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Archives: Latinos
Dear Rep. King: Our Civilization isn’t White and American Babies aren’t Other
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public went full-on racist again, supporting hate-speech master…
Texas GOP tried Gerrymander away Latino, Austin Votes: Fed. Court
TeleSur | - - "Republicans in Texas have ensured that the dark days of discrimination in Texas continue to loom." Texas lawmakers drew up three U.S. congressional districts to undermine the influence…
Trump endangering rest of Us to hunt down the Law-Abiding Undocumented
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Gen. John Kelly's ramping up of deportation measures against undocumented residents of the US, in accordance with Donald Trump's campaign promises, contains many…
Trump Can’t Make America Great Again without Immigrants
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 2016, the US birthrate fell to 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest ever recorded. Birth rates rise and fall over time,…
Obama’s Farewell Address: Racial Discrimination a Challenge Ahead
NBC | (Video Report) | - - "As President Barack Obama's time in office comes to a close, he delivers his Farewell Address from Chicago." President Barack Obama's Farewell Address (Full Speech)…
Trump won b/c we Let ourselves be Divided & Conquered: Standing Rock was the Opposite
By David Korten | Yes! Magazine ) | - - We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.…
Now Trump’s Targets: Many US Latinos fled chaos of Reagan’s anti-Left crusade
By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | - - In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign promises that he actually plans to keep.…
Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately
TeleSur | - - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump didn’t back down from his hardline stance on immigration Sunday in his first interview since winning the election, pledging to deport up to 3…
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn't much chance he can win), he will leave behind a toxic legacy…
The Great Mexican Wall Deception
By Todd Miller | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - At the federal courthouse, Ignacio Sarabia asks the magistrate judge, Jacqueline Rateau, if he can explain why he crossed the international boundary between the…
Top 6 Graphs that Refute Donald Trump’s Lies about the United States
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AP's Fact Check found that as usual Donald Trump's statistics in his GOP acceptance speech are way beyond the 'damned lies' level. So…
After Yawning Racial Divide exposed in US, Peaceful Protests Continue
TeleSur | - - Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured defiantly into streets across the U.S. this weekend, shutting down highways, bridges and roads, chanting, praying, cheering and throwing rocks, Molotv cocktails…
Trump’s Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government that led to Nelson Mandela's arrest should…
I Blame the US Media for Donald Trump
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez | ( TeleSur | - - The entire premise of an industry, like the U.S. media, is based on exploitation and political corruption at the cost of…
Trump’s Bad ideas are just our Current Practices on Steroids
By Janine Jackson | ( Otherwords.org) | - - Mass deportations? Attacks on innocent [non-]combatants? Punishing abortion restrictions? They’re all happening already. Readers of The Boston Globe were recently treated to an…
What GOP New Yorkers just voted for: Torture, Syria Intervention, murder of innocents
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In the wake of his big win in New York, I want to push back once more against the normalization of Trump as…
Day of the Demagogue: Trumpian Deportation Fantasies and American Realities
By Tanya Golash-Boza | Tomdispatch.com In 2006, when I first began researching deportations, George W. Bush was president and quietly building a deportation machine in the Department of Homeland Security. Outside of…
Poll: Trump Barely Has Any Support Among Latinos
TeleSur | - - According to a new poll, more than 80 percent of all Latinos in the U.S. view Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unfavorably. The popularity of United States Republican…