Guerra: Candidates need to give Hispanics a reason to vote

Of course, I wasn’t the only one infuriated that the Sleeping Giant metaphor played so well into the stereotype of the sleeping Mexican, sombrero pulled down and, inexplicably, leaning back asleep, on a thorny cactus.

Latinos are not a lazy lot, we screamed, nor are we prone to sleep more than any other group and certainly, are not immune to the pain inflicted by leaning back on cacti.

Unheard, we resorted to math, that seeming to be the logic of last resort.

If we don’t turn out to vote in percentages comparable to other groups, we pointed out, there are good reasons for it, reasons that are now far-better documented by many sources.”*

*From: http://www.statesman.com
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