Due to the all the anti-Hispanic racism and hatred being expressed here, I am posting the following... [View all]

[PeaceWave]

There should be no shock - and certainly no racial animosity - directed at Hispanics who voted for Trump. What happened was entirely predictable - if you had taken any time at all to consider the Hispanic community for what it is. One month ago, I posted the following paragraph. It got exactly one upvote. What I wrote was not prescient. It was simple reality, as understood by the son of a Guatemalan immigrant - that nobody here cared to consider for even a second. Who's fault is that? WE failed to properly reach out to the Hispanic community. WE failed to understand them. Not the other way around. That's how it works when you're seeking someone's vote. You can't simply take that vote for granted. Again, this is what I wrote exactly one month ago...

Of course, all Latinos aren't going to vote the same way. Unfortunately, most Americans have little to no understanding of geography and culture beyond their own borders. That said, I do worry about the appeal of the Republican Party to non-Cuban Latinos. The Cubans will always vote Republican - Primarily because they've all been brainwashed into believing the Republican Party will avenge their loss at the Bay of Pigs (a plan which was actually hatched under the Eisenhower administration) and return to them their stolen ancestral homeland. Yeah. Okay. Good luck with that. It's the non-Cuban Latinos who are up for grabs. But, just like any other demographic group, we've got our differences and will vote accordingly. Unfortunately, many Catholic Latinos are, due solely to the abortion issue, going to be inclined to vote for the Republican Party. This is where open discussion about the issue is important, as was the case when Biden discussed being an Irish Catholic but also being for a woman's right to choose. Did he take heat for it from the Church? Yes. But, so what. It's the peoples' blessing, not that of the Pope that's necessary to win an election. If Democrats don't hammer home this issue - That your faith does not preclude your membership and participation in the Democratic Party, then Republicans can and will continue to use religion as a wedge issue among the Latino community. That's my dos centimos on the subject.