What’s In A Name?
¿Cómo se llama?
The media’s coverage
of Spanish-surnamed individuals is, at times, appalling, churlish and
demeaning.
In today’s San Jose Mercury News, it was reported
that three such individuals were involved in a string of home-invasion
robberies. Julio Garcia, Martina Loya-Mendoza, and Jesus Ayala were arrested on
suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug
paraphernalia, and possession of burglary tools. Ah ha, “suspicion,” would they
have had their names printed in the paper if they were identified as Seamus
O’Reilly, Margaret McDougall, and Fred Bartlett, III?
Finally, the lead
story in the local news section, depicted a poor twenty-two-year-old in an
unflattering photograph, and said that he was arraigned on charges that he
raped, beat, and suffocated another human being. His Spanish-surname was
announced as Manuel Anthony Lopez, and some individuals were probably incensed
that he was so identified. Wonder of the victim’s mother knew what was
happening as she slept in another room, while Manny murdered her two-year-old
son. At least the media used discretion by not revealing the boy’s name.
Leave Those Poor
Cubans Alone
They’re Real
Americans Today
When the print and
broadcast media aren’t devoting the majority of their inept efforts covering
Donald J. Trump, a candidate with no political experience whatsoever, they
continue to cover two GOP Presidential candidates with Spanish-surnames.
One is Canadian-born
Rafael Edward Cruz, whose father was born in Cuba, and the other is Marco
Antonio Rubio, whose father and mother left their home in Cuba in 1956, before
Castro came into power. Earlier, Rubio had incorrectly stated that the family left
Cuba as “political refugees from a communist regime,” rather than when they
actually left, at the tail end of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship.
It is appalling that
the media covers these two neophytes so thoroughly as if they had any real,
worthwhile, pre-presidential, governing experience as first-term Senators. Do we
want a duplication of the ineptness and indecision-making of another first-term
Senator, who is still leading, or sometimes misleading, our country?
There is a
possibility that whether a Democrat or Republican is elected President, they
will do their best to make Americans grate.
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