O Obama, why have you forsaken us here in Texas? Yesterday, it was reported that the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign will spend $20 million on outreach to Hispanic voters. However, Texas and other heavily Latino states are skipped (see update below).
The Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign announced Tuesday that [...]
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Poor Jason Castro, he made it to the top 5, but Paula Abdul’s screw up proves American Idol is no different than our US elections. It is all rigged.
No matter how Ryan Seacrest spins it, Paula Abdul continues to dig the hole deeper. Normally, I wouldn’t care what happens on American Idol, however, this season [...]
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Just wanting to give an update on what is happening on American Idol. The last post I did, I reported there were 3 Latinos and 1 Latina who made it to the top 24.
We are now on the Top 7, only one was voted off. The three remaining Latinos are David Archuleta, Jason Castro, and [...]
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One year ago, I wrote this post entitled The Words We Use: The Rhetoric of Race. The post had to do with articulation and race. In light of the recent fire storm over former New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro’s, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1984, statement about Barack Obama. It really isn’t surprising to [...]
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For anyone observing the recent Presidential debates and forums across the country, race and poverty are no longer taboo subjects for Democrats vying for the White House. As I mentioned yesterday, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author, syndicated columnist, political analyst and commentator, is promoting his latest book The Ethnic Presidency, How Race Decides the Race [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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