Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who many critics tend to forget is Latino himself, wrote a scintillating opinion piece in the L.A. Times taking to task the willful liberal ignorance of the escalating racist violence between Latinos and Blacks in California:

Conversations about race are fraught with emotion, confusion and controversy. But that doesn’t mean we should avoid or sidestep the issue.

As a Latino raised in East Los Angeles, and as the elected sheriff of Los Angeles County for the last decade, I have seen many sides of the race issue. I have lived it, in fact.

So let me be very clear about one thing: We have a serious interracial violence problem in this county involving blacks and Latinos.

Some people deny it. They say that race is not a factor in L.A.’s gang crisis; the problem, they say, is not one of blacks versus Latinos and Latinos versus blacks but merely one of gang members killing other gang members (and yes, they acknowledge, sometimes the gangs are race-based).

But they’re wrong. The truth is that, in many cases, race is at the heart of the problem. Latino gang members shoot blacks not because they’re members of a rival gang but because of their skin color. Likewise, black gang members shoot Latinos because they are brown.

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Furthermore, we have evidence linking inmates who are known as “shot callers” directly to street shootings based entirely on race. These shot callers at Pitchess and elsewhere are affiliated with gangs, to be sure, and in many cases they may give the order to kill a particular person or a member of a particular gang. But if that person or gang cannot be found, the shot caller will often order the gunman to find someone — anyone — who is black or brown and shoot them instead. Gang affiliation does not matter. Only the color of the victim’s skin matters.

I would even take this a step further and suggest that some of L.A.’s so-called gangs are really no more than loose-knit bands of blacks or Latinos roaming the streets looking for people of the other color to shoot. Our gang investigators have learned this through interviews in Compton and elsewhere throughout the county. L.A.’s gang wars have long been complicated by drugs, territory issues or money. Now, it can also be over color.

I’ve long argued that same point, and have been largely ignored by the “Afrosphere” and Black bloggers who want to believe that White liberalism has their best interest at heart. Sorry my “brothers” (and sisters) but as Baca’s piece points out, White liberals are glad to bury their heads in the sand while Latino gangs shoot random Black folk.

And clearly the Black community allowing their response to this to be handled by low-life gang-bangers only makes the problem worse. Where are the Black leaders? Where are the protests? Where are Rev Wright and Farakhan on this one?

Maybe you should return to your Republican roots.