Archive for July 18th, 2008
Does Obama’s Hermana Look Like an Hermana?
1:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · race|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · Comments Off
18 Jul 2008
Someone thinks that Barack Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, looks like an hermana, one of us and that looking Latina could help with the Latino vote. Cuahtemoc Figueroa, the director of Mr. Obama’s Latino vote effort is quoted in the NYT as saying:
“She speaks fluent Spanish, with a Dominican accent, and looks Latina,”
I couldn’t find a video of Soetoro-Ng speaking Spanish but listen to how she says “Barack”.
Towns In D.R. Subject to Raids
12:57 pm By Maegan La Mala · Dominicans|military · Comments Off
18 Jul 2008I set my google alert to notify me of all instances of “raids” being discussed in the news recently. And the results have been surprising. I expected to get links to stories about ICE raids here in the U.S., but instead, most stories have been about drug raids conducted throughout the world. Apparently, the War on Terror did not end the War on Drugs.
Dominican Police and United States (FBI) investigators yesterday conducted searches in several towns of Altagracia province(east), where they seized properties worth millions from the Benítez brothers, four Cuban nationals charged with defrauding the U.S. Social Security for US$110 million.
More than one hundred SWAT and other agents participated in the searches and occupied the cabañas Mi Casa and Singapur, located near Higüey, where an unspecified amount of money and firearms were also seized.
There was a good question in comments:
Oh goody who gets to divide up the loot…..and will the public see any benefits…or just a bunch of off duty cops partying in speedboats and cabana jacuzzis
I wonder who we could go to for the answer?
Venezuela : Big on Promoting Beauty Queens Not So Big At Protecting The Other Mujeres
11:19 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Venezuela|Women · Comments Off
18 Jul 2008
Venezuela is known for its record number of beauty queens and schools that churn them out like an assembly line. What Venezuela is not known for is protecting the lives of the rest of it’s female population. Amnesty International issued a report that said that the country’s making laws that protect women from familial and spousal abuse isn’t enough, especially if the state isn’t going to enforce it.
Amnesty International’s Americas Programme Deputy Director, Guadalupe Marengo, said:
‘The 2007 Venezuelan law to protect women from violence is an example for the rest of the region but it will be useless for women unless it’s fully implemented.
‘Implementation of the law means more shelters, special tribunals and training for those who have to deal with these crimes.’
Ay the Hipster Irony (and Racism).
9:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture|Fashion|Magazines|race|US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
18 Jul 2008
We’re told to “get a sense of humor” and ironically to “lighten up” when it comes to our reaction as people of color to racist imagery and histories being put up on magazine covers and more recently, on a tee shirt.
When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.
Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility.
Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims.
But the Israeli-born Braun — born Doron Braunshtein — says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn’t his fault — and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of “ordinary WASPs.”
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