"Why not just make sure to lead your own life the right way and teach your children to do the same instead of being upset over streets you can't safely walk down."
Why not do both, lead your own life right and teach your children right, and be upset and willing to do something about unsafe streets? They are not mutually exclusive. Anyone who puts up with thugs and criminals ruling the streets is beneath contempt.
"Personally, it did not occur to me to make any assumption at all about the skin color of the soldiers (and girlfriends) who were attacked."
I presumed that the soldiers where black, since no white guy with any brains, soldier or not, hangs out late at night where lots of black guys hang out.
"He said that Mexican aspirations within the relationship had not been in any sense fulfilled since immigration reform remains stagnant and Mexican investment in the United States has not been facilitated."
Yet they do nothing to stop the flow of illegals into our country and we cannot buy land along their coasts. Mexico sucks.