President Obama vowed Wednesday he “will not take no for an answer” from Republican senators who stood unified against his $447 billion jobs bill. “We will keep organizing and we will keep pressuring and we will keep voting until this Congress finally meets its responsibilities and actually does something to put people back to work and improve the economy,” Mr. Obama said at the American Latino Heritage Forum in Washington.

Here are 5 ideas for how President Obama can finally show the commitment Latinos have been waiting for and get re-elected by a wave of Latino support.

Several recent examples of blatant racism have illustrated that the kind of thinking we thought was eradicated long ago is not only flourishing but is being passed off as national leadership.