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By DOLORES PRIDA and her comadre LOLA LA BLOGUERADoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-82468458934641337682008-10-09T18:39:00.003-04:002008-10-09T18:44:33.474-04:00Que Sarah, Sarah PalinSo, John McCain names a woman as his vice presidential running mate to woo disappointed Hillary supporters to vote for him?<br />Who does he think we are? Men, who lose 20 IQ points at the mere sight of a pair of large boobs?<br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/09/10/2008-09-10_que_sarah_sarah-2.html">"Que Sarah, Sarah" column, NY Daily News, Sept. 10, 2008.</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com282tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-924598036220187452008-10-09T18:34:00.003-04:002008-10-09T18:39:18.795-04:00Dubbing foreign films should be bannedIn American films dubbed into Spanish every character sounds like a graduate of Mexico's Zona Rosa School of Telenovela Enunciation.<br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/08/06/2008-08-06_i_lost_it_at_the_movies.html">"I Lost it at the Movies" column, NY Daily News, August 6, 2008.</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-53758452245244065912008-10-09T18:29:00.002-04:002008-10-09T18:34:51.283-04:00Breathing While FemaleConsider this: In the U.S., a woman is raped every six minutes, and one is battered every 15 seconds. Worldwide, 4 million women and girls, some as young as 10 years old, are trafficked annually for sexual slavery.<br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/07/16/2008-07-16_breathing_while_female.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">"Breathing While Female" column, NY Daily News, July 16, 2008</span></a><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com224tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-37091227168237862452008-10-09T18:24:00.002-04:002008-10-09T18:28:58.127-04:00My Barrio's a-changinNew York City's East Harlem, also know as El Barrio, is losing its character as it gains in development. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/06/04/2008-06-04_paradise_lost.html">"Paradise Lost" column, NY Daily News, June 4, 2008.</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-4441037480472601882008-10-09T18:18:00.002-04:002008-10-09T18:24:21.668-04:00A Santo for Every Ocassion<span style="font-size:100%;">A Patron Saint for computers? And typists? Ay Santa Tecla! <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/05/07/2008-05-07_modern_holy_helpers-2.html">"Modern Holy Helpers" Daily News column, May 7, 2008.</a></span>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-41720849710969855612008-04-27T00:23:00.003-04:002008-04-27T00:33:10.916-04:00Guacamole MomentsThe "macaca moment" is quickly displacing the "bimbo eruption" as the most lethal career-ending slip of the tongue for politicians. Now comes the "guacamole gaffes" which will surely turn off plenty of Latino voters.<br />Read my NY Daily News column of April 16, 2008, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/04/16/2008-04-16_guacamole_moments.html">Guacamole Moments.</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-49473592447531549152008-04-27T00:19:00.003-04:002008-04-27T00:38:49.452-04:00Mujeres al bordeDebe aprobarse una ley que inmediatamente prohiba a hombres prominentes utilizar a sus esposas de telon de fondo durante ruedas de prensa para confesar que han sido infieles.<br />Op-ed in Spanish published El Diario/La Prensa, March 13, 2008: <a href="http://eldiariolaprensa.com/noticias/detail.aspx?section=63&desc=OPINION&id=1829925">Mujeres el borde de un ataque de dignidad</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-8487723904368071502008-04-27T00:14:00.003-04:002008-04-27T00:41:43.333-04:00Mothers of InventionIt's Women's History Month, again. What's there to celebrate: The "Cuernos Sisterhood"? Lip plumpers?<br />Read my NY Daily News column of March 12, 2008, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/03/12/2008-03-12_mothers_of_invention.html">Mothers of Invention.</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-68928219161334408992008-04-26T23:57:00.003-04:002008-04-27T00:42:49.944-04:00Political pundits need new playbookWe're in the middle of a truly historic presidential campaign. Yet most of the media panels of pundits and "experts" consist of white males, with a pundette or two thrown in to play Kemo Sabe to their Lone Rangers. I get palpitations every time a group of opinionistas discusses the Latino vote and rehashes the platitude du jour: Brown people don't vote for black people. . .<br />Op-ed piece NY Daily News, March 12, 2008 <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/02/03/2008-02-03_pundits_need_a_new_playbook_when_it_come.html">Pundits Need a New Playbbok When it Comes to Latino Voters</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-33140852623315587902008-04-26T23:32:00.003-04:002008-04-27T00:40:27.326-04:00Super Tuesday Latino Vote"Ugly Betty" may have trumped Oprah in the California primaries, but the power of celebrity endorsements was not what was at stake on February 5.<br />Read my February 13, 2008 <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/02/13/2008-02-13_rockeando_the_vote.html">Daily News column Rockeando the Vote</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-88480096152426472992008-01-22T14:59:00.000-05:002008-01-22T15:10:03.673-05:00Hillary or Obama?Minority boomerettes face an historical dilemma this primary season: Hillary or Obama. Whose dream shall be deferred? Check out my NY Daily News column, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/columnists/prida/index.html">Political Wrinkles</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-24295306644548630692007-12-12T14:30:00.000-05:002008-01-22T15:13:54.651-05:00Si Spika da Inglish<strong>When having a “funny accent” can get you deported it's no laughing matter</strong><br /><br />Since Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended himself by asking whether he should check the immigration status of anyone speaking with a “funny accent,” I’ve been taking my passport with me whenever I go out, even to the bodega around the corner.See, I’m one of those American citizens who speaks with a “funny accent.” No, I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn, New Orleans or Dallas. Although people from those places, and many others, do speak with an accent, it’s never called “funny.