Latinos, The Working Class, Big Tech
In today’s Daily Chela newsletter….
Spotlight: Working Class
Opinion: Latino Racism
Podcast: Trump vs. Kamala
Video: Mexican History
Latino Tech Startups
More News and Links
Rodriguez: The Working Class Is At War With Itself
Recently a working-class white guy on the Internet said some things in favor of the poor and workers against the rich financiers and corporations, the real elites who proportionately pay less in taxes yet control the two major political parties and most U.S. economic, social, and global policies.
This dude said he’d never “punch down” when it comes to blame for the country’s failures. I was with him so far. It turned out he was a Trumper. Why? the questioner asked. His answer was now slippery and unclear. But I could read between the lines—it was about the “other.”
You know, Blacks, migrants, LGBTQ people. Those who don’t fit into the paradigm of what Trump and now most Republicans say are true “Americans”: white, straight, and Christians (who also love guns, hate women’s choice, and don’t believe in climate change).
Many Trumpers claim these “patriots” are also white working class. But I will say here and now—there’s no such thing as a “white working class.” In this country, the working class is white, black, and brown.
They include citizens, legal residents, and undocumented. They have many religions, and some have no religion. They are straight as well as on the spectrum of queerness. They are men and women, abled and persons with disabilities. They are Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, and Independents.
Luis J. Rodriguez
Contributing Opinion Writer
Opinion: Why Are So Many Latinos Racist Against Themselves?
It would seem like an achievable goal to unite Latinos in the fight against racism, but this can be quite difficult when considering that racism has often divided Latinos. For Latinos, particularly Mexican Americans, racism has created unique cultural consequences.
Take New Mexicans. When the United States took over the border states, American Anglos saw these Latinos as Mexican and treated them with disdain. Never mind the fact that many border state residents had unique cultures owing to decades of contact with the United States via trade.
This oppression resulted in an internalized racism that’s still present in these people’s ancestors today.
Audio Podcast: Trump vs. Kamala
In this episode, Brandon sits down with Marcos Cabrera and Carlos Aguilar to debate U.S. politics and the upcoming election. Topics include: Trump, Walz, Kamala, Latino voters, January 6th, and more.
Watch: Mexico, Spain, and Indigenous Peoples
In this course Daily Chela contributor Eli Magana discusses the history of Mexico. Topics include the Toltecs, the Aztecs, Spanish rule, Cortez, Mestizos, the cast system, and more.
Funding Remains Sparse In Latino Tech
While there are countless tales of how major technological innovations came out of someone’s garage (like Apple’s first computers in the 1970s and Amazon’s first web page in the 1990s), the reality is that the majority of innovative ideas and gadgets flourish with funding.
These organized groups have either come out of university labs of research or from a company’s research work that is primarily funded with government and private funding.
With the exception of Texas, metros in large states with a high percentage of Latinos such as California and Florida are not showing an increase of Latinos in those sectors.
Watch now: American Homeboy Movie
Now playing on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Daily Chela TV. American Homeboy explores the complex origins of pachuco and cholo culture which sprouted from American soil more than 100 years ago in response to wartime sentiment, social alienation, and government discrimination only to become a pop culture phenomenon.
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