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Posted on: February 4th, 2008
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I get palpitations every time a group of opinionistas discusses the Latino vote and rehashes the platitude du jour: Brown people don’t vote for black people.
There’s hardly ever a Latino participating in these discussions, so nobody points out that, first, “brown” is a misnomer. Hispanics are not an in-between, neither-fish-nor-fowl race. Hispanics are a diverse group of people united by culture and language, geography and history. There are white Latinos, black Latinos, Amerindian Latinos and every possible combination thereof.
As for Latinos not voting for blacks, frankly, that’s news to me. I’m sure it’s also news to my congressman, Charlie Rangel, for whom I’ve been voting forever and who always carries El Barrio, where I live.”*
*From: http://www.nydailynews.com
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