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/12/12/2007-12-12_si_spika_da_inglish-1.html">Read full NY Daily News column</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-12745443142235349172007-11-07T14:25:00.000-05:002008-01-22T15:26:09.549-05:00Let my people vote!The anti-immigration hysteria is keeping 17 million Latino voters hostage. We're caught in a one-issue steel cage we need to get out of so we can address other issues affecting our community. Read my NY Daily News column of November 7, 2007, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/11/07/2007-11-07_antiimmigration_hysteria_holds_17m_latin.html">Let my people go!</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-60377928836838257762007-10-10T16:10:00.000-04:002007-10-10T16:15:53.858-04:00Machismo vs. ManlinessMany men--and, sadly, quite a few women--are confused as to what makes a man, a man.<br />Read my <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/10/10/2007-10-10_what_makes_a_man_a_man.html">VIVA/NY Daily News column </a>on the misguided efforts to bring back a "new machismo"--including comments on the new book "Huevos y la Mujer Latina: The De-masculization of the Macho" by Julian Camacho Segura.DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-76174531125555159502007-10-10T16:05:00.000-04:002007-10-10T16:10:14.252-04:00I am my brother's sweeperOwning a home in New York City is no piece of cake. Local laws make homeowners responsible for garbage people drop on their sidewalks.<br />Read my <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/10/10/2007-10-10_when_litterbugs_attack_nyc_makes_homeown.html">oped piece </a>in the NY Daily News.DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-26282099635997035632007-09-12T11:11:00.000-04:002007-09-12T11:19:04.218-04:00Who's más American?My jaw dropped down to my navel when I heard the woman from Tennessee say, “The only immigrants who’ve become real Americans are those who arrived through Ellis Island.”<br />She was a caller at one of those public affairs talk shows on cable television. She sounded quite agitated. “Everyone else is illegal!” she screamed and then hung up.<br />Well, I imagine that it’s quite possible that there may be people in Tennessee and other such places who still don’t know that the airplane has been invented. Otherwise, they’d know that in the last 50 years way more immigrants have arrived through Kennedy, LAX and Miami international airports than the paltry 12 million that came through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. And definitely, their mode of transportation and port of entry doesn’t make them and their descendants less American.<br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/09/12/2007-09-12_whos_mas_american.html">Read the full column at the New York Daily News.</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-67676380194468656522007-08-08T17:54:00.000-04:002007-08-08T18:07:13.143-04:00Quinceañeras Gone WildWhat used to be a traditional Latino "rite of passage" has turned into what one of the teenagers interviewed by Julia Álvarez for her fascinating new book, "Once Upon a Quinceañera-Coming of Age in the USA," calls, in a marvelous example of insightful misspelling, "a right of passage."<br />No longer a simple affair for family and a handful of friends, quinceañera parties have become as big and expensive as a keeping-up-with-the-Perezes wedding — minus the groom.<br /><br />Read my <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/08/08/2007-08-08_15_gone_wild.html">Daily News column</a> of August 8 on the subject.DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-14724686146004604902007-07-11T15:27:00.000-04:002007-07-11T15:35:50.392-04:00Simpaticos No More?Because of history and geography and because we have more things in common that things that separate us, Americans and Latinos have been amigos for ages. Now we are not so sure.<br /><br />The overheated, hateful, anti-Hispanic rhetoric fouling the air around the public debate about immigration reform has left a bad taste in the mouth for millions of Latinos who no longer feel welcome in El Norte. And I'm not talking about undocumented Latinos who've seen their hopes of legalization dashed in a hail of misunderstanding and xenophobia. I'm talking about long-established American citizens and documented residents. . .<br /><br />Read my full column on the subject published in the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/07/10/2007-07-10_simpaacuteticos_no_more.html">New York Daily News </a>July 11, 2007.DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-82964231703154691072007-06-07T21:25:00.000-04:002007-06-07T21:34:05.735-04:00To Bee or Not To BeeBees are disappearing by the billions. Who will tackle all that pollinating American bees can't or don't want to do? Are we condemned to a world without flowers and fruits? Will the country fall prey to the Colombian gladiola cartel, be driven into foreign fruit dependency, international honey laundering schemes, wax contraband and artificial pollination?<br /><br />Read all about it in my NY Daily News column, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/06/06/2007-06-06_where_the_bees_are-2.html">Where the Bees Are</a>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-87236869666608714302007-05-13T01:35:00.000-04:002007-05-13T01:44:14.793-04:00Reggaeton Lyrics Demean WomenSince the Don Imus debacle, rap and hip hop have been under the magnifying glass for dissing women. Latinos should also do some soul searching about the vulgar, violent thugish reggaeton lyrics. Women have had it with this kind of language. Check out my <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/05/09/2007-05-09_revenge_of_the_muses.html">Daily News column </a>on the subject.DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-51506711804303045652007-04-14T14:47:00.000-04:002007-04-14T15:31:22.845-04:00Alberto Gonzales and the Latino PMG SyndromeWhy have most of the major Latino organizations remained silent about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' woes? They're suffering from PMGS (Pero es Mi Gente Syndrome).