Beyond B&W

This is a great article (I don’t agree with the entire piece) – much to think about regarding the future of America and what it means to be a multicultural American in our current times. Here are bits and pieces from the article…

Whether Latinos, Asian Americans, Muslim-Americans and other groups like it or not, the black-white narrative is the nation’s dominant racial storyline - even if there are now more Latinos than African-Americans in the United States…
Where do Latinos fit in this black-white paradigm that has always existed and that, for all the talk about multiculturalism, has only intensified since Obama’s election? It depends on whom you ask. Many blacks see Latinos as closer to whites, while many whites see Latinos as co-conspirators with blacks. Neither is completely true… “There’s this almost hyper-visibility of Latinos,” she said. “But it’s a narrow and often wrong kind of hyper-visibility because it is the ‘illegal alien.’ Every Latino is presumed to be an immigrant and secondly to be an undocumented Mexican.”

Read the full article by LatinoMagazine ::: Here :::

I'll finish with this...

Hispanic Americans have been here for so long, and yet kept their identity, that it is rather doubtful they will follow the same process of assimilation by which Swedes, Irish and Italians joined mainstream American society. Especially now that there is an increasing awareness of the value of one’s culture and traditions, it seems safe to predict that Hispanic Americans will be around Mañana (tomorrow), and for as many mañanas as it pleases God to grant to this country…Hispanic Americans are going back to their historic roots and affirming their distinctive, not as something of which to be ashamed or to hide from view but as something of which to be proud and to exhibit at every possible opportunity.

~ Justo Gonzalez, is a prolific theological writer and historian of Christian thought – Author of Mañana: Christian Theology from A Hispanic Perspective.