Latino Leaders Whip Out #ThatMexicanThing to Criticize Trump

*It’s on! Mike Pences’s #Mexicanthing remark sparked a quick and wide backlash  in the Latino community, getting people fired up. VL

By Dennis Romero, LA Weekly (3 minute read) 

During last night’s vice presidential debate, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine reminded Republican Gov. Mike Pence multiple times that his GOP running mate, Donald Trump, said “Mexicans are rapists and criminals,” in the words of the senator from Virginia.

Having heard just about enough on the topic, with little defense for his running mate other than to say Trump meant that “some” south-of-the-border newcomers were felons, Pence said, “Senator, you’ve whipped out that Mexican thing again.”

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That, of course, started a social media firestorm (#ThatMexicanThingAgain) that threatens to be the “Damn, Daniel” of October 2016. Latino groups seized the moment to bring attention to Trump’s remarks about Mexicans, which is perhaps the opposite of what Pence intended. READ MORE