Brown Voters Don’t Want Black in the White House

It is interesting to see what aspects of the U.S. Presidential Race most interest foreign journalists. As the field narrows, the question of the impact of Latino antipathy toward blacks on support for Obama is being increasingly addressed by the foreign press.

Most recent is this piece from The Netherlands’ Elsevier daily, translated on Watching America.com, entitled starkly, “Brown Voters Don’t Want A Black in the White House“…

Apparently,

Animosity between Latinos and Blacks is the worst kept secret when it comes to relations between the races

Rather colorfully, the author puts it this way:

One-third of all blacks are convinced that Latinos pinch their jobs. Conversely, more than half of Latinos think that their black brothers are too lazy “to dance for the devil.” Why don’t they do as the Latinos and through work elevate themselves out of their misery instead of always loudly complaining, is an oft-heard question.

As a practical matter, the issue for Obama is most serious where the stakes are highest: the population of CA is now 35% Hispanic.

Read the whole article here on Watching America.com