More about immigration: Latino category

If you would like to see the subtle racism of smears against Latino(a)-Americans and their heritage in a political context, look at this old--yet comprehensive--post from crookedtimber.org (one of the best sites on the internets). See, what you do, is turn chicano membership in a chicano organization (that itself doesn't discriminate agaisnt non-chicano membership) into it's own kind of racism, because they are not activiely pro-White People. Because these people (many of whom are brown) think that Latino heritage in America is a vital and important thing that needs to be acknowledged and taken seriously as both citizens and a cultural body in all it's diversity. Those bastards! If you were to listen to MEChA, you might think that this country has a large non-Anglo heritage and many Spanish/Mexican places and place-names with a deep heritage that influences this country in a lot of positive ways. I can't believe it. Then again I don't believe it because I spent most of my life in Colorado and Arizona, where Chicanos never lived and Mexico was never an influence--that's why those places are named after towns in Scotland.