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The Debate

          The Democratic Debates! We just saw the first two happen this past week and my oh my what a showing! I have a lot of thoughts on this upcoming presidential election as a whole so bear with me as I will have more posts on this topic. For now though, I want to focus on something very specific that I saw in the first debate, especially with Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke. These two men are wonderful, and I do support their policies even though I would not vote for them in the primaries. However, they pulled something in the first debate that really got me mad. Both of them gave answers in Spanish to questions that in all honesty didn't warrant a second language.
          I have heard arguments that this was a good move as it showed support for the Latinx community and diversity in general. In my opinion, it was nothing more than plain pandering. None of these men  seem to actually speak Spanish in their daily lives and it is not part of who they are. Speaking Spanish in debate like that was just pandering, with both men trying to seem more appealing to the larger Hispanic community in my opinion. It is short sighted of them to think that that is what people want to here. You speaking in their language. A president is great because they can speak more than language, they are great because they know what issues their people face and they work to solve them. And both men have so far only brought up minorities when talking about specific issues. For example, the Hispanic community only comes up when talking about immigration. The Black community only comes up when talking about police violence and the criminal justice system. Minority communities face more than one problem each, and it would be best for a presidential hopeful to not forget this.

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