Hillary Clinton Will Eat Your Beefy Tacos To Get Your Vote. And Barack Obama Might Too, Even If Your Abuela Hates Him.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are really sinking their teeth into their respective election campaigns, especially when it comes to the Latino Democratic vote and especially when those teeth are being sunk into delicious, beefy tacos:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has eaten beef tacos in East Los Angeles and sat on the living room couch of a working-class family in a largely Hispanic neighborhood here for 30 televised minutes. At a rally of the culinary workers’ union in the shadows of the Strip here one night, Senator Barack Obama pumped his fist and chanted with the crowd, “¡Sí, se puede; sí, se puede; sí, se puede!” or, “Yes, we can!”
Beefy tacos? Encouraging chants possibly accompanied by fist-pumping action? And cheerleaders? Sounds hot. Uh, but wait, isn’t Obama Black? Latinos don’t like that! Right?:
Mr. Obama confronts a history of often uneasy and competitive relations between blacks and Hispanics, particularly as they have jockeyed for influence in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
Oh, hold on a second, Sammy Sosa. And Rosie Perez. And Pelé. And the reanimated corpses of Benny Moré and Celia Cruz. We’re busy reading this article
“Many Latinos are not ready for a person of color,” Natasha Carrillo, 20, of East Los Angeles, said. “I don’t think many Latinos will vote for Obama. There’s always been tension in the black and Latino communities. There’s still that strong ethnic division. I helped organize citizenship drives, and those who I’ve talked to support Clinton.”
That’s funny, especially given that people insisted on referring to yours translucently as a “women of color” throughout her entire four years at college.
Javier Perez, 30, a former marine, said older Hispanics like his grandmother tended to resist more the notion of supporting an African-American, a trend that he said was changing with younger Hispanics.
“She just became a citizen five years ago,” Mr. Perez said. “Unfortunately, that will play a role in her vote. I do think race will play a part in her decision.”
We’re pretty sure non-Latina grandmas are racist as hell, too. The aged are so narrow-minded. And smelly and gross.
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vamos barack! que bonita tejanita! so hot. the argument that he can’t win the latino vote reeks of the same rhetoric from the old machine about how he couldn’t win the white people vote. I expect he’ll do very well against the clintons. Also, why do i feel like hillary and bill are running together? It’s such bullshit that nobody questions it. She’s just running on his merits.
Seriously, though, great post guanabee. You bring up a great point about latino identity and an often overlooked, very important segment of the latino community. And the fact that our grandmas might be racist more because they’re old than because they’re latinas.
Posted by dancecontestwinner | January 15, 2008
Pobre Obama and Hillary,
Neither will win the latino vote. Why? because if they knew the hierarchy of race and gender in the hispanic culture Obama would be at the bottom and Hillary would be below Obama. Black people are not looked highly upon in the hispanic culture, remember Memin Penguin? and women are not perceived to be on par with men. Regardless of how our culture views these to candidates I will still vote for Obama to see how racist this country really is.
Posted by snakeclocks | January 16, 2008
Snakeclocks, if you were right, then John Edwards would be receiving the overwhelming support of Latinos in the Democratic race. And hello! He’s not.
And “I will still vote for Obama to see how racist this country really is?’
Okay. And I’ll still come to this blog to see how retarded it is, as well.
Posted by David | January 16, 2008