It has been five days since the debate and I have yet to see a single working journalist or columnist even remark upon how almost every answer Trump gave at the debate was openly racist towards Hispanics/Latinos. We, apparently, are a demographic not worth defending. (NOTE: not a comment on Brooke)
Something real bad is happening over on Twitter holy shit. I just saw some real bad tweets about immigrants from folks I had previously thought were anti-racist progressives
Yes, and it’s not just Trump. As Brooke discussed elsewhere (and why I was thinking of it), a whole lot of supposed allies are not even blinking at casual racism towards us; were just an “immigrant” Other (actual citizenship status be damned), upon whom that treatment is natural.
I grew up in LA, I spoke more Spanish than some Latino fourth generation folks I know. It's this casual racism that is not just ignorant on it's face, but ignorant in it's hatred. Why Sikhs were attacked after 9/11. It's tribal, ugly and just so so stupid.
And ahistorical! Good chunks of the southwestern USA were part of Mexico 180 or so years ago. Plenty of our families never migrated at all, the borders just changed around us.
