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It’s 2015 and do you know where your latest xenophobia is coming from? The Santa Barbara News-Press, which has been around since 1855. Earlier today @ChipsterLife tweeted us the following image from the newspaper’s Saturday edition: We shared the image on our Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Not surprisingly, people reacted. The photo went viral so […]

You have to be f-ing kidding us. Is it that hard to get ONE comedy writer who knows what they’re talking about? Exhibit A: this is what bad stereotypical comedy is all about, especially when you have just a few days to write a sketch. Welcome to mediocrity, SNL. Your Cuba skit sucked. Enough said.

Just when you think editorial cartoonists from U.S. newspapers would have taken a pause after the Indy Star debacle last weekend, we present this week’s latest Immigration Ignorance entry from Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle. A fan was reading the Sunday edition of the Press-Telegram (a Long Beach, California newspaper), when she snapped McKee’s […]

There were a lot of skeptics this past summer when Glenn Beck and The Blaze made an emotional plea to help the growing number of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border? Yeah, it felt like a bit too much. No way Beck and The Blaze would ever stick to that narrative, right? Exactly. Because in […]

So this happened this week. A public Facebook post is calling attention to what Mucho Burrito, a Mexican fast food company based in Canada, decided to promote. This is what Tania Aguila-Way posted on November 25: Soooo… Mucho Burrito has done it again. Their latest promotional materials make use of one of the most hurtful […]

Last night on the floor of the Senate, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu gave her final pitch to get the Keystone XL passed. The embattled Democratic senator is trying really hard to make sure she is re-elected, but her efforts to get Keystone through the Senate failed. During her speech, the Democrat (yes, Democrat) said this. Hooray! […]

Ok, we don’t want to just sit here and judge what has been going on through Sammy Sosa’s cabeza in the last five years, but before we completely contradict ourselves and indeed judge, we will say this: in 1998, the year we thought baseball was more of an innocent sport than the drug-fueled fraud it […]

UPDATE: Mediaite has now posted clips of Cuomo’s words after we shared the transcript and wrote our story. Seeing it on the air is even worse. Let’s just say this: If Cuomo thinks that he gave an apology, we have a bridge to sell to him. Before you continue reading this, let’s get one thing […]

Looks like that little story from Colorado about an “Illegal Pete’s” restaurant opening in Fort Collins has turned into a big deal for restaurant chain owner Pete Turner and the local group that asked him to change the name. Seriously, the story made Fox News today. Here’s what happened. This past Wednesday, Turner wrote one very […]

We take a moment to let everyone know that people spend real time and money to produce these political videos. You know, because… those “illegals.” First up, this video has one real dramatic voiceover. Next, NumbersUSA. Yes, this is real. But the commercial is confusing. It says “immigrants” at one point then says “legal immigrants?” […]

Sephora University was created by the global cosmetics store to “transform each employee into a genuine Brand Ambassador and guide them through their careers.” Recently, an internal document obtained by Latino Rebels and branded by Sephora University was shared with Sephora employees. It shows a step-by-step makeup guide for employees to celebrate Día de los […]

Our friends at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) have a knack for cutting through the noise and getting to the issue. Last week, the NHFA wrote a letter to the respective heads of HBO and Starbucks about one very simple issue: Where are the Latino performers in the upcoming Concert for Valor […]

MISSION DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO—A new age is upon us, the Age of Soy. No, I’m not talking about some new genetically-modified organism that will (further) fundamentally alter the corn in our tacos, the gas in our cars or the farmland of the Midwest. The development of which I speak has to do with how Mountain […]

So a story by EFE is telling the world that Google “has launched a new Web domain -.SOY- that is intended for members of the Hispanic community, touting it as the ‘place for Latinos online.’” We thought this was an Onion piece, but it is real. Google even has actual people signing up for the […]

The following official ad from the campaign of Democratic candidate for the Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes is quite simply as neo-nativist as the they come. When it comes to immigration, Grimes is running to the right of (wait for it) her Republican opponent, Mitch McConnell. Watch (h/t Buzzfeed). “I approve this message because I’ve never […]

An Change.org petition by Armando Cruz Velasco of Hesperia, California, is calling to get rid of a “Fiesta de los muertos” Scare Zone at Knott’s Scary Farm (part of the famous Knott’s Berry Farm theme park). Cruz Velasco’s petition says: For the last few years, Knott’s Scary Farm has had a Day of the Dead […]

The following is an actual product. How do we know? It’s in flipping SkyMall. Then there is this: Is this a real product? Let’s read the description from the SkyMall page: This stand-out baby gift is the whole enchilada. So cute you could just eat them up! Soft to the touch and gentle against the skin, […]

So our friends at Pocho.com got a reply from the Berkeley landscaper whose “f*cking illegal immigrants” email to a Berkeley college student went viral. Here is what was sent to Pocho’s Lalo Alcaraz: hi mr. alcaraz, this gmail acct was accessed without our authorization after using a public computer and some logout problems. sorry for […]

In response to an email exchange between a local Berkeley landscaper and a student member of UCBerkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association (CASA) which contained rather disparaging and racist language regarding Latinos and immigrants, CASA posted the following statement last night on its Facebook page: Our intent, as the Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, is to advance […]

Yesterday morning we shared the news of an email exchange between a student member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association and Sachi Landscape who wrote the following in response to the student’s request for a tour: Reaction to the story went viral, with over 20,000 views in just hours and growing. Attempts to reach […]

The following video clip from Media Matters captured today from Laura Ingraham’s show pretty much confirms that her ridiculous rant about a bilingual interview conducted by MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart backfired big time. Just listen to the first few minutes. According to Ingraham, she was only “teasing people who try to do simultaneous translation because it’s […]