Latino Republicans Want Racist Senator Booted

Latino Republicans Want Racist Senator Booted

NewsTaco March 16, 2011

As NewsTaco reported yesterday, a state Senator from Kansas made disturbing and extremely disparaging remarks about undocumented immigrants, suggesting that they should be shot from helicopters, like feral hogs. The reaction has been swift and substantial. […]

GOP Candidate Says Deport Farmworkers, Make Blacks Work in The Fields

NewsTaco

How do you get a group of Republican politicians to run away from you as fast as they can? Say something stupid like this, reported in the BuffaloNews.com, in the […]

Kansas Rep: Shoot Undocumented From Helicopters Like Hogs

NewsTaco March 15, 2011

I’m not sure where to begin this, it’s so beyond incredible. Republican Kansas state Rep. Virgil Peck suggested yesterday that undocumented immigrants be shot from a helicopter, like they do to feral hogs. […]

Racist UCLA Student Rants Against Asians

Mary Mata

In case you haven’t seen this yet, it’s worth a watch, if only because it reminds us all of the importance of being open-minded, and of the latent racism that […]

Latinos Identifying By Race More Than A Decade Ago

Mary Mata

An analysis of 2010 Census data by USA Today revealed that Hispanics in states with some of the largest Hispanic populations categorized themselves by race more often than in the […]

Rick Perry And The GOP Destroying Schools For Latino Kids

Mary Mata March 14, 2011

Texas Governor Rick Perry met last week with GOP leaders of the state to urge them, again, to not raid the state’s $9 billion rainy day fund to stem the bleeding of […]

Few Blacks & Latinos Means No Looting in Japan

NewsTaco

That’s the headline of a forum posted in Topix.com, that builds itself as “…the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to […]

Homemade Bomb Targeted at Latino Family in Mississippi

NewsTaco March 11, 2011

For no apparent reason, except what the authorities in DeSoto County, Mississippi are thinking is racial violence, a chemical bomb was placed in the mailbox of a Latino family – […]

What People Of Color Have At Stake In Wisconsin

Mary Mata March 9, 2011

Images of Latino, Native American, Black, and Asian Wisconsinites are proving elusive in the media coverage of the fight for workers’ rights beyond a recent appearance by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. […]

News Taco To Go: Dead Kids, NPR, Libya, Ché And Juárez Violence

Mary Mata

Seven children aged 7 months to 11 were killed in a barn fire in a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania. A former NPR executive was taped by the same guy who […]