To the editor: Gustavo Arellano has an interesting viewpoint on the evolving politics of some Latino voters who favored President-elect Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. I assume that I match into his class of the “wokoso.”
My mindset was created by the challenges of the Nice Melancholy, the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, World Warfare II, the labor motion and the racial attitudes behind indicators saying, “No canines or Mexicans allowed.” Added to this was the activism of the civil rights motion, the ladies’s rights motion and the anti-Vietnam Warfare motion, and the homicide of our idols John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Quick-forward to the post-baby boomer generations, and we have now voters of Latino heritage influenced by the Reagan revolution, with its benign amnesty of the undocumented, recompense for incarcerated Japanese People and its underhanded dealing that introduced in regards to the Iran-Contra scandal. Extra Latinos have additionally been drawn into evangelical Christian church buildings with their Calvinist and dominionist theologies.
Lastly, we will embrace the indoctrination of Fox Information viewers and the ultra-conservative radio reveals. This media ecosystem has the power to persuade viewers and listeners {that a} sizzling canine is filet mignon — and that Trump shall be an awesome president.
Anthony Avila, Whittier
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To the editor: As a fan of Arellano, I learn with curiosity his column on Latinos coming of age politically within the November election however got here away with two issues.
I don’t see how Latinos voting for Trump reconciles with the themes of Cesar Chavez’s 1984 Commonwealth Membership speech. Arellano says Chavez spoke of a “California ‘dominated’ by the descendants of farmworkers, who would change issues for the higher and always remember the place they got here from, generations later.”
No matter why, voting in higher numbers for Trump and his vulgar, white-supremacist screeds appears to outline forgetting the place you got here from.
Additionally, halfway by means of the column, Arellano states that “2024 is the yr that Latinos lastly turned People.” But in the remainder of the column he by no means references them as People, quite all the time as Latinos. And, it’s carried out principally in an us-versus-them context.
Identification politics is killing this nation, and Arellano appears to be cheering the buy-in.
Mitch Paradise, Los Angeles
