Can a person be a racist against his own race? Am sure we have all heard remarks such as “I cannot date within my race because ……� Well people may not agree on some norms and values within their race but killing for it?
There is this dude Jonathan Fajardo a member of a Latino gang from Harbor Gateway that has a history of attacking blacks. He is accused of gunning down a 14-year-old girl he did not know just because she was black and, a month later, of helping to kill a possible witness, who was stabbed 80 times.
The irony about this is that he is partially black. His mother is Mexican and his father is a Creole whose parents are from Belize. He has three half-sisters and a half-brother who are as dark as his victim, Cheryl Green. His sister was engaged to a black man with whom Fajardo was in good terms with… his cousin is dating a black friend of Green’s family – the family of the victim.
“He knows he has black blood,” said his mother, Luz Andrade, who like other relatives cannot recall Fajardo making racist remarks. “He’s had black people around him all his life.” But just because he joined a gang that has been attacking blacks for over a decade, he is also doing it.
Its one thing to disagree with some aspects within your own race… but killing? Since his cousin is dating a black friend from his victim’s family, question is, did he and the gang commit the crime in a bit to ruin that relationship? Help me understand this guy people.
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Comment by Chauney on 15 March 2007:
Sad to say but this is out here!
Comment by Ebonie on 16 March 2007:
There is no understanding that man. Becuase clearly, he doesnt even understand himself.
Comment by kryss on 16 March 2007:
It’s true about what u said there Ebony that that man clearly doesnt understand himself . And about that first statement on the first paragraph on this article, i dont think anyone is being called racist against his race if he choose to date other race.For me personally, Im a filipino but I prefer to date white men because for me they are quite attractive. But it doesnt mean I hate blacks or my co-filipino or asian. It’s a choice.
Comment by fala on 18 March 2007:
Maybe it’s a cultural thing. I met a woman on this site from Belize who’s darker than I am but will not admit to being black. She says she’s creole and she holds black people who descended from slaves in absolute disdain. I don’t know how she thinks the black in her blood got to this part of the world - but there’s no telling her otherwise.
Maybe that’s what their kids in Belize. Sure, their skin is brown, but no, they’re not black - like that’s a bad thing or something.
Who knows?
Comment by Bree on 19 March 2007:
I guess that persists around the globe, I thought that was just here. I date my own race as well as outside my race. Some blacks in the US are still “color struck”. This began during slavery times when biracial and light children, who were still slaves got preference, ie. inside work, intead of field work. Even today on televison lighter black tend to dominate roles more. On the dating seen many black men prefer lighter women. I am a little surprised becasue I have dated and been around men from Africa and the Carribean, they dotn usually have hangups on skin tone as African American men do. Yes some women do, but usually not.
Comment by Lisa on 20 March 2007:
..crazy, usually defy a sane explaination.. but, very sad for both families..
Comment by mossimo on 24 March 2007:
Perhaps this guy merely thinks of himself as Latino. This might transcend racial barriers and go more into a cultural issue.
Comment by Max on 2 April 2007:
In all parts of Africa except the North, its always one race of people. So the problem is not racism but tribalism. I didnt know about racism until I arrived at the US. Once here, I found out that there are reverse racism against Africans. There are people both white and Black that wouldnt talk to you simply because you are African and not African American. Racism persists in our society, sadly, and it is perpetuated by people who tend to see the difference in us instead of the similarities.
Comment by firsttime on 14 August 2008:
This happens all the time and not just with black people i live in the uk and i know so many white people who would never date a french man or polish person etc some might say whats the big deal you both white but no they dont see it like that
people will always have there preference when it comes to dating its never going to change
Comment by ICE2008 on 15 August 2008:
The dude is clearly crazy….no matter what color he is or culture he was raised in. He deserves a bullet in the head, so he can be eliminated from the human race and we as honest citizens don’t have to pay for his sorry azz in jail.
But, I digress. I am a product of a Puerto Rican mother and German father. Raised by my mother, I lived my first 6 years of my life in southern FLA (Hollywood / Miami areas) and moved to NYC in the late ’60’s. I lived in Puerto Rico during most of the 1970’s. I was called “gringo” and “americano” for a short time until I learned to speak Spanish and was accepted by my Boricua brothas y sistas. (No, I don’t have the classic Latino features….I look like a regular White boy. Handsome one, I might add, too. LOL) I NEVER ONCE HEARD ABOUT RACISM WITHIN OUR CULTURE! My fellow Latinos cover the entire color spectrum. My best friend growing up looked like a beach boy….blonde hair and blue eyes, yet BOTH his parents are PoRicans. Color didn’t become an issue until I moved back to the states (NC) in 1980. I was liking this dark skin sista from my college, and had the “audacity” to invite her over to my dad’s restaurant. Talk about a rude awakening! The waitresses, who had liked me before, gave me dirty looks when I arrived there, and my dad pulled me over to the side to “educate” me. Also, my date, who got there before me, had already left, no doubt because of the treatment she had gotten.
The point is that racism is rampant here in the USA, but don’t believe it doesn’t exists anywhere else. I haven’t heard of any racism within a race in terms of color anywhere else (except in the Black community), but within a culture, it is prevalent in places around the world (mainly based on status, etc.)
Sad to say, but it will always exists in some form or fashion on this Earth.