Saturday, January 19, 2008

El Paso Texas Ethnic Tension


In a recent letter to the editor of the El Paso Times one hispanic lady questioned why so there are so few Mexican Americans in El Paso's city governmental leadership team.
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The city of El Paso, Texas is now composed of over 75% people of Mexican Heritage. Yet the whites are still largely in control.
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Remind you just a little itsy bit of Selma, Alabama? Click on this letter to the editor and it should enlarge enough to be readable.
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I would hope that a Hispanic cop would be as fair with Anglos as a White cop. Or the other way around. But you never know. People here in America do seem to hold lots of racial prejudices that they keep pretty well hidden. And words are not nearly as important as action.
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