Archive for June 28th, 2007
Post Debate Thoughts : Latinos the Minority Minority to Pander To
10:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem · 3 Comments
28 Jun 2007
There is discussion here as to the debate/forum. Many issues were not covered or were barely touched upon. If this really was a forum aimed at the people of color community why were there no women’s issues discussed? Sure these issues were touched upon in the areas of educating our children but what about reproductive rights and domestic violence, two huge problems plaguing women of color. Also the big story of the day was immigration and why was that not mentioned. Some bloggers are suggesting that if anyone needed to bring the issue up it should have been Ruben Navarrette, as the token Latino on the panel, or that Bill Richardson, who proudly touted himself as the first Latino to run for president, should have said something. This of course then begs the question : are latino issues only to be brought up by and for Latinos?
When I asked Governor Richardson (yes I asked him-look how sweaty he got upon seeing me) about such forums/debates for Latinos, he pointed to the upcoming National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed officials Democratic forum. But that forum, to my knowledge, isn’t televised nationally like tonight’s forum was. So are Latinos being pandered to but not really brought into the political process. Are we an afterthought/add on to other race issues?
Perhaps I expected too much. Perhaps I got caught up in the spin in the media room and lost my jaded edge and actually believed in electoral politics.
Democratic Debate Ends with Darfur
10:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007I think this is a legitimate issue because of the massiveness of it and the US willingness to intervene in other nations when it is convenient and highlights the trend of ignoring the killing of people of color if the US isn’t doing it directly. Kucinich made great points about this but he comes off as too kooky for most people.
Time flew, let’s see who comes back to talk in the media room. Rumor has it Obama will not be coming….
Democratic /debate : Right to Return / Outsourcing
10:10 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007The language of the right to return is language that is used also in the debate surrounding Palestibe which is interesting. Is post Katrina NOLA occupied by as Obama refers to, by all these corporations with government complicity.
Is outsourcing an issue_ The candidates are mixed on this so far. What must be said is that Hillary Clinton (as she winning this debate) is being the most concrete with all her answers. She lays things out in points that are easy to follow. The majority of the Dems seem to look at education as the way to go. Richardson is really coming off as pro-business which could hurt him in a debate when peope want to hear about people at the grassroots level.
The radical in me loves Kucinich for saying that NAFTA and the World Bank need to go but I know that won’t get votes.
Profiling and the Prison Industrial Complex
10:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| MBAPBSAllAmericaDem · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007These 30 second answers are leading to answers with zero substance. Basically what people are doing is the given, get rid of mandatory drug sentences but what is the focus on drugs, as if all POC are in jails and arrested because we are all crackheads, when it goes deeper than that.
Someone needs to do a word count on how many times the words drugs, crack, jail have been used because it seems like the candidates seem to think that is the root of evil rather than what causes those things to be used the way they are
Cold Hard Dinero
9:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem| Money · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007Of course attacking Bush is the easy answer in terms of the question about the wealthy paying their fair share. The issue is about disparitiy and the why. Obama hit the nail on the head by making it a race issue (because yes race and class work together people). Mike Gravel got some looks when he mentioned wiping out the federal income tax. If people really think that will solve poverty, people need to look at Puerto Rico which has no federal income tax and has soaring poverty rates.
Bill Richardson (the great brown hope) is actually talking about more money for corporations going into the inner cities.
And the Debate, I Mean Forum Continues on Education
9:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education| MBAPBSAllAmericaDem| Politics| Washington DC · 1 Comment
28 Jun 2007Joe Biden really needs to really stop using the word minority. Bill Richardson is so bored with the whole debate that he yawned right before it was his turn. I think its key that Richardson compared access to education to access to water, that is as a basic human right. But again why the term minority. Are we talking numbers or political power, that analysis has to happen when people, especially candidates chose to use certain terms.
Finally someone, (Obama saves the day), talks about the lack of money behind No Child Left Behind (although I won’t even get into the issue of the problems with the program itself.
What I am waiting for someone to mention are two issues about education: the tracking of children of color and the language access issues that essentially shu non-English dominant parents out.
Collective moans just filled the media room as Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise…yes we know, it takes a village of well meaning white liberals.
Live Blogging the All American Presidential Forum
9:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007I’m currently in the Blackburn Center at Howard Univeristy lie blogging the PBS All American Forum (after some tech problems). I’ve already mentioned that the debate is based on the Covenant with Black America which makes me think that while this debate is being framed as a forum for people of color, color is being looked at through the strictly black/white lens. Latinos need a national plan of action too especially if we are to become that swing vote that people have been saying we are.
The first question asked was if race was still the #1 factor today, especially in light of today’s Supreme Court decision which basically elimates race as a factor in terms of educational considerations for grades k-12. So far Hilary and Biden have given answers that everyone wants to hear but I wish that Bill Richardon would have conquered the issue of the black/white paradigm. And you know you have a problem when John Edwards can’t even say slavery.
As expected, the event is an Obama lovefest (someone please play that reggaeton song). I’m pleased that Obama did go beyond the black/white issue of race by at least mentionaing Latinos (although you have to wonder if he said that because Bill Richardson shouted himself out as the first Latino running for president.
RBD’s Christian wants to be a dad
5:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chismes| GLBT| children| mexico · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007
Christian Chávez, the recently-outed member of bubble gum pop group RBD says he’s so in love with his husband — whom he wed in a ceremony in Canada — that he’s already thinking about having kids. Christian told People en español:
“When I’m 30 that feeling of wanting to be a dad is going to start…I would like to adopt because I think there are so many children that need love. Instead of creating one, we’re going to get a baby to whom we can give all our love and an opportunity.”
And if Mexico continues on the liberal track it’s on, he might just be able to do that in his home country one day soon.
Via / El Universal
Live from DC , It’s Mala (and P.S. Immigration Reform was killed, again)
2:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| MBAPBSAllAmericaDem| Washington DC · 1 Comment
28 Jun 2007
I was on my way to Washington DC to cover the PBS All-American Presidential Forum (Democratic version), just as “comprehensive immigration reform” died, again. Not that I’m surprised, my coverage of the issue has been a series of “told you so’s” because as I heard a commentator on FOX News say today (on the in-flight Direct TV it was Fox or Dora – both are screamy and annoying), the Republicans and their base have shown their power. Well obviously overwhelmingly white men who vote are going to have more agency than however many thousands of overwhelmingly Latino immigrants who cannot vote and hit the streets peacefully. I’m curious to see if and how the immigration issue is brought up tonight given the fact that the forum tonight is based off the Contract With Black America that mentions immigration and its relationship with the larger black community, um nowhere.
FARC announces death of 11 hostages, offers condolences
12:46 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| Latin America| Politics| society · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007
The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) announced today that the 11 politicians that they had been holding hostage for 5 years have been killed.
The Web site of the left-wing news agency ANNCOL carried a statement purportedly from the western command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. It said 11 of the 12 ex-provincial deputies being held were killed in the crossfire after an “unidentified military group” attacked the rebel camp June 18.
Last month Maegan wondered whether the FARC might be releasing prisoners, among the most prominent former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. Even though the report of the 11 deaths has not been officially confirmed, the pressure is once again on President Alvaro Uribe to find a solution to this problem vis a vis an agreement with FARC or military intervention.
The website announcing the death confirmation published a statement of condolences allegedly from the FARC that said: “To the families of the dead deputies, we offer our deepest condolences. We will do all in our power to help them recover the remains as soon as possible.”
Via / Chron.com
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