Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

I am hearing a great deal of talk about “appealing to Hispanics” and “appealing to women.” But I am not hearing much about endorsing actual policies. What happened last night is not a matter of cosmetics. This is not false consciousness. This a real response to real policies. Mitt Romney actually endorsed Arizona’s immigration policies. You can’t fix this by flashing more pictures of brown people.

This is not a “branding problem.” This is a “problem problem.”

– Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Latino Vote: Wide Awake, Cranky, Taking Names”

Mirrored from Under the Beret.

Comments

[bibliofile]

Yep, pretty much. Or as Ms Maddow said, a policy problem.

[heyfoureyes]

ah thanks for the link!

I'm hearing a lot of variations on 'latinos don't understand the capitalist system' from the right wing, which is funny when you consider that they supposedly ALSO think that all latinos came here illegally for jobs that they could not find at home.