<br /><br />Check out my recent New York Daily News column on the subject: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/04/11/2007-04-11_vaya_con_dios_alberto_gonzales.html">Vaya con Dios, Alberto Gonzalez</a>.DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-89289794494602093632007-03-19T22:45:00.000-04:002007-04-14T14:47:06.349-04:00El corrido de Alberto Gonzalez<span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>El corrido</strong> (ballad) is a Mexican folk genre, part oral history, part cultural myth. It was a sure thing that sooner rather than later, the saga of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez would become the stuff corridos are made of. And here it is: a new corrido, to be moaned rather than sung. Ay.<br /></span><p align="center"><img height="159" src="http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/corridos/media/0001.gif" width="192" shapes="_x0000_i1025" /></p><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">El corrido de Alberto Gonzalez</span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">By Lola la bloguera</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Poor Alberto Gonzalez made his camino all the way to the top</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">His father was un borracho but his mama was requete wise</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Al graduated from Harvard, was a Texas Supreme and knew about big planes</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">But then poor Alberto Gonzalez hitched his wagon to a poisonous bush</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">And although he made the White House and became the country's A.G.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">his jefe, el patron The Decider kept him on a very short leash</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Now the big caca has hit all the fans and Al gets kicked in el tush</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">The serious hombre de San Anton gets thrown to the lobos</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">all because he hitched his wagon to a poisonous bush</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Ay ay ay, adios Al Gonzalez you'll go back to las siembras tejanas</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Aunque republicano, once we were proud of you for all that you achieved</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">but it now seems you were too brown-nosed even for the White House</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">y ahora pronto to esperan potatos, tomatos and chiles picantes</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">but Lola just wonders what would Molly Ivins have said about all this</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Ay, ay, ay. . .</span></div>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-70904605755961985262007-03-19T17:34:00.000-04:002007-03-20T04:27:33.991-04:00Sick and tired of immigrant bashing<span style="font-size:85%;"><img src="http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/0201d20638/07" /> I don't know about you, but my <em>bilirrubina</em> gets sky high every time I see the same TV news clips showing people jumping over border fences over and over again. (I swear I've seen that guy in the red shirt jump over about 150 times.) The current anti-immigrant paranoia affects all Latinos -- even if you are an American citizen who's been here forever. But the nativist rantings of so many is nothing new in American history. At one point or another, almost every immigrant group, from Germans and Irish to Chinese and Japanese, have suffered the slings and arrows of bigots and ignoramuses. Check out <a href="http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20060828&s=tichenor">Same Old Song</a>, a fascinating article on nativism by Daniel Tichenor in The Nation magazine.</span>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-82991300546890285032007-03-16T23:19:00.000-04:002007-03-18T06:42:52.808-04:00Ask a Mexican Answers<span style="font-size:85%;">Gustavo Arellano reacts to my machismo comment (see Ask a Mexican post below) by sending <a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/columns/ask-a-mexican/ask-a-mexican/14902/">this link </a>to a column he did on the subject a while back.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Soon I'll be blogging on the subject of Latino comedians' penchant for vulgar and sexist humor--not to mention stereotyping our own <em>gente.</em> Not funny, amigos...</span>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281365334950083197.post-78937518101981556822007-03-16T22:41:00.000-04:002007-03-18T06:26:52.467-04:00The Trouble With Diversity<span style="font-size:85%;">Are we being fooled by the illusion of "diversification"? A few weeks ago, I saw Walter Benn Michaels discussing his book, <em>The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality,</em> in C-SPAN's BookTV, and something he said caught my attention. He said, more or less, that diversification of the elite doesn't change anything if all it means is "people of different colors saying the same thing." </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Michaels writes in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/walter-benn-michaels/overrating-diversity_b_29489.html">The HuffingtonPost</a>: "Diversity is useful. But what it's mainly useful for is selling people a bill of goods, the main one being the idea that as America becomes an increasingly unequal society, everything will be OK if all the rich people -- like the stars of TV shows and the executives on Madison Ave -- come in the right colors. Right now America leads the developed world in income inequality and the top 1% of American families is richer than the bottom 90% -- would those facts be less disturbing if the 1% were black and brown as well as white and yellow?" </span><span style="font-size:85%;">But Slate Magazine's Alan Wolfe takes issue with Michaels propositions in his article, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2150826">"Should We Shut Up About Diversity?" </a></span><span style="font-size:85%;">.<br /> What do you think?</span>DoloresPridahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13456123236281044778noreply@blogger.com0