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There’s a statistic making it’s way around the Latino twittersphere/blogosphere today that reads like alarmism. According to the Pew Hispanic Center there is no national (read U.S.) Latino leader or at least most Latinos can’t name one.

By their own reckoning, Latinos living in the United States do not have a national leader. When asked in an open-ended question to name the person they consider “the most important Latino leader in the country today,” nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hispanic respondents said they did not know. An additional 10% said “no one.”

Just reading this you would think that Latinos were wandering aimlessly around the U.S. not knowing what to do with themselves, waiting for some sort of prophet to lead them out into the promised land. An alternate and equally problematic reading of the report suggests that Latinos are too lazy to step up and be their own leaders. That we lack ambition.

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