Is the Professor Defending Latino Racism?

The skin of Latinos comes in a hundred different shadings. When the professor slickly suggested that “white supremacy is deeply ingrained in Latin America,” she was stating a non-sequitur. In the last two quoted lines, Prof. Hernandez fails to delineate why people of many skin shadings have developed a historical hatred of blacks, who presumably had mostly darker shadings. I kept searching for the “why” in Prof. Hernandez’ treatise. But she consistently disappointed me, ducking what should have been at the heart of her argument. She sold us a bald tire, a retread. She sold us a shallow justification. At bottom, the very unimpressive prof was saying, blacks moved into our neighborhood. That is why we hate them.

Postscript

Sprinkled across the smooth-surfaced landscape of the defensive professor’s essay were several other excuse-making implications that should not be ignored. I mention two formulations. Prof. Hernandez maintained that blacks and Latinos “share so many of the same socioeconomic deprivations.” No, they don’t share deprivations. Yes, many are poor. Mainly, though, the “deprived” persons — a pathetic phrase intended to portray them as victims — are those who choose not to work. In a second example, Prof. Hernandez designed a ready-made excuse for her “deprived” victims. Dishonestly, she blamed their self-induced plight on a “tight labor market.” All data suggests the reverse. The lady professor seems to be at the wrong end of the classroom.