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Latinos & the MA Senate Election

January 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments

This week the President and the Democratic leadership were handed a huge blow in Massachusetts with the seat once held by Senator Kennedy, who passed away in August, now going to Scott Brown, the former Cosmopolitan “sexy man.”
I think that the Democrats took it for granted that Senator Kennedy was holding this seat warm for [...]

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Tags: Democratic Party · Education · GOP · Immigration · Kennedys · Republican Party · community organizing and activism · health care

Seneca on Obama Administration’s Latin Foreign Policy Woes

November 7th, 2009 · 21 Comments

The Obama Administration is plainly showing that its policy for South of the Border is equally as empty, indifferent and at times almost maladroit or inept as it has been for nearly a score of years. During last year’s campaign for the White House, Candidate Obama was judged to have a refreshing view of the [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Bill Richardson · Cuba · Fidel Castro · Foreign Policy · GWB · Hillary Clinton · Immigration · JFK · Kennedys · Latin American Foreign Policy · Mexico · Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis · Seneca · drug war

The Visceral Reaction when “illegal immigrants” are mentioned

September 10th, 2009 · 24 Comments

Yesterday, I was able to watch President Obama’s complete health care speech before Congress. Overall, I think that he hit a home run with this address. He laid out the reasons for why health care reform is needed, how we have so few private options in many states, how unjust it is that people with pre-existing [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Immigration · Kennedys · health care

The Country has lost an icon, Senator Edward M. Kennedy

August 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I don’t have much to add to all of the tributes for Senator Edward Kennedy upon his passing late yesterday, but I will say that he was an important advocate and ally of the Latino community from issues on health care to immigration to education. Some have even called Senator Kennedy an honorary Latino because [...]

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Tags: Education · Immigration · Kennedys · health care

Seneca: Latinos & The GOP

March 9th, 2009 · 44 Comments

This is the first of a two part blog piece by Seneca illustrating the history of Latinos and the Republican Party.
Recent commentary in the aftermath of the recent Obama victory and the 2006 Democratic Congressional win suggests that the country once again has moved noticeably to the Democrats. This stems from the Iraq War and [...]

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Tags: African-Americans · Barack Obama · Democratic Party · GOP · GWB · Henry B. Gonzalez · Iraq War · Kennedys · Latino History · Presidential Elections · Seneca · racism · voting trends