Republicans Have a Golden Opportunity to Win the Latino Vote
Ironically, Republicans have a strong case to make on immigration if only they choose to make it. They could start by pointing out the failings and dishonesty of the Obama administration, and then make clear that — despite what you hear from some Republicans in states like Arizona, Georgia, and South Carolina where lawmakers are eager to deputize local cops to enforce federal immigration law — anti-illegal immigrant does not mean anti-Latino. Then they could spell out their own plans to provide their supporters in the business community with guest workers, and provide workers who are already here with a pathway to earned legal status.
Then and only then can Republicans hope to engage Latino voters on a host of issues on which the two might agree such as gay marriage, abortion, strong defense, lower taxes etc. And why is that? It’s because, whether Latinos are putting up with Democrats who take them for granted or Republicans who write them off, the single most important commodity to Latino voters is respect. They hunger for it, and they don’t get enough of it.
That’s why, for both parties, how they handle the immigration issue will do nothing less than define the nature of their relationship with the Latino community. If that relationship is based on deceit or demagoguery, then it won’t go anywhere. But if it’s based on respect, then anything is possible.
With the right message and right candidates, both parties have a shot at winning the support of Latino voters. And in a country that is becoming more Latino every day, and where the electorate adds half a million new eligible Latino voters every year, neither party can afford to squander that opportunity.
Respect must be earned. Respect that is freely given is worthless.
Why should Latinos be respected? Because they identify with criminals simply because they share a skin tone and culture? I don’t respect racists. Because they want preferential treatment in bringing loved ones over from the old country just because it’s relatively easy? I don’t respect queue jumpers.
If Latinos want respect they should act as if they deserve respect. Work to enforce the laws. Ease and encourage assimilation of new immigrants. Stand up against racial discrimination.
Immigration enforcement would help with that last one. Not every dark-skinned, Spanish-speaking person is an illegal immigrant, but in some parts of the country that’s the way to bet.
Totally agree. Shouldn’t illegals respect the American people and our laws? If Latinos always support illegals’ demands then they put American rule of law and America itself second.
Thanks, Ruben, you’ve given us a lot to think about. I’m stuck voting for the Republican candidate in any case because I simply can’t vote for the Democrats. I think the main issue for Latinos will be something other than immigration for this election coming up.
Respect? Really. Nothing is more disrespectful than deliberately violating a nation’s laws. Is it not disrespectful to break into someone’s home and then say to that person, “Well, since I’m here already and there’s nothing you can do about it…why don’t you make me a sandwich, fix me a drink and hand over the remote.”
Is it not disrespectful (and ludicrous) for members of a group that calls itself “The Race” to point fingers and shout “racism” at those with whom they disagree? Is it not disrespectful for the US men’s soccer team to be booed in an American stadium by Mexicans who claim to be good Americans?
But of course this discussion has been had over…and over…and over again. So no need to review once again the obvious. I will, however, give “respect” to Ruby Navarette for one thing: He’s like the Chicano Barack Obama when it comes to setting up strawmen and then dishonestly whacking away.
Then and only then can Republicans hope to engage Latino voters on a host of issues on which the two might agree such as gay marriage, abortion, strong defense, lower taxes etc.
For those Latinos to whom these issues are important, they are probably already voting Republican. The Leftists in the SoCal Chicano community in particular couldn’t care less, in which case there’s no need to cater to their dishonest, identity-based agenda. It’s a fact that Chicanos like Navarette who yell the loudest, demanding “respect” are the least likely to GIVE respect. How do we know this? Because we have seen the shocking amount of disrespect Chicanos like Navarette have already shown Senator Marco Rubio. Is Senator Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, an anti-Latino Republican? Not at all. And yet he has been targeted by Chicano malcontents like Ruben Navarette and the imposters at Somos
RepublicansMentirosos, who insist on reminding folks how much larger their community is compared to Cubans. That seems to be the heart of the matter. The Chicanos want to masquerade behind a “Latino” identity while muscling out Puerto Ricans, who are already citizens, and Cubans, who are already Republicans.Anyone who embraces and supports Conservative ideals is (and has always been) welcome in the GOP and the Tea Party. That’s a fact. Identity and race-based politics is the cancerous underpinning of the Democrat Party, period.
