NY TIMES
From 2014
Read More:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html
I was glad to see that only 7% of "hispanics" belong in the same self-centered box as the twit that tweeted above. More important than that, I wonder if we can stop Mexican, Puerto Rican, and South American voters from breaking down the People-Of-Color Voting block.
But 33% of Latino men voted for Trump. And if trying to get inside whiteness isn't the main problem, then we need to figure out what is.
If 60% to 66% of white people are going to vote whiteness in any giving year and that vote goes to the Alt-Right containing republican party, then we need to either force the democratic party to become a people of color party or create a new one. We have to solidify a POC vote. Bernie and the white left are already talking about "getting away from identity politics" which can be translated as "we need to go after the white racists, white racism enablers, and white racism deniers (all the same in my boook)
I don't know how we get a solid POC vote done if the "hispanic vote" goes the same way as one of its parts; as I understand it, Cubans identify as white 85% of the time. It follows that 70% of Cubans voted for the white supremacy candidate in the last presidential election.
We as people of color need to understand our own histories, one another's histories, and our present in order to forward together.
From 2014
"Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white.
An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin,” as the census form puts it, changed their race from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, according to research presented at an annual meeting of the Population Association of America and reported by Pew Research.
The researchers, who have not yet published their findings, compared individual census forms from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. They found that millions of Americans answered the census questions about race and ethnicity differently in 2000 and 2010. The largest shifts were among Americans of Hispanic origin, who are the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group by total numbers.
Race is an immutable characteristic for many white, black and Asian-Americans. It is less clear for Americans of Hispanic origin.
The census form asks two questions about race and ethnicity: one about whether individuals are of Hispanic or Latino origin, and another about race. “Hispanics” do not constitute a race, according to the census, and so 37 percent of Hispanics, presumably dissatisfied with options like “white” or “black,” selected “some other race.”
The researchers found that 2.5 million Americans of Hispanic origin, or approximately 7 percent of the 35 million Americans of Hispanic origin in 2000, changed their race from “some other race” in 2000 to “white” in 2010. An additional 1.3 million people switched in the other direction. A noteworthy but unspecified share of the change came from children who weren’t old enough to fill out a form in 2000, but chose for themselves in 2010.
Read More:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html
I was glad to see that only 7% of "hispanics" belong in the same self-centered box as the twit that tweeted above. More important than that, I wonder if we can stop Mexican, Puerto Rican, and South American voters from breaking down the People-Of-Color Voting block.
But 33% of Latino men voted for Trump. And if trying to get inside whiteness isn't the main problem, then we need to figure out what is.
If 60% to 66% of white people are going to vote whiteness in any giving year and that vote goes to the Alt-Right containing republican party, then we need to either force the democratic party to become a people of color party or create a new one. We have to solidify a POC vote. Bernie and the white left are already talking about "getting away from identity politics" which can be translated as "we need to go after the white racists, white racism enablers, and white racism deniers (all the same in my boook)
I don't know how we get a solid POC vote done if the "hispanic vote" goes the same way as one of its parts; as I understand it, Cubans identify as white 85% of the time. It follows that 70% of Cubans voted for the white supremacy candidate in the last presidential election.
We as people of color need to understand our own histories, one another's histories, and our present in order to forward together.
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