When Smalls was growing up in an interracial family in Puerto Rico , her mother was called derogatory terms and her father was treated unfairly at work because of the color of his skin.
Smalls has been upfront about confronting the "beast of racism" within the fashion industry. In order to have real change, there has to be continuity. The Floyd protests last summer mobilized Latinos to confront racism and anti-blackness within their own communities.
The challenge, as Smalls and others said, is how to keep the focus on racial equity — and how to keep it constant. Leading up to the election after the summer's protests, some conservatives and Republican candidates and lawmakers repeatedly misrepresented the movement as an extremist, violent faction tied to anarchists. Some of the messaging was aimed at Latino voters. False narratives about the Jan.
Capitol blamed Black Lives Matter protesters or equated the deadly siege with marches for racial justice. Part of Latinos' racial reckoning is shedding the idea that "blackness is something else that is U. Latinos "need to stop acting as if our ethnicity shields us from any implications in regard to racial issues," Hernandez said. Latinos attended the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in to defend white nationalism. They included Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the far-right white nationalist extremist group the Proud Boys , who identifies as Afro-Cuban.
The Proud Boys were found to have been involved in the Capitol riot. And, this election, he did very well among rural Latinos. According to a poll by Equis Research, U.
The Democratic margins among Latinos dropped from 38 to 33 percent in , the lowest since the elections. The fact is that the Latino population in the United States has grown sixfold since , surpassing 61 million in And more than 32 million people were eligible to vote in , representing the largest non-white electorate group. New research conducted by Ian Haney Lopez, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, found that half of Latinos do not want to see themselves as a subordinated group.
They would much rather become part of the mainstream, as the Italian, Irish, or Jewish communities did not long ago. If so, their votes will likely play along the same age, gender, religion, economic, and other social political lines as their fellow Americans.
The author is grateful to Linnea Sandin, associate director and associate fellow of the Americas Program, for providing valuable support for this piece. Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS , a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues.
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