Are you joking? What home did they invade? First its YOU who invaded this continent a home to millions of people and exterminated them. And literally INVADED state of Texas and annexed it. Secondly if not for latino immigrant workers YOU wouldn’t even have a home to be “invaded” you’d still live with your parents as housing wouldn’t be so affordable (that you wanted to make a fat profit on it is another story).
FYI, RICO:
‘Native Americans’ Are actually Asians (which means ‘they’ didn’t ‘originate’ here either).
ScienceDaily (Apr. 29, 2009) — For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral Asian population or a number of different populations.
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Now, after painstakingly comparing DNA samples from people in dozens of modern-day Native American and Eurasian groups, an international team of scientists thinks it can put the matter to rest: virtually without exception, the new evidence supports the single ancestral population theory.
“Our work provides strong evidence that, in general, Native Americans are more closely related to each other than to any other existing Asian populations, except those that live at the very edge of the Bering Strait,” said Kari Britt Schroeder, a lecturer at the University of California, Davis, and the first author on the paper describing the study.
“While earlier studies have already supported this conclusion, what’s different about our work is that it provides the first solid data that simply cannot be reconciled with multiple ancestral populations,” said Schroeder, who was a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the university when she did the research.
The study is published in the May issue of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
The team’s work follows up on earlier studies by several of its members who found a unique variant (an allele) of a genetic marker in the DNA of modern-day Native American people. Dubbed the “9-repeat allele,” the variant (which does not have a biological function), occurred in all of the 41 populations that they sampled from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile, as well as in Inuit from Greenland and the Chukchi and Koryak people native to the Asian (western) side of the Bering Strait. Yet this allele was absent in all 54 of the Eurasian, African and Oceanian groups the team sampled.
Overall, among the 908 people who were in the 44 groups in which the allele was found, more than one out of three had the variant.
In these earlier studies, the researchers concluded that the most straightforward explanation for the distribution of the 9-repeat allele was that all modern Native Americans, Greenlanders and western Beringians descend from a common founding population. Furthermore, the fact that the allele was absent in other Asian populations most likely meant that America’s ancestral founders had been isolated from the rest of Asia for thousands of years before they moved into the New World: that is, for a period of time that was long enough to allow the allele to originate in, and spread throughout, the isolated population.
As strong as this evidence was, however, it was not foolproof. There were two other plausible explanations for the widespread distribution of the allele in the Americas.
If the 9-repeat allele had arisen as a mutation multiple times, its presence throughout the Americas would not indicate shared ancestry. Alternatively, if there had been two or more different ancestral founding groups and only one of them had carried the 9-repeat allele, certain circumstances could have prompted it to cross into the other groups and become widespread. Say that there was a second allele — one situated very close to the 9-repeat allele on the DNA strand — that conferred a strong advantage to humans who carried it. Natural selection would carry this allele into new populations and because of the mechanics of inheritance, long stretches of DNA surrounding it, including the functionless 9-repeat allele, would be carried along with the beneficial allele.
To rule out these possibilities, the research team, which was headed by Noah Rosenberg at the University of Michigan, scrutinized DNA samples of people from 31 modern-day Asian populations, 19 Native American, one Greenlandic and two western Beringian populations.
They found that in each sample that contained the 9-repeat allele, short stretches of DNA on either side of it were characterized by a distinct pattern of base pairs, a pattern they seldom observed in people without the allele. “If natural selection had promoted the spread of a neighboring advantageous allele, we would expect to see longer stretches of DNA than this with a similarly distinct pattern,” Schroeder said. “And we would also have expected to see the pattern in a high frequency even among people who do not carry the 9-repeat allele. So we can now consider the positive selection possibility unlikely.”
The results also ruled out the multiple mutations hypothesis. If that had been the case, there would have been myriad DNA patterns surrounding the allele rather than the identical characteristic signature the team discovered.
“There are a number of really strong papers based on mitochondrial DNA — which is passed from mother to daughter — and Y-chromosome DNA — which is passed from father to son — that have also supported a single ancestral population,” Schroeder said. “But this is the first definitive evidence we have that comes from DNA that is carried by both sexes.”
Educate yourself.
How does any of this contradict the Asian origin of Native Americans?
THANK YOU, Delia!
Having an Indian great grandmother, I followed the evidence over the years, and find your facts more than interesting. I say “Indian” because for hundreds of years that’s what we said, and I (me) am a native American because I was born here, and I’m damned proud of it. They wanna change “Indian”, then they gotta stop calling Cristóbal Colón Christopher Columbus. How would the undereducated grads of Columbia U like that? They’d hafta be colon graduates (which they may be anyway).
