Yes, we know the Reverend Erick Salgado is a goofy guy who, as a mayoral candidate, is barely above clown status although he actually says interesting things at times. He’s played the raza card several times, most notably in objecting to Anthony Weiner’s fantasy about himself as a Latin lover stereotype called Carlos Danger. We’re not going to […]
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Bill de Blasio’s Mixed-Race Strategy
You’ve seen this Bill de Blasio campaign ad now about a million times now, and it still resonates. Even with the sound off, muting the tight mix of progressive sloganeering (tax the rich, create affordable housing, stop stop and frisk), the message comes through. Here is a family living a happy middle class life, acting […]
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My Name Is Carlos
The farcical furor over Anthony Weiner’s candidacy for the mayor of New York has opened up another Pandora’s box containing the tortured narrative of American sexuality, as well as the problematic world of machismo and Latino masculinity, my tenuous relation to them, and the way sexism and racism keep vying to remain at the top […]
Read moreBloomberg’s Ill Logic
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remarks last week claiming that more African-Americans than whites should be stopped and frisked is emblematic of how corporate technocratic thinking produces a profoundly ill logic. Appearing on John Gambling’s show on WOR AM, Bloomberg asserted that because whites were being stopped and frisked 9% of the time and were […]
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