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...What both sides agree may have been fatal to Busby was a late-hour gaffe in which she seemed to be encouraging illegal immigrants to vote, when she told a Latino audience, "You don't need papers for voting." Though she quickly corrected the slip, saying that she meant "you don't need to be a registered voter" to help the campaign, conservative talk radio hosts had a field day with the comment, which carried particular resonance in a district so near the Mexican border. Yet, even though it came back to haunt her, Busby's gaffe may ultimately hurt...
...family and socioeconomic situation can 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...
JOAN BAEZ, folk singer with Hispanic roots, from a makeshift treehouse in a 50-ft. walnut, where she and two other activists camped out to protest the planned sale to developers of a community garden used by Latino immigrants in South Los Angeles...
...second-generation Asian-Americans in your story discussed the difficulties they have experienced being accepted in U.S. society. But how many of them whole-heartedly accept African-Americans or Mexican-Americans as their equals? Would those Asian-Americans care to live in black or Latino neighborhoods? Bigotry is not practiced exclusively by whites. When it comes to discrimination, it suits people when they are on the giving end and hurts them when they are at the receiving end. Sriram Srinivasan Bangalore, India...
...when Barcelona and Arsenal finally met last week, I had to make my choice. For a week leading up to the game, I dressed my 14-month-old baby in her Bara tracksuit, earning her approving cheers from my Latino neighbors in Washington as she waddled down the street. (O.K., some Americans do inherit their fandom.) I nodded, proudly and smugly. But there was no way for me to fully enjoy this game, to root against the Arsenal players I love. Even though Bara won, 2-1, I fear that a part of me lost...