The recent brouhaha over the political ad urging Hispanics not to vote that ran---of all places---on Spanish language Univision shouldn’t be a big surprise but apparently it is.
Hispanics as an ethnic group have enormous political, economic and cultural potential influence. So the fact that the Euro-Anglo majority would attempt to derail it seems a given. It is “a given” simply based on Euro-Anglo historical precedence.
Given the historical penchant of Euro-Anglos for brutal oppression of racial and ethnic minorities as well as the practice of aggressive ethnic genocide not only in this republic but around the world where is the surprise in the fact that Univision just another Euro-Anglo owned “Spanish” language television station would run this ad?
This practice like violence is as “American as cherry pie.”
This past week I heard an interesting interview with Boston Globe columnist, James Carroll. Mr. Carroll said of the xenophobia occurring in Europe and America, “this is all a manifestation of what I think psychiatrists call status anxiety. A traditionally white, Christian, essentially Protestant culture in the United States sees itself losing hegemony.”
Given the historical (at least five centuries old) penchant of Euro-Anglos for brutal oppression of racial and ethnic minorities as well as the practice of aggressive ethnic genocide not only in this republic but around the world maybe that’s a well justified fear-based anxiety.
Years ago I recall watching black and white news footage of racists pulling Mexican-Americans in line to vote out of line at polling places in----Arizona, of course. What is less well known is that one of those pulling Mexican-Americans out of the polling place line to keep them from voting would later be named chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. That man was William Rehnquist. Nothing surprising about that either. When egregious, violent, brutal behavior ceases to assault the senses it just means that over time the brutality has become common place and the senses jaded.
That, too,is as American as cherry pie.
In this case Robert de Posada who is a former Republican National Committee official was behind the ads. Help me understand, why is this a surprise? Am I to believe him immune from Euro-Anglo behavior because he has an Hispanic last name? It’s just more of what Euro-Anglos (white people) call “caveat emptor” or “buyer beware.” Que cute, no?
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
More:
a former GOPer national committee official behind the ads? Need I say more? Please….
After uproar, Univision pulls ad discouraging Latinos from voting
A group called Latinos for Reform, led by Robert de Posada, a former Republican National Committee official, is behind the ads.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/latino-leaders-slam-ad-telling-latinos-not-to-vote
10.5.2010
Latinos and the 2010 Elections: Strong Support for Democrats; Weak Voter Motivation
http://pewhispanic.org/
BREAKING: Univision Will Not Air GOP Group’s Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/19/latinos-for-reform-swift-boat/
back story behind Arizona’s SB 1070, “illegals” as capitalistic oppression……
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741
Hispanic Americans By the Numbers
From the U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhmcensus1.html
Hispanics in the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic/files/Internet_Hispanic_in_US_2006.pdf
Spanish to overtake English in the United States
http://www.expatica.com/es/news/local_news/spanish-to-overtake-english-in-the-united-states-19079.html
NAACP backs report that ties racist groups to tea party
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/20/AR2010102004020.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
Texas’ and the U.S.’ white majority is having a fear-based “status anxiety.” Get used to it.
Multiculturalism Debated In The U.S. And Abroad
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130812557
The Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Politics-Washington-Richer-Turned/dp/1416588698
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
www.amazon.com/Good-Capitalism-Economics-Growth-Prosperity/dp/0300158327/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285203922&sr=1-1
13 Bankers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307379051
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Next-Economy-Americas-Future/dp/0307592812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285922323&sr=1-1
Revolutionary Mural To Return To L.A. After 80 Years
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130519329
Bexar County Candidates at a glance
http://mysapolitics.com/election.php/2010/01/06/current-election-candidates-list-2010
Bexarly legal
In the race for DA, it may be Reed’s record that’s the real voter issue
Whether she was threatening to arrest and prosecute non-profit employees working to implement a Texas Legislature-approved needle-exchange program that advocates say would have saved lives in San Antonio, or picking up unregistered (illegal) airline tickets for a cheap vacation, or intervening when her son’s friend tried to carry a firearm through San Antonio International Airport, the rules of the game seem to have melted around the veteran prosecutor these past years. But probably the most interesting thing about Reed is her incredibly cautious nature when it comes to anything that doesn’t conclude with a locking cell door. It’s a point LaHood zeroes in on.
http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=71660
Elections 2010/Public Policy: Short of revolution---it’s all we’ve got.
http://www.examiner.com/bexar-county-elections-2010-in-san-antonio/elections-2010-public-policy-short-of-revolution-it-s-all-we-ve-got
Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell agree: No separation of church and state
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/sharron_angle_and_christine_od.html
the brutally corrupt banking oligarchs are at it again raking it in coming and going…….
Untangling The Complex Foreclosure Mess
"It was all about expedience. It was all about speed," Morgenson says. "It's just a really sad commentary on the way the business was approached ... but this is exactly what the banks did when they were making the mortgages, so why are we surprised on the other end of it, that they're doing it again?"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130835119
Bexar County Elections Department
http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/elections/Links/links.html
Bexar County Democratic Party
http://www.bexardemocrats.org/
Bexar County Republican Party
http://www.bexargop.org/calendar.php
League of Women Voters of Texas
http://www.lwvtexas.org/
Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18764-San-Antonio-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Texas-Red-a-cratered-landscape-of-prisons-deplorable-public-education-lack-of-healthcare-and-poli
Revolutionary Mural To Return To L.A. After 80 Years
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130519329
French Protests Enter 7th Week
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/25/130811276/french-protests-enter-7th-week
Bill Moyers on Plutonomy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSoglDcRbAg
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