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Diversity, Film and TV, Race Relations

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED!

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imageNEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles®) –   For far too long, white people have been absent from films, television shows, news anchor desks, advertising billboards and product labels. But finally, they are taking the spotlight away from people of color, thanks to a new MTV show, “White People.”

The documentary, produced by Filipino undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, tackles the sensitive and delicate issue of white privilege in America.

“Its about time we see white faces on television, and not always people of color that have dominated both daytime and primetime slots,” said 23-year-old John Smith, a mass communications student at Harvard University.

Even the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) endorsed the documentary, saying that “the colored community has had a long history of privilege in America. It is time we shift the attention to white people. After all, they are Americans just like us.”

The forward-looking documentary airs tonight and can be viewed online starting at 8PM Eastern time. Dozens and dozens of viewing parties have been scheduled in white neighborhoods across the country.

It’ll surely be tomorrow’s hot topic around workplace water cooler stations and in break rooms.

Law Enforcement, Politics, The Media

FINALLY, A GREEN CARD FOR CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST MICHELLE MALKIN

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From top left, clockwise: Vargas, Vives, Malkin

Washington, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – By now, everone knows who Jose Antonio Vargas is, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who, years ago came out as an undocumented immigrant, or American as he would like to put it. He has since become a staunch advocate for immigration reform.

But there’s also Ruben Vives, the Los Angeles Times reporter who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Prior to his Pulitzer, Vives, who was born in Guatemala, was an undocumented immigrant and, like Vargas, he didn’t  know about it until later.

Pulitizer Prize-winning and other journalists are at the receiving end of both the country’s broken immigration system and President Obama’s immigration reform.

Like Michelle Malkin, conservative columnist . Althought not a Pulitzer Prize winner, she is the author of a book that justifies the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Malkin, who like Vargas is from the Philippines, has been in the U.S. Illegally, or as we would like to put it — undocumentedly . Allegedly, she faked her marriage to a U.S. citizen in order to legalize her status . The arranged marriage was eventually discovered by then Attorney General Janet Reno (of the Elián González custody case fame in 2000).

Since then, Malkin has been living in the shadows (or as Filipinos call it, TNT, or Tago ng Tago – always hiding), writing her columns from an undisclosed location in the Pacific Northwest.

With Obama’s recent executive action on immigration, Malkin is among the estmated 5 Million undocumented immigrants who have been given relief from deportation. In fact, Malkin has just received her green card.

So now  she can come out of the shadows and openly attack Obama’s policies, including immigration reform.

All’s well that ends well.