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To: mrustow
Watkins adds, helpfully, that "Maybe it was because it was not so popular for someone to be" Hispanic back then. "Not so popular," as in THOSE RACIST WHITES.

It certainly didn't hurt Xavier Cugat's career.

56 posted on 10/14/2003 3:01:02 PM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee
Watkins adds, helpfully, that "Maybe it was because it was not so popular for someone to be" Hispanic back then. "Not so popular," as in THOSE RACIST WHITES.

It certainly didn't hurt Xavier Cugat's career.

Thanks for pointing that out. I guarantee you, that guy has never even heard of Coogie.

59 posted on 10/14/2003 3:07:17 PM PDT by mrustow (no tag)
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To: weegee
Watkins adds, helpfully, that "Maybe it was because it was not so popular for someone to be" Hispanic back then. "Not so popular," as in THOSE RACIST WHITES.

It certainly didn't hurt Xavier Cugat's career.

Desi Arnez.

-archy-/-

65 posted on 10/14/2003 3:23:02 PM PDT by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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To: weegee
It certainly didn't hurt Xavier Cugat's career

Or Caesar Romero's

101 posted on 10/14/2003 4:19:00 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Calm down, will you? I was just emphasizing a point.")
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