Kety Esquivel

Kety Esquivel is the New Media Manager for NCLR (National Council of La Raza). She has over ten years of experience in the domestic and international non-profit, private and political sectors. She directed the Latino outreach for the Clark Presidential Campaign and served as the Communications Director for Latinos for America. She spent three years coaching executives on issues of human capital and diversity with Kodak's U.S., Canada and Latin American regional operations. Her work has taken her to China; as well as Ethiopia with the United Nations. She graduated from Cornell University where she served as the elected student representative on the Board of Trustees. She is pursuing graduate studies in public policy. She is co-author and co-editor of the forthcoming books, Crashing la Pachanga: The Dawn of a New Latino/a Movement and The Coming of Age: Passing the torch of the Latino Movement. She founded www.CrossLeft.org and is the Board Chair for the Institute for Progressive Christianity. She serves on the boards of the New Leaders Council; the Backbone Campaign; and is a founder of The Sanctuary (www.promigrant.org).
Blog Entries by Kety Esquivel
Another Hate Crime?

Posted February 4, 2009 | 11:12 AM (EST)

On January 21, 2009, a Columbian man, Wilter Sanchez, was brutally attacked in North Plainfield, New Jersey by five men. According to Sanchez, the men called him a "Hispanic son of a bitch" and tried to beat him to death. Sanchez has undergone surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital to...
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"Words and Ideas Have Real-World Consequences"

3 Comments | Posted January 30, 2009 | 07:31 PM (EST)

For more than a year now, we at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) have been chronicling hate on the nation's airwaves, mostly surrounding the immigration debate. It's bad enough that cable television news and radio allow known hate groups and vigilantes on the air, but often the hosts...
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Another Murdered: Pass the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act

1 Comments | Posted December 18, 2008 | 04:33 PM (EST)

On December 8 in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, José Osvaldo Sucuzhanay was murdered in what is believed to be a hate crime. Coming on the heels of November's brutal battery and murder of Marcelo Lucero in Suffolk County, NY, this makes two such murders of Hispanics in barely a...
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Victim of Racist Attack Awarded $2.5 Million

1 Comments | Posted November 20, 2008 | 04:16 PM (EST)

Originally posted at wecanstopthehate.org

Two years ago, Jordan Gruver, an American citizen, was the victim of a racist attack. Last Friday, a jury awarded Gruver $2.5 million from Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards, leader of the Imperial Klans of America, and former Klansman Jared Hensley. Edwards, the leader of what...
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Threats of Violence Persist Against Civil Rights Leaders

2 Comments | Posted November 12, 2008 | 01:28 PM (EST)

Even as the country was celebrating its extraordinary milestone of electing the first African American President, The Washington Post published a sobering reminder that there is still much work to be done in amending our race relations. The Washington Post reported that three of the largest Latino civil rights groups...

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"Words and Ideas Have Real-World Consequences"

For more than a year now, we at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) have been chronicling hate on the nation's airwaves, mostly surrounding the immigration debate. It's bad enough that cable television news and radio allow known hate groups and vigilantes on the air, but often the hosts themselves parrot the same vitriolic rhetoric spoken by their more unsavory guests.

Janet MurguĂ*a, President and CEO of NCLR, has openly and personally chastised a number of talk show hosts, cautioning them that "words have consequences, and hateful words have hateful consequences."

Earlier this week, Robert Reich, the 22nd Secretary of Labor, issued an open letter to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michelle Malkin. "The mischievous consequences of your demagoguery are potentially dangerous," he wrote, "in addition to being destructive of rational and constructive political discourse. I urge you to take responsibility for your words. Words and ideas have real-world consequences, and you have demonstrated a cavalier disregard for both."

Reich goes on to say that "in a time like this, when tempers are riding high and many Americans are close to panic about their jobs and finances, you have a special responsibility to consider the accuracy of what you say and the consequences of inflammatory and erroneous statements."