Telemundo—still the whitest TV in town

While I was doing 7 miles on my exercycle this morning, I watched an Irish nun give an excellent presentation of Matt. 24. Wow. That will scare the daylights out of you. Then I switched to Telemundo, a Spanish language cable channel owned by NBC which is owned by Comcast. I watched a bit and see that all the stories are exactly the same as any other MSM. Even the Covid19 scare features.

Except. Culture shock. Everyone is white! I forget how integrated all our entertainment and media shows are until I see one that isn't. And such beautiful news folk. My goodness. The women especially are stunning, but it clearly shows the power of "colorism" or "shadeism". Even the actors in the commercials are white. But if they are addressing Spanish speaking Americans why are there no black, brown, Asian, Indian, gay or disabled people like I see on other media?

Tom Tancredo comments on money sent back to Mexico by immigrants

"Mexico’s national income grows in direct proportion to the size of the illegal Mexican population inside the United States. Does that help explain the Mexican fixation on U.S. politics? Mexico’s most profitable export to the U.S. is not oil or avocados or automobile parts, it is people. Mexicans living and working in the U.S. send home over $20 billion annually in cash remittances —... more than Mexico earns in foreign currency from tourism or any export commodity."

I blogged about this scam before--Mexico is a very wealthy country, but it exports people. Not the white citizens of Spanish and northern European ancestry, but those with majority indigenous heritage. The Mexican census doesn't track race, but it's very racist. For some reason American political groups don't even notice. Watch Univision or Telemundo and you see an all-white cast (almost wrote caste, but that would have been even more appropriate).

http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2016/03/wealth-transfer-and-illegal-immigration.html

http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-mexico-doesnt-want-its-ex-pats-to.html

Speaking of and in Spanish

Telemundo, a Spanish language TV network (owned by NBC) with all white faces, blue and green eyes, tall skinny blondes and no brown or black tokens or hints of Indian heritage in sight, has sent me an e-mail: "TELEMUNDO PRESENTA “FRANCISCO EN AMÉRICA”, EXTENSA COBERTURA DE LA VISITA DEL PAPA A CUBA Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS A PARTIR DEL 19 DE SEPTIEMBRE." Every product I purchase, every tag and label I read also includes Spanish. Why do U.S. Spanish language companies have a different set of rules for good customer service?

I was looking for a video to practice Spanish while exercising, and this morning found gringoespanol.com. Clear pronunciation (in English) and good understanding of why we often don't get it. Forgiving and funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs5M_XpyjvU