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...really great opportunity for all of us to come together and have a great tailgate,” said Christina L. Anderson ’08, president of Fuerza Latina. Anderson is the “tailgate coordinator” of a coalition comprising various Latino organizations that have shared tailgate space in the past. The groups will roast a pig at the tailgate, continuing their tradition of years past...
...Although the assemblywoman in question, Bonnie Garcia, has called herself a “hot-blooded Latina,” Schwarzenegger’s gross generalization about an ethnic group not his own raised eyebrows when it was reported this month in the Los Angeles Times. And so, Schwarzenegger said he was sorry as only a politician can: “Anyone out there that feels offended by those comments, I just want to say I’m sorry, I apologize...
...many generations ago those ethnicities appeared in my family tree, nor (without further tests) on which side. Moreover, the gene test hasn't been invented that can unravel the improbable chain of events that connected Belorussians with Mozambicans, and American Indians with Poles--ultimately to produce me, a Latina living and working in New York City...
...explain the disparity in performance between races.“In general, black students are more likely than white students to come from educational backgrounds that will not adequately prepare them for the challenges of college,” Bok and Bowen write. Latino students’ organization Fuerza Latina president Christina L. Anderson ’08 agrees that minority students may struggle in an environment that is more academically competitive than their educational backgrounds have been. But she says she still stands behind affirmative action. “It aims to give everyone equal footing...
...depends who puts that label on me and what their purposes are. It's like being called a "funny Jew" by Mel Brooks, or being called a "funny Jew" by Hitler. They're going to have very different goals in the label. So if a Latina magazine says that I'm a Latina writer, that's okay with me because I think they understand that that's a very diverse group of people. You can be of any race, any religion, any socio-economic background. It's almost a make-believe category. But there was a paper in New York...