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Yeah, it's the Puerto Rican from New York's fault that these "white" Texicans voted Republican. :lol:

**** 'em.
The whole paragraph is magic...

Cuellar told me he doesn’t believe the 2020 election results in South Texas marked a permanent “political realignment.” But he does think Democrats need to improve their outreach and messaging in the region. Many voters there see New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, both avowed democratic socialists, as the loudest voices among Democrats and are turned off to the whole party. Cuellar observed that even though Biden and many other Democrats rejected the calls to “defund the police” embraced by a few nationally prominent members of the party’s left wing, those messages seriously injured the party’s image in South Texas. There is some data to support this. Shor, the pollster, believes “defund the police” messaging cost Democrats more votes among conservative and moderate Hispanic voters than any other single issue. Hispanic voters with more conservative views on crime and policing, his polling finds, shifted more toward Republicans this year than Hispanic voters at large.

Didn't matter what Biden, the people running in the district, or an overwhelming majority of the party said, the views of a couple of people matter more.

Yep, these folk white. Same nonsense
 
Bingo. We also need to stop grouping all “Latinos” together. They’re from different countries, have different levels of education, different socioeconomic classes etc. Texas “Latinos” are different from Florida Latinos, who are different from Georgia Latinos. There’s no one size fits all approach.

Man, even in media/movies….you see people group them together. Like you’ll see a movie set in the East Coast or South with a Latino (who may not even be Mexican)….talking like an Esse from LA, “holmes” :smh: :lol:
 
This is history in America:

Italians, Poles, Irish etc being finally accepted as “white” In the 60s, and voting with their oppressors to opress others who don’t have the complexion for assimilation.
The last paragraph's really exposed how deeply people are buying into whiteness...

A few months before, at his house in Rio Grande City, Barrera had explained to me why many in the Valley didn’t find Trump’s agitating at the border, or his statements calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, personally insulting. Barrera launched into a diatribe distinguishing himself from those who cross the border illegally; while he has compassion for people fleeing harsh circumstances, he said, some in South Texas call border crossers “mojaditos”—the Spanish word for “*******” (albeit in its less harsh, diminutive form).

I pressed him: Would non-Hispanic white Texans as easily draw the distinction between him and recent immigrants? Barrera doubled down. “I think when people say they don’t like Mexicans, it means a Mexican citizen, a Mexican national, someone who crossed illegally,” he said. “So, when someone says they don’t like Mexicans, I don’t think it means me or you.”

Mans has faith that other white people view him as one of them, and not similar to people crossing the border.

Welp, good luck with that. Because dudes like Stephen Miller definitely seem them as the same
 
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Another example of how the media narrative prevents us from having a nuanced discussion about things. Which was we saw an increase in murders specifically

You would swear there was a massive overall crime wave the way people were talking
 
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This **** made my blood boil...


The city of Philadelphia will pay $2 million to a Black woman who was pulled from a car, beaten by officers and had her toddler used for social media fodder by the police union, officials said.

Nursing aide Rickia Young was headed home in the early morning hours of Oct. 27, 2020, when she unknowingly drove into a large protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr.



She tried to make a three-point turn to get away from the tense scene when officers smashed out her windows with their batons, according to her attorneys.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called the treatment of Young "absolutely appalling" and "inexcusable."

"This terrible incident, which should have never happened to anyone, only further strained the relationship between the" police and community, Kenney said in a statement.

"The officers’ inexcusable actions that evening prompted an immediate and thorough investigation of the incident and for personnel to be disciplined and held accountable for their egregious conduct. I hope that the settlement and investigations into the officers’ actions bring some measure of closure to Ms. Young and her family."

Young was handcuffed and separated from her teenage nephew and 2-year-old son for several hours, and no one was ever charged or cited, according to the woman's lawyer. The hearing-impaired toddler lost his hearing aids during the tussle.

The Fraternal Order of Police, the nation's largest police labor union, posted a Facebook picture two days later showing Young's toddler in the arms of a Philadelphia police officer just after the incident.

"This child was lost during the violent riots in Philadelphia, wandering around barefoot in an area that was experiencing complete lawlessness," the union said on Facebook. "The only thing this Philadelphia Police Officer cared about in that moment was protecting this child."

That post was later taken down.

Two Philadelphia policemen, an officer and sergeant, have since been fired in connection to the treatment of Young, a city spokesperson said.

“The behavior that occurred during the interaction between Rickia Young, her nephew, her son, and some of the officers on the scene violated the mission of the Philadelphia Police Department," Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said in a statement.

"As a matter of fact, the ability for officers and supervisors on the scene to diffuse the situation was abandoned, and instead of fighting crime and the fear of crime, some of the officers on the scene created an environment that terrorized Rickia Young, her family, and other members of the public."

Representatives for both the national Fraternal Order of Police and FOP Lodge 5, which represents Philadelphia officers, did not immediately return messages seeking their comments on Tuesday.

Pulled black woman out of her car, beat her, took her toddler, then used it for a PR post on social media. All for a traffic mistake

Like I been saying in here, the problem with policing in America is way worse than most people realize. If you think it is horrible, nah, it is way worse than that. These people legit think they should not be held accountable for their actions in a democratic society.
 
This **** made my blood boil...




Pulled black woman out of her car, beat her, took her toddler, then used it for a PR post on social media. All for a traffic mistake

Like I been saying in here, the problem with policing in America is way worse than most people realize. If you think it is horrible, nah, it is way worse than that. These people legit think they should not be held accountable for their actions in a democratic society.

I remember this story they posted that copaganda picture of some white woman cop savior of this poor lost black child who’s parents left them behind or something. :stoneface:

Glad she got paid and those cops got fired.
 
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