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legalpretzel t1_ja8sn29 wrote

When did she ever profess herself to be Latinx? I looked back through the articles published when the school committee was hiring and all that was ever said was that she was bilingual.

A group of parents met with her in the fall. I was there and she was quite clear that her husband was Latino and she spoke Spanish. There was never an ounce of confusion or any misleading statements that would leave one to believe anything other than what she said.

She received an award in CA for her work advocating for Latinx students, which makes sense since her district there is almost entirely Latinx. If she was a member of CALSA (CA Latino superintendents and admin) then one would think that she met the criteria for membership.

FWIW, as a parent, I have a vested interest in who fills the role. I liked her, I liked what she has to say. She spent a LOT of time in her first 6 months listening to parents, teachers, and students. I’m eager to see if she can put into place her plans and effect positive change and I hope she succeeds.

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[deleted] OP t1_ja8twy1 wrote

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repthe732 t1_ja8xd5t wrote

But when did she call herself Latinx? Articles calling her that isn’t the same as her doing it

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CatumEntanglement t1_ja90luk wrote

Your post giving air to white supremacist groups doesn't exactly make you come up roses.

Oh and is there a reason you also left out that in the video you linked, she explicitly says her father's Columbian at 11:35? Seems like that's pretty relevant.

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[deleted] OP t1_ja93wma wrote

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CatumEntanglement t1_ja94lnh wrote

>having a father who's part Colombian, with a bunch of other stuff mixed in, isn't really a strong case for being Latin.

It actually is. But it isn't for people who are leaning racist.

I guess now we collectively should all call out your supposed Jewish heritage because maybe you're not pure enough as a Jew to be able to call yourself Jewish.

See how your argument that she isn't "pure enough of a South American heritage be considered Latino" is fucking terrible and racist AF?

Edit: this guy is going around dirty deleting, but here's a gem

>Racists came up with the "one drop" rule. Doing the opposite of the one-drop rule is also racist?

This guy has decided he is very not racist because he is going beyond that one-drop-rule and wanting self identifed latinos to be more "full blooded"...and decided he's to become the artbuter of latino heritage by having a nebulous purity test for purported latinos. Maybe in his opinion you can't be a "real" Latino unless one of your parents are "full blooded" (whatever that means to him) Latino. Who knows! He (a Jewish white man) hasn't yet drawn up his purity map for what constitutes a "true" Latino person yet. I guess we'll wait and see how he draws up his purity tests.

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