{"id":5194,"date":"2004-05-27T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2021-06-11T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:25:10","slug":"hispanic-label-a-creation-of-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/27\/hispanic-label-a-creation-of-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hispanic&#8217; label a creation of politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/mld\/heraldleader\/2004\/05\/23\/news\/opinion\/8730060.htm\">&#8216;Hispanic&#8217; label a creation of politicians<\/a><br \/>\nLexington Herald-Leader<br \/>\nBy Abdon Ibarra<br \/>\nCONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, the Web site for Black Entertainment Television posed the question: &#8220;Does it bother you that Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans in the U.S.?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mireya Navarro reported in her New York Times article that the response was &#8220;torrential.&#8221; She wrote that the responses included, &#8220;Blacks are beginning to experience another wave of racial bias and favoritism not in our favor.&#8221; One said that employers now have a preference for bilingual workers and lamented &#8220;attempts to replace our threatening stance against discrimination with a Hispanic vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But one surmised: &#8220;Sounds like the same old trick to me. &#8216;Divide and conquer.&#8217; Are we really going to let some numbers dictate how we treat one another?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before we can constructively consider the bridges of trust and respect that must be built between the two communities, we must examine the substance of the &#8220;numbers&#8221; and of the term &#8220;Hispanics&#8221; that have caused so much turmoil. Further, are Hispanics a race or even language group?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hispanic&#8217; label a creation of politicians Lexington Herald-Leader By Abdon Ibarra CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST Recently, the Web site for Black Entertainment Television posed the question: &#8220;Does it bother you that Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7138,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/7138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}