But where did this conflict between African Americans and Hispanics come from? Reginald Gordon a gang expert says prison. Prison life that seeps into the community and now into the schools.
When hundreds of students at Spring High School were finally released to their parents after that bloody stabbing Wednesday many pointed to a serious divide on campus.
One that pits Black against Brown students.
One student says, “Brown pride is a very big gang especially out on the west coast and I’m guess it’s spreading across the United States and Drama gang is just a local thing so.”
That said at Spring High – Brown pride is comprised of Hispanics while Drama is filled with African Americans. Andres Cantu – another student says those groups frequently clash.
Cantu says, “it’s just people not liking each other you know that’s really what it is. Who doesn’t like who? It’s Mexicans and Black people. I don’t understand it but that’s just what it is.”
Students aren’t the only ones witnessing these conflicts between Blacks and Hispanics at Spring High.
“I don’t get it because they’re both minorities bot of them are in the same boat. Blacks and Hispanics are in the same bucket and I don’t understand what they’re trying to accomplish I didn’t grow up that way,” says Melissa Johnson.
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