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To quote the great Ricky Ricardo, “You got a lot of explainin’ to do.” Such is the case of Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his dad Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, who were featured today on NPR. The younger Cruz, born in Canada and now one of Congress’ stauchest critics of the current immigration reform bill being […]

I knew almost immediately that when a story from offthegridnews.com began with this headline, “U.S. Food Stamps In Puerto Rico Costing You 2 Billion Dollars,” readers weren’t going to get much actual real information about Puerto Rico and its relationship with the United States. That was pretty much confirmed when the piece’s author, Tara Dodrill, […]

The maid characters in Lifetime’s “Devious Maids” are “really the heroes,” according to the show’s co-producer, Eva Longoria. In a story published by Fox News Latino, Longoria kept on task in defending the show, which she co-produced with “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry. Here is what the FNL piece said: Despite recently earning her master’s […]

Today Gallup released the findings of a new national poll about immigration and concluded that “a majority of Americans would vote for each of six different policy changes that Congress is considering as part of a comprehensive immigration reform bill.” According to the latest Gallup numbers, “support ranges from a high of 87% for a […]

This is a Latino Rebels first. Yesterday we interviewed Smiley and Chuy, the two puppet leads from “Hey Vato,” an edgy web comedy series that our friends at Pocho.com shared with us last year. The show has a dedicated cult following, and its creators are now trying to raise funds for a 15-minute short film. […]

Earlier this week, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was invoking the Second Amendment when describing a protest in his front yard by immigration activists. Today, according to the HuffPost, Kobach is now claiming that Sunflower Community Action advocates were employing tactics perfected by the KKK. Here is what the HuffPost shared about Kobach’s latest […]

Looks like the momentum from Sergio Romo’s brilliantly genius FU moment when he wore a “I Just Look Illegal” tee last year during the San Francsico Giants’ World Series parade is over. That powerful message clearly struck a chord with many, and Romo was celebrated as an athlete speaking out. Now that message has become […]

The Daily Texan reported yesterday that the University of Texas’ “Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) took another cut Friday when Gov. Rick Perry line-item vetoed $1.5 million in funding to the center approved by the Texas Legislature.” Perry issued a statement where he explained that “he vetoed the funds for the center and other […]

Today, after conservative bloggers expressed outrage about “a mob” of 200 people using “intimidation tactics” at a protest in front of the home of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Fox News’ Tod Starnes interwiewed Kobach, who said that he is calling for a criminal investigation about the protest. Here is what Starnes reported: “I […]

So now we really know where Puerto Rican governor Alejandro García Padilla stands when it comes to the island’s status quo and its commonwealth relationship with the United States. In an interview on CNN en español, García Padilla said that if Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state of the Union, the island would […]

You don’t think words matter? You don’t think people like Michelle Malkin and Rep. Steve King aren’t strategically using words and labels to whip up the desperate nativist fervor in the United States of America? Last week, the Twitter profile Rep. King was sharing the Iowa congressman’s disgust that a bunch of young people (“self-professed […]

Yesterday, attorney David Cohn, who represents the family of David Sal Silva, announced the the filing of several federal civil rights claims “against the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, six sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant, two California Highway Patrol officers, the county and the state alleging excessive police force killed [Silva],” according to local reports. Cohn […]

Who knew? Who knew that a Public Shaming Tumblr post published late Tuesday night (June 11, 2013) would turn an 11-year-old boy from San Antonio into a national hero in less than 48 hours? Yet that is exactly what happened to Sebastien de la Cruz, whose story went from one of ignorance to one of […]

What a difference two days make. On Tuesday night Sebastien de la Cruz was singing the national anthem at the NBA Finals in San Antonio, unaware that Twitter was getting ugly with racist tweets knocking the talent of a little boy, a boy who handled the hate with grace and dignity. Tonight, de la Cruz […]

Add this to another happy ending, all thanks to social media. According to MySantonio.com, Sebastien de la Cruz, the 11-year-old San Antonio native whose grace and class flourished in response to a series of racist tweets he received for singing the national anthem before Game 3 of the NBA Finals, is returning to the AT&T […]

Rep. Steve King, the GOP congressman who pushed a restrictive amendment in the House of Representatives basically calling for the end of deferred action for DREAMers, took his opinions to Twitter this morning when his profile tweeted the following: 20 brazen self professed illegal aliens have just invaded my DC office. Obama’s lawless order gives […]

This week in front of the New York City office of Governor Andrew Cuomo, two members of the New York State Youth Leadership Council were arrested during a peaceful demonstration urging the governor to pass the state’s version of the DREAM Act. After the arrests, NYSYLC published the words of the two individuals arrested, Verónica […]

On June 3 the main Latino Rebels email received a news release via email from a Daniel Vargas, who identified himself as the Communications Director for The Common Application, Inc. After getting the email forwarded, I began to read it: Rebeldes, I believe this news will be of interest to your readers as it relates […]

Four weeks ago at a 2013 Memorial Cup hockey game in Saskatoon, Canadian jazz singer Alexis Normand botched the U.S. national anthem. Like really botched it. Watch. Normand admitted that she goofed and didn’t have time to learn the lyrics, so she was given a second chance to sing the anthem again at a later […]

To all those online haters who were slamming Sebastien de La Cruz for singing the national anthem last night at the NBA Finals in San Antonio, we will let Sebastien share the final world on all this. This is what he said this morning on local San Antonio television. That’s how you do it.

UPDATE: Sebastien de la Cruz responded to the haters with 100% class. This one came from the Tumblr page of Public Shaming, and it is yet another racist example of how anti-Latino hatred runs deep in the social media world of the United States of America. Last night in San Antonio before Game 3 of […]