Another finding some while back was that most, if not all, New World Indians inherit from one of four women to have crossed the land bridge so long ago.
Neat Stuff!
Thanks again from this native American (not Central, South or North, but from the country of America).
Everyone of my ancestors has always accepted the tribal traditions that we are decended by our father the wolf and our mother the bear. The Great Spirit sat with the wolf and the bear and tired of their fighting had them smoke the pipe of peace and then they fell asleep. When the wolf and the bear awoke there was two children a male and a female child, and from those two came all our peoples.
PLEASE! Every nation, including each of the pre-european American nations got where they were by kicking someone else’s butts. The only exceptions are small island nations too remote to have someone kick their butts.
I can assure you that NONE of the nations we displaced were the first ones there. Those nations lost. Mexico lost the southwest. That’s life. Just means we have to do our best not to lose it to someone else.
“Rico”…”Rico”. I forget; what does that mean in Nahuatl?
Are you joking? What home did they invade?
It’s called a metaphor, estupido. Did you really not get that or are just interested in being obtuse?
First its YOU who invaded this continent a home to millions of people and exterminated them. And literally INVADED state of Texas and annexed it.
Tell me how it is that so many people in North America, Central America and South America came to speak Spanish? By accident? How did Spanish-speakers wind up in the Texas territory and what were they doing there? If you want to attempt a historical argument (no matter how shallow your understanding) you should put more thought into it.
Secondly if not for latino immigrant workers YOU wouldn’t even have a home to be “invaded” you’d still live with your parents as housing wouldn’t be so affordable (that you wanted to make a fat profit on it is another story).
That’s quite a vivid imagination you’ve got there, hombre. Or is it merely the talking point that some Lefty activist taught you to vomit up in discussions like this?
And don’t think that it has gone unnoticed that you really didn’t deal with the points I made, other than you becoming confused by a simple metaphor.
how do you violate non-existing immigration laws?
Okay, Rico … let’s do this. Here we go: assume that everything you said is true: do you seriously think anyone in the US is going to start the next big movement to return so-called “stolen” lands to you? Do you really think your complaints have ANY traction in the US (assuming they’re true, as we’re doing)? So, Rico … why waste your time, and ours, going on and on about things that will never change. Are you implying or suggesting that Mexico – Mexico! – is going to grow and modernize its’ military, build its’ navy and air force, and then attack the US to re-take its’ “lost lands?” Is THAT what you’re saying?
I would suggest that you rejoin reality, and deal with the world as it is. You can’t find a continent, a nation, or territory on this planet that hasn’t been fought over, conquered, disputed, or debated over in some form or fashion – what does it benefit Latinos to drone on and on about what you think was done to you? You really need to spend some time learning human history and human nature.
You obviously think the US is a bully and tyrant power – fine. We’ve been called worse. We’ve been attacked. We’ve been threatened. We’ve even fought ourselves in a bloody and destructive civil war that made others like it look like an afternoon tea by comparison. My point is – it’s better for you to just learn how to deal with us, because we’re NOT going away, and we know the art of war intimately.
Deal with it, and move on.
Rico.
Ruben is not asking for the respect from native Americans. He’s asking for the respect from the “current” Americans (which also include native Americans btw). Therefore it makes no sense to bring the seperate issue of native Americans into this discussion.
If this piece was about Americans wanting respect from native Americans. Then it would make sense.
Oh STUFF it! We built this country, we paid for every inch of dirt and now that it’s got people in charge who want to weaken us culturally people like you come in by the millions to trash the place and falsly claim you lived here first. Again, STUFF it!!!!!
BTW – I’m English, Scot, Choctaw and Seminole. My ancestors got along just fine!
Hey Ruben, when they RESPECT OUR LAWS then they’ll have a fighting chance. And when they RESPECT our language, customs, culture, and borders as well. They want respect? Who? The members of LaRaza? The gangbangers? Those who don’t have the intelligence to graduate high school? Are we talking Latinos in general or are you championing the Mexicali brigade as usual? Because unskilled, uneducated, and parasitic populations don’t deserve respect. They deserve deportation.
