Thoughts

Race and Education Predictions for 2022 United States Midterm Elections

After the 2021 California recall, I analyzed the Election Day Precinct results as mapped by RRH Elections and it showed that Newsom did very well with Urban Latinos in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, but slid among White Suburbanites in Orange County, and Rural Latinos in Merced County relative to Biden’s 2020 performance. I took…

Discourse on Latino White Nationalism

Recently, I’ve been seeing articles about Hispanics embracing White Nationalism. Many people are confused as to why Hispanics would identify with White Nationalism. Common mainstream knowledge about Latinos is that they are multiracial people who descend from European (Mainly Spanish and Portuguese), Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, and Africans. Common assumptions are that Hispanics would…

In Defense Of Mariachi Politics

It was two days ago that I read a Nevada Independent article on Latino outreach in which I saw Padron being interviewed and she said that “I’m sick and tired of… ‘mariachi politics.’ Then Padron, later on, went on to say that not all Latinos “eat tacos and listen to mariachi music.” I took issue…

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