Stupid Stereotypes, Vol. I: Cancun Hotel Tosses Rigoberto Menchu
Nothing like ending your day with a story of overt racism. According to the Guardian and elsewhere, staff at Cancun's Hotel Coral Beach assumed that Rigoberto Menchu -- the Mayan activist, author, Nobel peace prizewinner, and current presidential candidate in Guatemala -- was an indigenous beggar or street vendor, and demanded that she leave the premises.
Sad, but not surprising. God forbid that a Mayan woman wear traditional Mayan dress.
