Lucy and Desi an interracial couple?
Lucy and Desi, guilty of miscegenation (according to the Huffington Post)
in a time when Latinos and people of color in general were largely absent from television, Arnaz was an unlikely television pioneer.
Unreal
Not only was he a person of color: he was a victim of U.S. foreign policy, and of that damn dictator Fulgencio Batista.
"in 1933 the U.S.-backed Batista revolution overthrew the Cuban government and forced his family to flee the country and seek political asylum in Miami, Florida." Yeah make sure you include that, reporter! Batista and the US are responsible for all the suffering in the world.
Some things never change, like the color of our skin, which is black if the ruling liberal class says it is. :
Holy sh*t, Carlos! I somehow missed that imbecility! Claiming that the 1933 "Sergeants Revolt" was "U.S. backed" is funnier than anything ever featured on any episode of "I Love Lucy!"
To paraphrase the ending line of Bridges at Toko Ri: "Where do we get such men (reporters?)
Unreal
So now Hispanic is a race? Thank you La Raza for submitting all Hispanics to permanent underclass status. How does it feel to trade dignity, respect, and self-determination for entrance, and hand outs based on self-imposed inferiority.
Ziva,
You hit the nail square on the head! I was going to write PRECISELY about that! Hispanics [SORRY! I mean, "Latinos!!" "Hispanic" according to La Raza is too European sounding!] before the 1970's was thought of as a diversified group of people. What mattered was the country that you came from. There was room for racial, political and economic differences. You could be a white Euro-Cuban, an Indian South American, a Mestizo Mexican, a black Dominican, etc... You could be an upwardly mobile Cuban exile, a rich South American playboy, a poor Mexican laborer, etc.. Despite widespread ignorance and some stereotyping, people understood more or less that there were about 20 Latin American countries that were different one from each other, not one large landmass of brown, poor downtrodden peoples. Being "dark" as in being a brunette was thought of as sexy and the Latin Lover was simply a white man with dark smoldering looks, not a non-white person.
Fast forward to the present, after years of mainstream media covered fist-in-the-air protests by MALDEF, National Counsel of La Raza, ATZLAN , and the Young Lords [who fashioned themselves after the black civil rights movement and pushed the notion of race in order to get affirmative action] screaming "brown power" in the streets, after decades of the narrative on "Latinos" being controlled by leftist college professors [who pushed the Marxist class warfare notion of sociology], after decades of Norman Lear pushing the notion that "Latinos" are a race on his disgusting leftist programs, after Hollywood getting on the bandwagon, and the mainstream media outlets giving spokesmen of those aforementioned groups a national platform to speak out on, today all "Latinos" are thought of as one mass of non-white peoples. This notion is so ingrained that people will make asinine remarks calling someone like Marco Rubio [who is as white as snow] a "coconut" [brown on the outside, white on the inside] because he dares to think outside the box, and somehow he is thought of as being nonwhite, even though he would fit in perfectly walking down any street of a European capitol.
History is even being rewritten in order to fit in with the current narrative. If you would have told someone 50 years ago that Desi and Lucy were an interracial couple, they would have thought you were crazy! Obviously, they weren't thought of an an interracial couple, since "I Love Lucy" was nationally televised in the pre-civil rights, pre-Martin Luther King era when something like this would never have been shown in states like Alabama and Mississippi.
It's gotten so bad that even if you have Northern European looks but you're "Latino," you are still thought of as nonwhite in the same manner that a light skinned black like Vanessa Williams is thought of as a fair-skinned version of an Oprah Winfrey.
As you say Ziva, "Latinos" have been relegated to an inferior status and all in exchange of a misguided political ideology,and a few handouts. It's not uncommon to hear idiotic people say, "Oh My God, I thought that you were white, you look white!" As if someone could look white in every anthropological sense of the word, but not really be white.
If you go to IMDB [database on movies and TV], people actually argue whether Cuban American actress Joanna Garcia [the blond pretty girl who played Cheyenne on the hit series REBA] is white! And I've seen people posting messages that the blond, handsome William Levy [a Cuban actor of Jewish ancestry who is famous in Mexican soaps] is also not really white, because he's Cuban.
What can one say? Perhaps one of the most disturbing things of this "Latino" label is that some people actually believe that all of us are radicalized and leftist. Even though you are a Cuban [because you are thought of primarily as a "Latino"], one can find oneself in an absurd predicament having to explain why one doesn't want to vote for Obama or why one doesn't support open borders! It's crazy!
This would be beneath comment, if it weren’t for the definite possibility that it’s more about bad faith than about stupidity or ignorance. The latter are lamentable but essentially types of misfortune; the former is malicious disingenuousness which is both inexcusable and perverse.
I don’t want to dignify this sort of thing with too much notice, because it’s patently bullshit, but I will say this: if “Hispanic” is “too European,” what the hell is Latin? Do these people even have a fucking clue? And furthermore, a very large number of “Latins” (think Evo Morales) don’t have a drop of truly Latin blood in them. Unreal, not to say pathetic.