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Related: About this forumHow Did A Town That's 81% Hispanic Elect A Xenophobic Mayor?
Don McLaughlin has a long history of spewing hate and racism on Fox News. How did he become the mayor of a town that is 81% Hispanic?
https://livingbluetx.com/2022/05/don-mclaughlin-uvalde-mayor/
Paladin
(28,659 posts)It centers around Catholic anti-abortion doctrine, and it's contributing to Texas being red, even though most of the big cities (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio) are Democratic blue.
Autumn
(45,869 posts)here illegally should be sent back.
Walleye
(34,374 posts)Right after Roe. it was a completely political reason. Nobody in power ever cared about the lives of these poor unborn babies.
SharonAnn
(13,843 posts)Baitball Blogger
(47,579 posts)Its bringing on a rant. Shortnotes: I went to sell some gold pieces in winter park once and I got severely racially profiled. I came home traumatized. By then I knew that I couldnt go running to the police. For one thing, Central Florida was moving in the wrong direction and there was no specialized department for these kind of things. I figured I would just get the usual good ole boy response. And that was a concern, because I worried about blowback to my family.
See, the things I was taught growing up in a Latino family were that you worked hard and you kept your head down, oh and you saved like a miser. This accomplished two things: it kept you safe from being targeted, and it was the only path to financial security.
So, when I was racially profiled at the jewelers, by that time, I knew that I already had an uncomfortable exposure. Because people in my community were aware that I wasnt going to go along with the fraud that was committed here years back, I was afraid to resort to a system that I knew could be derailed with one phone call.
So, yes, this is a calamity situation for the Latino community in Uvalde. Especially when the Latino leaders may already be indoctrinated to be go alongs. This is exactly the kind of personality that De Santis Anglo indoctrination camps are set to create.
kelly1mm
(5,020 posts)increasing numbers. It is possible that republicans could win the Hispanic vote overall in 2022.
For something really shocking look at President Biden's approval numbers with Hispanics.
3Hotdogs
(13,236 posts)Its like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
LuckyLib
(6,869 posts)worked hard to bring in the Latino community. Also, the backdrop is the story of racism and oppression all across the Southwest.