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Guest Editorial:
Al Día
A long batch of tweets excoriating ESPN for broadcasting the World Baseball Classic in Spanish (though the preferred term was actually “Mexican”) and Justin Timberlake’s Hugo Chavez skit on Saturday Night Live prompted a newsroom discussion about whether we — Latinos — are too sensitive about the way we are depicted, or referred to, by non-Latino Americans.
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<p><strong>SAN FRANCSICO</strong> – Baseball’s Bruce Bochy, manager of the world-champion San Francisco Giants, uncovered a gaping hole in the modern American civic discourse when he defended his Dominican-born relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez against a racially and politically charged tweet from nationally syndicated sports broadcaster, Tony Bruno.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Major League Baseball’s lack of respect for Latinos</span></p>
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