12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Cuba|Immigration|Politics · Comments Off
1 Jul 2007
Apparently dissing Latinos by not showing up to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO)forum wasn’t enough for Law & Order star and potential GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Thompson said:
I don’t imagine they’re coming here to bring greetings from Castro. We’re living in the era of the suitcase bomb.
Thompson was forced to clarify a saying he was talking about Cuban spies not Cubans coming in legally although when you check out the video (after the jump) I think you’ll agree that’s sure not what it sounds like It sounds more like creating more Hispanic panic.
9:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · MBAPBSAllAmericaDem|Money · Comments Off
28 Jun 2007Of course attacking Bush is the easy answer in terms of the question about the wealthy paying their fair share. The issue is about disparitiy and the why. Obama hit the nail on the head by making it a race issue (because yes race and class work together people). Mike Gravel got some looks when he mentioned wiping out the federal income tax. If people really think that will solve poverty, people need to look at Puerto Rico which has no federal income tax and has soaring poverty rates.
Bill Richardson (the great brown hope) is actually talking about more money for corporations going into the inner cities.
9:26 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Education|MBAPBSAllAmericaDem|Politics|Washington DC · 1 Comment
28 Jun 2007Joe Biden really needs to really stop using the word minority. Bill Richardson is so bored with the whole debate that he yawned right before it was his turn. I think its key that Richardson compared access to education to access to water, that is as a basic human right. But again why the term minority. Are we talking numbers or political power, that analysis has to happen when people, especially candidates chose to use certain terms.
Finally someone, (Obama saves the day), talks about the lack of money behind No Child Left Behind (although I won’t even get into the issue of the problems with the program itself.
What I am waiting for someone to mention are two issues about education: the tracking of children of color and the language access issues that essentially shu non-English dominant parents out.
Collective moans just filled the media room as Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise…yes we know, it takes a village of well meaning white liberals.
9:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Internet|MBAPBSAllAmericaDem|Politics|VivirLatino|Washington DC · Comments Off
27 Jun 2007I have the honor and privilege to be in Washington DC tomorrow night to cover, live, The All American Presidential Forum on PBS featuring the Democrats running in 2008. Yes. that means that the Secret Service doesn’t think I’m as bad as I think I am and that you, VivirLatino readers have a unique opportunity to participate. I will be running live commentary on the issues discussed by Senator Joe Biden, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Christopher Dodd, Senator John Edwards, Senator Mike Gravel, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Senator Barack Obama, and Governor Bill Richardson. I will also have the opportunity, like other journalists, to pose questions after the (please don’t call it a debate) forum.
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