Good Luck!!!! The elites will destroy this country. Civil War.
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Only hours later police were called to a city high school where
fighting broke out shortly before a visit by Villaraigosa. Police and
officials insisted the campus scuffles were not racially motivated and
were quickly contained. But some parents and students said they
involved black and Latino students.
No-one was seriously hurt, there were no arrests and the motive for the
fighting was unclear. But it highlighted tensions that surfaced earlier
in May when about 51,000 students stayed away from Los Angeles schools
amid rumors of impending gang violence between black and Latino youths
over drugs on Cinco de Mayo, a big Latino festival.
ZERO TOLERANCE
"I'm going to be a mayor that doesn't hide under a rock," Villaraigosa
said of the scuffles. "The one commitment we have to our schools is
safe passage for our children (and) zero tolerance for racial
violence."
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'We're all Angelenos' says L.A.'s Latino mayor
Wed May 18, 2005 06:49 PM ET
By Kevin Krolicki and Alexandria Sage
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa on Wednesday plunged into the kind of controversy that
could underlie his role as the first Latino leader of the multicultural
city in over a century.
Villaraigosa, 52, the high school dropout son of Mexican immigrants,
scored a resounding election victory over incumbent James Hahn in
Tuesday's mayoral elections, making him one of the nation's highest
profile Latino leaders.
Despite a campaign that underplayed race and a result that reflected
cross-cultural support, Villaraigosa's historic win also underscored
the growing influence of Latino voters in California and across the
United States.
"It doesn't matter whether you grew up on the westside or the eastside,
whether you're from south Los Angeles or Sylmar," Villaraigosa told
cheering supporters at a victory celebration downtown.
"It doesn't matter whether you go to work in a fancy car or in a bus,
or whether you worship in a cathedral or a mosque. We are all Angelenos
and we all have a difference to make," he said.
Only hours later police were called to a city high school where
fighting broke out shortly before a visit by Villaraigosa. Police and
officials insisted the campus scuffles were not racially motivated and
were quickly contained. But some parents and students said they
involved black and Latino students.
No-one was seriously hurt, there were no arrests and the motive for the
fighting was unclear. But it highlighted tensions that surfaced earlier
in May when about 51,000 students stayed away from Los Angeles schools
amid rumors of impending gang violence between black and Latino youths
over drugs on Cinco de Mayo, a big Latino festival.
ZERO TOLERANCE
"I'm going to be a mayor that doesn't hide under a rock," Villaraigosa
said of the scuffles. "The one commitment we have to our schools is
safe passage for our children (and) zero tolerance for racial
violence."
Villaraigosa, a charismatic Democrat, took about 59 percent of votes
cast on Tuesday against 41 percent for fellow Democrat James Hahn, a
political veteran who was elected mayor in 2001.
He becomes the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal
Aguilar in 1872 when the city was a frontier town emerging from its
Mexican roots.
Latinos are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles, making up 47
percent of the city's 3.7 million population. Whites make up 30
percent, African-Americans 11 percent and Asians about 10 percent.
Villaraigosa, who is more fluent in English than Spanish, had played
down his ethnicity, relying on charisma to build alliances with blacks,
liberal whites and moderate Republicans.
But political experts said he would be foolish to ignore lingering
unease among many in the city over its shifting demographics.
"The fact that Antonio is Latino will bring those issues right up to
the forefront rather than sweeping them under the rug," said Fernando
Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola
Marymount University.
"I think he would govern at his peril if he tried to ignore that. He is
going to have to demonstrate that he will be a mayor for all of Los
Angeles. Given his personality and background, I have no doubt he will
do extremely well in that area," Guerra said.
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