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Looking for Brown Faces

by Miguel Perez

As President-elect Barack Obama takes his time to make his first Hispanic appointment, the Latino leaders who supported him are beginning to squirm — not because they all expect job offers, but because they fear they could end up with egg on their faces.

Just a few days ago, they were saying they expected Obama to repay his debt to Latino voters by naming between two and four Latinos to his Cabinet — at least one to his executive staff and many others to sub-Cabinet positio ...

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Posted by: Ruby
Comment: #1
Mon Dec 1, 2008 2:18 PM

I just hope obama can change the system from the schools, and jobs here in the United States, so that we the minority can feel with the same potential that white's have. We still have that discrimination, and is mostly seen here when minority students want to succeed. In University it is statistically shown that less than 1 percent are minority student. There is only a certain amount of minority student's who get into good school. I hope President Obama can change it, is hard work but is better than not doing anything and only focus on social security for the elderly.

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