Scoop: With Dems faced w/ clawing back support from drifting Latino men, this is how
@RubenGallego
looks to reach them
A
@Canelo
fight watch party Cinco de Mayo weekend for more than 100 Latino residents & families at a boxing gym w/ a taco truck outside
I truly think the scale of how horrified the Latino community is right now is not being understood, which is why the reporting about this moment is so important. So a quick story. I was chatting w/ a friend I met through the course of my work and she told me she had been crying.
It is incumbent upon us to include Latino and immigrant and Mexican voices in our reporting, and to have Latino reporters included in the reporting and listened to in the decision-making, and to not minimize this as business as usual.
At Cashman Middle School off the strip, Spanish-speaking Latino voters were asked why they supported Bernie and they said “Honestly, he’s the only one we see on TV and in Spanish ads.”
I’m a broken record on Latino investment, but it’s important. Speak to voters where they are.
Her husband was at the community pool and a group of white men said they thought the killing went too far but they agreed with some of the stuff the shooter stood for, like making sure whites aren’t wiped out and Hispanics take over. This was in the ruby red city of...Los Angeles
If we want to do our best job now we have to truly listen and understand this isn’t just a sad moment that will pass, but the culmination of an anti-immigrant four decades in politics, that has only become louder, emboldened, and unchecked by American leaders.
Many reporters get to go home after talking to suffering people or writing a heavy story and everything is fine. They get to dip into this world and then quickly evacuate.
Now Hispanic Americans have been targeted, some who are immigrants, and all who have limited political power. That’s what’s going on. And people are terrified.
Obviously, I shared this all because I want folks to know what’s going on. But I would also add, the level of community, of people checking in on each other, and sharing how they’re feeling has been really incredible. People are scared but resolute things will get better.
I read more than 160 DMs, emails and texts from people who told me they didn’t have a safe space to share these stories. They were from people in red states and blue states, the united states of hating immigrants and people who just look like they might be
On CNN
@kaitlancollins
says a Voice of America’s reporter who served as pool reporter on AF1 has been asked by Biden camp not to travel with them tomorrow due to possible coronavirus exposure.
The
@ResistanceRev
Chrorus with special guest
@AOC
singing “This Joy” at the
#AOC5k
in celebration of the spirit and tenets of the Green New Deal. You don’t see this every day.
Wow Biden: “I think about what it takes for a black person to love America. That is a deep love for this country that has for far too long never been recognized.”
Making sure this tweet shows up in the original thread and also feel free to DM any story of how you are dealing with this moment that you would rather share anonymously and, with your permission, I will post it here.
Another story I’m sharing with permission, from a Latina health care provider in another largely-Hispanic border city on what she should do if someone hateful targets her workplace.
From a white man in Austin about his Latino family and their fear of taking his children to public spaces and that his legal citizen mother and father in law could be targeted nonetheless.
I’m seeing tweets rejoicing at Nielsen out. I would just say that while Trump is president and Stephen Miller is a top advisor, replacements aren’t usually better in the eyes of those who oppose the admin.
This one hit me because he says he’s not good with words and then writes this thoughtful comment. “It’s as though my memories and relationships are diminished because of viewpoints and ideology that I would never have guessed were in their hearts.”
“The mutation called D614G was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a cluster that started from a restaurant owner returning from India and breaching his 14-day home quarantine. The man has since been sentenced to five months in prison and fined.”
A man in the Boston area scared for his 70-year-old mom being reported as in the country illegally even though she came to the country legally decades ago.
Biden comparing Buttigieg to the son he lost, Beau, was not only powerful and surprising — “I’ve never done this before” — but it almost seemed to take Buttigieg aback, knowing what that comparison means to the former VP.
This broke my heart, from an “American that happens to have brown skin.”
“It is really the last few months that I feel not wanted by my fellow Americans and it hurts. It hurts because we contribute to the economy, to the food and the culture.”
As another black man has been shot by police, I’m reminded of how Julian Castro was talking about police reform a year before George Floyd was killed by cops. Not only was he excluded from a DNC speaking slot but high-profile journalists waved it away as a non-issue.
Her husband is a manager at a grocery chain in Southern California and gets told to go back to Mexico weekly. “I fear for his safety and the safety of our kids.”
Reminder: The El Paso hate crime mass shooting that killed 23 and injured 22 at a Walmart was perpetrated by a white man who drove 10 hours to kill Mexicans and Mexican nationals because of a so-called “Hispanic invasion of Texas” he posted about in a racist screed.
Fox News is back to fully embracing the "invasion" rhetoric on migration.
Lisa Boothe: "I see military-age men... I ask myself, at what point do we see this for what it is, or what it appears like to me -- an invasion?"
Clyburn’s Biden endorsement, the kind that money can’t buy.
Deeply personal, methodical, mentioning friends and neighbors in South Carolina, invoking MLK Jr.
“I’m voting for Joe Biden, South Carolina should be voting for Joe Biden. And here’s why.”
From a journalist at a major newspaper. “I’m terrified in a way maybe only one or two other people in my newsroom are. For the rest of them, what’s happening is only abstractly horrifying.”
She has family members that escaped that shooting at the garlic festival. They’re mixed but her sister looks more “Latina.”
“I’m so much more scared for her because her brown skin makes her a target for violence than me.”
Pecos County Judge Joe Shuster says he’s hosting
@BetoORourke
today because he will never get an audience with Governor Abbott. Says if Beto wins he will know their story around rural health care and Medicare issues the community needs help with.
This thread is heavy. A moment of levity: I talked to my small mom today, an immigrant who’s lived in NYC for 50 years. She’s feisty so I asked what she would say if someone told her not to speak Spanish?
“I’m Hispanic and I’m proud of it, what are you going to do about it?” 🤦🏽♂️
.
@Acosta
says Trump advisors are upset with a call of Arizona from another network. Says they’re worried if they lose Arizona they have to win Wisconsin because they feel they will lose Michigan.
Also horse race with Latinos if you’re into that sorta thing:
BIDEN: 58%
TRUMP: 31%
BIDEN: 57%
DESANTIS: 28%
1401 Latinos, the largest bipartisan poll of Hispanics so far this cycle. A good poll for Biden, better than the 2020 final results of 59% to 38% according to Pew…
NEW from me: I’ve got the first look at a Univision poll and how it shows January 6th and Trump’s legal woes like the Georgia indictment could be an opening for the Biden campaign with Latinos via
@TheMessenger
.
@AOC
w/
@residente
on Puerto Rico health care disparities, already bad, & made worse in the age of COVID
But this part below is powerful. On patients asking how much it’ll cost before intubation. Says that doesn’t happen in a compassionate, modern, rich society but a brutal one
“At a time when Democratic leadership’s message was ‘We’re working on the message’ [
@Ocasio2018
] offered bold, progressive policies – medicare for all, criminal justice reform, and a green energy based economy.”
“I have thought for a while I would be doing this work until I retire, but increasingly I wonder if I will do this work until a fellow countryman kills me instead.”
Sandeep Dhaliwal, the first Sikh to become deputy in Houston, TX was fatally shot from behind yesterday
He was a HERO!
With the help of his community, he filled an 18 wheeler truck with supplies worth over a million dollars for those affected by Hurricane Harvey
KNOW HIS NAME!
McCabe blames Trump for amplifying lies about him and says he won't be quiet anymore.
"And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about us.
No more."
JUST IN: Statement from Andrew McCabe: "I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey.”
A random Chadwick Boseman moment that made me laugh at the time:
@THEKIDMERO
and
@desusnice
asked him, seriously how tired are you of doing the Wakanda Forever salute and he laughed and basically admitted he was:
A Dreamer student asks about reinstating DACA and Buttigieg says “I want you to know that I see you as an American. That you belong to this country as much as anybody,” to applause. Nice moment to end his townhall actually.
Meanwhile, Bad Bunny is currently making music history. Not as a Latino artist, but just in general. His virtual concert during the pandemic started in front of Yankee Stadium, is driving thru NYC on a truck, and just brought on a killer featured artist Sech from Panama. Amazing.
A couple years ago, when I was writing for American Dad!, I needed an Arabic speaker for a small part. Our casting director recommended a Saudi comedian, who happened to be in LA for a couple months shooting a tv show. His name is Fahad Albutairi.
NEW from me: Afro-Latino
@RitchieTorres
wants to be in the Hispanic Caucus and the Black Caucus but he can’t be in both:
“It's an antiquated notion that you can be Black or Latino, but you can't be both.”
via
@Newsweek
“I presented them w/ his original birth certificate & other documents and they ignored them. So now I’ve faxed over all the documents to the ICE agent handling the case. He’s going on a full month of being wrongfully detained. He’s a U.S. citizen and he needs to be released now.”
This is absolutely indefensible. The state is detaining and American citizen solely because of his race and his families country of origin. He had his freaking ID.
Haven’t seen
@davidaxelrod
madder than just now. Interrupts
@VanJones68
to say Trump isn’t subtle when he talks about Detroit and Philadelphia being known for corruption. Says “it’s about race.”