3/19/2023 0 Comments Alisa valdes rodriquez![]() The Los Angeles Times is located in perhaps the nation's largest Indian city, yet we deny there are Indians here. Any dictionary would have shown him that "holocaust" refers to any genocide committed against any people. (By some estimates, the Spaniards killed 10 times more people than the Nazis did _ most of it documented in the Spaniards' own journals.) He told me "holocaust" was too strong a word to use when talking about American Indians, and told me the word pertained only to the German holocaust. When I attempted to write a commentary about the animated film The Road to El Dorado in order to address its misrepresentation of the genocide committed by the Spaniards against the native people of the Americas, I was told by the film editor my comparisons to the German holocaust were unjustified. Yet the Times has convinced itself and the general public that there is a "Latino" race of brown people, separate from this nation's Indians. DNA testing and blood type have shown most of the "brown" people in the Americas _ whether they live in Montana or Mexico City _ are descended from a small band of people who came here from Asia tens of thousands of years ago. By perpetuating the myth that Indians who bear Spanish surnames are simply "Latino" _ and that Latino does not refer to anyone else _ we also deny Indians from Latin America a natural kinship to American Indians. who happen to come from Spanish speaking nations as "Latinos" we eradicate their ethnicities entirely, and pin to them a new set of stereotypes and expectations that in most cases simply do not fit. īy referring to the brown Indians in the U.S. They are no longer Indians, with a 30,000 year claim to these lands they are now immigrants, and "Latinos.". Now, we simply rob people of their heritage, and force a new one upon them. I also posit this new genocide is far more dangerous than the old fashioned murder and relocation efforts. They, like most of the people we call Latinos at this paper, are Indians.Īfter extensive study of history, I believe "Latino" _ as used in the Los Angeles Times _ is the most recent attempt at genocide perpetrated against the native people of the Americas. But recent colonial history dictated they be born north of the Mexican border. They are brown, and, I am sure, would "look" Latino to most of my colleagues at this newspaper. After all, my Navajo cousins from New Mexico are often approached on the street and spoken to in Spanish. Most people in this area accept this interpretation. It happens several times a week, usually. When the Los Angeles Times writes of "Latinos" it often characterizes them as brown. I have also seen this newspaper _ and most others _ butcher history and fact in an attempt to create this ethnic group. In the process of covering so-called "Latino" issues, I have stumbled upon a simple and disturbing fact: There is no such thing as a Latino. I was not enlightened enough to realize that in the name of "diversity" the newspaper was committing an atrocity. I came to this newspaper as part of something called the "Latino Initiative." At the time, I was not awake enough as a person to understand the horror of such a thing. The following are my reasons for leaving. ![]() My reasons for leaving the Times range from the personal to the political, but in the end it is all political. This is my resignation from the Los Angeles Times. TO: Supervisors and selected colleagues of Alisa Valdes-RodriguezįROM: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, staff writer
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