Our New Anahuac

It is often said that to understand someone’s values, one must simply look at his monthly budget. This line of reasoning insists that analyzing an individual’s spending will reveal a great deal about what is important to him. In late July, the Pew Center released a report regarding the decline in wealth from about 2005 [...]

I never got a chance to blog about this the other day, but Obama had a masterful week the week of Osama Bin Laden’s assassination. He buried the campaign of Donald Trump by releasing his birth certificate, just before the White House Correspondent’s dinner.  It is too obvious that he was providing fodder for the [...]

Background of Incident This weekend, I was invited by some friends of mine to visit Cleveland, Texas.  The trip was not a leisurely one.  We were invited to meet with a community which had been affected by a horrific incident-the gang rape of an 11-year old by a group of men.   This young girl was [...]

“This is how the man does it, and if you don’ t wake up and find out how he does it, I tell you, they’ll be building gas chambers and gas ovens pretty soon– I don’t mean those kind you’ve got at home in your kitchen– [and] you’ll be in one of them, just like [...]

Perhaps if I had never worked in the world of mortgages, I would count myself among my friends who decry “subprime mortgages” merely as a way to rob minority communities of wealth. As an ex-mortgage broker I am intimately familiar with the products known as subprime mortgages. Admittedly, there is a great deal to criticize [...]

I enjoyed the protest today. I posted a little about it at El Pueblo’s Online edition, along with more pics. Houston United (HoustonUnido.org) protested in front of Houston’s Clear Channel offices. They were protesting Arizona-style bills proposed by State Representative Riddle, and the racist, slanted rhetoric found on 740 AM. Michael Berry, a Clear Channel [...]

For Immediate Release February 16, 2011 Contact: Natali Fani-González 202.787.1813 JOINT PRESS STATEMENT Latinos, Immigrant Advocates Nationwide Send Unambiguous Message in Light of Brisenia’s Murder: Stop the Hate, We are Watching Tucson, Arizona – As Latinos and immigrant rights advocates from all over the United States applaud the guilty verdict in the trial of Shawna [...]

I was asked to comment this week on a couple of issues on the immigration front, and on the so-called Latino movement in general.  Employers Debbie Riddle (also known as La Bruja in our community) recently filed a bill which would make felons out of people who have employed undocumented workers.  Under the bill, it [...]

Affirmative Action A few weeks ago, a federal appeals court refused to hear an appeal from a University of Texas student who was challenging the right of the university to even the playing field in admissions by considering the race of certain applicants. The court essentially said that the university had the right to prefer [...]

In the last few weeks, the DREAM Act became wildly popular among Latinos from all walks of life. The DREAM Act opened up a path to legalization for children who came to the United States with undocumented parents. The law would have required undocumented youth to either obtain a college degree or to join the [...]