My full length article comparing Hispanics to blacks is now up at 美国保守党:

Is Brown the New Black:
Assimilating Hispanics into the Politics of Victimhood

One reason the black-Hispanic relationship is poorly understood is that class intersects with ethnicity in complex ways. At the bottom of society, among prison and street gangs, race rules. In the Los Angeles County jail, which is 60 percent Hispanic and 30 percent black, the two groups fought murderous battles in 2006. Last October, federal prosecutors accused the Florencia 13 street gang of trying to ethnically cleanse blacks from its unincorporated neighborhood in LA County. (The political impact of this violence shouldn’t be exaggerated, though. The respectable folk who do most of the voting don’t approve of gangbangers feuding.)

在较贫穷的社区，黑人居民对周围说西班牙语的男人感到不安。 无法理解所说的内容会剥夺他们的街头智慧。 在公交车站你旁边的两个男人是用西班牙语谈论足球还是他们在密谋要抢劫你？ 谁知道？

At the top of the power structure, in the House of Representatives and state legislatures, blacks and Latinos get along quite well, united by party (92 percent of elected Hispanics are Democrats) and a mutual desire to keep the affirmative action gravy train chugging along . 反对种族配额的黑人沃德·康纳利 (Ward Connerly) 指出，当他担任加州大学的董事时，对 209 号提案写入州宪法的反偏好语言作弊的最大压力并非来自于立法机关中的黑人核心小组，但来自更大的拉丁裔核心小组。 他们威胁要削减加州大学的预算，除非录取更多的西班牙裔申请者。

今天的黑人政治家倾向于像爱尔兰政治家曾经看到他们的天主教波兰人一样看待西班牙裔：他们联盟中的沉默伙伴，应该感谢他们天生的领导者的经验和魅力。 毫不奇怪，西班牙裔美国人不同意。 在洛杉矶以南的一些以前全是黑人的贫民窟城市，西班牙裔现在占居民的绝大多数，但仅占选民的一半，种族政治变得令人讨厌。 但总的来说，西班牙裔政客知道时间站在他们这边，所以他们可以对黑人同事的傲慢态度保持耐心。

In the middle levels of society, blacks and Latinos do compete. Relations aren’t warm, but African-American men have tended to cede blue-collar jobs to immigrants without putting up massive resistance. Moreover, the swelling numbers and various dysfunctions of illegal immigrants generate numerous jobs for civil servants (who are typically required to be citizens). Therefore, many blacks are paid by taxpayers to teach, police, guard, administer, and otherwise deal with illegal aliens. It doesn’t make for trans-ethnic amity, but it’s a living. [更多]