Category: Social Justice
Immigration System isn’t Broken when it comes to Children. It Never was Any Good
LatinaLista — It’s been said so much that it now sounds like a cliche: U.S. immigration is a broken system. Yet, for it to be broken means that it had to have worked at one time, which would mean that at one time it was a good system, or at least got the job done. [...]
New Report Shows Good Reason why Latino and Black Youth Have no Faith in Justice System
LatinaLista — In yesterday’s posting, I mentioned how it seemed odd that while the number of white people arrested for crimes was higher than either blacks or Hispanics, their actual numbers behind bars were far less than what the data tells us it should be — if the cases were carried out to their logical [...]
One Psychic Prediction Calls 2007 the Year of the Female
LatinaLista — There have been many “predictions” as to how the White House is going to get along with the new leaders in Congress but, unfortunately, it doesn’t take a psychic to know that the honeymoon will be over before it starts. Which got me to thinking about what the psychics are saying about politics [...]
Is Homeland Security Served by Denying Mexican Woman with Downs Syndrome from Visiting Disneyland?
LatinaLista — I often wonder if it was what God intended when He created earth — that man would divide and section off every piece of available space to claim as his own. Somehow it goes against the logic of the “bigger picture.” Yet, for children, and the young at heart, there are but a [...]
Harvard Research Shows Teachers as Segregated as Students
LatinaLista — Every red-blooded American school student, while enjoying their school break, are inevitably performing a time-honored-holiday tradition as well — counting down the days till school starts again. Too many students will return to schools where self-segregation is the norm, no matter how diverse the student body. Unfortunately, no amount of adults pushing kids [...]
A Special Christmas Program Empowers Inner-City Children to See a New Future for Themselves
LatinaLista — It is now 15 minutes into my new friend Jay’s vigil at the T. Don Hutto Residential facility in honor of all the families detained behind the barbed wire. One would think, being Christmas and all, that whatever celebration they should be allowing the families to have (and in my best Miracle on [...]
Mayans May be #1 at the Box Office but Don’t Rate with the UN General Assembly
LatinaLista — It’s funny that in the same week a movie about an indigenous people is number one at the Box Office, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples failed to be adopted so yesterday’s International Human Rights Day could be celebrated with special significance. Mayan character from Apocalypto movie (Source: channel4.com) [...]
Why the Battle for Civil Rights and the Fight for the Undocumented are Similar
LatinaLista — It’s rather ironic that on a day when ground is being broken for the construction of the first memorial on the National Mall to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., that yet another town is passing ordinances to drive out people they deem undesirable. Tonight, in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, city [...]
The Beginning of Intolerance of the Undocumented
LatinaLista — There’s news of more towns jumping on the illegal immigration bandwagon: the mayor of Rogers, Arkansas wants to declare undocumented immigrants as public nuisances, and the city council in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania unanimously passed a resolution to ban undocumented immigrants from working or renting residences in the area. Like the lynch mobs of the [...]
Have Undocumented Immigrants Been Renamed as “Enemy Combatants”?
LatinaLista — When historians look back on the rise of bloggers as a force that either replaced or aided newspapers (viewpoint is up for debate) in making public officials stay accountable for their actions, will bloggers be viewed as dissidents or the public conscience just gone online? As we know, history can be a lot [...]
