Most Spanish language TV features on-camera talent which is much lighter in skin color than the average Mexican or Central American. Some say the real racists are the lighter-colored aristocrats that run Mexico.

To: Editor, Arizona Daily Star
Re: "New brown race a myth," By Richard Rodriguez, Arizona Daily Star, Monday, June
11, 2001

  Mr. Rodriquez tells us that Hispanics are not a race but an ethnicity. Why, then, are those of us who oppose illegal immigration called racists? "The dark little secret" that Mr. Rodriguez refers to is not that Hispanics are a culture rather than a race. The "dark little secret" is that that those who are behind the invasion of the United States will use whatever means are necessary to achieve their goal of conquest. To gain benefits of affirmative action and civil rights won by Blacks, and to accuse those who resist the invasion of racism, they claim that Hispanics are a race. But when the threat of a Black vs. Brown conflict emerges, Hispanic is suddenly a culture.
  The fact is, most Hispanics who are flooding into the Southwest United States are best described not by race or ethnicity, but by nationality -- Mexicans.

Glenn Spencer