COVID-19 in the U.S. Latino community.
In parts of the country Latinos are dying at three, four and in some cases up to five times the rate of whites.
We took a deep data dive with demographer Dr. Rogelio Saenz. https://t.co/jqQFGkW1K4
This has been a question since the 1980’s.
We keep letting others set the narrative. We should be asking why it hasn’t changed.
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In Texas, Asian growth from 2000 to 2020 is dramatically high - mostly due to the tech industry.
The NH Other has more than doubled and is rising.
Latinos have a lower rate but grew 80% since 2000 & now number 11.9 million. The non-Hispanic White population flattened since 2015.
From 2000 to 2020 Latinos, NH Asians and NH Other (mostly multiracial persons) have grown at close to the same overall rate – between 83% and 87%. #usness
Cassandra Hernandez is the youngest member of the El Paso City Council. She writes: "El Paso needs to show other communities in America how to respond to ethnic cleansing motivated by a hatred and fear of Latinos."
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There can be no doubt that America is becoming multicultural and that the Hispanic market is a significant part of this change.
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“They have to see him as Latino and American, Latino and hard-working, a Latino and Mexican-American and someone who represents the best of what this country can be." - Luis Fraga
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"One political party controls the Texas Legislature, executive branch, Supreme Court, the U.S. administration and soon the Supreme Court. There will clearly be efforts, to continue one-party control of all parts of the government." https://t.co/9jYcdu0ONk
Let's try this again . . .
"News media made by and for the two largest racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States - black and Hispanic - is shrinking." https://t.co/EFAHZyWCtm
"As Hispanic businesses and populations swell, and rural grocery stores begin to stock shelves with everything from queso fresco to bilingual lard containers." https://t.co/YQW5yGsBE0
"Earlier this year, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that processes green cards, removed the phrase “a nation of immigrants” from its mission statement." https://t.co/xaHLiOjolc