Talk:Watts, Los Angeles, California
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The last sentence in this section makes no sense: "In July 2005, Watts returned to the news when a police SWAT team accidentally killed 18-month-old Suzy Peña who was held hostage by her father at a used-car lot in the area. Reaction in the community was divided between condemnation of Peña's father and calls for disciplinary action against the SWAT team, but surprisingly the division was not along racial lines: black and Latino activists could be found in both camps which in around 62% Hispanic, 32% African-American, 0.27% Asian, 8% White and 18% mixed races."
Can someone (preferrably the original poster) fix it to clarify what those statistics mean?
[edit] Hispanic people are white
I have been to Spain. The people there were white people. I believe that "Hispanics" are white people, too. Racial mumbo-jumbo permeates Wikipedia. GhostofSuperslum 21:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
In some other articles, authors are careful to mention -- after the percentages by race -- who among those different races consider themselves "Hispanic." In other words, Hispanics can be white, black, Asian, or of any other race 65.167.98.2 21:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Which means hispanic is a cultural construct not a racial construct.
Also, there are towns in spain that are predomanitlly black, dating back from the hundreds of years when the moors of africa ruled spain or should i say 'andulasia', which was what spain was called during the moor rule. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.160.134.129 (talk) 08:18, August 20, 2007 (UTC)
A Hispanic is mixed-race. Usually of European, African and Native American (of Mexico, Caribbean, and South America) It's kinda hard to categorize 'Hispanic' being there are so many different types. Azn Clayjar 05:13, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Demographics and murder rate
How can an area with about 22 000 inhabitants have over 20 000 homicide in 15 years? How can there be anyone left? One of those 2 numbers has to be wrong Observer31 06:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
