Coming off all of the crazy comments I received over last week’s blog on Goya, I started reading a book titled, Hate, Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another. It’s written by Matt Taibbi, a Rolling Stone journalist who says that the press has mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia and distrust. Chapter 2 is titled, The Ten Rules of Hate. If you read nothing else, you should read that chapter. It smartly explains how we have been manipulated into believing that everything is either red or blue, and why the media not only wants us in a perpetual state of disagreement, it wants us to hate one another. The book helped me to write my first podcast which I call Closing the Political Divide. On Monday, I will be interviewed on a live webinar to an invited audience of NAHREP leaders discussing my Goya blog and my personal vision for the Latino community as it relates to politics. I am told we already have more than 200 people registered for the event. I’ll be writing about it next week.
On Friday evening, the LA Dodgers won game one of the 2024 World Series over the New York Yankees in glorious fashion, with Freddie Freeman hitting a walk-off grand slam home run in the bottom of the 10th inning. For Dodger fans, the game could not have been scripted better...
With the presidential election only three weeks away, partisans on both sides are taking off the gloves with rhetoric that vilifies their opponents and fires up their minions. Most people believe that our country is more divided than ever. Indeed, the days when liberal and conservative candidates can debate their views respectfully seem like a distant memory. At the risk of oversimplifying things too much, let me cut to the chase about what is driving the divisions in the country.
NAHREP shares data at conferences to build a more accurate narrative about the Latino community from an economic perspective. Sharing that data with attendees, influential business leaders, and media at the event helps achieve that goal while arming them with information that can give them a competitive advantage with their businesses.