2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Blacks And Browns Being Led Into Committing Political Hara-kiri - MWCNews [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)The author of the piece is a Latino from Los Angeles, Calufornia. The term is a term of racial pride in San Diego, LA and Auklamd. It is also quite class related. It comes from years of activists working across communities of color, and in my town these days it includes black (well duh) Latino, Asian (this is new) and Native American (again new)
I have many instances of this use at marches and rallies, now here is where the editor of that publication made a mistake. I will not use it in print. Not because there is anything wrong when you understand the context, and it matters. But because it has a very limited geographic use. I will be nice, people are reacting because it sounds horrible. But where I live...it is as much a term of pride as PoC.
So can a Latino activist who speaks mostly to his community in Spanish, have a right to speak even if you heavily disagree with him I suspect? By the way, his views are actually not that unusual in certain quarters. I have heard them from many other local leaders...most of them just post them on Facebook.