"Latinos will vote for Obama"

In his commentary "Latinos will vote for Obama" Ruben Navarrette Jr. a "member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune" is certain that now that Senator Clinton has suspended her campaign and Obama is the democratic candidate running for the presidential election Latinos will vote for Obama. Navarrette says that despite the war between Latino and African-American gangs both minorities will vote for Obama. He says that the majority of Latinos are going to support Obama due to their loyalty for the Democratic Party.

I agree with Mr. Navarrette, yes now that Senator Clinton is out of the race for the presidency Latinos will vote for Obama. However, there is one thing I do not understand from Navarrette’s analogy between the ongoing war of gangs among African-Americans and Latinos, when in reality most gangs if not all have disputes between them. What exactly was he trying to infer by mentioning the rivalry between these two particular gangs? The preference of Latinos for Senator Clinton was not due to her white ethnicity and Obama’s African-American heritage. On the contrary, as a Latina I’m more than certain that those Latinos that supported Clinton based their decision on Clinton’s historic support for us, and on former president Bill Clinton. We Latinos are most of the time characterized as being brown, but in reality there are Latinos of all kinds of skin color, there are Latinos that look “white” as many blonde hair and blue eyes Americans are characterized, black, and even “Asian.” For that mere reason, I know that now that Obama is the democratic candidate, many Latinos will vote for him based on his promises and the Democratic Party’s history for defending the rights of minorities such as African-Americans and Latinos.