I believe we should focus our efforts first and foremost against those who attacked us on September 11 and who have thus far gotten away with it. the vast majority of those who sponsored, planned and implemented the cold-blooded murder of more than 3000 Americans are still at large, still neither located, nor apprehended, much less punished and neutralized. I do not believe that we should allow ourselves to be distracted from this urgent task simply because it is proving to be more diffucult and lengthy than was predicted. Great nations persevere and then prevail...
I believe that we are perfectly capanle of staying the course in the war against Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, while simultaneously taking the steps necessary to build an international coalition to join us in taking on Saddam Hussein in a timely fashion. If you're going after Jesse James, you ought to organize your posse first. Especially if you're already in the middle of a gunfight with somebody who's out after you.
— Al Gore in 2002...shortly before Bush invaded Iraq
OK, so I came on too strong. Perdoname,
But ... seriously ... I understand why you use it. "HispanicPundit" is a good brand after all
I still stand on everything I've said. "Hispanic" is really about a nostalgia for all things European that, quite frankly, a lot of people were never connected to in our countries outside of just the language and the religion.
Truth be told, I don't hear neither "hispanic" nor "latino" used in daily parlance. I live in a part of NYC where there's a lot of caribeños and immigrants in general, so most people here talk about being PRican, Dominican, Mexican --even 2, 3 generations away from the "patria".
So peace man. I didn't mean to be mean, just saying that politically there are two different intentions behind the use of the term and that, for that reason, they can't be considered interchangeable.