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Rick Sanchez, a CNN anchor, provoked a tempest in a Twitter this week when he said he'd be a rich guy if he "sold out as hispanic and worked at fox news." The commentary on the episode mostly centered on whether working at Fox News Channel constituted "selling out," with left-wing bloggers defending Sanchez and conservatives weighing in on Fox's behalf. But the real outrage in Sanchez's statement isn't what he implied about Fox News; it's the whole idea that an individual is capable of "selling out" others who happen to share his race or ethnicity.
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No More Racial Sell-Outs
No such thing, it is a cultural group, not a racial group.
"Rick Sanchez is European -- I would bet that at least 90% of his ancestry is that -- maybe he has remote American Indian Ancestry -- but he certainly "looks" like a typical white guy."
Plenty of typical "white guys" in Mexico--even blonds, same as Argentina, Chile, etc. Plenty of Hispanic Asians (Brazil and Peru especially--mostly Japanese), and black Hispanics (e.g. Cuba, Panama).
"In the context of those who are Hispanics, the ones with mostly Spanish or Portuguese blood are among the most oppressive groups in history. First, they imported more slaves from Africa than the Brits and French combined. Next,...