Quit describing voters as lily white, black or Latino

Personally I’m sick and tired of dividing a nation of individuals into clumsy and imprecise words like “lily white,” “black” and “Latino.” What do these words really mean and do they matter when it comes to the opportunity of every American to exercise their right to vote?

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And finally we arrive at the “Latino” clump, a buzzword that dumps new immigrants from Mexico in with generation-old immigrants from the Dominican Republic or Guatemala. Like the African Americans, and the “lily white” Americans, most Latino Americans who’ve lived here more than one generation have met and married folks from other ethnic groups, meaning their kids with a rich and diverse cultural heritage can’t be summarized in a single term, “Latino.”

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By clumping humanity based on skin color alone, we lose sight of the fact no one is who they are simply because their skin is a certain color. Perhaps that’s why the pollsters can’t seem to get their predictions right. As we learned in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, every single American vote counts.”*

*From: www.statesmanjournal.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

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