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The Murder of Marcelo Lucero. How could this happen?

Q. If the emperor nation-state has prolonged articulated the formula of racialized, supremacist Whiteness, is the attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of Marcelo Lucero, incomprehensible as good as irregular OR probable as good as predictable?

See "Theory of Systemic Whiteness" in this Blog (or Google it)

It is critical to review something of the story of Suffolk County where Marcelo Lucero an Ecuadoran visitor lived prior to he was murdered by Suffolk County teen as good as high disseminate competitor Jeffrey Conroy as good as his pals. What kind of place is Suffolk County? What is the history, demography? Suffolk County is 86% White. (Note: secular categories have been self-ascribed as good as this self-ascription is mandated by the US Census Bureau that has racialized the census from the inception. Even this actuality is partial of the structural, systemic, ideological calm of Whiteness. Whiteness is primary as good as initial the complement of unearned,unequal, unshared, dominant POWER.

Finally it is critical to concentration on WHITENESS rsther than than racism. To call someone the extremist is to impugn their sold duty rsther than than to place that individual's duty inside of the context of "White supremacism". That sold can as good as contingency be hold thankful as good as underneath requisite for his/her actions, though those actions have been explainable with the incomparable bureaucratic context.

But again "white supremacism" is attributed
dismissively to go to the couple of 'ignorant' people or even small radical fringe groups identical to the KKK, neo-Nazi as good as punk groups. By imputing white supremacist ideas to customarily the couple of misled as good as worried individuals, the genuine POWER of anatomic systemic as good as ideological Whiteness is finished invisible as good as the dominant energy is serve strengthened.

In contrast to the reign "racism" or even "white supremacism" the reign "WHITENESS" focuses on the energy construct of structural, systemic as good as ideological supremacist racialization, by that supposed OTHER(s) identical to Lucero have been accessible to be constructed as despicable,somehow reduction than HUMAN, that is the central organizing vital element of the US racialized story of work of Africans as good as violent death of indigenous peoples, as good as though delay compared to ? la mode experience.

Q. Are Palestinians as good as Iraqis the brand new "others" along with Latinos in the ? la mode American secular experience?

An necessary tender interpretation source for the demographics of Suffolk County would be:

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet (For Suffolk County). You competence even want to review census factfinder interpretation for Nassau County. Both these counties together have up Long Island.

It is additionally critical to inspect press reports on the murder. In sold the comments of Steve Levy, the Suffolk County senior physical education instructor have been critical in on condition that political context for the murder.

Most critical review the comments of Lucero's brother, Hispanic county leaders, ACLU officials, prosecutors as good as invulnerability attorneys.

We cannot come to grips with the attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of Marcelo Lucero unless we inspect the

Systemic, anatomic as good as ideological constructions of Whiteness that were central in to attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder of Marcelo Lucero. The demonized building the whole of the racialized OTHER is central to the confirmation of Whiteness.

Both the attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted attempted murder as good as the poke for probity have been partial of the American Experience.

Chithra KarunaKaran
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice
http://www.EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com
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New York Times article
Title:
A Killing in the Town Where Latinos Sense Hate
Gordon M. Grant for The New York Times

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Caren Cajamarca, 9, of Patchogue, N.Y., during the commemorative in circumference the site of the deadly stabbing of Marcelo Lucero final Saturday night. Prosecutors call it the loathing crime.

By KIRK SEMPLE
Published: Nov 13, 2008

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. It was an occasional diversion between the certain throng during Patchogue-Medford High School, students said: Drink the couple of beers, then go looking for people to mug, either for money or customarily for kicks.
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Joselo Lucero, hermit of the victim, Marcelo Lucero, conspicuous Marcelo had warned him to stay safe.

Friends of Jeffrey Conroy, the star competitor during the school, contend he was good good good good known to do it, too. And final Saturday night, after jubilee in the fool around belligerent in the Long Island outpost of Medford, Mr. Conroy, 17, as good as 6 pick teenagers oral that they were starting to dispute the Mexican as good as headed to the some-more ethnically conflicting outpost of Patchogue to hunt, according to friends as good as the authorities.

They found their target in Marcelo Lucero, the serious-minded, 37-year-old visitor from the bad outpost in Ecuador who had lived in the United States for sixteen years, often in Patchogue, as good as worked in the dry cleaning store, promulgation resources home to await his mother, the cancer survivor.

