to your destination, you see numerous amounts of Just Opened buildings with available office space, housing communities where you cannot tell one house apart from the other and many recreational parks with little league sign ups available. It is your classic all American city where the men go to work while the wife stays home with the kids, WalMart is your favorite place to shop and the high school football teams are known throughout California. In spite of this, we must remember that when something sounds too good to be true it usually is.We have now entered the 21st century, and the Antelope Valley which was once populated by working-middle class whites, has taken a turn for the worse. It was virtually impossible for the tremendous growth and affordability to be kept a secret from investors. William Finnegan, opinionated author of A Cold New World, who not only covers the downfall of the valley but also the uprising of its racism, feels that the addition of these potential investors (most of Latino or African American descent) began to worry this overwhelmingly white (272) population. With the already existing white supremacist groups such as the KKK, White Aryan Resistance and the Nazi Low Rider skinheads considered a problem with the conservative residents of the valley; this would be the start of what Finnegan considers a Racial Holy War (292). After several interviews with these supremacist members of a variety of clans, Finnegan recalls one with Tim Malone, a member of the Nazi Low Riders. Tim stated that he and his clan believe in Hitlers ways (288). As history recalls, Hitler felt that the presence of Jews was unnecessary and, as a result, exterminated millions of them in the process. With young residents holding a mentality of Hitlers, the general public of Los Angeles county should be concerned.There was a widespread feeling of anxiety throughout the valley that many of these young children were unsupervised, leaving them to...
