On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> you still don't see my point. Someone whose family has been here since 1608
> cannot be described as "Mexican"

Maybe you called them Latino. Not really an issue so I don't know why
you;re dwelling on it.

> I do have a story about registering an old guy who was apparently Navaho
> that I believe was homeless because he had a backpack, was sitting on a bus
> stop bench drinking a beer, and gave the Albuquerque Indian Center as his
> address, but I don't remember saying that this was the only kind of voter I
> registered and I am not sure that this would have been a true statement.

I never said only.

> I
> did focus on people I believe are underrepresented, but this is a bigger set
> of people than just "homeless." You assumed. And showed some prejudices by
> doing so.

Prejudices? What prejudices? I'm just saying your demographics are way
different than most of the rest of the nation, and you mention it all
too often. So why now are you offended?

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