Percentage of Latinos in Gulf
Acuna clearly does not reflect the view of most Latinos and certainly not the view of this Latino.
Acuna complains that, of all the Army volunteers, only the Latinos joined it because of “lack of educational opportunities caused by institutional racism that limits the Latinos’ ability to compete with poor African-Americans and Anglo-Americans for what at the time seemed like safe jobs.” His implication is that Latinos joined the armed services just to have a safe job. Acuna is insulting the intelligence of the Latinos who joined the armed forces.
I came to the United States as a 12-year-old immigrant. My family was not even at the low-income bracket. Yet I was able to go through high school and four years of college. In my eight years of education I did not see any instance of “institutional racism.”
JORGE RODRIGUEZ
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