD SEE IN THE WINDOW THINKING ABOUT WHAT BEER HE WAS GOING TO BUY.

REMEMBER KIDS POT BAD BEER LEGAL JUST ONE OF MY THOUGHTS.

.......I THOUGHT WHAT A FUCKING WAY TO LIVE NOW IF ANY OF THOSE GUYS THAT TOSH DELT WITH IN OR OUT THE STORE HAD A GUN IT BE OVER..............

TOSH DIDN'T WANT TO HURT ANYONE BUT HE HAD THE RIGHT TO PROTECT HIMSELF....I THINKING NOW WITH MY BLOOD AND HEAD SPINNING HOW MUCH CONTROL HE HAD TO HAVE NOT TO BREAK THAT GUYS KNEE OR GO AFTER THE GUY IN THE STORE,,,,
IF THE COPS DID
COME
SHIT THEY WOULD SHOT TOSH FIRST AND US JUST FOR PRACTICE...

...HE CALLED THAT GUY BROTHER AND PICKED HIS BATTLES AND SPOTS WHEN TO REACT....................WHEN NOT TO REACT......

ALL THAT JUST TO GIVE SOME ONE A FLYER TO A GIG...............................I TOLD MY LADY SHE WAS PISSED OFF AT ME TOLD WHO I THINK I WAS CHUCK NORRIS OR SOMETHING?
I THINK SHE WAS SCARED I COULD OF GOTTEN SHOT WHICH I COULD OF HOW MEANY TIMES HAVE I PROTESTED SOMETHING BUT NEVER REALLY FACED WHAT I PROTEST.
KNOW ONE CONSIDERS ME A THREAT I'M YOUR AVERAGE WHITE GUY GEEK AND ALL......

WE NEED TO WAKE UP I WILL PRAY FOR PEACE....DOSENT MATTER TO ME HOW YOU PRAY FOR IT OR WHAT SHAPE IT COMES FROM, BUT IT SEEMS THAT WAR DOESN'T LEAD TO PEACE JUST DEATH, REGRET,
AND LOSS.......
SO THIS
IS 4 YOU
TOSH I GOING TO YOUR GIG...TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOUR DREAM IS WORTH IT AND THANK YOU, DAM YOU SHOWED ME MORE IN ONE NIGHT THEN I COULD EVER LEARN AT SCHOOL.
ONE SHOW MIGHT BRING PEACE IN THE WORLD BUT AS A SO CALLED POLTICAL SICENCE MAJOR
TO SEE WHAT ITS LIKE TO WATCH SOME ONE LIVE THERE DREAM IN A AMERICA IN WHICH ONE GUY CALLS YOU A NIGGER, ANOTHER WANTS TO KICK YOUR ASS DUE TO THE FACT YOU TALK TO SOME GIRLS
WHO WAS
NOT THE SAME COLOR AS YOU AND YOU HAVE TO WALK AROUND WITH A UTILITY TOOL STUFF IN YOUR BACK FOR CLOSE RANGE COMBAT...WHEN MOST
CARRY A GUN OR DOUBLE THERE ACTIONS WITH
4 GUYS AGAINST ONE
CHEAP SHOTS...
DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS..AND A PRESIDENT WHO CARRIES MORE ABOUT HIS PEOPLE THEN ALL THE PEOPLE.

A WAR IN WHICH PRIVATE CONTRACTORS MAKE MORE THEN THE ACTUAL TROOPS ON THE FRONTLINE.........ILL DO WHAT TOSH DOSE ILL PRAY FOR PEACE.....
CAUSE GOD THIS COULD NOT BE WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND...PEACE TO YOU TOSH AND
YOUR FAMILY AND TO ALL WHO HAVE LOST SOMEONE THEY LOVE FROM THE STREETS,SCHOOLS,AND FREEWAYS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. MAY THE TROOPS COME HOME AND STOP FIGHTING A WAR FOR PROFIT DISGUISED AS FREEDOM.
MAY SOME MEN FIND OUT ABOUT HONOR AND IF YOU CANT DEAL WITH A MAN FACE TO FACE YOU ARE NO MAN.
YOU'RE LOST SOUL WITH A ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER MAKING ENEMIES OF YOUR OWN PLAYING INTO TO THE HANDS OF THE WAR MONGERS, AND HATE MONGERS WHO LOVE TO WATCH US KILL EACH OTHER LESS WORK FOR THE WAR MACHINE TO HAVE TO DO..........

