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The Conservative Tavern Facebook page has over 185,000 fans (the FB site was formed in August, 2014, by the way). It also has a website whose front page doesn’t even have content, just placeholder copy: This morning the page posted a piece with no attribution or links about the “dangers” of those “illegals” coming in […]

Today someone sent us a Mashable piece on a new bilingual campaign to raise self-esteem with young Latinos. The campaign, sponsored by American Family Insurance, shows a lot of really adorable young children posing to quotes from influential Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans (yes, even Carlos Slim, which was a head-scratcher). Nonetheless, as […]

Sofía Vergara. Advancing Latina stereotypes for humankind anywhere she goes.

Here is the video clip of what GOP congressional candidate for Virginia’s 10th district Barbara Comstock said this week at a debate: Fedex can track packages coming in here all the time; we can track people who are coming into the country. And we can do that right. There, friends, is this year’s Republican talking […]

You know you have major problems when even the most sympathetic of outlets says you that your story is whack. That is exactly what Breitbart is telling the organizer of the silly “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” protest, which was suddenly cancelled in the early hours of September 20 because of a “bloodbath” threat […]

UPDATE, September 24, 2014: According to Pocho.com, Tressy Capps is no longer with Coldwell Banker. Capps has also reached out to us to see if she can appear on our live radio show. She plans to join us this Sunday night at 10pmET. Capps said that she was not representing Coldwell Banker when she made […]

GOOD magazine is a Los Angeles-based “magazine for the global citizen.” The magazine’s Twitter profile has over 930,000 followers, and yesterday morning, GOOD’s Twitter decided to tweet this out: The reference to Mexico’s September 16 Independence Day holiday as being “less douchey” than Cinco de Mayo, led you to a story called, “Put on a […]

You would think by now, sororities and fraternities would just stop with hosting dumb events in racist costumes, but apparently not. This weekend, Cal State Fullerton’s Daily Titan reported the following: Cal State Fullerton sorority Alpha Delta Pi (ADPi), Zeta Alpha chapter is facing serious sanctions following a culturally inappropriate “Taco Tuesday” recruitment event last […]

Excuse us? A fan alerted us to this one. According to BetaBeat, there is now a “selfie sombrero.” No, really there is. Look here. We really thought this was a joke, but then we read this from ACER UK: Acer has collaborated with fashion designer Christian Cowan-Sanluis and created the world’s first Selfie-Hat. The sombrero […]

Just five days after a social media controversy about a new “Bandidos” restaurant opening in San Francisco’s Castro district caught owners off-guard, this afternoon, the owners posted the following statement on their restaurant’s Facebook site: Reaction to the name change has been generally positive, although some think the owners were being too sensitive. Nonetheless, the […]

Oh, boy. Our least favorite time of the year is upon us: Hispandering (sorry, Hispanic) Heritage Month, where everyone wants a piece of the action, because, you know… Latin@s are a hot market! HMM is on, and we are already seeing some of the same sadness that has happened in previous years. Are you ready? […]

LATEST UPDATE, September 11, 2014: The name has been changed. UPDATE, September 7, 2014: Bandidos has responded on its Facebook page. In case you want more context, meet the owners. That led to Gómez, who lives in The Castro, to write the following: “Hi Bandidos thanks for responding—we would like you to change the name. […]

Is this 2012 all over again? After what seemed to be progress in 2013 when it came to addressing the Kennedy Center’s abysmal “Latino problem,” this morning the Kennedy Center released its 2014 list of honorees. This morning’s news did not sit well with Felix Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of National Hispanic Foundation for the […]

Not a day goes by where we don’t get pitched. The vast majority of emails we get come from independent artists, musicians, filmmakers or authors asking if we can check out their work and if we like it, can we help promote it. Most of the the time we do. However, here is an example […]

You would think that by 2014 —after years of seeing fish stick fails or Latino-inspired bleaches— companies and the agencies they hire would finally get a clue about how best to thrive in a U.S. market that is becoming more diverse. You would think that these companies and their agencies would go beyond the stale […]

A group with ties to Murrieta, California, that has 1,500 Facebook members is actively recruiting supporters via social media to organize a “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” along the US-Mexico border. According to the group’s site, the attempt to close all these ports of entry will start at 8:00amPST on September 20. Here is […]

Benefit Cosmetics has hired Mexican American comedic actress Anjelah Johnson as part of the brand’s “Wing Women” campaign. The 90’s themed music video touted as being funny is far from it—it’s offensive. In the video Johnson is dressed as her made up character, Bon Qui Qui, in tight fitting gaudy mismatched clothes, painted in exaggerated layers […]

While everyone is focusing on how Sofía Vergara is complicit during Monday’s Emmy sexist and racist fiasco, it’s about time we shift to address the real problem, a manipulative non-inclusive wealthy industry doling out abuse at the expense of a minority who cannot afford to compete on an equal platform. When so called “other” voices are […]

This page has written a lot about Sofía Vergara, this generation’s Charo. While some might feel proud of a forced-accent “hot” Latina, most rational people we know aren’t that into what Vergara’s bit represents. So you can imagine that when Vergara decided to do the following during last night’s Emmy show… …it would only perpetuate […]

As you watch the following video, all you need to know is this about the person talking in the video: Tamara Scott is the National Committeewoman for the Republican National Convention. This is what Scott said on her radio show: When we see these kids, you and I think young kids, we think maybe 12-year-olds, […]

It has not been a good week for editors at Big Journo. First, The New York Times went through some online pain for a “Picking Crops” headline about Latino farmers. Now, The Washington Post had to issue an apology (actually, a non-apology) for a “We’ll need more fajitas” subhead about a story on HUD Secretary […]