Latino in America! Very very informative. Where do the black hispanics fit in. That group (latinos of dark complexion) is painfully absent.

Overhaul of the education system? We can’t even get our healthcare and immigration system reformed, how can we realistically believe that education reform will take place had O’Brien suggested it was needed? Given it was a four hour documentary produced by CNN, perhaps O’Brien focused on what she could. And perhaps for CNN they saw this initial documentary as an opportunity to start getting people to look at the man issues so many Hispanics face in America. I don’t think there are any other news outlets focusing on us, not even the Spanish language ones, who if they were smart, would issue their own special to showcase a real indepth report on us. Also, perhaps they would find more success stories than ones we saw last night.

Sorry, but O”Brien had more than enough time to mention underfunded schools. She didn’t put these segments in any political, historical or economic context because it would have offended white people.

Nobody mentions why so many immigrants have come here from Mexico and other parts of Latin America in the last 20 years. Ever heard of NAFTA? Massive immigration was supposed to happen under NAFTA. That was the economic plan. But since the political system has not caught up to the economic reality, the immigrants are criminalized and called “alien.” O’Brien didn’t address any of this.

And why was she making Mexicans seem “new” to the United States? Our history on this continent goes back thousands of years. How have indigenous people been treated in the last 500 years? Hmm? We’ve survived. The Spanish wanted us wiped off the face of the earth. Read their journals. It is a successs story that so many of us have survived and are thriving in this system.

Either Soledad O’Brien doesn’t know the history, or as I said, she doesn’t want to offend white people.

This Latino category isn’t real. “Latino” refers to people who were colonized by the Spanish. But Mexican history predates the Spanish invasion. People of Mexican (indigenous) descent are Americans.If you were born in the United States, you are an American, but remember, this whole hemisphere is called “America” and Mexicans are native to this hemisphere.

I don’t things will change for Mexican-Americans until we learn our history. Not the bogus “Latino” history they are trying to shove down our throats, but our indigenous history that goes back thousands of years.