The New York Times editorial has noticed that Trump and his goons are picking up any brown skinned person they think is illegal. The Houston Chronicle is defending Whitmire for being so MAGA, the same Whitmire who said the Gulfton residents were mostly undocumented and that the Galleria didn’t want them.
The Houston Chronicle has a history of bias or maybe outright hate of the Hispanic Community. Below is a letter that I sent to the Chronicle back in 2007.
Unfavorable light
THE Chronicle always seems to find words that cast the Hispanic community in the most unfavorable light possible. Why did it use the word “patrona” — a word that connotes political boss? Other candidates are written about without the use of the term “political boss.”
MANUEL BARRERA Houston
Excerpts from the Times Editorial:
Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime
The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos. Federal agents are rounding up people with brown skin, catching both U.S. citizens and legal immigrants in their dragnet. Some Latinos are now afraid to speak Spanish or listen to Spanish music in public. Some are missing Mass and staying home on Sundays, or asking friends to pick up their children from school. American citizens are living in fear of a government that is sworn to protect their liberties and keep them safe.
In the middle of the night in Chicago, agents with rifles swarmed an apartment building, broke down doors and dragged people from their homes in handcuffs. Dozens of those taken away were U.S. citizens. Nationwide, immigration officials have detained more than 170 American citizens, including 20 held for more than 24 hours without the ability to make a phone call, ProPublica reported.
Houston, we have a problem, and that problem is the Houston Chronicle’s disdain for Hispanics. Maybe if we called ourselves Latinx, they would like us more?
