Conditions of Latino Apartheid

Latino Apartheid

Perhaps one of the most compelling examples of what may be said to represent Latino Apartheid in the United States of American is the near exclusion on Latino men from taxpayer funded government jobs in which ‘workers’ are paid more than 100,000 dollars a year.  Government contactors, governmental departments such as the Department of Homeland Security, Faith Based Initiatives, and Water Departments, Nuclear Regulatory Commission…, congress or even the senate of the United States of American – at the level over 100,000 dollars a year - seemed to be peopled, in the super-majority, with members of a very narrow and nearly exclusive set. Other groups are woefully under-represented as well. Women, Asian…, Pacific Islanders, but the nations single largest minority “the Latino” suffers such disproportional under-representation that to even call it ‘token’ is less correct, it appears, then to believe it be more accurately representative of an actual condition of Latino Apartheid

There are many other examples of Latino Apartheid in the United States of American. Police departments, fire departments, academic associations, university departments, utilities providers, large non-profits – the list goes on, and on, and on; and, we will write about all of them in turn. Over the years, I have also been reviewing newspaper and news stations blogs, and noted the words used, and counted the racist or hurtful or angry words used by posters (and allowed to remain.) I have review the many posts allowed (as well as those not allowed) to stay-up, and the majority of the content freely contributed (and allowed to be included) to these websites. It would seems that by including what appears to be racist or “hate writing” directed more often then not towards the Latino, the News Media (knowingly or unknowingly) may actually be constructing a social normative range of behaviors that, mirrors the oppression or rather repression of the single largest minority in North America - the Latino.

First, we must write about the majority of contributors to the construction of socially acceptable (thought ethnically deplorable) Latino Apartheid; and this could be said to be the exclusion (or near exclusion) of the “Latino” in our government’s upper-level employee/contractor positions (which pay more than 100,000 dollars a year.) It could be said to reflect more a condition of institutional racism than the perpetuation of an authorized systematic structure called Latino Apartheid, but let us keep to one topic at a time. We must write about the conditions of Latino Apartheid in our governmental structures first, for when the attributes of a cultural are excluded from a society (or in this case a governmental system) the exclusion of culturally specific attributes created a system with reject all those who attributes they exclude. This Null assimilation, not only transmits a condition of “otherness” onto a segment (or segments) of our citizenry, but it also sets the stage for behaviors such as hate crimes, hate speech, racism, and repression throughout the society.  Moreover, as these anti-social ‘behaviors’ seem to be supported by the social-construct; a condition of exclusion, apparently supported by single largest field of structural authoritative power in our nation – the government, has been created.