A poll: What are "appropriate" ways for Latinos to protest DRUMPF?
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/why-is-it-okay-for-whites-to-riot-but-not-okay-when-mexicans-do-it-oc-weeklys-gustavo-arellano/
[font size=5]Why is it okay for whites to riot but not okay when Mexicans do it? — OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano[/font]
Bethania Palma Markus
.... Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly editor-in-chief, wrote in an op-ed on Friday, “Worldwide, conservatives and namby-pamby liberals are slamming protestors for waving Mexican flags, for beating up people, for destroying cop cars, and for raising general DESMADRE.” ....
“OC Mexican riots at least have more of a legitimate reason—anger against a political apparatus that despises them—than gabacho riots, which usually involve beer or drugs or some other bro excuse for fucking shit up,” Arellano writes. ....
“One of my many jobs at this infernal rag is historian, so I know nearly all the official, unofficial, hidden, and lost histories of Orange County, “Arellano notes. “And despite its image as straight-laced, OC has always loved its riots and mass rallies—that is, if gabachos are the major participants. Oh, they get hammered when they’re actually happening, but as the years go on, past riots take on a Instagram filter of nostalgia.”
And then there’s the 30,000-person Ku Klux Klan rally and cross burning near a Mexican citrus camp in Anaheim in 1924.
He then lists incidents of mass chaos or violence involving non-whites, including a 1969 clash between the Black Panthers and Santa Ana police and the 30,000-strong amnesty rallies in Santa Ana in 2006.
“At every single one of these riots and rallies, Mexicans were reviled, slammed, and demonized in the aftermath, and all these events have either been swept under the rug or been slurred over time,” Arellano writes. “It’s as if every time Mexicans protest, Orange County’s guilty conscience wakes up and remembers how terrible it has treated them over the decades—but then their massa side gets mad that the wabs are daring to get uppity, and thus must crush and destroy. It’s as if Mexican(s) in la naranja are supposed to take the sliming of their heritage and their relatives quietly, in a county that made Mexican-bashing into a political art.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Arellano
Gustavo Arellano is the publisher and editor of Orange County's alternative weekly OC Weekly, and the author of the column ¡Ask a Mexican!, which is syndicated nationally.[1][2][3] Arellano has won numerous awards for the column, including the 2006 and 2008 Best Non-Political Column in a large-circulation weekly from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the 2007 Presidents Award from the Los Angeles Press Club and an Impacto Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and a 2008 Latino Spirit award from the California Latino Legislative Caucus.[citation needed]
The columns were collected in book form in 2008 as ¡Ask a Mexican! (Scribners, ISBN 978-1416540038). Arellano has published two further books: Orange County: A Personal History (Scribners, 2008, ISBN 978-1416540045), and Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (Scribners, 2012, ISBN 978-1439148617)
He is a third cousin, once removed, of actress Jessica Alba.
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| Passive resistance (GANDHI, MLK, Cesar CHAVEZ) | |
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| No Mexican flags | |
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| Ask Ruben NAVARRETE, Linda CHAVEZ, Alberto GONZALEZ what to do, who to call | |
0 (0%) |
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| Don't vote (a stand-by) | |
0 (0%) |
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| Let it go (assimilate) | |
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| Master the English twang dialect | |
0 (0%) |
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| Marry a BUSH | |
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| Program note: Play at the White House on Cinco de Mayo (thanks, Grupo Mana; thanks, OBAMA) | |
0 (0%) |
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| Take a bat to a pinata-DRUMPF a la Beyonce's "Lemonade" | |
0 (0%) |
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| Their self-determination without being paternalistically judged by others | |
0 (0%) |
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| 0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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