Photos: Lakers 'Celebration' Damage Found Around Downtown

Ignorant asshole? I'm browner that both of your collective schfinkters and I am ashamed that a bunch of wannabe cholo pendejos went out there simply to cause chaos. Did you guys not see the idiot waving the Mexican flag while the MTA bus was being vandalized?

Brown trash? Really? There are many of us latinos who were appalled and angry at the idiots who were out to cause damage to our city, and I also agree LAPD chose the wrong occasion to exercise restraint. However, you clearly are no better than them. I wouldn't call you white trash, though. Rasict trash? Absolutely.

It's kinda sad how whenever someone points out that most of the idiots looting were brown they are automatically white and racist. Well guess again sweetie, I'm as Mexican as you are a dummy (hint: Very).

Color has everything to do with it! What does it say about us, as Latinos, when a mob of our youth goes out onto the streets and starts destroying shit over a BASKETBALL game. THAT doesn't do us any favors. It shows that there is an obvious problem in our neighborhoods and in our education system. We can't ignore that fact simply because not all Latinos in Los Angeles were partaking in the madness. I'm tired of this "victim" attitude minorities take when other people point out their flaws. Instead of wasting your time wagging your finger of liberal shame at people like me, go out and try to do your part in solving this problem of ours.

you should really stop making assumptions. how do you know what i do or don't do? what do YOU do about it? how do you volunteer? are you an educator? do you have any children you are trying to raise with better values? don't project on me. in no way was i expressing any kind of "victim" mentality. i'm the last person that you'd find falling in to that kind of bullshit.

part of fixing the problem is setting a better example, educating others when they show ignorance about a group of people, not perpetuating stereotypes, etc.

and no, color does not have everything to do with it. ignorance has everything to do with it and ignorance is absolutely not color-related.

You're the one that assumed I was a White KKK Member/Neo Nazi/Hitler incarnate simply because I expressed my outrage at the group of savages rioting. I guess calling someone an "ignorant asshole" falls under the et cetera part of "setting a better example, educating others when they show ignorance about a group of people, not perpetuating stereotypes, etc".

I'm sorry did I miss the news reports about rioting in Compton? Koreatown? The West Side? Glendale? If you can't see how the events of Sunday show that color has everything to do with it then you are lost forever.

please point out to me where i said, or even implied, that you were white, KKK, neo-nazi, hitler incarnate, or even racist, for that matter.

all i said was you were an ignorant asshole, which has nothing to do with the above. all you've done is prove me right.

Congrats on reducing the conversation to name calling. You are no better than the idiots rioting. At least they know they are uneducated and embrace it, unlike you who tries to hide your stupidity through name-calling. What a fucking child.

I completely agree that the behavior of these latinos doesn't do us any favors. It's downright embarrassing and it enrages me all the more because I have to be associated with ignorant, destructive behavior simply because we share the same race. The concept I have a problem with is that by saying "brown trash", you are implying that you have a problem with the "brown" part and not just the "trash" part. I certainly have no problem in addressing the fact that the rioters were mostly latinos, but when it's not done constructively it simply comes across to the world as brown = trash. This idea doesn't do anybody any favors either.

Lastly, when I said I wouldn't call you "white trash, I would call you racist trash", I was well aware I couldn't possibly know what race you are. You can be racist of your own race, it's not unheard of. I was making a point that it's the "racist" that's trash, not the color. Having read the rest of your comments, I don't believe you're racist. We obviously both agree that their behavior was shameful, ignorant, etc. and we certainly both agree the LAPD chose the wrong time to show restraint. I do, however, believe saying "brown trash" is racist. And we'll just have to disagree on that.

Interesting side commentary...

It seems to me that few of you follow post Stanley Cup Championship celebrations. If you did, you would know that this type of stuff happens even in Canadian cities, where people are normally many times more tranquil than just about any major U.S. city and have much lesser concentrations of ANY racial group you can think of.

This has nothing to do with race, but rather drunk morons/buffoons/idiots/ignoramus(i).

And not to criticize, but taking the stand that these people are the trash of one's own race/ethnicity doesn't help anyone's cause. This, in broader terms, is the reason why the Latino community has little collective voice in LA; one group always thinks some other group is beneath them. Second generation (born here) consider themselves higher up in the totem pole than immigrants and so forth.

Idiotic.

thank you.

deepfry: hey kettle, the pot's calling

I guess that makes it OK then.

Hey I know knit. Let's build the next stadium in your neighborhood.