08-14-2020, 08:40 AM
(08-13-2020, 12:18 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I’m counting 13 Hispanic and Latino Senators in US history.
You're probably right, I did not exactly double-check, my overall point would be that there is no significant gap in representation.
(08-13-2020, 12:18 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The marginalization claim was based on how they’re treated in society. This is centuries of over sexualization of black women’s bodies, Inadequate access to healthcare (which causes Black women to be 3-4 times more likely to die in childbirth than White, Asian, or Latino women), and gross stereotypes (like the angry black woman or the welfare queen).
Yeah I don't want to compare grievances, and I guess blacks might win such a competition, on the grounds that their ancestors didn't come to the US by their own free will alone. The childbirth death rate is persuasive too. But Hispanics sure face some of those bad treatments as well. The cliche of the Mexican gardener and other gross stereotypes are well-known even to me, many are held in a semi-legal state, pay taxes, don't get healthcare, are threatened with deportation, the war on drugs hit them too, they too face violence on the streets within their community too etc,. it's not like all is fine with this demographic.
But as stated, comparing grievances imho is pointless. In a sense, I find the idea to pick a certain ethnicity or gender for an important post as some kind of compensation for bad treatments said ethnicities or genders had to endure as kind of a flawed approach. It feels like window dressing. Even more so for it's still about policies and not about faces and appearances. Condi Rice is a black woman and Bernie Sanders is anything but, but if it comes to healthcare the latter, one might argue, might still do way more for the community or the blck women you referenced.