[A News Taco Post] As a Latina who not only was raised to be aware of these issues, but who’s studied in them in school and written about them professionally for several years, I am occasionally accused of “making everything about race.” Even on News Taco. The funny thing is, I think this accusation is supposed [...]
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Call Me Anything But Mexican
[A News Taco Post] “You don’t look Mexican” is something I hear a lot. I hear it from whites, African-Americans, Asians, Mexican nationals, Latinos from Latin America, just about everyone. Of course, in polite company, what I usually respond is, “Oh, yeah, I get that a lot.” In my head, however, I usually think, “What, exactly [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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Quelino Ojeda Jimenez And The Cost Of No Immigration Reform
[A News Taco Post] Okay, this is a really, really sad story that takes us to the extremes of why we all need immigration reform in this country from The Chicago Tribune. Thanks to Graeme for the tip. Quelino Ojeda Jimenez, 20, an undocumented immigrant from México who fell off a roof four months ago in Illinois, and since [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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Do You Have To Speak Spanish To Be A “Real” Latino?
[A News Taco Post] You know it, and I know it, even though you may never have heard anyone say it out loud. You’re only a “real” Latino (substitute Chicano, Mexican, Salvadoran, Boricua, etc.) if you speak Spanish. If you don’t, well then, you’re just not down. Before I launch into my little ditty about my [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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Rahm Emanuel And The Blunder Of Ignoring Latino Voters
[A News Taco Post] Rahm Emanuel was outyesterday, now he’s in, but the truth is he’s only half got it. Although yesterday a Chicago appellate court ruled that Emanuel did not meet Chicago’s residency requirement to run for mayor, now the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that his name appear on the ballot pending their decision of his [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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As Latinos Become White, The U.S. Becomes Latino
[A News Taco Post] Recently, the idea that Latinos shouldn’t receive focused political attention because eventually, like Italian and Irish immigrants before them, they will eventually assimilate and become “white” has been tossed around. Particularly, this idea has been tossed around by Jeb Bush. In an editorial in HispanicallySpeakingNews, Nicolas Mendoza notes: It’s instructive that the Irish and [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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Enough With The War On Drugs Already!
[A News Taco Post] Twenty year-old Marisol Marisol Valles García took over as police chief in a small town of Praxedis G. Guerrero on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez after no one else would last October. She was a mother and a student of criminal justice and just wanted to help her community, as we wrote then. This [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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Wanted: A Latino In New Mexico’s U.S. Senate Seat
[A NewsTaco Post] Representative democracy sometimes isn’t, well, all that representative. The U.S. is set to become Latino-ized, in the sense that nearly 1 in 6 people here will be counted as Latinos in the 2010 Census. Yet, there are just 2 Latinos (or Hispanics) who currently sit in the U.S. Senate. One, Democrat Bob Menendez of New [...]
sara ines, March 5th 2011
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Dating Latinos Doesn’t Make Me Racist
[A NewsTaco Post; Also Appeared in Jezebel; Bitch Magazine] January 17, 2011 On more than one occasion, during my seemingly eternal quest for love, I’ve been accused by friends and acquaintances of being “racist” for trying to date Latinos. In all fairness, part of this is totally my fault and the result of my whining and chiflazón. [...]
sara ines, January 22nd 2011
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Govt, Banks Loan Less To Latino-Owned Businesses
[A NewsTaco Post] The California Reinvestment Coalition recently released a report entitled, “Small Business Access to Credit: The Little Engine That Could” that found from 2007 to 2009 the Small Business Administration severely cut the number of loans made to Latino- and minority-owned businesses. In California the SBA cut funding to Latino-owned businesses by 84%, even while [...]
sara ines, December 15th 2010
