Comments on: The Latino Challenge to Black America: Q & A With Earl Ofari Hutchinson http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/ because there are somethings still worth fighting for! Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:07:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: » Earl Ofari Hutchinson Returns - By ¡Para Justicia y Libertad! http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/comment-page-1/#comment-3537 » Earl Ofari Hutchinson Returns - By ¡Para Justicia y Libertad! Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:45:54 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/#comment-3537 [...] His op-ed columns appear in the Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and other major newspapers. He is the author of nine books, including The Latino Challenge to Black America. [...] [...] His op-ed columns appear in the Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, and other major newspapers. He is the author of nine books, including The Latino Challenge to Black America. [...]

]]> By: NegritoChocolaty http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/comment-page-1/#comment-3166 NegritoChocolaty Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:34:54 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/#comment-3166 O ye people of color! (Even if it's a little bit of color.) When are you going to realize that if you could just STOP and THINK of why and who is the primal reason for OUR despondence, THEN, we would emerge like a force that would be taken serious. BOTH groups should look at the Native American experiee and LEARN. Had the N.A. joined forces and armed the slaves tey most likely wouldn't have been exterminated today. If the A.A. with their Super Power of Survival skills use those tools to jump on the passport that White America generally give the Latinos/as, then we could get somewhere. Last week I read so sadfully an article from a Latina professor who wrote in an Atzlan newspaper how the wedge that exists between the Black/Latino groups. I see one of the factors that while A.A. readily accept Latinos the in verse is not the same. One reason I strongly believe is that those Super Powerful Sensory Skills allow A.A. to realize that the Latinos will become the largest group in America; I characterize the bullet that killed Selena the "alarm clock that woke up White America." The days right after her murder the shock jocks openly asked "How did a dirt-poor farm girl reach superstar status in America and W.A. knew nothing about her?" Think back, this is a defining poing where immigration really became a real issue. I could go on and on but off my soap box for now. Love, peace and happiness, NegritoChocolaty - an A.A. happily married to a Latino for 17 years. O ye people of color! (Even if it’s a little bit of color.) When are you going to realize that if you could just STOP and THINK of why and who is the primal reason for OUR despondence, THEN, we would emerge like a force that would be taken serious. BOTH groups should look at the Native American experiee and LEARN. Had the N.A. joined forces and armed the slaves tey most likely wouldn’t have been exterminated today. If the A.A. with their Super Power of Survival skills use those tools to jump on the passport that White America generally give the Latinos/as, then we could get somewhere.
Last week I read so sadfully an article from a Latina professor who wrote in an Atzlan newspaper how the wedge that exists between the Black/Latino groups. I see one of the factors that while A.A. readily accept Latinos the in verse is not the same. One reason I strongly believe is that those Super Powerful Sensory Skills allow A.A. to realize that the Latinos will become the largest group in America; I characterize the bullet that killed Selena the “alarm clock that woke up White America.” The days right after her murder the shock jocks openly asked “How did a dirt-poor farm girl reach superstar status in America and W.A. knew nothing about her?” Think back, this is a defining poing where immigration really became a real issue. I could go on and on but off my soap box for now. Love, peace and happiness, NegritoChocolaty – an A.A. happily married to a Latino for 17 years.

]]> By: XicanoPwr http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/comment-page-1/#comment-2266 XicanoPwr Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:31:15 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/2007/10/the-latino-challenge-to-black-america-q-a-with-earl-ofari-hutchinson/#comment-2266 This guy has the right idea on what it would take for unity. It is along the lines regarding history. This was written prior to 9/11 and what was said back then still holds true today. Cedric Muhammad from the <a href="http://www.blackelectorate.com/print_article.asp?ID=378" rel="nofollow">Black Electorate</a> - <blockquote> I am of the opinion that Black and Latino unity can never be generated in the political realm. <b>The root of unity will be found in a discovery and recognition of the common root in history, of which a majority of Blacks and Latinos are still ignorant.</b> This is one area where the power of culture will be the genesis and base of political action. At present, both groups are neither "Black" or "Latino" in their political activity. Partisan politics and local political machinery is dictating the terms of the relationship as well as the mode of politics being used by both electorates and their most visible leadership. In addition, it is important to recognize that the power to define is a basic and an instrumental source of the disunity and the eventual unity that is to be formed. One of the most striking aspects of this recent debate is that the impact of slavery in the Western Hemisphere is never discussed in terms of the classifications, language and cultural barriers that currently exist today. When the debate stops taking its point of departure from the recent census categories and (moves) into the true origins of our divisions we would have found a basis or springboard for constructive unity and political mobilization. </blockquote> This guy has the right idea on what it would take for unity. It is along the lines regarding history. This was written prior to 9/11 and what was said back then still holds true today.

Cedric Muhammad from the Black Electorate -

I am of the opinion that Black and Latino unity can never be generated in the political realm. The root of unity will be found in a discovery and recognition of the common root in history, of which a majority of Blacks and Latinos are still ignorant. This is one area where the power of culture will be the genesis and base of political action. At present, both groups are neither “Black” or “Latino” in their political activity. Partisan politics and local political machinery is dictating the terms of the relationship as well as the mode of politics being used by both electorates and their most visible leadership. In addition, it is important to recognize that the power to define is a basic and an instrumental source of the disunity and the eventual unity that is to be formed. One of the most striking aspects of this recent debate is that the impact of slavery in the Western Hemisphere is never discussed in terms of the classifications, language and cultural barriers that currently exist today. When the debate stops taking its point of departure from the recent census categories and (moves) into the true origins of our divisions we would have found a basis or springboard for constructive unity and political mobilization.

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