Sunday, March 9, 2008

Are Latinos racist?

Dear Gabacho,

Why don't Democratic Latinos support Obama? Is it because he's black?

Black guy in Atlanta

Dear Black Guy,

Why don't the Obama Latinos support Clinton? Is it because she's a woman? To answer your real question let me just say that I think that some Latinos are racist and some aren't, and everywhere in between, just like among any other group of people. I think that the reason Latino voters have been supporting Clinton in the primaries instead of Obama is that Clinton has name recognition, and the positive economic associations that go with that name. That'd be my guess.