My daughter (of Hispanic ancestry on her father's side) states that the current issue with immigrants and Spanish-speaking people in the US is an artificially created problem. Nobody cared, until US bureaucracy decided to make "Hispanic" a separate race apart from "white." She says Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a separate race. I told her, I do remember that I was my teens the first time I heard someone say, "I'm white but my boyfriend is Mexican...." and I wondered why the distinction. Wasn't he white too? Unless he was black, or something else... but what does it really matter?

On the bad cover/Whitney Houston thing, I visited YouTube last night and watched a video from 1974 of Dolly Parton doing her original version of "I Will Always Love You." Just as I mentioned above, there were several ignorant people wanting to know why Dolly Parton was "covering" Whitney Houston's song. Apparently they hadn't noticed the date on the video. One went so far as to say, "F--- this white b--- trying to sing that Whitney Houston song." Never mind that Parton wrote it and was singing it for 20 years before Houston ever got a hold of it.