The Sotomayor Pick: Bridging the Black-Latino Divide

Gosh, if it wasn't for the media, I'd have had no idea that black folks just had ALL kinds of trouble with Latinos.

From "Time" magazine. Snip:

"After Latinos helped make Barack Obama the U.S.'s first black President by giving him a remarkable 67% of their vote and Obama seemingly returned the favor by selecting (pending her Senate confirmation) the first Latino Supreme Court Justice, decades of friction between the two groups seem to be melting like asphalt on a hot summer day in Sotomayor's native Bronx.

"The symbolism can't be overstated," says former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, one of the country's largest African-American organizations. "There is a much greater sense of solidarity now between the two groups." Says Fernand Amandi, executive vice president of the Bendixen & Associates public-opinion-research firm in Miami: "Ethnic tensions won't be ended by one Supreme Court nomination, but the picture of an African-American President standing with a Latina Supreme Court nominee shows the groups coming together at the highest positions in the country. That can't help but improve relations."

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Classy. Although I do have to admit that seeing the reigns of power STARTING to be held by people who look more and more like all of America is a beautiful thing. I just wish folks would stop trying to pretend that there are all of these massive things that divide us.

...... It's almost like some forces quake at the idea of Black-Latino unity.

I read an article here about one Latino gang in ONE area of California that was targeting blacks. As heinous as that was, somehow isolated incidents like this have turned into America is under siege between the spiraling battle between blacks and Latinos.

Crazy. And stupid too.

in our local jail all the fights that are gang related are usually black on latin and vice versa, with the white gang members watching.

:wtf:

and stating that the hatred between the gang members is worse between the black and latin members than towards the white gang members.

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Divisions exist, but the so-called Black-Latino divide has been exploited and exacerbated.....

There are times the media makes it sounds like it's world war 4 between the two cultural groups.
:eyes:

That's too funny, because that's EXACTLY what I do on the 4th of July.

One of my buddies that I met working for a previous employer happens to be black.

He throws the best 4th of July parties evah!

And I always bring fixings for mexican salsa to his party, and fix it fresh right there.

I could tell you stories (in fact, they're posted and archived somewhere in DU) about these parties.

His house is The United Nations on the 4th of July.

I've had conversations at that party with a drop dead gorgeous Chinese-Russian Goddess... In Russian...

is somewhere that I would DESPERATELY love to be.

You bring the salsa, and I'll bring the rap. :fistbump: Even though I haven't rapped since 9th grade. And I wasn't good at it then, either. :)

PM me.

By the way, from your profile, I see you're an Islander...

My buddy is originally from Trinidad.

:hi:

Where we don't get very much (good) rap OR salsa.

Have you ever heard Australian rap?? If no, consider yourself VERY fortunate. :scared:

Australia is an awesome place!

:yourock:

you're right!! :)

:hi:

rift between Blacks and Latinos" when Prez Obama announced his nominee, Sonia Sotomayor for SCJ.

During the primaries there were reams and reams on it, especially during the Nevada and Texas Caucuses.

It turned out to be more exploitation than anything.

And unfortunately, they always ensnare the less informed/more bigoted members of these groups who are quick to accept any of these "rifts" as gospel.

on a mission to prove they had no problems.:)