THIS IS DEDICATED FOR YOUR SEARCH FOR PEACE TOSH...THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME WHAT A MAN IS......

PROTEST 1

I'm very far from LA these days so have no idea what's really happening, but in the '92 uprising the media (CNN was feeding everyone else as I recall) was calling it a race riot when this white boy was having no problem with the black brothers in south central where he was when the shit hit the fan. At the same time the real scope was minimized by claiming all the "trouble" was limited to south central while I watch mid wilshire and hollywood burn....

It's a common tactic play on racism to split those who aren't in power, make them fear each other and fight each other over scarce resources rather than look up and see who has all the weath and power.

Sounds like they're winning and race relations are getting worse rather than better. I remember how the press made a joke of Rodney Kings plea that we all get along, that sadly persists more than a decade later. Now what's wrong with that?

If we all got along, maybe we could fight the real problems instead of each other.

Sometimes, whites get ignored.

I'm curious about what the origins of the beef are. I've been hearing about conflicts in the IE for a few years, and it does include Whites and Asians as well... this time around it seems to be Brown and Black. That area's the only part of SoCal where I see a lot of neo-Nazis. It's like, maybe every fifth time I've been out there, I see a tatted up skinhead, or some fringy headed skinhead. And no, these are not SHARP or RASH skins, but the WS kind. But, it's not like there isn't also hyper-Black quality to the African Americans there too. It's almost weird, because they seem more stereotypically "Black" than the ones who stayed behind in LA... as if they got their Blackness from television.

The only other thing I can say for sure is, people say there aren't many opportunities out there. The houses are affordable, but the jobs just don't exist, so people commute a lot. That cannot be good for the kids. There's also a lot of drugs moving in and out of the area. Again, that can't help.

Then, mix that with the longstanding race relations between Whites, Blacks, and Browns in any agricultural area in Southern California, and it's not going to be a good starting point. Without dialogue, you can't have any progress. People stay stuck in their private thoughts and fears.

Police article by Mary Shelton:
http://www.blackvoicenews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3071

Student projects to deal with racism:
http://www.tolerance.org/teens/printar.jsp?p=0&ar=64&pi=te

Columbia daily trib:
http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Mar/20050326News011.asp

My, what upstanding young people! Sure looks like they're on the road to success! These young men will surely do well in whatever they do after they drop out of school, whether it be drug dealing, pimping, or whatever! And a 50% chance of ending up in prison, a wheelchair, or both! I wish them all the success in the world.

This kind of stuff was going on when I attended La Sierra (Class of 1975). I don't know why it is so surprising now.

the latino/black beef was around about the time nirvana broke when i was still in high school. it sucks that it is that way, but it's nothing new. it is also unfortunately true that there are tons of ws skinhead types out here. for a lighter side of the IE check out valleyofthedirtpeople.com

The premise of the article (and not the reporting) is faulty.

It is intellectual puffery to imply that an administration, an instiution, a school system or a principal denies dialog between people or groups.

Does the author really believe that he personally can sit down with the leadership of the Shoreline Crips, the Bloods, the V13 Gang, thieves, dopers, racists, glue sniffers or other such people and have a rational discussion.

How do you propose building a consensus or dialog between racist young men or boys in high school? Isn't going to happen.

thats real crap!

that is crazy just because someone is in a gang they should be killed. the police don't need anymore weapons they already abuse the ones they have. I totally disagree