Commentary: ‘But what’s a Latino?’
By Raquel Cepeda
Special to CNN
This is a recent piece by Raquel published on CNN.com. Powerful and thought provoking…
NEW YORK (CNN)—Let’s all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration’s master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.
Let’s say that along with strategic partners Telemundo and the Census Bureau, they somehow manage to corral the millions of “Latinos” into filling out the 2010 census forms in April. Say the idea of plot-kneading the message into an already half-baked yet inexplicably popular telenovela, “Mas Sabe el Diablo,” wins over the hearts and minds of “Latinos” everywhere.
But what’s a Latino?
More at http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/22/cepeda.latino.census/index.html
Editor’s note: Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and former editor of Russell Simmons’ Oneworld magazine. Cepeda wrote and directed the feature documentary, “Bling: A Planet Rock,” about hip-hop’s obsession with diamonds and its effect on the decade-long conflict in Sierra Leone. Cepeda is based in New York, where she was born to Dominican parents. Find her at http://djalirancher.com/blog/.
Posted by Mare 139 on October 23, 2009 at 01:53 AM