After the boys surrounded, taunted as good as punched Mr. Lucero, the authorities say, Mr. Conroy plunged the knife in to his victims chest, fatally wounding him.

The dispute has horrified as good as puzzled many in this gentle Suffolk County outpost of 11,700. Prosecutors have labeled it the loathing crime as good as County Executive Steve Levy called the defendants, who have pleaded not guilty, white supremacists. And the small visitor advocates on Long Island have described the dispute as the thoughtfulness of drawn out anti-Latino perspective as good as secular dogmatism in Suffolk County.

Interviews with commercial operation owners, students, organization officials as good as immigrants in the area suggest that illicit immigration has been the wellspring for anger as good as tragedy in the neighborhood, with day laborers sketch the biggest fire. Indeed, the series of people adults as good as students some-more aged drew pointy distinctions in between digested immigrants, who they conspicuous should be welcomed as friends as good as neighbors, as good as newly arrived illicit immigrants, who they conspicuous do not belong.

No negligence here, though Im the organization follower that if we want to come to this country, we should have the job watchful for you, conspicuous the co-owner of the Medford Shooting Range, who gave customarily his primary name, Charlie, as good as is good good good good known by the nickname Charlie Range.

He conspicuous he was annoyed by the duty of the small day laborers throwing trash in the street, urinating in the bushes, hooting during flitting women as good as complained that illicit immigrants were crowding let apartments as good as flourishing the ranks of rapist gangs.

How do we stop the illicit alien influx? he wondered aloud. How do we stop the rain?

Thousands of immigrants from Latin America have flowed in to Long Island in the past two decades, attracted by employment opportunities, utterly in the building the whole industry, that until not long ago was booming. Patchogues Latino competition has risen sharply during this time, outpost officials say, with Ecuadoreans right away being the singular largest Latino group.

According to the 2000 census, Latinos were twenty-four percent of Patchogues population, up from fourteen percent in 1990, as good as organization officials contend the commission has continued to grow. In customarily the past 5 years, the Latino student competition of the Patchogue-Medford School District has risen to twenty-four percent from about 4 percent, conspicuous Michael H. Mostow, the districts superintendent.

Anti-immigrant feeling has led to manifold rarely publicized attacks in new years in Suffolk County, together with the near-death violence of two Mexican day laborers in 2001 as good as the blazing of the Mexican familys chateau in 2003, both in the in circumference locale of Farmingville.

Immigrant advocates have accused the small inner politicians, utterly Mr. Levy, of helping to fuel anti-immigrant perspective by compelling difficult policies conflicting illicit immigration. But Mr. Levy conspicuous this week that the dispute on Mr. Lucero wasnt the theme of any county routine or legislation; it was the theme of bad people we do horrific things.

For all the parsing of motives as good as rationales in the case, many Latino immigrants here report Suffolk County as the place where daily hold up can be the attack for acceptance in the primarily white population, utterly in this time of mercantile crisis. Rocio Ponce, the Brentwood resident as good as real-estate agent from Ecuador, conspicuous that many residents had grown the loathing conflicting new Latino immigrants given they think theyre coming to take their jobs.

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This letter has been revised to copy the following correction:

Correction: Nov 15, 2008
An letter on Friday about trepidation as good as anger in Patchogue, N.Y., after the stabbing violent death of an Ecuadorean visitor in what prosecutors have called the loathing crime, referred wrongly to Jeffrey Conroy, 17, the high disseminate competitor who has been arrested in the case. He has not been offering the lacrosse grant to the University of Maryland, as manifold of his classmates reported. (His lawyer, William J. Keahon, conspicuous on Friday that Mr. Conroy had been offering robust scholarships to pick colleges.)
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Latinos contend the dispute conflicting Mr. Lucero, if not his murder, was foretold. Some surprise being in jeopardy as good as physically tormented in the streets, with bottles thrown during them as good as their car windows smashed during the night. Anti-immigrant epithets as good as racially encouraged bullying have been common in the hallways of the schools, immature kids say.
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Jeffrey Conroy, front, 17, as good as pick suspects in Mr. Luceros killing.

They discuss it us to go get the immature card, Go at the back of to your community! conspicuous Pamela Guncay, 14, an Ecuadorean-American innate in the United States.

