Latina Lista: Unqualified Latino Candidates ”” An Urban Legend

“The quickest way to discount any candidate for political office, government appointment, job promotion, school admittance, etc. is to automatically resort to the excuse that the particular person is not qualified.

Its a reason that is all too often accepted without a fight, and it happens to Latinos more often than it should these days.

For example, right now in Port Chester, New York, a municipality that has more than 46 percent of its population identified as Hispanic, there is not one Latino elected official on its six-member Board of Trustees.”

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