{"id":5324,"date":"2004-11-05T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2021-06-10T22:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:26:02","slug":"unspoken-fear-among-hispanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/05\/unspoken-fear-among-hispanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspoken fear among Hispanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/Stories\/0,1413,36~156~2508610,00.html\">Unspoken fear among Hispanics<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jose R. Martinez<br \/>\nThe Denver Post<br \/>\nColorado Voices columnist<br \/>\nWednesday, November 03, 2004 &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fear of divide-and-conquer is primal, especially when a weak group takes on a powerful foe. That&#8217;s why Benjamin Franklin said, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, &#8220;We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Do most Latinos hang together? Is there a unity, an alliance, among Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Mexican-Americans and all other Latinos? What about Latinos and African-Americans? Do they hang together? Or is such an alliance more illusion than reality? Maybe the reality is that intractable divisions have been there all along and it&#8217;s now time to talk about them, especially as some of the gaps widen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unspoken fear among Hispanics By Jose R. Martinez The Denver Post Colorado Voices columnist Wednesday, November 03, 2004 &#8211; The fear of divide-and-conquer is primal, especially when a weak group takes on a powerful&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[126,197],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1nS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/6997"}],"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=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}