grist for the mill
A not-so-secret research cacheThursday, May 19, 2005
Uneasily, a Latin Land Looks at Its Own Complexion - New York Times: "A columnist for the Mexico City daily Reforma, Guadalupe Loaeza, wrote Tuesday that President Fox's remarks reflected what she called an 'involuntarily' racist attitude. 'He was educated like millions of Mexicans, conscious of having been born white, and that it makes him very different from those who are born with dark skin.'
Audiences here still get a laugh from performers in black face, or newspaper cartoons that show Africans drawn more like apes.
Mexico's 10 million Indians are not only last in almost every social indicator, including levels of literacy, infant mortality, employment and access to basic services. They still appear on television mostly as maids and gardeners."
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