As a person that is extremely anti-communism I must say I am happy that Fidel is out of power. But as we all know one tyrant out of power doesn't really mean change is going to sweep the country. Hopefully the Cuban people will be one step closer to a beautiful vibrant country that it seems only my grandparents remember.
On that note I'd like to call bull poo on all of the political pundits, media outlets and random racists claiming that latinos will not support Obama because he's black. I've discussed this briefly in passed blogs but a conversation yesterday sealed it for me that the media is trying to instigate fights. I took my grandma to get her hair cut at a salon where her stylist is a very nice mid 50s maybe early 60s woman from Guatemala. She came to the US in the 1960s and has lived here legally ever since. She asked my grandma if she voted on 2/12. The stylist voted for Obama. Ok so if you look at her in demographics according to the media she should be a Hillary supporter. She said she was on the fence until she talked to her granddaughter who is a teenager but not yet old enough to vote. A young female 3rd generation Latina should also be very Hillary. The granddaughter convinced her grandmother to read about Obama and Hillary and to listen two both make speeches. The stylist is very much a democrat and said that she did like them both and would support whoever got the nomination but in her words "Mr Obama made me believe that he could help the country". The stylist even commented that in Virginia where she lived a lot of the Latinos that she knew were in favor of Obama. For those who don't know Northern VA is extremely diverse and the home to may new Americans (legal and illegal). The majority of Latinos is the DC area hail from either El Salvador or Guatemala.
As I was sitting listening to the conversation I thought back to all the polls and news reports seeking to divide people. It made me realize that the media is doing it's usual one size fits all with minority groups. The one generalization that to me is the most inaccurate is that latinos don't live near blacks in large numbers and don't generally interact with them. What??? Next all latinos are not Mexican. Different groups of people want different things for their communities. There are quite a few anti-illegal immigration latinos out there. The power of the latino voting block is grossly exaggerated. If latinos make up 13% of the total population and 78% of all illegal immigrants (that cannot vote!) are from Mexico/Latin America, latinos have many more children than other groups (kids can't vote either), deduct the legal residents (can't vote), people not registered, convicted felons, you don't have as many voters as you may think. By comparison (yes I did the math) if you do not count illegal latino immigrants in the population count there are 13-plus million more black citizens in this country than latinos. So yes Hillary should be more concerned about losing black votes.
It is not a black or latino thing. If anything blacks have been historically a hell of a lot more accepting to latinos than whites. Even in the democratic debate sponsored by HBCU Howard University there were latino panelists to ask questions relevant to latinos. Eventhough I didn't watch the spanish only debate I checked and there was not even a "token" black person. I'm not buying that argument that a black leader isn't going to represent the interest of Latinos. Plus Obama is so liberal he makes my head hurt. For latinos to think for a second that Obama won't pander to them like every other left-wing illegal lover is laughable. Don't believe the hype.
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