Did you know that the O.C. Register started using the term “Ethnic Cleansing” with regard to the gentrification of Downtown Santa Ana way back in 2004?
Santa Ana Planning Commissioner Sean Mill wrote a letter to the Register that they published on August 1, 2004. I have reproduced the letter above. The Register’s letters editor came up with the headline of “Ethnic Cleansing in Santa Ana?” Mill did NOT use that term in his letter! Continue reading