Beyond the Campaign Trail, Addressing a Racial Divide
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During his public approval Barack Obama, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson commended the presidential candidates for his open-mindedness on race. “As a Hispanic, I was particularly touched by his words,” says Richardson, “Senator Obama has a discussion in this country for a long time, and opposes the policy of the race against the bite of the race.” Richardson is particularly concerned by the fact, what he sees as the “demonization” of Hispanics in this country. But approval of a politician in a black Hispanic administrator has also reminded us that more often not, the tables have been seen in the African Latinos. That could have repercussions at the ballot box, as Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic opinion researchers Sergio Bendixen proposed in January, when he pointed out that voters-Latino “unrepresented or affinity much more willing to support black candidates . ” Clinton had, indeed, brought together two to three times more Latin Obama voters in the presidential elections of primary colors. Bendixen was quickly to the task and his application was rejected, the Obama cited many of his own election to the Senate in 2004, and many other options in the Latin voters have shown no problem taking responsible for black candidates. But it is clear that those studying, race, there is a gap between blacks and Latinos. Paula D. McClain, Duke University professor of political science and co-director of the Center for the study of race, ethnicity and sex in the humanities and social sciences, found that a majority of Latino get stereotyped views on Afro Americans. At the centre of the recent survey of blacks, whites and Latinos, Durham, NC, Memphis, Tennessee, and Little Rock, Ark., The majority of Latino interview she said believes that all or almost all blacks are on welfare. Sixty-two percent of Latinos, Durham, for example, they believe that the superpower, 18% of whites who were in possession of the same opinion. “Of course, they are not aware that they de la Blanche,” said McClain, to the conclusion that Latino distortions come first from their experiences in their home countries. “They are not in this country of tabula rasa,” she said, adding that “many are from Mexico, where the government because of the publicity, that there is no racism … but we know that is not the case. ” Indeed, it is reasonable to assume that there are two kinds of racism, under eminent Latin Americans: against minority of the population, including the indigenous peoples of Africa or parentage and the negative attitude vis-à - vis blacks in the United States. While there was no formal separation of laws, as in the United States, but also all that white culture in Latin America, has been devalued to such a degree that nonwhites often denied their own identity . The stigmatization of minorities, indigenous cultures, he simply driving licence for Latin Americans to say that she does not have a problem of race. But more than minorities began to recognize as such, often with the support of activists in the United States, Latin America, governments began to take steps to the recognition of their history of discrimination and the exclusion of ethnic groups and minorities. How black Americans were often portrays in the film and television shapes the perception of Latin America, especially Mexico, by far the largest source of Latino immigrants in the United States. A few years ago, the United States as a racist leader condemned a number of stamps a grim portrait of the colour of the skin known as Memin Pinguin character, said hundreds of characters in the United States after the end of slavery, in order to allow the passage of civil rights legislation. Mexican that Memin was a beloved character and friendly, but it was difficult to separate the issue of President Vicente Fox’s abusive language few weeks in advance of the jobs Mexicans in the United States, blacks do not want too. ” The views of race are not Latino immigrants bodes well for the relations between the two largest minorities in the United States in the near future. Rolando Roebuck, an Afro-Latin community activist in Washington, was particularly pessimistic, what he described as the latest confrontation between Latino immigrants “serious series of racism” and a few black “xenophobic attitudes against immigrants . But Judith Morrison, former director of the Washington-based interagency consultation on courses in Latin America, is optimistic because the fastest growth in the segment of Latinos population is Afro-Latin. They are mostly children and Afro-Latin Americans, identify as precisely and in each group, according to Morrison, as a “relay of the two cultures”. |