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What’s in a Name? New Mexico Hotel Owner Fires Workers Over Latino Names.
9:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Culture| New Mexico| history| language · 4 Comments
14 Oct 2009According to my great-aunt Lucy (que en paz descanse), my last name, the name my daughters carry as well, means that I can be traced in Spanish language history books to Spanish language conquistadores. The last name my older daughter sometimes uses (legally she can’t because of her “bastard” status), reveals that she is Mapuche. Pero what if I had to be Maegan Ortz, as some people have pronounced my last name, or if my daughters’ Latina first and last names cost them their way of living? In Taos, New Mexico, which held a few languages before English, I’m sure, a hotel owner fired some of his employees because of their names.
What I find interesting about Whitten (shall we shorten his name to “White”), is how much this is about his comfort and his history. For example, he talks about him not being from the area and him not being of “Spanish” background and how he wanted English only spoken in his presence. So it becomes about everyone adapting to him and respecting what I perceive as his “fear” of being spoken about and about making sure that employees know their place, below and subservient to him. Whitten likens his employees to spoiled, ungrateful children and he the benevolent boss.
The Latino Who Wanted to be President Kills the Death Penalty in New Mexico
9:14 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Justice| New Mexico| crime · Comments Off
19 Mar 2009
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson may not be president or be in the Obama cabinet, pero he’s not letting that get him down and made a really positive move for all people in the United States. Yesterday he signed a law that abolishes the death penalty in New Mexico.
Regardless of my personal opinion about the death penalty, I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime”…
“Faced with the reality that our system for imposing the death penalty can never be perfect, my conscience compels me to replace the death penalty with a solution that keeps society safe.”
Studies have shown that the death penalty does not deter crimes and ends up costing tax-payers more.
The New Mexico ban goes into effect on July 1st and is not retroactive, meaning that it will only apply to crimes committed after that date. This part is problematic to me. Why not commute the death sentences to life imprisonment? I am not an legal expert pero perhaps there is a legal reason for not making the law retroactive? Currently there are two men on New Mexico’s death row.
New Mexico becomes the 15th state to nix the death penalty.
Via / The Latin Americanist
Bill Richardson Ready to Be Presidente
9:18 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New Mexico| Politics · 1 Comment
8 Dec 2006
Earlier this year we wrote about the speculation surrounding Mexican-American New Mexico Governor and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson running for President on the Democratic ticket in 2008. Well speculate no more. Although the only Latino governor in the United States has yet to formally file papers to form a presidential exploratory committee, yesterday Bill Richardson told FOX News that he is running.
“I’ve dealt with the issues that are very important today — national security, immigration and energy,” Richardson said in an interview with FOX News’ Carl Cameron.
Could a Latino be our next President?
10:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New Mexico| Politics · 7 Comments
9 Nov 2006
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was overwhelmingly re-elected this week with a whopping 68% of votes cast in his favor. Richardson (born in Mexico City born in Pasadena, raised in Mexico City, son of an American father and a Mexican mother), is the only Latino governor in the United States and las malas lenguas say he’s going to try to run for President in 2008. With the recent shift in public support toward the Democrats, could Richardson pull off on a national level what he pulled off in his own state?
Hefty majorities of men and women, Anglos and Hispanics, all age and income groups backed Richardson, according to the exit poll.The governor also won the political middle ground. Majorities of moderates and independents favored Richardson. Those groups are considered key swing voters in New Mexico elections. About a third of conservatives defected from Dendahl and backed Richardson, according to the survey of voters as they left polling places across the state.
In spite of a relatively liberal philosophy on immigration (he’s reviled by anti-immigrant organizations) and other hot button issues, Richardson seems to have pulled from all walks of life and political affiliations to get this win, which is the kind of appeal that could make him a great candidate for the White House.
Would the Democratic party get behind a Latino candidate for President? And is this country ready for a Latino president? Tell us what you think.
Via / El Paso Times
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