The Los Angeles Times sees racism as the basis of all politics. It's a good thing few people read the newspaper.
May 10, 2008 - Locke High School in South L.A. was locked down after 600 students engaged in a brawl. First paragraph:
A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.Half buried in the article, a student said tensions between African American and Latino students have not been a serious problem at the school. With an enrollment of 2,600, Locke is 65% Latino and 35% African American.
"It's not the way it's portrayed in the media; that's not what it's like at all," said Sherlock, who is black. Another black student, Ronald White, said African American and Latino students commonly divide along ethnic lines but aren't necessarily hostile. "Everybody usually just sticks to themselves," he said.However, flogging race to the end, the Los Angeles Times persisted.
In recent years, melees have broken out periodically at many campuses with a black and Latino presence, including in Los Angeles, Lynwood and Compton. There have been fights between Latinos and Armenians in other areas that led to campus lockdowns.Most important and overlooked in the article: The campus at 111th and San Pedro streets has long been one of the city's most troubled. This school year has been particularly difficult, with near-daily fights -- albeit on a much smaller scale -- during much of the fall and winter. Locke is about to be reorganized as a cluster of charter schools run by Green Dot Public Schools, which will take over in July, and some faculty and staff have accused the district of letting the campus drift in its final year as a traditional public school.
Emotionally-charged photo gallery of the melee.
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TT - You can count on the Los Angeles Times to ignore reality for race-baiting. By comparison, the Associated Press was more succinct. "About 600 students were involved in what appeared to be a gang-related fight that started around noon." It's gangsta and gang culture. Period.
