Posted in Immigration, Mexico on Oct 28th, 2009
Before the second part of CNN’s Latino in America aired the voices of Latinos were pouring in complaining that the documentary did not accurately depict Latinos. A common criticism was that Latinos were painted with the same stereotyping brush used by Lou Dobbs. A far stretch if you ask me, none the less a protest [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Immigration, Law & Justice, Mexico, Racism on Oct 22nd, 2009
The whole Latino story needs to be told facing honestly the not so pretty chapter of illegal immigration. It’s a story some Hispanics would like to sweep under the rug and only present the shiny varnished version. You saw portrayed the primal drive of survival that drives people to risk their very lives to come [...]
Posted in Culture, History, Immigration on Oct 21st, 2009
CNN took a chance with the two hour prime time documentary Latino in America. The first night brought us stories from both ends of the spectrum, the success stories as well as the realistic challenges Latinos face in this country.
Latino organizations have been looking forward to his night some holding their breath hoping that a [...]
Posted in Law & Justice on Oct 16th, 2009
Riding around in Tommy B.’s car in the summer in Dallas, back in high school from ‘85-’88, Tom Joyner’s weekday morning show on KKDA would invariably be in the background. He had the “black” songs that other stations wouldn’t play until they made it to cross-over status. Sure, you’d eventually get your Run DMC, a [...]
A broad stereotype of Hispanics is that we are undocumented criminals who use and traffic drugs. This may have something to do with a “Brownout” in TV news programming. This is the name of a study of Latino coverage in TV news networks done by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Wrap your mind around this [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Oct 9th, 2009
Harry Connick handled the situation perfectly, without the luxury of thinking about the “right” thing to do or say. While taping a tv show in Australia, he was taken aback and visibly disturbed by a performing group doing a Jackson Five routine in “blackface”. Apparently, this is not offensive in Australia - but I wonder [...]
Posted in Culture, History, Socioeconomic on Oct 6th, 2009
Veronica had at least two tribes of which she considered her and her family members: black, and poor. Her dad made the decision to abandon one (the black group) in favor of joining another poor group, this one predominantly white. I’m sure if he could have chosen to desert the poor group and join a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2009
Hey, folks. This is my last post at Inside from the Inside. Thanks for checking in once in a while, for joining the conversation, and for your grace. Thinking out loud is hard on most topics, but this one especially. You’ve been extraordinarily kind in your comments.
I was hesitant to sign up for this project. [...]
Posted in Culture on Oct 2nd, 2009
The world will learn of the location of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in a few hours. Chicago, Illinois has officially been eliminated, along with Tokyo, as of right now.
I’ve seen 3 pictures on the internet of individuals making pitches in Copenhagen, Denmark on behalf of Chicago: Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and President Barack Obama. [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Culture, Economics, Education, History, Law & Justice, Racism on Oct 1st, 2009
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