[star]The American Mind[star]

May 03, 2006

Using the Word "Wetback"

If you're a Milwaukee radio talk yapper who calls Hispanics, "wetbacks" on-air you get suspended while protests outside the radio station call for your firing.

What will happen to Susana De Leon a University of Minnesota Mexican-American studies instructor? At a illegal immigration rally she said, "Yes, people from Europe are wet backs man... their backs so wet because they had to cross an ocean to get here."

"Calling White People '?'"

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Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Culture at 01:28 PM | Comments (23)