Andrea Nill of Wonk Room announced and posted a corrected version of the release:
Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) released a statement from Chairman Michael Steele announcing the release of a new video in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. However, though the press release emphasizes the Republican Party’s “commitment to the Hispanic community,” apparently that commitment does not include hiring a qualified Spanish translator. The Spanish translation of Steele’s statement is riddled with embarrassing typos and errors.Does the RNC lack of resources to hire a translator? No, is just that they don’t care. After all, most Spanish speaking U.S. citizens –you know, the people who actually vote- are also English speakers. So why bother? That is how politicians see people: as votes.
But that’s not all, the mentioned RNC video is crap, obviously made by some idiot who knows little about the diverse communities that are wrongly grouped under the funny term Hispanic.
For instance, the whole Hispanic/Latino identity is fake, it’s a big lie promoted by the U.S. government and the corporations that promote such a big scam. Watch the stupid video, listen to that music in the background, is like Afro Caribbean salsa while a Afro descendant man talks about Hispanic being “the nation’s largest ethnic minority”. Wrong.
Hispanics are mostly white people descendants of Europeans from Hispania (Spain and Portugal), you know like most Spanish speaking Republican leaders. But most of the people from Mexico, Caribbean, Central and South America -and our descendants- are either Native Americans or Black Afro descendants.
Wonk Room complains that the video doesn’t include Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta, well they are two Native leaders of Mexican heritage, not Hispanics. They also ask why Hispanic Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not in the video. What about Alberto Gonzales the former Bush’s General Attorney? Well, Gonzales is a Native man of Honduran origins.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is not much better that its counterpart. They think that their advertising in perfect Spanish will make them more capable of leading our communities; they either are being cynical or naive. Just because you speak Spanish, another European language, that doesn’t give you better credentials to lead.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are wrong thinking that the people they classify as Hispanics are going to follow their lie much longer. Younger generations will keep retaking our own identities, reaffirming our true history. Watch what happens in the 2010 Census. As far as I know, we will mark African Americans and Native Americans, because is who we are.
By the way, African Americans are still the nation’s largest ethnic minority.
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For instance, the whole Hispanic/Latino identity is fake, it’s a big lie promoted by the U.S. government and the corporations that promote such a big scam. Watch the stupid video, listen to that music in the background, is like Afro Caribbean salsa while a Afro descendant man talks about Hispanic being “the nation’s largest ethnic minority”. Wrong.
Hispanics are mostly white people descendants of Europeans from Hispania (Spain and Portugal), you know like most Spanish speaking Republican leaders. But most of the people from Mexico, Caribbean, Central and South America -and our descendants- are either Native Americans or Black Afro descendants.
Wonk Room complains that the video doesn’t include Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta, well they are two Native leaders of Mexican heritage, not Hispanics. They also ask why Hispanic Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not in the video. What about Alberto Gonzales the former Bush’s General Attorney? Well, Gonzales is a Native man of Honduran origins.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is not much better that its counterpart. They think that their advertising in perfect Spanish will make them more capable of leading our communities; they either are being cynical or naive. Just because you speak Spanish, another European language, that doesn’t give you better credentials to lead.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are wrong thinking that the people they classify as Hispanics are going to follow their lie much longer. Younger generations will keep retaking our own identities, reaffirming our true history. Watch what happens in the 2010 Census. As far as I know, we will mark African Americans and Native Americans, because is who we are.
By the way, African Americans are still the nation’s largest ethnic minority.
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