Tag: Racism

Hispanic Heritage Month is Finally Over; Now Back to your Regular Programming

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I don’t know you, but I was frankly getting tired of all this “Hispanics are great,” “Hispanics are awesome,” “We are all Mexicans” rhetoric.

Luckily, the month-long marketing fiesta known as Hispanic Heritage Month is finally over, so media can get their butt back to reporting regular Hispanic stories, in which my people are no longer a colorful, boisterous bunch, but simply “probable cause” for traffic stops, frisks, deportation, etc. To wit.

ProbableCause

So enjoy your next eleven months of non-Hispanic-Heritage. See you in 2016!

via: Daily News

Internet User in L.A. Poses Excellent Question about Mexicans

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Jimena Sánchez has come to be known as 'The Mexican Kim Kardashian'
Jimena Sánchez is known as ‘The Mexican Kim Kardashian’

The Internet is an oasis of information, entertainment, endless time-wasting and — more importantly — thought-provoking inquiries.

Take Username_2000, a ‘Daily Mail Online’ reader in Los Angeles, California, who took to that empowering tool known as the “comments box” to ponder a likely burning question upon discovering the existence of Jimena Sánchez, a Mexican sports reporter who has come to be known as The Mexican Kim Kardashian.

Here’s Username_2000’s question as posted in the Daily Mail Online. (I’m leaving this here in case any one of you, loyal followers of this blog, feel like venturing a reply.)

La pregunta del millón
La pregunta del millón

I’m sure he’s still scratching his head. Poor thing.

Hat tip: Óscar Gutiérrez*

*Who else?

Macy’s Spring Collection: You, Too, Can Look like a Short, Dark-Skinned Mariachi

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Macys It’s always good to see marketers learn from their past mistakes. Remember the Brown is the New White t-shirt from Macy’s?

Well, no more of that. Instead of launching ethnically-relevant products to please Latino shoppers, Macy’s seems to have changed course and it’s now using tall, unmistakably non-Hispanic blonds to pitch a … are you ready?… “mariachi-style” suit. According to Macy’s own blog, the new collection doesn’t stop there. It promises tons of other Mexican-themed things, including –what else?– plenty of sombreros.

Do I smell sombreros?
Did anybody say ‘sombreros?’

I don’t know you, but I feel like living la vida loca lived by these nice ladies up here, so don’t judge me if the first thing I do when I go back to New York is rush to 34th Street & Broadway. Who doesn’t want to look that fabulous?

¡Ajúa!

Hat tip: gbujanda 

Just Say ‘Gracias’ and Have a Happy Thanksgiving Y’all!

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Gracias, Jesús
Gracias, Jesús

This blogger will be taking some time off to embark on a food and drink rampage spiritual retreat to plan for the year ahead and thank my paisanos for all the hard work and for enduring stuff like this and this on a daily basis.

As for this blogger, she’s officially kicking off the GUAJOLOTE-REYES marathon, which runs from Nov. 25th and all the güey through January 6, 2015.

Come to Mexico: We’ll Put you in a Nice Hotel, and have Indians Dance Around you

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How nice! I can just lie down here, have a fruit salad and have Indians dance right in front of me

The latest campaign promoting Oaxaca’s famed Guelaguetza Dance Festival trumps over any other cringeworthy images depicting my country’s relationship with its Indians.

Watch as a light-skinned Mexican young lady strolls around Oaxaca (smartphone in tow) snapping pictures of affable, festive Indians dancing around her, even while she enjoys a refreshing beverage in the patio of her hotel.

"I can even have an Indian making me look pretty just like her!"
“I can even have an Indian making me look pretty just like her!”

I seriously thought at first this was a joke. Alas, it is not and the campaign is on the air an in full swing, as the Guelaguetza kicks off July 21.

via: Despertar de Oaxaca

O.C. High-School Asked to Drop ‘Señores & Señoritas’ Event

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Oh, Man! Why do media outlets have to come and ruin the fun for everybody?

Take this Anaheim Hills High-School in Orange County, whose students have been asked to drop a “Mexican-themed Day,” and exchange it for some “sensitivity training courses.” I mean… booooooooring!

Tell me: Where are these poor, unimaginative kids going to get their kicks now?

[This blogger is not making this sh*t up. Click on the above photo to watch the clip or watch here

At Last! Liberman Drops ‘José Luis Sin Censura’

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It was about time!

After an 18-month campaign by media organizations and gay and lesbians defense leagues, Spanish-language media juggernaut Liberman this week said it will drop ‘José Luis Sin Censura,’ a show it describes as the Hispanic Jerry Springer, and which was really nothing but a daily extravaganza of offensive comments and on-air verbal and physical attacks on people, especially homosexuals.

Watch here what you’ll be “missing” from now on (if you can stomach it, that is.)

More footage here

Will You Help Me -and Burro Hall- Raise Some Money to Buy BoycottAbsolute.com?

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Dear friends, followers and supporters:

This blogger is hereby joining forces with Burro Hall to make a bid for the “valuable assets” of the soon-to-be-doomed Americans for [sic] Legal Immigration organization, which, as we sadly learned today, is heading towards bankruptcy.

Per an urgent bulletin (LOL) first posted on Burro Hall:

We are sorry to report that for the first time in our organization’s history, we have failed to reach our minimum operational expenses for our final funds drive of 2011. All things being equal, this would put us on a final shutdown date of January 1, 2011

Among other things, and in an effort to raise about $10,000 by February 2012, ALIPAC is putting several web domains on sale, including BoycottAbsolut.com, the organization’s reaction to my now infamous “unAmerican” advertisement, and pitched as a “rapidly growing separatist movement in America.”

So Whaddaya say?… Will you all chip in and help us buy at least that one? We promise you months of hilarious pro-illegal immigration postings!

U.S. Airports Will Be Screening Your ‘Mexicanness’

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One thing I’ve always loved about Americans is their penchant for specialization.

Take a special unit at Newark Airport that is becoming so adept at racial profiling that they have come to be known as the “Mexican Hunters.”

According to the Daily Mail:

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers told investigators that screeners routinely singled out Hispanic men for referral to law enforcement under trumped up suspicions, in an orchestrated scheme to pump up numbers.

To be sure, these fellows are also stopping Dominicans, but hey, you cannot ask them to be that good at telling one Hispanic from another, can you?

Are You a Latino Travelling to Arizona? Don’t Forget to Fake a Foreign Accent Syndrome

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If you belong to the ‘brown’ race and plan to travel to Arizona in the near future, make sure to fake a Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) a rare, but not uncommon condition that will make you sound as if you are from some exotic land, namely Ireland, Wales or as I like to call it, ABLA (Anywhere But Latin America.)

Please watch and pay attention! Don’t you let the 1070 bill catch you unawares! Vodpod videos no longer available.

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