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Mas…La Cucaracha: Latino Heritage Month Highlights ‘Latin’ Music (toon)
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Fans furious as SiriusXM deports 80% of Latin music channels
Is SiriusXM ignorant, or racist, or both?
That’s the question burning up the social media as the Latin music community reacts to the satellite channel’s dropping 8 out of 10 Latin music streams.
With little notice to listeners, labels or artists over the last few months, SiriusXM has eliminated eight out of 10 of its Latin music channels on their satellite platform.
And now some Latino civil rights groups are blasting the decision.
Mas…Fans furious as SiriusXM deports 80% of Latin music channels
The Latin Grammys: America’s biggest anti-Mexican sham
Over a decade ago, I wrote an op-ed piece for what was called Pacific News Service but is now New American Media bemoaning how pathetic the Latin Grammys were due to their lack of Mexican music. “The definers of Latin culture,” I wrote then, “have decided that the most popular Latin music genre in the United States isn’t worthy of promotion because it might lead people to believe that Latinos are poor and culturally backward, not slick and ‘with it.'”