LOCAL LATINO COMMUNITY TURNS OUT EN MASSE FOR KANSAS CITY'S BIGGEST ANTI-CRIME GATHERING THE YEAR!!!
When TKC first blasted the presser about the prayer service on the Westside for a recent murder I knew it was going to be a nice event, I just didn't think it was going to be a massive gathering.
Credit goes to both the Latino Advocacy Task Force and mostly to the Garcia family for getting the word out regarding this milestone event of more than 400 people on a weekday night.
Still, as I heard quite a few stories from this event along with news reports I couldn't help but think . . .
THIS SAME COMMUNITY THAT HAS RALLIED TO FIGHT AGAINST CRIME MORE THAN ANY OTHER IN KANSAS CITY PROPER HAS ALSO FACED RACIAL PROFILING, NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES AND THE THREAT OF POLITICAL EXCLUSION DURING CITY COUNCIL REDISTRICTING!!!
Like it or not, this kind of gathering demonstrates that Latinos in Kansas City are engaged in the challenges that face this town more so than any other segment of the population.
Unfortunately, outsiders want to assign labels to our community that simply don't exist in these gatherings. Terms like legal, illegal, Democrat, Republican don't matter in a community founded on families and longtime friendships (or rivalries).
Last night's prayer service should serve as a wake up call to all of Kansas City that the local Latino Community won't be saddled with the prejudices mostly broadcast by the mainstream media. Instead, this is a community eager to take more responsibility and representation.
LINKS:
Check out AMAZING PHOTOS of this gathering from Eric Bowers
Prayer service held for murdered man
Family, friends hold vigil for shooting victim John P. Garcia
Crime Scene KC: Who killed John P. Garcia?
Community Bands Together to Remember Budding Rapper Shot, Killed in Kansas City
SÃ, se puede
ReplyDeleteGood post, Tony.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good event and much needed.
ReplyDeletelooked like a good time to round the beaners up! But then everyone in op would have to do their own yard work
ReplyDeleteRound them up? What for? For being Latino? Don't they have to commit a crime first?
ReplyDeleteAnd this resulted in how many leads and arrests?
ReplyDeleteHow's that "Stop snitchin" working for ya?
Mexicans don't do stop snitchin. They're fucking loud mouths. Read a book dude.
ReplyDeletewhatever Tony.
ReplyDeleteCrime Scene KC: Who killed John P. Garcia?
ReplyDeleteWell the last people to figure it out will be KCPD.
It's been like this for years argentine shoots up hillside...hillside shoots up argentine, hell sometimes these dumb kids dont even know there shooting at 3rd 4th cousins.It's all latino dumbshits.
ReplyDeleteYour lover Alonzo isn't going to like this.
ReplyDeleteThe KCPD is making more progress on this case than most of you think. The community is cooperating and there will probably be an arrest soon. I wish the response to crime all over the metro was as good as this.
ReplyDeleteThe KCPD is making more progress on this case than most of you think.
ReplyDeleteReally ? Who are you?
@7:42 if their here illegally, then they are crimminals. Meaning they should be behind bars. Where were the cops asking people for their papers? AZ, Florida, MO soon?
ReplyDelete@7:42 if their here illegally, then they are crimminals. Meaning they should be behind bars. Where were the cops asking people for their papers? AZ, Florida, MO soon?
ReplyDeleteKCPD is not making any progress their just saying that.
ReplyDelete"We have suspects".... just don't say we have about a thousand suspects.
It is racist to assume that just beacuse they are hispanics they are illegal.
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:49 AM
ReplyDeleteYES
10:49 every stat I’ve seen in the last five years show that more and more Hispanics in this country are here illegally. So the answer is no. In fact it’s almost a safe bet to believe that one is here illegally.
ReplyDeleteKCPD is an after thought to the community, a non-entity with little impact or results.
ReplyDeleteOk if its racist to suggest a Hispanic is here illegally when most Mexicans etc came illegally. Then is it not also racist to suggest that the Hispanic community is better on crime than the Black "other parts of the metro" community? I mean looking at the carnage in Mexico,Guatemala, Columbia etc. I've got to say no one group has a monopoly on "not snitchin"
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why there's all this whining about a killing. Either the citizens help the cops find the one, or they don't.
ReplyDeleteIf they don't, he'll kill again. This isn't rocket science.
As to the gang related shooting the other day, well, if gangs are still requiring members to kill someone to join, then... well the citizens need to help the cops break them up or change their values.
gangs which expect blood for initiations are pretty stupid. badly raised boys!
KCPD is a joke.
ReplyDeleteGood thing a bunch of white people didn't do this. That would have been racist.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the twisted way I think, but it seems to me this would have been a perfect time to burglarize some houses.
ReplyDeleteI think we need some new police stations and a couple more helicopters. That oughta do the trick.
ReplyDeleteHey bitter city hall broken record chick. We hear you...you hate KCPD.
ReplyDeleteI think we need some new police stations and a couple more helicopters. That oughta do the trick.......
ReplyDeletewe've already wasted enough money on that with NO results.
"city hall broken record chick. says "
ReplyDeleteI just point out failures in the city government.
city hall broken record chick. says
ReplyDelete"Yes KCPD it must irk you to rub your noses in your boo boo's and failures".
Hey KCPD get back to your desk and try to solve some of the Homicides in KC, if that's not asking too much.
ReplyDeleteEveryone showed up because they heard you were going to be out with your playmates.
ReplyDeleteAnti-crime rally? Were they protesting illegal immigration?
ReplyDeleteOh, wait. They're OK with that crime. Also with fake ID's, etc.
The flyers said they were gonna have free beer, tamales and menudo coupons.
ReplyDeleteAnd free jail house tattoos.
WTF, they didn't have none of that.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteMexicans don't do stop snitchin. They're fucking loud mouths. Read a book dude.
8/12/10 8:36 AM
Dude.. grow up. So are you only a loud mouth safely behind a computer screen?
Anonymous said...
10:49 every stat I’ve seen in the last five years show that more and more Hispanics in this country are here illegally. So the answer is no. In fact it’s almost a safe bet to believe that one is here illegally.
8/12/10 11:00 AM
Do you get all your stats from Stormfront.com?
Anonymous said...
Ok if its racist to suggest a Hispanic is here illegally when most Mexicans etc came illegally. Then is it not also racist to suggest that the Hispanic community is better on crime than the Black "other parts of the metro" community? I mean looking at the carnage in Mexico,Guatemala, Columbia etc. I've got to say no one group has a monopoly on "not snitchin"
8/12/10 11:19 AM
It is racist, I am Mexican and my parents and grand parents were born in the US. I dont believe the statement implied that the Latino community is doing "more" than other communities in a derogatory manner. It is pointing out that the Latino community is coming together in KC more than they have shown previously.
Anonymous said...
Anti-crime rally? Were they protesting illegal immigration?
Oh, wait. They're OK with that crime. Also with fake ID's, etc.
8/12/10 4:53 PM
Again with idiotic comments. Is it ok for me to make a statement that all Whites are meth addicts because the majority of meth users are White? I am against illegal immigration, I am for enforcement of the laws currently in place as long as it does not cause racial profiling. Why should I be pulled over and asked to prove my citizenship when I contribute to this country just as much (if not more) than the next person?
11:00 you are full of it because anyone who actually studies immigrant behavior knows that illegal immigration has decreased every year for almost ten years.
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