What Defines ‘Hispanic’?

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National Review:

Once upon a time, the liberal position was to reject the old discriminatory branding of people by the color of their skins rather than by the content of their characters.

 

Not now. Political and career advantage is found in trumpeting — or occasionally making up — genealogies.

 

Take the inexact category of Latino or Hispanic — an often constructed identity that increasingly no one quite knows how to define. Almost anyone can be a Latino or Hispanic, from a fourth-generation American with one-quarter Mexican ancestry, to a first-generation Cuban, to a youth who recently arrived illegally from Central America, to someone whose great-grandparents emigrated from the Portuguese Azores.

What ties them together? Not necessarily appearance, their names, knowledge of Spanish, or proximity of their ancestral homelands.

New Mexico governor Susana Martinez is Latina — her parents were Mexican-American. But her now-desperate Democratic challenger for the governorship, Gary King, claims that Martinez “does not have a Latino heart.” Apparently for King, a self-appointed genealogist, if you do not share his liberal agenda, then you are, de facto, not Latino.

Senate majority leader Harry Reid made a similar statement in 2010, when he defined ancestry by political ideology: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay?”

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What Defines ‘Hispanic’?

 

 

I can't believe it! More proof of the (evil) Republicans "War On Women" (pat. pend.) ‘Hispanic’...Hispanic! Why not Hesrpanic? And what about our Sister & Brothers in the Transgender/Transsexual/Intersex community! I'm feeling more than a little offended here.

OTOH I guess we can't expect anything else from a lackey of the evil Kock brothers and euro-centric racist like Victor Hanson.