[ED NOTE: You can find the background to Willie Colon's essay over at This is what racists call a Merry Christmas: "Illegals in my yard".]
STOP HATE SPEECH AGAINST LATINOS
by Willie Colón
STOP HATE SPEECH AGAINST LATINOS
23 December 2009Feliz Navidad!
The days of subtle discrimination are over. At least for Latinos it is.
The dehumanization of our community is not a laughing matter. This is wholesale discrimination against all Latinos and an affront to any anyone who understands that bias, racism, and xenophobia have no place in our society. The use of a famous Puerto Rican artist’s song is no mistake. The intention is to smear all Latinos is clear. There are “undocumented individuals“ from all countries around the world in the U.S. but with a stroke of the pen they have found a way to make the term Hispanic or Latino equate to ILLEGAL.
Using an internationally popular Spanish language Christmas song as a vehicle, racism has reared its ugly head again.
I take deep umbrage to having songs depicting Latinos as disease carrying sub-humans seeking free human organ transplants. If this song was about any other ethnic group: Italians, Irish, Jewish, African American there would be protests in the streets.
We must demand respect and am asking that the FCC take measures against the use of this musical hate speech. We Latinos should take sanctions against broadcasters that allow this filth to be presented as should we boycott their sponsors.
Thank you Willie, for allowing us to post this on our site.
UPDATE: You can find Willie Colón tweeting jokes, aphorisms and the such over or you can poke him over at Facebook.
http://twitter.com/thewilliecolon
http://www.facebook.com/thewilliecolon
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