La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for October 13, 2015

I tried tamarindo once as part of a food review for my high school newspaper. Tasted like sewage water to me.

Try half horchata, half strawberry agua fresca. You can thank me later.

Jamaica? I Thought it was spelled Jicama?I’ve cooked a lot of Spanish and Southwestern cuisine and haven’t come across any ingredient called Jamaica.

don57 said, 1 day ago@OlongapojoeCan’t we at least honestly acknowledge what happened in the past without being accused of self-flagellation? It’s comforting to tell ourselves that Columbus was motivated purely by the “spirit of exploration”, that Africans were “immigrants” and “workers”, that the wholesale slaughter of indigenous people never took place and that the Civil War was fought for reasons other than the right to enslave human beings but that isn’t what happened. In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past you need to first acknowledge that they occurred.(BTW: didn’t it ever occur to you why so many Native Americans aren’t “100% tribal blood”? Here’s a hint: it’s the same reason so many African Americans have mixed ancestry, they were raped by our forefathers)………………………………………………………………………………….don57- if you want to be ‘honest’ about what happened in history, you should accept it for what it was, simple conquest of a less advanced group by a group with better technology. Nothing right nor wrong about it, it is human nature to conquer. Best example being the Mongol empire, it almost conquered the entire known world, if not for infighting that called their armies back to China they would have sweep across Europe to the Atlantic ocean. The only reason people gnash and wail about the past is we are fat dumb and happy today. Let the shroud of civilization fall off and humans will revert to the old tried and true ways to survive.

Finally Lalo wrote a cartoon that is funny as cartoons should be. The rest of his work belongs in the editorial cartoon section.

Regardless of my my or any ones elses opinion, his political cartoons are fair game in the editorial cartoon section.

I wrote this late yesterday so it might not have seen by interested people(if there are any), so I will repeat it.

Because some of my family insist he is a Latino as do the Mexican family he married in to. They consider anyone who is not Latino, by their definition, as white and the bad guy.

On the other had many of the educated Mexico use the term Gachupin as an insulting term for Spaniards since Mexico suffered for centuries under the oppressive rule of the Spaniards.

Part of my life was spent in Spain. I saw the term Hispaniola on old maps and in history books but never in modern print or in conversations. Within the country most people identify themselves by the one of 17 autonomous regions. In other words if you are a Basque you say I am Basque or I am from the Basque country. If you are a Catalan you say I am a Catalan.

When a Spaniards is outside of Spain, they are more apt to identify them self a Spaniard unless they are Catalans or Basque

I have never heard any Spaniard identifying himself a Hispanic. I do see others using the term Hispanic to refer to a Spaniard.