Dear Donald Trump: Pissed Off Latinos Are Powerful Latinos

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from YES! Magazine:


Dear Donald Trump: Pissed Off Latinos Are Powerful Latinos
History has shown that when Latinos feel threatened, they fight back—with their voices and voting power.

Yessenia Funes posted Aug 28, 2015


As a Latina, a child of parents who weren’t born in the States, I can tell you that this presidential race has become personal.

Donald Trump kicked a journalist out of a press conference in Iowa Tuesday—and not just any journalist. Trump kicked out Jorge Ramos, a Univisión and Fusion anchor I grew up seeing my parents watch on TV. My mom still watches him. So his being told to “go back to Univisión” and then even to “go back to his country” bugged me. A lot.

Again and again, with a flick of his wrist, Trump publicly belittles the Latino community. But you know what? He’s only screwing himself and empowering us. History shows that when Latinos’ rights are threatened by a politician, they push back—hard.

Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an immigration expert who teaches at UCLA, gave me a quick history lesson. In an interview, he told me Trump isn’t the first to “blame the immigrant.” Not only was this rhetoric common in the 19th and early 20th centuries toward the Irish, Chinese, and many other groups, but it’s been used more recently toward (surprise, surprise) Latin Americans.

A nativist campaign played out in California in the ’90s led by Gov. Pete Wilson. Proposition 187, an anti-immigrant ballot measure, passed in 1994 after Wilson’s re-election. It barred undocumented immigrants from the state’s public education system and even stripped them of access to emergency rooms. .................(more)

http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/dear-donald-trump-pissed-off-latinos-make-powerful-latinos-20150827

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1. Pissed off voter of all stripes are motivated to vote

Tea Party, GOP, base are fed lies and myths to rile up their base. Because we know from experience a pissed off voter will vote.

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2. K&R

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3. I really hope they come out in huge numbers this election!