Know your history. They sure the hell aren’t teaching this in school.
Category Archives: Cosas Latina
CBS News poll: Hispanics in America – CBS News
Some background info on the state of Latinos in the United States.
Why It’s Perfectly OK for Activists to Wave Mexican Flag at Rallies | OC Weekly
“Anyone so easily swayed by the choice of a piece of cloth that they’ll wish a Trump on this country ain’t an ally you want.”
Much truth in that statement, more here.
A hidden history of Spanglish in California | Public Radio International
Spanglish: older than you think.
What does it mean to be Mexican-American?
Anthony Bourdain, Under The Volcano
Bourdain gets it.
Robert De Posada Tells Latino Voters: Vote For Third Party Or Don’t Vote At All
The same clown who told Latinos not to vote in the last election (and now has a made-up story to explain *that*) now wants you to vote for Gary Johnson. You know, because voting for a third party candidate still means you aren’t voting for Obama.
And we all know what Romney thinks of Latinos, so obviously asking for folks to vote for him is a non-starter.
What jerks. What anti-democratic, dirty, foul people they are.
Whaddaya Call a Half-Mexican, Half-Something Else?
A wide, vulgar, and hilarious list of what to call half-Mexicans based on their additional ancestry.
A State Without Mexicans? | Mother Jones
In Alabama, like Georgia and North Carolina before them, racism is put above both economic and civil rights concerns as the state basically makes it illegal to be brown.
Sure, there are undocumented and falsely documented workers in this country. Either find a way to get them to work legally or find a way to pay Americans enough to do the work. Because, whatever the current laws are trying to do is just going to make a lot of folks hungry, both the workers not getting paid, the farmers fined or forced out of business, and the rest of us paying more for smaller amounts of food as it rots in the fields.
Short-sighted and cruel conservatives will truly be the undoing of this nation if their agenda can’t be stopped. Or at least turned to productive ends. Laws like the one mentioned sure as hell won’t do the job.
The Confederate of the Sierra Madre
I have enjoyed this series on the arcane parts of the Civil War. This story on the possible partition of part of Mexico is really interesting.
Would those lands have become part of the US after the Confederacy was defeated? Would my mom have been born an American citizen instead? Really odd stuff to consider.