OPINION - On various social networks I've been noticing a trend of Latinos and indigenous Americans overwhelmingly showing their support for Palestine. Many people, especially fanatics, change their profile biography and their profile image into something related to Palestine. Their energy for this movement is thoughtful, but I see a major problem. Many times Latinos get tricked by the mainstream media to reject their own interests, look at their attempt with "Latinx".
Throughout the years, the Republican party in the United States has called on the American voter to strongly consider who they support. Shall we vote for people that take human trafficking seriously or should we vote for politicians that call other politicians racist for bringing up the topic of human trafficking at the southern border? Democrats have always responded to calls about child abuse and women abuse at the southern border as if they were nonexistent. They don't believe any atrocities are happening in Latin America while lecturing us that it is tantamount for us to get involved in overseas conflicts. Ukraine, or Palestine, they want us to follow into whatever their short attention span is attracted to in the moment.
Now, to return to the abundance of pro-Palestine Latinos, these Latinos truly disturb me. I suppose there is some good as some Latinos oppose Joe Biden over Palestine. However, the Latinos, who are willing to prioritize bringing awareness to and sharing discussions about the Palestinian conflict (as if society didn't already know), would rather prioritize Palestine than their own Latino country or their home state (for US-born Hispanics). Our issues, as Latinos, range from drug cartel issues to underaged births, the indigenous community, specifically, suffers far more from poverty and human trafficking. Why is there no strong movement at the national level or international level to stop human trafficking and sex trafficking? It's probably because the people who run the media are the ones sheltering the child abusers.
It's no wonder it took this long to take down Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell, and with that, we still don't know much. I don't have confidence in a system that constantly tells me I need to be worried about conflicts overseas when the US standard of living is decreasing compared to the world and people are struggling in the Americas. Other Latinos may want to prioritize Palestine, but I am not one of those Latinos. Latinos should be focused on bettering our community instead of a war about five thousand miles away.