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Follow Up of the Day: Following East Haven mayor Joseph Maturo’s insensitive comments toward the Latino community, a local branch of the Reform Immigration for America organization made sure he got his just tacos.
“I might have tacos when I go home” the mayor told a reporter when asked what he plans to do for the Latino community in light of four local police officers being arrested by the feds for racial profiling.
The activist group Junta for Progressive Action decided to give the mayor what he wanted, and launched a campaign promising to send Maturo a taco for every text they received.
500 tacos have been delivered thus far.
“The town of East Haven has received an abundance of tacos as a result of the campaign initiated by the group ‘Reform Immigration for America,” the mayor’s office said in a statement. “Recognizing that there are many in need in our state, we have arranged for all of the tacos to be donated to local soup kitchens and pantries, including the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen in New Haven.”
The mayor previously apologized for his remark, blaming it on fatigue from a long workday. He insists he has no plans to resign at this time.
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Follow Up of the Day: Following East Haven mayor Joseph Maturo’s insensitive comments toward the Latino community, a local branch of the Reform Immigration for America organization made sure he got his just tacos.
“I might have tacos when I go home” the mayor told a reporter when asked what he plans to do for the Latino community in light of four local police officers being arrested by the feds for racial profiling.
The activist group Junta for Progressive Action decided to give the mayor what he wanted, and launched a campaign promising to send Maturo a taco for every text they received.
500 tacos have been delivered thus far.
“The town of East Haven has received an abundance of tacos as a result of the campaign initiated by the group ‘Reform Immigration for America,” the mayor’s office said in a statement. “Recognizing that there are many in need in our state, we have arranged for all of the tacos to be donated to local soup kitchens and pantries, including the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen in New Haven.”
The mayor previously apologized for his remark, blaming it on fatigue from a long workday. He insists he has no plans to resign at this time.
(via jerriann)
I don’t see anything bad about being stereotyped as a Latin woman. We are yellers, we’re pretty, we’re sexy, and we’re scandalous. I am not scared of the stereotypes.
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Sofia Vergara, of Modern Family, who maybe yells a little too much. (via newsweek)
Oh look, it’s a good thing I am typing this instead of, you know, actually YELLING at Newsweak.
Here is the thing: I can understand Sofia Vergara’s words, where she is coming from. Have I “used” the Latina stereotype to my advantage ever in social situations? Yes, probably. I mean, nobody is free from the social context where interactions take place. However, no amount of “making fun of our stereotypes” is ever going to fix stuff like this (from the article):
It’s a quality that DeGeneres poked fun of recently in a behind-the-scenes video for their first Cover Girl shoot, calling Vergara’s accent “phony” and claiming “to be sick of” Vergara’s struggles with the English language.
I’ve lost track of the amount of times I’ve had to smile politely while people made fun of my accent. We will only be truly free to embrace these stereotypes when we don’t have to deal with reactions like that. Meanwhile, no, I resent the fact that Newsweak implies we should all “exploit” it to our advantage.
(via redlightpolitics)
It should also be noted that while everyone thinks it’s funny on the show, outside of that it becomes something to judge and ridicule. The Latino/Latina stereotype of having an accent eventually becomes “Learn English” and “Why Don’t You Go Back to Mexico (because we are all from Mexico). I cannot recall the amount of times I heard someone say “Why don’t they just learn English” or “I can’t understand them with that accent”. The so-called funny accent often leads to words of hate and anger.
(via newwavefeminism)
good:
GOOD senior editor Cord Jefferson responds to Forbes’ horrendous piece, “If I Were a Poor Black Kid”:
You find this sort of thing a lot among the white, moneyed, conservative set: “If only blacks and Latinos would work harder, they’d be fine.” I don’t think Marks and people who think like that are malicious, but I’d love to ask them how best to focus on your studies when all you can think about is the very real possibility that your mother is being assaulted in the bedroom where you’re supposed to find sanctuary at night. How best to prioritize learning to read rigorously over scheming to get home and be the man of the house in the stead of the father who left? How best to find joy in school with so much hate and bitterness poisoning the rest of your life?
Marketing beer to latino's
Not sure how I feel about this article, but any article that focuses on a large corporation targeting (their defined) demographic for dollars always comes across as a bit D-baggy. But it does raise some interesting points.
This fits right in with the whole “marketing beer to women”. Business is business so of course beer companies want to find ways to market beers to a certain demographic, but as a Latina this just doesn’t sit right to me.
npr:
Over the past decade, the story of population growth in the United States was defined largely by the story of Latinos emerging as the nation’s largest minority.
“A lot of people, from what I’ve seen, are uncomfortable with the growth,” Love says. “They see the rising unemployment rate and think Hispanics are taking their job opportunities. There is also a misconception that illegal immigrants are receiving food stamps or Medicare or Medicaid, and that’s not true.”
Hispanic newspapers overall — weekly and daily — lost circulation in 2010, but not nearly to the extent of the English-language press, reports Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. (The daily papers actually grew circulation by 1.9 percent.)
Spanish-language television had an even more positive year, with Univision now competing with — and in some timeslots outpacing — audiences for ABC, CBS and NBC.
On the digital front, while Hispanic Americans don’t access the Internet at the same rates as other Americans, there is growth, and bilingual Latinos are already heavily online. Hispanic radio and magazines also showed growth, according to the PEJ study.