Maybe someone should point out the the Latinos that a flood of Latino immigrants have flooded BACK into Mexico because Obama is destroying the economy here in the US. Point out to them, that if there are no jobs, immigration, legal or illegal, won’t really matter because no one, with any common sense anyway, will want to come here. The Republicans have a solid record of being able to get people working, just say the names Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan and the Republicans win that argument.
Ruben YOU “brand” has been irreparably damaged here.
If you can’t STFU about illegal “immigration by Mexicans and other South-Of-The-Border-ers,
try writing about it from the perspective of Americans – YOU KNOW, AS IF YOU *WERE* AN AMERICAN.
from all his prior articles that will never happen
it is the same article every time– just changed the date at the top
True …. I can go months between reading Navarette, and it always feels like I’m reading yesterday’s column from him. It’s boring, to be quite honest. The Latino culture likes to think of itself as being based on pride and machismo – but it seems like they really know little of what pride really is. Otherwise, people like Ruben would understand why Americans react as they do to illegal immigration in this country, and why states like Arizona and Georgia write the laws that they do.
If we’re accused of putting American pride and the rule of law before Latino pride – then, we’re guilty as charged.
Why were the ads in Spanish? I have never understood why communications with an American voter should be conducted in any language except English. My reasons for this expectation are thus: 1)only citizens may vote; 2) native born/natural born citizens, even all those anchor babies, should be proficient in English by the time they reach 18, the reasonable assumption is their having been educated in American schools and taught in English; 3)naturalized citizens must demonstrate proficiency in English as part of their citizenship process. So what is the justification for treating the Hispanic community as if it doesn’t know English?
What am I missing here? Why should any segment of the electorate be addressed in any language except English? Doing so only perpetuates and accentuates their resistance/refusal to assimilate into the melting pot. What’s next? Arabic?
We have been putting up with this sort of nonsense for decades, as the left walked all over us. Last November was, hopefully, the beginning of the end of meekly accepting all of their destructive ideas.
yes ARABIC too- if you go to Minnesota or Dearborn and try any govt service line- 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, 3 for Arabic
Yes to vote, you should know ENGLISH- and all public discourse, all govt should function in ONE language – the official language of USA
Language creates solidarity and unity- we do not need fragmented enclaves of foreign languages
If I go to Mexico or KSA I do not expect the govt there to provide me with translators. If I want citizenship in another country I am sure I will have to know their language. In mexico I will hav to show I have MONEy to support myslef plus an education or other skill to contribute. I cannot go there an just whine and demand they turn into USA
With the state of business and technology, and the roles each play in American society, I would submit that ALL children need to be conversant in everyday and business English by the time they enter junior high – or, they are not allowed to graduate. Now, does that mean they can’t converse in another language in public, or in their own homes? Of course not. What it does mean is that there’s a growing number of people in this country who are getting sick and tired of all this political correctness rotting away the American dream. If you can’t bring yourself to effectively converse in English in this country at an early age, then you can’t be an effective citizen. If you can’t be an effective citizen, then maybe you should go (or stay) somewhere that you CAN be effective in.
I submit to you the example of Marco Rubio. This kid and his family came here with next to nothing, worked hard, put him through school – and now he’s a fracking US Senator. You see HIM staying in the barrio, insisting he only speak or be spoken to in his native language? You ever see this guy on TV? He has a greater command of English than the President does! You think HIS family told him, “Hey Marco .. the best thing for you to do is NOT assimilate, cause the gringos will ruin your cultural heritage!”? Give me a break!
DUMP and RUN AWAY FROM any and all things politically correct. Don’t listen to people like Ruben Navarette, who are walking contradictions of someone who hates the very country that provides them the voice they have, and the career they possess. Read and learn civics, and American history. Learn English. Speak English. Be capable of walking into any public, government, or business environment and converse with anyone in any situation. None of that will make you less of a member of your culture.
But it makes you that much more of a citizen of the United States.
The GOP can do as it pleases. I’m not part of it, so I don’t really care what it does, but for myself, I’m in favor of allowing no immigrants whatsoever into America, and all other things being equal, I’ll support any candidate or party that slams the immigration door.
“And in a country that is becoming more Latino every day…”
Well…. Isn’t that the problem? Unchecked immigration of the illegal variety is changing the culture of our country. Of course, many on the left will say that is a racist notion, but who cares any more?
“We the People” have a right to determine our culture, our future and who may come here to live. There is nothing racist about that, and all Americans of all races are entitled to be part of the “say”. But there is no “say” when a border is left open for anyone who wants to enter.
