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Ernest Rodriguez' "Impressions," 1960s-1980s

""TV Stereotyping of the Mexican American"" by Ernest Rodriguez Page 2

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defenseless and too weak to fight back. The point is that the Mexican-American now finds himself gradually replacing the black as white Americans new "nigger." And after the Mexican-Americans gains the political strength to retaliate them who will replace him as a victim of racism---the American Indian? I've heard it often said that mentally sick person refuses to believe that he is sick. So how do you get white America to the couch to undergo psychiatric treatment of it's mental condition of racism. I don't have the answer to the question but I do know that society is becoming more of child abuse by sick parents and are pressing for laws to protest our children from these sick parents. This is what is needed to protect Mexican-Americans from the injurious stereotyping commercial that are being shown on TV today. These commercials are poisoning the minds of millions of TV viewers and reinforcing and, redirecting racial prejudice against our ethnic group. Even worse they are breeding a new generation of racists in the persons of our American children whose young captive minds are so greatly affected by the false image building under the hypnotic spell of the "eye." You who are concerned about correcting the social ills of our country must complain to the TV stations that help promote this racism everytime they show one of those dispicable commercials or any other way portray the Mexican-American or other ethnic groups in a demeaning and degrading characterization.
 
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