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The gamble was shooting through the door and possibly hitting someone in the apartment across the way.
Hopefully that cholo got perforated and nobody else.
No need to use racial terms
You don't even know what "cholo" means.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a reference to a subculture, not an ethnicity. Though most cholos are probably hispanic, being a 'cholo' isn't down to your racial genetics, it's a subculture.
It meant someone who has indigenous ancestry.. ie, a racial term, since there are many American indigenous ethnicities.
You could argue it doesn't mean that anymore, but do you often hear it being applied to non-Hispanic people?
Racializing was unnecessary
What do you think it means?
Might depend on the area but neither I nor any other Hispanic or Latino I know see cholo as a racial insult or slur (granted I'm a tiny sample size). It's more of a descriptor than anything in my experience.
Source: am Mexican with native ancestry.