Broderick Boys - Revisited

Oh great! Here we go again!

Once more, the Yolo County District Attorney has managed to get the judge to sign off on the Broderick Boys gang injunction. Once again, the cops have free reign to harass our Hispanic and Latino Brothers and Sisters in West Sacramento.

Funny how the residents of Broderick, who are directly affected by this, are mostly against this trampling of residents' civil rights.

Funny how our opinions are ignored in this matter.

Funny how it's OK to trample on the rights of AMERICAN CITIZENS just because they're olive complected and have a Spanish last name.

I think it's well past time that I put "La Casa de" above my front door. Because it's about darn time that we start putting out there that just because we live in Broderick and have Spanish last names, it DOES NOT mean that we belong to a gang.

I don't want MY kids to become the victims of well-meaning but brainwashed and oblivious cops who see olive skins, Raider jackets, or a red sweatshirt (or car) as signs of gang affiliation. Cops need to learn that just because a Broderick resident is brown, it doesn't mean the police force has the right to trample on that person's right to live in our white dominated culture. My neighbors have the same rights as the white guy that lives across the street, the Russian guy that lives over in Bryte, the Asian or white or Black neighbors in Broderick, in Bryte, in Southport, in West Sacramento.

It's about darn time we started sticking up for our neighborhood and our neighbors.

"Broderick Boys - Revisited" needs to become "Broderick Residents Win The Battle For The Civil Liberties".

Because it's a heck of a slippery slope and when we turn our faces from our neighbors, we'd best expect that we'll be next on the DA's list. Just because we live in the same neighborhood, or go to the same schools, or hang out at the same parks, or attend the same churches as the "Broderick Boys". Pretty soon, we'll be profiled as members of the same gang.

We are all in the same gang.

Think about it.

It's only a matter of time...