Thread: How President Obama Can Reach Hispanics

Opinion: How President Obama Can Reach Hispanics

By Galina Espinoza
Published January 21, 2011

Latina Magazine Editorial Director Galina Espinoza

When President Obama takes to the podium next week and delivers his annual State of the Union address, he will be trying to rally a country that, politically, needs Latinos more than ever before.

According to an analysis of 2010 U.S. Census data conducted earlier this month by the Pew Hispanic Center, a record 20.1 million of the 48.4 million Hispanics in this country are now eligible to vote. And our numbers are growing faster in the states (such as Florida and Nevada) that, based on the Census, will be getting additional seats in Congress.

And yet, as I have written in the past, I feel that the President has done little to reach out directly to Latinos—failing, for example, to include as us part of his big “Education Nationâ€

And yet the path toward achieving our goals for a better life seems to have grown more precarious. We are worried about finding jobs, educating our children and receiving affordable health care—the same things most other Americans are anxious about, yes; but for a myriad of reasons we still have greater difficulty attaining them.

This makes it a latino issue only?

[quote]Extending a helping hand to Latinos—by, for example, addressing the reasons why our students have the highest high school dropout rate among any group—is not providing “special treatment,â€

The only way Obama is going to reach out to latinos is if he lies about amnisty and dream acts again. If he tells them the truth that tougher immigration laws, tougher border policies, no DREAM ACTS, and cuts in social services to illegals, then he is going to loose latino votes and that he cannot afford and is not willing to do.

Latino Hispanic Latino Hispanic Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

The president should talk to the American people.

Originally Posted by jean

The president should talk to the American people.

EXACTLY

Originally Posted by topsecret10

Originally Posted by jean

The president should talk to the American people.

EXACTLY

He's talking to the Undocumented Americans.

Why is it all about THEM (latinos)

That is the part about America they are not getting , This isn't mexico , this country does not exist just to make latinos feel good.

Until they get with the program the backlash against them is just going to get worse

Lose the mexican flags , lose the stinkin advo groups , speak out against illegals and anchor babies

Maybe then I can give you some respect as fellow American citizens

LOSE THE WAH WAH WAH poor latino crap , All Americans are suffering now , YOUR NOT SPECIAL , grow up , get a clue , buy a vowel

They don't want to feel left out of the rest of the American hating world!

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

They don't want to feel left out of the rest of the American hating world!

They appear to hate everything about America except the free goodies