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Archive for November 1st, 2008

38513.jpgI don’t buy into the whole Latino vote crap. I’m not saying our votes don’t count (I really hope they do on Tuesday) or that we shouldn’t vote. I’m voting and dragging my whole stereotypically large family with me. Pero the “Latino Vote” in McCain airquotes, has become a marketing tool, a publicity stunt, with the Republican and Democrats parading people around with accents, Latin lover looks, or any otherness cred in a sad sad effort to earn our vote. Every election cycle it’s the same thing, and the closer we get to the election, the worse it gets and the sad thing is that some of our own people, fellow Latinos, play along. Blame wanting their additional 15 minutes of fame or poor political educations, pero the fact that some Latinos are willing to straight up sell out and sell the interest of their own people out just so they can take the center ring in the circus we call elections me da verguenza.

So who are some of the worse Latino offenders?

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