In the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s recent column of Los Angeles Pents attempting to soften Cynthia Gonzalez’s words about gang members “more than offense (“What does a polite in La County mean when he hit ‘Cholos’ to fight ice,” June 26). It’s dangerous.
We clearly: Gonzalez, in his role as Vice Mayor in Cuday, did not call for peaceful resistance. He brightly asks violent street gangs – with a long history of murder, rape and drug sales – to get the space and power over federal agents. That is not protested. That insult.
My parents have 7-eleven eleven in the corner of Figueroa and Avenue 52 out of 35 years and has a direct experience in dealing with Avenue gangs. It is a terrible problem for them, and the culture of the gang is not something glorious.
Instead of accounting for Gonzalez, Arellano chose to romantic his rhetoric, throw it as part of a village tradition. That is not analyzing. That is complex. He reframed his language as nostalgic, as calling groups such as Florencia 13 and 18th Street to “protect their neighborhoods in a cultural
What the same trouble is the silence of UCLA. Gonzalez recently named director of a program there trained teachers. If he continues to keep that title to send it a chilling message: The Innectiary, the dangerous rhetoric cannot be blocked if it is a standual with no institutional institutions should last.
If Arellano wants to chase communities like my communities, he should stop filtering them by sentiment and start to deal with what is true: Gonzalez’s words don’t understand the words of Gonzalez. It is not acceptable. And his vine just made them.
Noon Chinese, Glendale
