LATINOS HAVE TO BE CONTENT WITH GETTING THE CRUMBS

ONCE AGAIN LATINOS HAVE TO TAKE A BACK SEAT TO OTHER “MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES”

I don’t know if anybody has noticed that Latino concerns and issues have been put on the back burner by the Obama administration. Crucial and important issues like the Arizona “SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS” law and Immigration Reform are not going to be dealt with anytime soon. Politicians like Tancredo and Arizona Governor Brewer continue to spew their hatred and make Hispanics into monsters who decapitate the poor Arizona border farmers.

It seems like the building of this Muslim center and the anti-Muslim sentiment in the country have taken out all the oxygen out of the air allowing for the Latino concerns to be relegated to wimpy embers. It is a fact and we have to deal with this…it is once again showing us Latinos that we don’t figure very high on the scale of priorities for this nation…we are not important enough to go after this Arizona abomination as the odious and vitriolic racist law that it is.

We are concerned that because of these issues the general perception through America is that Hispanics are causing the problem and that because we have been made into the escape goats of everything from unemployment and low wages to the increase in crime and our presumed involvement in the drug trade that we will not be able to see comprehensive Immigration Reform any time soon.

In the meantime, we Latinos face untold discrimination and misery. The “They are taking away my America crowd” is relegating us to a second class or even a status of undesirables. How much longer are we going to have to wait to be considered important enough to embark on fixing these inequities and injustices?