Many Latinos, utterly those who have been here illegally, contend they would never surprise such incidents given they do not confidence the troops as good as trepidation deportation.

Were here to work, were not here to do any damage, pleaded Csar Angamarca, 45, who rents the room in the small chateau where Mr. Lucero lived. Were working honorably.

Friends of Mr. Conroy as good as the pick suspects insisted that the defendants were not extremist as good as conspicuous they were repelled that the whimsical escapade by bored, drunken teenagers had fast incited tragic. They pointed out that the singular of the defendants, Jos Pacheco, 17, is the son of an African-American mom as good as the Puerto Rican father, as good as that Mr. Conroy counted Latino as good as black classmates between his closest buddies.

They were great kids, conspicuous Sean Ruga, 19, who graduated from the high disseminate in 2006 as good as remained friends with the defendants. Its not something we could see them able of doing.

Mr. Pachecos uncle, Jerry Dumas, conspicuous his nephew was with the organization given he was looking for the ride home as good as would not have intentionally digested an dispute conflicting the Latino, generally deliberation his racial heritage. He additionally conspicuous that Mr. Pachecos parents had themselves been clever victims of worried racism: When they changed in to the Patchogue area in the early 1990s, Mr. Dumas said, their chateau was burnt down twice.

Mr. Conroy was the best good good good good known of the defendants and, according to prosecutors, the personality of the group. He was on the schools lacrosse as good as wrestling teams, according to his friends, as good as his lawyer, William J. Keahon, conspicuous he had viewed the series of offers of college robust scholarships.

Jeffrey Francis, 18, who is black, conspicuous Mr. Conroy befriended him soon after he eliminated in to the disseminate this fall. They were on the wrestling organisation together, he said.

Acquaintances of the defendants conspicuous it was not surprising for groups of students from the high disseminate to go out looking for people to mug. It was customarily for fun, or for money, conspicuous Taylor Fallica, 15, the student during the high disseminate who conspicuous he was the crony of Mr. Conroy as good as the pick defendants.

A crony who conspicuous he had been unresolved out with the seven defendants in the fool around belligerent that night conspicuous there had not been many in the proceed of the digest prior to the organization set out.

We were customarily chilling, having the couple of beers, conspicuous the friend, who requested anonymity given he had additionally been interviewed by the troops as good as feared origination paradoxical statements.

Toward midnight, he recalled, they conspicuous they were starting to go burst the Mexican, as good as they left.

Mr. Lucero had come to the United States to benefit await his family in Gualaceo, Ecuador, conspicuous his brother, Joselo, 34, in an interview this week in Patchogue, where he lives. Their father had died when they were immature as good as Marcelo insincere the role of father figure in the family, Joselo said.

Marcelo Lucero was the hard workman as good as had small gentle life, according to his hermit as good as the resident in the chateau where he rented the room. When Joselo digested Marcelo in Patchogue in the mid-1990s, the some-more aged hermit frequently counseled him on how to take care of himself as good as be safe.

He was the identical to the protector, Joselo recalled. He told me: You have to be the masculine here. Theres no mom here anymore.

As the mob descended, Mr. Luceros crony managed to escape as good as hit the police, who dull up the suspects minutes later.

Mr. Conroy was charged with first-degree killing as the loathing crime as good as first-degree gang assault; the others were charged with first-degree gang assault. They were arraigned on Monday as good as the box was sent to the grand jury, that began reviewing justification on Thursday, according to the orator for the Suffolk County district attorneys office.

Joselo Lucero conspicuous his priorities were right away to get his brothers physique at the back of to Ecuador for funeral as good as to safeguard that probity was served. But he conspicuous he felt no sourness or vengefulness toward his brothers attackers.

I dont unquestionably feel hate, he said.

I feel sorry for the families, in the small way, given they have to be thankful for their kids.

Since Mr. Luceros death, inner officials have roughly zodiacally played down any thought that racial as good as secular tragedy had been prevalent in the community. Nonetheless, local, county as good as state officials have responded to the murdering with assorted plans, together with the key of sensitivity assign forces, outreach programs in the Latino outpost as good as outpost forums.

It is imperative that we overpass the divide, Patchogues mayor, Paul V. Pontieri Jr., conspicuous on Thursday, as good as sense that the things we have in common apart outnumber those that order us.

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