Littering the air with this...
As if it's not bad enough the streets I drive to work are already littered with Mexican trash, now the air has been littered with another "Los Angeles, Mexico" billboard en mi manera de trabajar--solamente 5 millas de Beverly Colinas!
Oh, and did I mention I was delayed and needed assistance from an additional checker at the drug store over the weekend 'cause mine couldn't assist me porque ella no entendía inglés?
Some would like us believe we need illegal Mexican's here to clean up our trash, but who's cleaning up theirs? Why are we lowering ourselves to the level of Mexico--a country so hopeless people are willing to risk their lives to leave--instead of requiring its citizens to step it up a notch when they come to the U.S.--a country whose freedoms and benefits they desire to experience?
By the way, did you know that in states with little to no Mexican immigrant population (legal or illegal) that restaurants still get their dishes washed and houses still get their lawns groomed? Amazing isn't it?
Still in the dark about the Aztlan plan? Search this...
Comience a prestar la atención, gente!
Quoting this...
"The border remains a military zone. We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we're a new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights. Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us of color, female and male. This is our homeland. We cannot - we will not- and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It's a matter of time. The explosion is in our population."
~Jose Angel Gutierrez, Prof. Univ. Texas at Arlington, founder La Raza Unida Party at UC Riverside (January 2001)
What you have with the Mexicans is exactly what I have with the Cubans and Latinos.
Try going to Carvel, asking for Fudgie the Whale and have the cashier look at you like you have 3 heads - why? BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!! So now I have to learn to say Fudgie the Whale in spanish if Andrew ever wants his favorite cake again?
Every day presents another language barrier experience for me and it's far from pleasant.
I don't have a lawn, but when I do, I know Andrew will be the one mowing it...
Posted by: alysa | May 09, 2005 at 09:19 AM
[I don't have a lawn, but when I do, I know Andrew will be the one mowing it...]
I think I know what you're getting at--personal hiring preferences. But have you considered Andrew might find himself in lawn maintenance because of future college enrollment quotas?
Cheers,
Posted by: Moze | May 09, 2005 at 03:57 PM
Herr Gutierrez reminds me of a Groucho Marx character spoofing Hitler in the land of Freedonia. Unfortunately Gutierrez es para verdadero y lleno de pura mierda. La luz de veridad es la arma el mas mejor en universidad. So, please keep exposing these quacks for what they are.
As for language barrier, might I suggest "Spanglish for Gringos" (I forgot the author)? I deal with Spanish & Japanese "barriers" everyday. Sure it takes extra effort, but it's do-able. (Is do-able a word?) Otherwise you'll probably have to wait for all the slow drivers to GET OUT OF THE PASSING LANE on the highway before we all speak one lingua local.
Posted by: tim jansing | May 11, 2005 at 10:29 AM