Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an Associate Professor at The University of Delaware in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.
Posted on 02/26/2019 12:30:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Julián Castro, a Mexican-American, is running for president. Latin music is more popular than country music, and one of the most recognizable political faces in the United States is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., whose family comes from Puerto Rico.
And yet, Latinos - even those whose roots in this land stretch back to before the nation’s origins - still face overt and subtle racism and discrimination. Hate crimes against them are rising, and they are underrepresented in film, in high-tech jobs and in the federal government workforce. And when they advocate for equal treatment and representation - or even when they just speak Spanish in public - they hear over and over that they need to assimilate.
“It is a deficit when you speak Spanish, but it’s an asset to whites and white Americans when they speak it,” said scholar and educator Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, who documented racism in the criminal justice system in her book, “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court.” “This is the ultimate form of exclusion.”
The newest Latinos to this country, and those coming here seeking refuge, for example, are regularly labeled as “illegal” or lumped with drug dealers or gang members, rather than being seen as vulnerable, she noted.
“We’re seeing a rise, almost a backlash, against the post-racial lie that we thought we were in, when we could not quote-unquote 'see color,'” Van Cleve said. “Race, darkness, skin type, all the things that label people, our bodies, our hair, an accent, culture, all the codes we’ve been trained in America to see, cannot and will not go away.”
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Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an Associate Professor at The University of Delaware in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.
What race are “Latinos”?
Perhaps their own racism is preventing them from ASSimilating.
Perhaps their own racism is preventing them from ASSimilating.
Look for Latinos to be indoctrinated from grade school up to think of themselves as a separate and permanent victim class.
It’s how the Democrat parry keeps blacks on the plantation.
“You will be assimilated” has been upgraded to “you will be REPLACED”
Well, us Gringoes have our marching orders.
Brown Nationalists upset they lost “the war” a couple of centuries ago.
Refusal to assimilate has nothing to do with skin color.
But of course, the purpose of this screed is to hide the problems created by refusal to assimilate.
There are at least 26 defined ethnic groups in Mexico alone, to say nothing of those across Central and South America and the Caribbean.
‘Racism’ is always a non-starter but never more so than when the supposed targets of it aren’t even a single race or ethnicity.
Cultural friction? Of course. This is an English-speaking, Judeo-Christian nation founded and advanced mostly by those of European descent.
I don’t see the Latinos lifting a finger to fit in. Quite the opposite.
There are at least 26 defined ethnic groups in Mexico alone, to say nothing of those across Central and South America and the Caribbean.
‘Racism’ is always a non-starter but never more so than when the supposed targets of it aren’t even a single race or ethnicity.
Cultural friction? Of course. This is an English-speaking, Judeo-Christian nation founded and advanced mostly by those of European descent.
I don’t see the Latinos lifting a finger to fit in. Quite the opposite.
the twat should just get to the point and simply say “whites are evil”. My Filipino friend also faces racism when they speak Spanish in front of him..
Oh well, we tried. Back they go.
It's a deficit when you refuse to speak English in an English speaking country; it's an asset when you learn languages in addition to the native language of your country. Learn English, bitch.
[Latinos] are underrepresented in film, in high-tech jobs and in the federal government workforce. And when they advocate for equal treatment and representation
Earn your place, jackasses! That isn't done by marching, or carrying signs, or ranting in public, or rioting, or demanding favors. It's done by way of useful work.
The newest Latinos to this country, and those coming here seeking refuge, for example, are regularly labeled as “illegal” or lumped with drug dealers or gang members
Because that's what they are.
Diversity means less white.
Trying to lasso the Hispanics and drag them to the lib plantation before Trump makes any further inroads.
I know immigrants, now US citizens, who have been in this country over 40 years, who speak almost no English, and basically get by speaking Portuguese.
I find their lack of assimilation disturbing. It’s not about racism — Portugal is a Western European country. But if you don’t want to join American culture, why are you here?
Van Cleve is the racist. It is as simple as that.
JoMa
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