I am not giving “respect” to anyone who disrespects our laws. I do not care if the Latinos are in favor of illegal immigration– why would America want to give “respect” to those who break our laws, or those who support breaking the laws? Sure, our politicians pander and bribe lots of voting blocs, but we don’t need to keep adding to the long list.
As for “path to citizenship”, the “path” goes through the embassy back in Mexico. The path needs to be the same for everybody. Preference to those who break the law? That is just another really awful idea that comes from people like Navarrette. Our country seems to be chock full of people with bad ideas these days.
Gee, maybe that’s the answer. Instead of a border fence, let’s build them their “path”, sort of a yellow brick road. They get on it, follow it around and around, and finally reach their Emerald City destination: the doors of the embassy. We can build a new mudhut just on the other side of the Mexican border, so when they reach it after leaving our country, they can go right in and apply for legal entry. I’d be willing to bet a whole bunch of people would be willing to buy commemorative bricks to pave it, too.
We are Reconquering the Southwest…and you gringos can’t stop us. Our population is rapidly growing, and the gringo population is aging and declining. We are over 50 million and united. You are down to 63.7% and extremely divided…and will be a minority by 2041. We are already a majority of the population under 18 in California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona… and are rapidly taking over Nevada, Colorado, and Florida.
We are young and vigorous. You gringos are old and tired. We are the future. Your time has passed. We have defeated you without firing a shot. It is too late for you gringos to stop us from taking over the country. Gringos are down to only 53.5% of the population under 18…and a minority of births since 2010. You will soon be a minority, and lose control of your own destiny. We will control who gets elected President. We will DOMINATE California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona…and will be the swing voters in the swing states — Nevada, Colorado, and Florida. Whoever doesn’t do La Raza’s bidding will be thrown out of office.
We have Reconquered the Southwest from you gringos without firing a shot. Don’t you see that we have defeated you? You have no leaders, no hope, no future. You gringos will soon pay the price for you sins against us. The 21st century will undo and reverse the 19th century. It is only a matter of time. We are nearly there. In a few years it will all be over for you gringos.
Do you understand that we are CONQUERING this country right now right in front of your eyes, in broad daylight, without a shot being fired? Do you understand that we are CONQUERING America right now…and that your leaders are like the American Indian chiefs who sold their tribes out for bottles of Kickapoo Joy Juice and some repeating rifles… For The Race everything. Outside The Race nothing.
This is the way the Gringo’s world ends.
This is the way the Gringo’s world ends.
This is the way the Gringo’s world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S Eliot – The Hollow Gringo Men
Do go gentle into that good night.
Don’t Rage, don’t rage against the dying of the Gringo’s light.
Dylan Thomas – Gringo Go Gentle Into that Good Night
And just what will that get you? In case you haven’t noticed, all Latin American nations are, to be kind, “developing” nations. Is that where you want to take the US? What is your goal except perhaps a Latino USA? And as someone who has traveled extensively I can attest to the fact that the majority populations in some LatAm countries are white, not Mestizos or native populations.
Thank you La Raza, your statements leave a strong indication that you are really a conservative troll masquerading as a far left open borders advocate in order to make them look foolish. No one could be so stupid as to actually believe the nonsense you are pushing.
LOL – you can’t even conquer the slums you came from. When all those old white gringos pass away you’ll be scrambling for another host to suck. Like rats from a sinking ship, you’ll be shoving and pushing and stomping over each other to get more from somewhere else. If you had the intelligence and the DNA to do anything worthwhile you wouldn’t be sneaking in like cockroaches to Gringoland. Why would you want to conquer and destroy something you DESPERATELY NEED? Without the gringos, you have no place to flee to. Go back to the swamp of Mexico and make something of yourselves. You can’t. That is why you are here. And we gringos know it. Just by showing up you have lost your stupid argument. And you wonder why the word Mexican is prefaced with a qualifier? As in dumb? No one is afraid of your wet dreams hombre.
Hmm. This must be that Cervesa Kool-Aid I’ve been hearing about. Unfortunately, I’ve met people who actually believe this – that Latinos will take over America simply by breeding their way into power. No mention of education, technology, healthcare, or manufacturing – things that Latin countries aren’t exactly known for being centers of.
