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I am running out to the NPR studio here in Manhattan to record another session of News and Notes with Farai Chideya.

We will talk about how steroids brought the downfall of Marion Jones, an MTV poll that says that white youth is happier than black, Juanita Bynum's messy divorce and .... prepare your selves ... why I hate the word Hispanic.

TADA!

Tune in today to your local NPR News and Notes schedule or catch the whole show online after 3pm.

I am opening a chat session and I will also be liveblogging Univisión's Presidential Forum. This is going to be incredibly interesting since the forum will be conducted in English.

LIVEBLOGGING
María Elena Salinas' first question seems odd : Is it a political risk to appear in this forum. This is an obvious jab at all the republicans that have refused to appear before a latino audience.

Jorge Ramos asks Kucinich, Dodd and Richardson if they would support making Spanish the second official language of the United States. Richardson used the opportunity for ragging on Univision for not allowing him and the other Spanish-speaking candidates to do so.

Kucinich has gotten the most applause with his answer about ending the war in Iraq.

I can't believe they went there : Salina's has asked why build a wall on the Mexican border and not build one with on the border of Canada?

More than two thousand questions were polled at Univision and about 70% of the questions were about immigration; which is why more than half of the forum is focused on immigration.

Now that last part of the forums is focused on America Latina ---please notice they didn't say 'hispanic' america.

Another incredibly interesting question : Do you believe Hugo Chavez is a dictator?

What do you think is going to happen in a Cuba without Castro and what would you do to aid that transition.

STOP EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND WATCH THIS VIDEO CLIP.

Yes, I am screaming at the top of my lungs. This piece of genius is brough to you by Latino Comedy Project and, I have to say, it is the most brilliant piece of immigration-related comedy I have seen or heard EVER!

The papi chulo of ethnic polling has this to say about today's elections :

"You can expect the majority of Hispanics to show up to vote in New Jersey, where they are more than 10 percent of the electorate," Miami-based [Sergio] Bendixen said.

The border states of Arizona and New Mexico may also see Hispanics influencing the ballots in a year when immigration became a hot political topic.

Arizona was in the center of the immigration debate, and Republican congressional candidate Randy Graf has taken a hardline stance on illegal border crossings in his race against Democrat Gabrielle Giffords.

In neighboring New Mexico, Hispanics could play a key role in deciding whether Republican Rep. Heather Wilson (news, bio, voting record) loses her re-election bid to Democrat Patricia Madrid, the state's Hispanic attorney general.

"Graf could lose to a Democrat with his strong anti-immigrant speech, and in New Mexico, Patricia Madrid may very well take the congressional seat of Wilson," said political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.

SWING VOTE IN FLORIDA
Bendixen said Hispanic votes could also play a key role in the Florida governor's race to replace outgoing Republican Gov.

El mundo from el punto de vista de una Nuyorican mami soltera livin la vida from the borderline while writing, spitting activist poesia and entertaining her daughter la MapucheRican

From a blog, it's gone on to be a full-fledge magazine about Chicano culture : "We are Xispas Magazine, an online journal of Xicano culture, art, and politics from Aztlan - Anahuac. We present books, opinions, social critiques, history, and indigenous traditions."

Wandering anthropologist from Mexico

Over at Black Commentator's quote on white supremacy I tell Jeff about my doubts about its existence.

I really have been wondering about this term, putting to practice what I have learned with Jeffrey Feldman's Frameshop exercises in rhetoric.

Do we really have to perpetuate the myth that whites truly have supremacy by saying racism and discrimination are intrinsic to being white? Is white really supreme? Or should we be talking about the use race as a diversion from the consideration of social stratification and economic class war in this country?

And it's in pondering these questions that I stumble upon this quote, via David Neiwert.

[via Jewish World Review]:

Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic p oliticians from L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).

But you'll never hear or read such forgiving caveats in the mainstream press's hostile coverage of the pro-immigration enforcement members of the Minutemen Project --who are universally smeared as racists. For what? For peacefully demanding that our government enforce its laws and secure its borders.

A quote that proves to me that white supremacy is really not about what it seems. Why?

Guess who wrote this piece of unhinged cropoliticking: