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L.A. story: who gains from framing gang attacks as "ethnic cleansing"?(FEATURE)(Los Angeles, California)
"WE NEED TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE to put an end to this idea of ethnic cleansing in L.A.," declares Noreen McClendon, executive director of Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles. "It is not happening."
McClendon--an African American who serves as vice president of operations for the Watts Gang Task Force--is upset about a recent deluge of news stories claiming that Latinos are "ethnically cleansing" their African-American neighbors in southern California. The reports, which McClendon characterizes as dangerously misleading, have circulated widely in print, broadcast, and Web media, generating alarm in civil rights circles and unrestrained glee in those of ...
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