Letters to the Editor
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@jpetty
Maybe head an off day. Maybe your comment says more about the state of journalism in this country than it does about Mr. Rodriguez' skills - I think we can all agree that real journalism left the building long ago. Regardless, if this is, as someone else put it, the best they can do, I wouldn't be surprised to see that Salon got bought by the Washington Post or the Tribune Corporation.
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diversity amongst white men?
a white man can't be female, without extensive surgery, anyway, but a male person can be feminine, and vice versa.
so maybe it's almost none of us that count as "the man."
and if masculine/feminine means a difference between the fucker and the fucked, then these days, it's only a very small group of CEO's and technocrats who are the men.
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Hillary Clinton promised universal healthcare in 1992. She didn't deliver in 1993, she, of course, would not deliver now, when government deficit is much worse that it was in 1992.
Hillary Clinton promised universal healthcare in 1992. She didn't deliver in 1993, she, of course, would not deliver now, when government deficit is much worse that it was in 1992. Maybe, these numerous Latino women, who trust her now, should be educated about what she and Bill did to numerous African -American welfare single mothers and families, who practically voted them into White House back in 1992. They failed their health plan miserable, and immediately after cut off welfare-the lifeline of their constituents. Mrs. Clinton would do the same this time. Maybe, Latino women believe Mrs. Clinton promises about education. Then trust me - the witness of how Mrs. Clinton was intentionally damaging the African American and Latino education in her pet system of Chicago Public School in Chicago between 1993 and 2000. One third of graduates, as the result of her efforts, was not able to read. And bilingual, mainly, Latino students were not able to communicate in English. It had not been so in the system prior to 1993, as I had been in the system since 1991. Everybody who trusts promises of Hillary Clinton should remember the proverb, “ You fooled me once, shame on you. You fooled me twice, shame on me!” People should not allow themselves to be fooled and disdained. Respect yourself, your future and cast your vote for Obama.
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good night john boy,
good night richard
(i would take a clue from Medina de Labrador, stick to writing about pinatas and the mating rituals of 12 year old low-riders in East L.A., and NPR will keep calling on you for more of your race-baiting "latino" insights. yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
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good night john boy,
good night richard
(i would take a clue from Medina de Labrador, stick to writing about pinatas and the mating rituals of 12 year old low-riders in East L.A., and NPR will keep calling on you for more of your race-baiting "latino" insights. yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
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Nature of Latin American Politics
I think RR overstates Hillary's understanding of Latinas/os and ignores the nature of Latin American politics. Strong successful women leaders are not infrequent participants in Latin politics and there is little buzz about gender politics when a woman runs for office. Having been humiliated by their husbands is not part of their history, nor their attraction - and RR's musing that this aspect of Hillary's background makes her attractive as a candidate to Latinos/as is offensive. Their years of experience may have included, imprisonment and exile during military dictatorships. Latin first ladies as well as presidents come with impressive creduentials and long careers of serious hard work for soical justice. It was not, by the way "conservatives" who voted for Michele Batchelet, the unabashed single mother who is president of Chile. I am waiting for a good comparison of other women leaders from Gro Harlan Bruntland, Indira Gandhi and Batchelet to Hillary.
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Chris Rock jokes do not a substantial essay make
"Hillary Clinton, the first Latina in chief?"
Short answer: NO.
She's a privileged white lady who, as the author correctly observed before trying to deny it, "detected tension in the brown-black relationship and exploited it".
She's also running a campaign which has used people of color to do her dirty race baiting work, as with Reverend Wright, and it looks like Joan Walsh is doing the same thing.
Just because some Hispanic Clinton supporter writes an essay doesn't make it true - especially as he doesn't present any facts, statistics or substantiated sources for his assertion. He doesn't even link to studies or polls showing more Hispanics have voted for Clinton, let alone polls provide transparencey on their sampling of minorities - which is a big issue with increasing evidence of inaccuracies.
That whole "Bill is the first Black President" stuff? It was a joke which some try to present seriously. More importantly Toni Morrison didn't say it first, she was quoting a Chris Rock stand up routine. Clinton supporters like to lie about this little detail because it reveals the assertion for the farce it really is. That this essayist repeats this deception reveals the emptiness of his argument.
For a real idea of the Clinton's on race, how about we examine Bill's treatment of Jesse Jackson and Sister Souljah? That is the Clinton's who persist to this day, race baiting and arrogantly appropriating status.
The only time minorities need to anoint someone an "honorary" anything is when there is no hope of a real representative. Well guess what? There is a real minority this time and Clinton supporters ought to stop with the divisive racist propoganda.
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The Real Reason is About Obama, or the truth that dare not show it's head
Recently, I worked in the inner city of LA for several years as a teacher. One of the great surprises I remember most is that nearly all Latino kids hated blacks, or African Americans. It was a full blown racist thing too with elements of superiority, anger, and great fear. When I worked in Long Beach and Orange County is was exactly the same.
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You can analyse something to death.
Ah sweet mystery of life! The "melting pot" theory about American sociey was held in Europe as a model of integration for decades. This election has, as never before, shown that it is meretricious. Just last evening I saw a news item about the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is trying to solve the dissatisfaction of those living in the "bainlieus" (or ghettos) because of the riots throughout France in 2006. There is uproar in Britain because Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury(Anglican Church/Episcopalian in the USA) has suggested that a certain amount of Sharia law should be allowed to co-exist with the British legal system. TThis has led to a sizeable number of Anglican clergy calling for his resignation and for the British government to give the Archbishop's suggestion short shrift. In addition, the Anglican Bishop of Jos, Nigeria, who is an African, is extremely annoyed with Dr. Rowan Williams as Christians and Muslims have a fractious relationship in Nigeria. To talk the issue to death without any cognisance of global corollaries is not only shallow but self-defeating. Americans had 9/ll, the British had 7/7 but I'm afraid that some Americans know or care little about anything outside narrow parameters. I said "some" Americans. It's better to make that clear before I get a ton of verbals flung at me.
Incidentally, Ms. Walsh, you said, or implied, that Barack Obama's mother was Christian but anything I've read heretofore defines her as an atheist. Such opaque statements can only lead to further muddle.