Latinos, African-Americans must deal with racial tension

Randy Jurado Ertll, Los Angeles Daily News

Some of the issues that African-Americans and Latinos have in common are high unemployment rates, high drop-out rates from public schools, systemic poverty, gang violence, high percentage of prison inmates and the continual discrimination that both communities face.

So why do African-Americans feel fearful of Latin American immigrants, and why do Latinos fear African-Americans?

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