Is This Gang Related?

February 08, 2008

By Wendy Clardy (View author info)

All of them--from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the Asian American Precinct captain--were responding to what might be called aspirational politics. The individuals become proxies for the community. You hear them say in their campaigns, "When I win, you win."

Among Latinos and Asian American groups, Hillary scored big, because the Latinos and Asians votes remained emergent (new), not yet insurgent (rebellious).

What this means is that the Latinos and the Asians have not yet rebelled against authority or leadership, especially somebody who belongs to a group involved in an uprising. Instead, Latinos and Asian Americans are developing or rising, especially for the first time.

New voting groups respond to leaders in their community. In other words, if Hillary wins the leader, she wins the followers. Rebellious voting groups for instance, respond to calls to make a difference, and focus on more single issues or agendas. If Hillary stakes out the place where the single issues or agendas are, then she captures the community. Relatively, Hillary has played the politics of the emergence.

Bill Clinton, however has juxtaposed Hillary's position, by stating at the Brookins Community A.M.E. Church (a black church) in South Central Los Angeles on February 3, 2008, "We all want to be in a gang," Why did he use that language?

The House Judiciary Committee was having a hearing with Micheal Mukasey, the new U.S. Attorney General on February 7, 2008. Representative Diane Watson (D) of California was angry at the poor record of investigations and prosecutions and asked Micheal Mukasey why they haven't investigated the ongoing housing foreclosure fraud, the predatory lending fraud and the civil rights violations against African Americans, Minorities.

The Department of Justice has a very poor and a rapidly declining record in investigating housing fraud and civil rights violations. They do not enforce the laws they are required to to protect the public especially the crimes against blacks and minorities. Many these victims have lost homes, some are losing their homes and ending up in prisons. Black and minorities areas in many states like California (e.g. San Bernardino and Riverside Counties), and Ohio, and Texas (Harris County) are reeking with foreclosures and civil rights violations and the Judges, local Attorney Generals, State Attorney General and the U. S. Attorney General have done nothing to investigate the fraud. Could this be what Bill Clinton was talking about?

At a 1996 while stumping for votes for his own re-election campaign Bill Clinton made told a young Hispanic boy at a San Diego townhall meeting "you have to join the right gang." San Diego is not the only place where the joining of the right gangs is. There are other gangs to join, like in Harlem, and New York, where the Clintons have been circumventing.

Those that join these "right gangs" are the one that have plotted in the taking of our homes and violated our civil rights, and robbed our people , they are still attacking the blacks and the minorities by dismissing complaints, and violating the peoples' due processes to have a fair fight to keep their homes. And, yet the ones that are joining these low profile gangs are stating that these blacks and minorities are gangs.

An interesting article titled Why Latinos and Asian Americans Went for Hillary author John Chang wrote. "So Hillary won by old party-style top-down appeals to Latinos and Asian Americans. Dems shouldn't rest thinking that this strategy will hold for long. Younger Latino and Asian American voters were energized by Obama, and formed a visible and crucial part of his GOTV ground troops. They had an impact.".

ABOUT: Wendy Clardy is the editor of Ohio Homeowners News, a publication of AHRC News Services.