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This has to be a joke. We just got this tweet from a follower: @latinorebels You see this BS?! Two-time GOP loser changes name to Cesar Chavez… http://t.co/G3PrKKcMuW http://t.co/OR2LlvHTgi — Malena (@12thLady) June 2, 2014 So we clicked on the story. Apparently… it’s true. Just look at the ballot. Here is what the Capitol Times story […]

And the cultural appropriation hits keep on coming. Today, we present the Zapatista Burrito Bar from the city of Newcastle in clueless old England. We guess the locals love it, since a second location is already being built. According to its Twitter profile, it likes to say “HOLA, GRINGOS” and encourages patrons to “GRAB A […]

¡PENDEJO ALERT! Let the fear-mongering begin. The following “news” (cue dramatic music) by faux outlet Breitbart has American’s Favorite Pendejo, Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R), talking ignorance. Again. Here is the “shocking” video: Here is what King told Breitbart (we emphasized the big nugget for you): If we’re going to put out the bait, […]

We refuse to link back to Univision’s interview with George Zimmerman for a very simple reason: it was shameful. There is so much to be said about why the country’s largest Spanish-speaking network decided to interview a man whose only claim to fame was that he shot Trayvon Martin to death. What Univision did last […]

Everyone knows that Dr. Stephen Steinlight of the Center for Immigration Studies has already earned #NoMames Emeritus status, and Steinlight shows no signs of losing such an honor. We found the following comments via RightWingWatch, which referred to a January 1 interview with Steinlight in a Washington Times community interview with Joseph Cotto. Here is […]

Let’s start by saying: this is not a joke. As first reported by The New York Post. You just have to read it: A rival of Melissa Mark-Viverito filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the front-runner for City Council speaker — claiming she put a Caribbean hex on her while the two were running for the […]

UPDATE, November 19, 2013: The event has now been cancelled. UPDATE, November 18, 2013: a counter-protest is now being scheduled. UPDATE, November 18, 2013: UT has responded with a statement. Apparently drawing from a 2005-06 plan of Young Conservative organizations on campuses across the country, the UT Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) […]

As first reported by The New York Post, a former Alexander McQueen saleswoman who is Latina filed a racial discrimination lawsuit claiming that her supervisor called her “burrito face,” “taco smoke” and “Goya princess.” This is what the Post said: Manhattan resident Moselle Blanco worked at the late fashion designer’s flagship in the Meatpacking District […]

This came from a Facebook friend, who gave us a link from local media in Oaxaca, México. Apparently Aeroméxico employees on a flight from Oaxaca to Ciudad Hermosillo did not allow for several passengers to board the flight because they were dressed in indigenous clothing. Yeah, that is what we said. Here is a translation […]

And so it continues. First, Satan. Now, Latinos posing as Arab terrorists, or is it Arabs posing as Latino immigrants who are also terrorists? Who knows any more. Here is what ABC News reported today: A Republican congressmen this week used insensitive-sounding rhetoric while discussing immigration reform, but he did it while making the case […]

H/T to Adrian Carasquillo of Buzzfeed, who shared this story with us. Remember that “illegal immigrant” hunting permit that was being sold in Colorado and Wisconsin by some lame-ass company in Kansas? You know, this one? Looks like it caused a bit of a problem for Steve Kreiser, who was fired by Wisconsin Gov. Scott […]

We caught this from The HuffPost, which picked it up from The Courthouse News. According to a CN post, Target was accused in a lawsuit of offending employees for a “multicultural tips” to inform store managers “that not all Hispanic employees eat tacos, dance to salsa or wear sombreros.” The CN stories continues: Robert Gonzalez, […]

In response to questions as to whether the U.S. State Department authorized and approved a Gangnam-inspired “USA Visa Style” parody video produced and uploaded to YouTube by the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a State Department official provided us with the following statement: Our embassies and consulates around the world are always looking for new […]

Here we go again. Just a few months after sororities at both Baylor and Penn State made national headlines for their racist “Mexican-themed” photos, a sorority at Cal State San Marcos is the latest example “When Sororities Go Racist.” As reported by NBC Latino, Alpha Chi Omega felt the brunt of the San Marcos community […]

Can this get any more awful? The following video posted by World Star Hiphop NYC earlier today has gone viral on Facebook (now deleted), and it is shameful. Completely unacceptable, and abusive. We can’t even begin to explain it, but apparently some witty pendejo thinks he is a comedian. Watch. (By the way, the video […]

Jan Brewer sure knows how to dig in her heels. But if you follower her logic, she too is an “illegal.” Give it up to the Phoenix New Times for making the connection. Here is the exchange they posted between Brewer and ABC News’ Jim Avila: When asked about why she still uses “illegal immigrant,” […]

After we received a “No comment” from the Midwest novelty company that distributes an “Illegal Immigrant Hunting Permit” sticker a local Colorado gas station was caught selling last week, many people (include our Facebook site) took to social media to raise awareness about Central States Novelty, the company identified in the following report. The response, according […]

You’re kidding us, right? If you click on the following link from the Facebook page of the Conservative Veterans for America, you are greeted with this: Yeah, this whole anti-immigration reform thing has NOTHING to do with the Fear of a Latino Nation. There is no doubt: Racism is thriving on social media. According the […]

UPDATE, 2:30 EST, 1/6/13: According to local Delaware radio, the signs have been removed. Here is what was posted on the Facebook page of Delaware 105.9’s program director: Steve Stutzman reports that Milford School Superintendent Dr. Phyllis Kohel has removed the offending playground signs shown and mentioned on my facebook page yesterday. People power wins […]

¿Qué qué? What? In one of the most culturally ignorant stories we have seen this week (h/t to @joeltana, a story out of Cooper City, FL chronicles how “a volunteer soccer coach for a city-sponsored youth league was ejected from a game after two referees ordered him to stop giving instructions in Spanish to several […]

We got this story from LatinoCommunicators as well as the great Richard Prince of Journal-isms, out of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. (And oh yeah, Soledad O'Brien.) According to Prince's post, meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired by ABC Shreveport affiliate KTBS because Lee "responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station's Facebook […]