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Well-off Hispanics: “A Black? Never”
Hispanic racial prejudice against Obama in Miami – reported by the Italian Corriere della Serra.
H/T Watching America for translation.
5 Responses to “Well-off Hispanics: “A Black? Never””
At a recent debate, a reporter asked Hillary Clinton about the dislike between the Latino and Black populations and she answered back “that's Historic”, but what she did not Say or try to do is try to bridge the divide by stating something like “yes, that is too bad” or “and we will try to work on bridging the differences.” NO! It is to her advantage to pit one group against the other for her own personal gain. She is no change agent and she is no champion for unity. Maureen Dowd's new op-ed piece gives an insightful glance into the real Hillary. That it was her in the beginning who Snubbed Barack and not the otherway around. She is one way for the cameras and another way when no one is apparently looking. However, I do think the facade is coming off.
It is just my two cents worth, but I think it is critical to state unequivocally that “black/latino distrust,” when, where and IF it exists in pockets, just like opprobrium between Anglos and Anglos, (and between Anglo Americans and other groups, such as Dominicans, Asians, etc)
… is situational, depending specifically and minutely on where the groups live geographically, and what the history of that town, village or place has been with regard to the ruling forces affirming cooperation or engendering unrest.
While I enjoyed hearing about the two Latino families in this article, it would be gradiose and an error to perpetrate that all blacks or all latinos in the USA constitute a monollithic group that all think the same thing. We don't. We never will.
Like Native Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants to the USA, we are a diverse group… as are Blacks… and even more so all groups are of diverse opinions across generations, depending on personal dramas and successes.
Many, many of us have respect and regard for other groups and work toegether hand in hand, day in and day out, regardless of the fact that some individuals (and they can be from any ethnic group) seem to want mysteriously and dearly to pit we latinos and blacks against one another. I have my theories about why, but that's a story for another time.
Thanks for the article Robin!
Dr.E.
Archangel,
Blacks are politically about the most monolithic group in the U.S. Close to 100% of elected black politicians are Democrats. In addition, there is virtually no policy differences between black politicians. They vote as a block in Congress and support each other without question.
Non-Cuban Hispanics are almost as monolithic with the exception of a few Meixcian-American republicans in Texas.
If you look at the fights over government jobs, neighborhoods, schools, there is a large amount of conflict between blacks and Hispanics.
The old Democratic method of dealing with interracial conflict of calling whites racists and telling them to shut up, sit down, and endure the problems created by the differences is not going to work with the conflicts between blacks and Hispanics.
SD, the problem is that political correctness doesn't allow for minorities to be racist. Anyone who has lived in a diverse town knows that mistrust and discrimination exists in every singly ethnicity. In fact, you often find that minorities are much more open about their racism than whites, most of whom have been trained since childhood to be deathly afraid of being called the R-word. That doesn't mean they trust minorities one bit more, they just hide their mistrust more proactively.
And subdivisions can go on forever. For instance in places where hispanics are more dominant, there will be divisions according to country of origin; Puerto Rico, México, Dominican Republic etc. But when there's a large concentration of blacks nearby, latino-latino differences are abandoned in favor of latino-black differences. We've all got that tribe mentality inside somewhere.
Sadly, the solution to the latino-black divide, which does exist, will have to come from within those communities themselves. No manner of meddling by well-meaning but often clueless white folk will cure it.
Do Blacks and Hispanics Get Along?
Yes, but Not Always, and Not about Everything
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/713/blacks-hispanics