The timing of this poll is quite suspect given the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, and Mexican president Calderon’s America-scolding. But whom are the real discriminators here?
An Associated Press-Univision Poll found that 61% of people overall said Latinos faced significant discrimination, compared with 52% who said blacks did and 50% who said women.
If you get a chance, watch some Univision or Telemundo. See any dark-skinned Latinos on their shows who aren’t buffoons, bad guys or maids?
The AP-Univision Poll compiled the views of 901 Latinos, which were compared with the results of a separate AP-GfK survey of the general population.
Did the Associated Press and Univision ask who they thought was doing the discriminating? As someone who lived in Los Angeles for over a decade, I’d be willing to bet a significant amount of people would say that Latinos were doing as much discriminating as anyone else.
That doesn’t make it right, but don’t fall for the implied notion that Latinos are the primary victims here, and judging from the casting of programs on channels like Univision, it’s quite clear they don’t think much of their own people of color.
Quick story. I’m sure many of you parents know how near-impossible it is to get a child transferred from one public school to another. My oldest son wanted out of his San Fernando Valley middle school because he said the kids were picking on him. After asking him to deal with it for awhile, I opted to see what I could do.
I asked the assistant principal if my son could transfer out and she said no. When I asked the same of the principal, ‘no’ was again the answer… that is, until I showed her my son’s yearbook. On the inside front pages were comments written by some of his classmates; comments full of four-letter expletives and racial slurs.
The kids who wrote those comments were Latino.
The principal turned visibly red, apologized profusely and asked me what school my son would like to attend. The paperwork was completed in ten minutes.
The AP and Univision need be very careful with the insinuation that everyone else is picking on them. Most in the former black community know that discrimination is a two-way street.
I’ve never said, nor would I ever say all Latinos are racist, but they are far from exclusive victims as this biased poll implies.
And until there is real diversity on Univision programming, they are the last people to slime the American people.
Machine, spent much time on LGF lately? I gave up a while ago…
Igor (a.k.a. JAFLW)
“I meant to say “wife” not “wide.”
She would not appreciate being called wide.”
No I dare say Hsing-I Chuan, she probably wouldn’t!
Typo:
I meant to say “wife” not “wide.”
She would not appreciate being called wide.
“If you get a chance, watch some Univision or Telemundo. See any dark-skinned Latinos on their shows who aren’t buffoons, bad guys or maids?”
You are absolutely correct.
During science labs, the only students I’ve ever had complain about working with Mexican kids was other, light skinned, Mexican kids.
I showed this post to my wide, who is a veteran bi-lingual teacher, and she absolutely agreed. She said that in Mexico, your skin tone absolutely determines your status. Those with pure “Indios” blood are at the bottom.
One of the reason that Mexico’s ruling class is so in favor of American immigration reform, is that they see dark skinned “Indios” as a problem, and they would prefer that problem become America’s rather than remain Mexico’s. Upper class Mexicans like illigal immigration the way white racists like the idea of blacks going back to Africa.
AP?
When’s the Green Helmet Guy gonna show up in the story?
I’d bet that Paul Rodriguez could make a good comedy bit out this, if he hasn’t already.
I wouldn’t trust any poll done by the Associated Depressed. They are biased and their polling is biased.
As you say, the stereotype of Latinos as buffoonish, bad guys & maids is perpetuated by those who claim to denounce it.