In certain political circles in El Paso, some people like to pull out the brown card. You know, folks like City Representative Lily Limon, former State Representative Paul Moreno, Jaime Abeytia, among others.
Judging from this El Paso Times' picture of the new EPISD trustees, it looks like the brown card is no longer accepted:
"....One of these things is not like the other...."
And hold up. Is that Norma Chavez at the podium?
Anyways, a school district with a majority-Hispanic student population, is represented by non-Hispanic majority school board.
And there is nothing wrong with that.
Folks understood whether the elected official is white, black, brown or green, when all is said and done they are all the same shit...which is why a political party should be careful to bank its future on some ethno-notion of tribal...err...political loyalty, but that's a story for another day.
But then, was the brown card ever that strong in El Paso? This is a town that has elected Ron Coleman, Luther Jones, Eliot Shapleigh, Peggy Rosson, Pat Haggerty, Dan Haggerty, Joe Pickett, Beto O'Rourke, Susie Byrd, Cortney Niland, Cesar Blanco, Vince Perez Richard Wiles, almost Troy Hicks, and so on.
And speaking of Eliot Shapleigh. He did not speak Spanish to win votes, he did it show-off in front of Hispanics who could not speak a lick of Spanish.