Now that we have it on good authority that the Iran War will be over in about 19 minutes, we can move on to other issues.
Hey, who knew conquering a nation of 90 million people would be so quick, easy, and pain-free? Those adjectives, incidentally, describe the main goals of American life and are the only criterion for assessing if we’re willing to get up off the couch.
In any case, I’m going to return my attention to the ostensible focus of this site, which is Latino culture.
So here’s an uplifting stat for you: More Latinas are pursuing a bachelor’s degree or higher than ever before.
This is great news. Considering education is the best equalizer for inequality, it’s just a matter of time before… what’s that? Despite these significant strides in educational attainment, “Latinas who have a bachelor’s degree or higher still earned lower wages on average compared to white men”?
Well, damn.
Are there any other areas in which Latinas have shown huge increases? Yes, the fertility rate for teens in Texas rose for the first time in over a decade, “a shift driven by disproportionately high rates among Hispanic teens” after the state’s six-week state abortion ban took effect.
So congrats, Texas. You are tops in Latina teen mothers.
Those two stats do not balance out. In truth, the status of Latinos in America is as dire as it has ever been. This may be why a disturbingly high number of Latinos are giving up and joining the lunatics who would just as soon imprison or shoot us.
You see, there are “people within nearly every community who can respond to misogynistic, aggressive, conspiratorial rhetoric, and then become radicalized fairly quickly,” and Latinos are no exception. This explains why so many Latinos are joining white supremacist movements.
As many political commentators have noted, “anyone who denies that a Latino man could also be a white supremacist is probably ignorant about the way race works, and destroys, in our country.”
Hell, “far-right militias are increasingly recruiting Latino members,” and even the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer “has started publishing a Spanish-language version.”
I’m not sure what the Spanish translation is for “master race,” but I’m sure it’s loathsome in any dialect.
Among our nation’s most persistent, poisonous traits is our “long history of enmity towards various ethnic groups — Italians, Irish, and Greeks — that eventually subsided as those groups came to be considered white.”
This is because “white supremacy’s ability to adapt” is astonishing, so “racism will likely be just as entrenched in a browner America as it is now,” creating a version of “white supremacy, with a tan.”
OK, that is not so appealing. It seems that America possesses “not only the desire to rid the nation of Black and brown people, but aims to banish us and the issue of race from the nation’s moral conscience.”
All this is fairly depressing, which is a phrase I have been using a lot since 2016.
So if you hear any statistics that are uplifting, hopeful, or just not worrisome (I will settle for that at this point), let me know.
But if you uncover a Spanish-language version of Deutschland Uber Alles, keep it to yourself.
















