Hawaiian Gardens Gang arrests speaks to a race war beneath a class war in LA

Hawaiian Gardens gang arrests speaks to a race war seething beneath the class war. This morning's police arrest of nearly 150 members of the gang who have allegedly avowed to kill Blacks points to something our press ostriches within our borders but easily points to in other countries. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide. Holocausts. But never, ever in the United States.
But what world government ever admits to ethnic cleansing rather than make some excuse or other?

Why would a Latino gang hunt down Blacks for indiscriminate killing? Why would Black gangs hunt down Latinos for indiscriminate killing? The Los Angeles Times reports the aim was to drive Blacks from Hawaiian Gardens. The better answer can be found perhaps in that Sacramento promises deep cuts to California's social programs, attacking further the poor, pitting one program against another. They say nothing about raising the tax burden on the rich. It's simply not on their proverbial boardroom or editorial tables.

Of course the rich don't want a class war. The rich don't the anger and energy of this Latino gang aimed at It, or the same anger of a Black gang. The rich want free reign to move public services around like our lives were a Monopoly game. And they don't want the poor, the underemployed, unemployed to direct their righteous ire against them. Better they kill each other, hate each other, suspect the Black of being lazy or the Latino [code word for immigrant] for stealing tax money.

It's called a red herring. The reality is a corporate gang which is never featured in our newspapers of record, because the corporate gang owns the corporate press and our corporate political system.

These gangs of poor are pretty low on the food-chain for turning to Klan tactics. No future Weather Underground or Black Panthers in their midst. The corporate gangs intent to drive public services from our neighborhoods are no better. Single-payer, socialzed medicine for all will not pass their lips.

Lacking class consciousness can be forgiven in these Los Angeles Times, which has made clear whose side it is on. LA Times attacks schools from one side while the state of California attacks from the other. The collateral damage might include a few sprigs of green but sadly also includes these LA gangs, which are but a phenomenon of the attack on the poor generally, social services specifically. It is a wonder we don't have larger gangs of hate in this region.

But like any disease, different bodies deal distinctly with infection. The stronger may ride it out and learn something of the battle. The weak are scarred. So too the body politic, which is not made stronger by the dark clouds on the horizon which foretell deep cuts in services whose beneficiaries the LA Times won't tell you about.