As American cities prepare for a summer of discontent, having already experienced what Occupy mob behavior can do to disrupt economics in a city, will it be followed by ethnic groups demanding their rights? It has already started in a Southwestern city.
In light of the GOP’s nasty attacks against Latino immigrants, how can any rational Latino vote Republican during the upcoming November 2nd elections? Worse yet, how can any Latino be a member of a...
opinion by kkipp | 1 year ago 112 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
Protesters took the streets of the nation's capital Thursday afternoon to protest against drug giant CVS policy of locking up condoms in poor neighborhoods on account of thefts. " The largest US drug store has...
From the article: Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by...
created by Karen Hatter | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 187 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
"In July, Luis Ramirez was beaten to death by a gang in Shenandoah, Pa. In August, a Staten Island man rammed his vehicle into the storefronts of three Latino merchants. Last month, a gang hunted and stabbed Marcelo Lucero to death in Patchogue, Long Island. This list of hate...
created by urbano411 | 3 years ago 550 views | 29 recommendations | 6 comments
Note: In Part One I took you to Collinsville, a sleepy little town in Alabama that is now about half Hispanic in population. In Part Two we met some of the Pit Bull Voters that are going to help decide the...
opinion by StandUpToRacism | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 288 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments
I try not to be a redneck... but I know I am one. Once you are born here it is something that can not be washed out with Tide or Super Bleach. It's just something I have to accept: that I am the...
created by StandUpToRacism | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 284 views | 7 recommendations | 1 comment
"The worst thing about the mess in the subprime industry is that it left in its wake millions of innocent American families without a home. It has long been established that one of the reasons for the foreclosure...
created by cassy82 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 63 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
So apparently Clinton is open to being Obama's VP...That would be really interesting!"On a conference call with other New York lawmakers, Clinton, a New York senator, said she was willing to become Obama's vice...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 771 views | 22 recommendations | 9 comments
The subject of so-called “hate crimes” has been discussed in this space several times during the past 18 months, ranging from proposed federal hate crime legislation to observations that Thomas Jefferson hated “hate crime” legislation and that “love crimes”...
created by BMCWrites | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 449 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"With the NYPD facing difficult challenges such as combating terrorism and stopping the flow of illegal handguns into the city, what are the police arresting people for at a rate ten times greater than before 1997? Marijuana.
But they aren't arresting everyone who possesses...
created by urbano411 | 4 years ago 321 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"Republicans these days insist that their anti-immigration stance has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It's the left, they say, that injects identity politics into everything. I caught the well-coiffed, permanently snarling ideologue Michelle Malkin making that exact...
created by urbano411 | 4 years ago 295 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to issue a stamp in honor of a Hispanic newsman killed during a 1970 riot in Los Angeles.
The stamp commemorating Ruben Salazar, who was news director for the Spanish-language station KMEX at the time of his death, will be issued...
created by urbano411 | 4 years ago 239 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Too often we let our circumstances standing in the way of our success. I was once at a book reading in Coral Gables with Les Brown and some asked, "what if no matter how hard you try, circumstances keep holding you down?", Les replied, "Get over it, that's life! Next...
created by urbano411 | 4 years ago 561 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Of the 111.6 million households in the United States, each with an average 2.61 family members, 4.8 percent were "linguistically isolated," meaning everyone aged 14 or older in the households had difficulty...
created by uusjio | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2410 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments