A FORUM FOR COMMUNITY ISSUES : Second Opinion / COMMENTARY FROM OTHER MEDIA : KKHJ RADIO (Spanish) : White Skin Is No Passport to Happiness, Prestige
Racial discrimination continues to increase in Los Angeles County. A report showed the Los Angeles Police Department still discriminates against Hispanics. In a population which will soon be 50% Hispanic, out of 7,000 police officers, only 12% are Latino, while blacks, 10% of the population, constitute 14% of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Is white skin a passport to happiness, prestige, talent or genius? No! There are whites who conceal their origins and live terribly afflicted by the disease of “ethnicity.”
Their grandparents are Indian, black, Chinese or Arab, and their racial complex forces them to live miserable, absurd, misplaced lives. They are not happy with their families, whom they hide, isolate or renounce in order to support their vain pretense of being white because “their skin says so.”
These “selfish-skinned whites” are the most bitter and tragic discrimination problems.
From an editorial by Ernesto de Gali. Translated by Alberto V. Ortiz.
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