More and Better Tokenism

Pondering UNITE-HERE's SPanish language ad against Hillary Clinton, it occurs to me that this year we're looking for the first time in ages at meaningful primary contests in a whole bunch of states -- Nevada, New York, Florida, California, New Jersey, Illinois -- with large Hispanic populations. And yet our major national newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, are sorely lacking in token Hispanic columnists. In case anyone else is pondering this, I'd just like to note that I'm available....

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/more-and-better-tokenism/48013/