Lemme ask you a question, ‘ese. If Hitler, Togo, Hussein, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, or a hundred others couldn’t take over America, what makes you think La Raza can? If THEY couldn’t get it done, how do you figure you will?
This country has dealt with two world wars, terrorist attacks, a Civil war, civil rights movement, natural disasters, two recent Middle East wars, a Depression, several recessions, Presidential assassinations, planes flying into its’ national military command center, having to be put in the position of dropping the only nuclear weapons on another country’s soil in war …. and even being “led” by the greatest straw man of them all – Barack Obama. Even with all that … you still think we’re weak enough to be taken over by someone the likes of you????
Like the man says … just bring it.
First, you can’t reconquer something you never had in the first place and second, who cares? If the stupid mexicans do outbreed Americans then the country goes to thirdworld crap because that is what every country in south america is – third world crap. The problem with south america (as with africa and the ME) is the people. Period.
Reuben & La Raza,
This is precisely the point! It is an invasion, supported in the media by anti-Americans like Reuben.
I have no problem with a population evolution wherein Americans of latino extraction become a larger share of the poulation. I DO have a problem with an invasion of illegal immigrants whether they be chicano, Russian, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Israeli. ALL of these groups are problems because in their illegal status they are disrespecters of our culture and law. My city is involved in a high profile federal suit against illegal immigration, and upwards of 30% of the latino heritage American residents support the policies and funding the lawsuit! So there is already a core of Americans of latino heritage to build upon, thus the ad by Crossroads. I too bemoan the use of Spanish language, though understand it.
Ultimately the problem is multiculturalism itself, an insidious outgrowth of the Frankfurt School. People immigrate to America because of the benefits of the culture. Those benefits historically have been employment opportunities, a rising standard of living, and respect for law and thus private property. Illegal immigrants, regardless of source, undermine all these facets of the Americanculture. Folks like La Raza & Reuben merely want to destroy it.
We used to be a melting pot. This has intentionally been morphed into a salad bowl by the multiculturalists. If you have multiple cultures you don’t have ONE culture. We really need to get back to “e pluribus unum” or the social contract upon which all our institutions are grounded will fail. A foundation built on shifting sand will crumble, we must insist upon the bedrock of constitutional observance and cultural consistency within the evolving melting pot concept.
I care not what the color of your skin is so long as you come to America to BECOME an American. Not an african-American, an Irish American, a latino American, a Polish American, etc. ALL Americans are ultimately of foreign extractions. Even the so-called native Americans migrated from Asia millenia ago. So forget about extraction as the key issue! Be color blind yourself! Do you want to be an American? Participate in her cultural vigor, build her economy, benefit from her laws, institutions, and freedoms? Then LIVE as one! Come to our nation within her legal framework, not as an invader and despoiler like the interloper La Raza above and his Quizling enabler, the consistently disgusting anti-American Reuben.
We are CONQUERING the Southwest without firing a shot, you gringos aren’t even trying to stop us. La Raza is a majority of the population under 18 in California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona…which means very soon we will be an outright majority, and you gringos will be powerless. Both parties will do what we tell them, or they will suffer the consequences. We will soon DOMINATE the Southwest…and we already are the swing voters in the swing states, Colorado, Nevada, Florida etc. It is all over for you gringos.
We have CONQUERED you without firing a shot. La Raza is 50 million strong…and by 2050 we will be 135 million concentrated in the Southwest that borders Mexico. La Reconquista is almost comnplete. We are taking back the Southwest, the land that you gringos stole from us in the 19th century. Demographics Is Destiny. We are repopulating the country. It is all over for you gringos. By 2041 you gringos will be a minority. A minority that is aging, shrinking and dying. By 2050 we will be 135 million strong, about 30% of the population — and an even greater percentage of children. We will soon be an outright majority.
La Raza is different than you gringos. La Raza is extremely loyal. We all got each others back. When push comes to shove you will see how strong we are. La Raza is united…and you gringos are very divided. You are no match for us. You are suicidal. You have surrendered your country without firing a shot. We are taking over, and there is nothing you can do to stop us. It is too late for you gringos — unless you can invent a time machine and go back 50 years… Your situation is hopeless. We are the future. You gringos will wind up in the dustbin of history.
We have already RECONQUERED the entire Southwest — California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. We will soon have control of Nevada, Colorado, Florida, and Utah. After that, we will proceed to invade, conquer, and colonize the entire country. We are repopulating the country. We will eventually drive all you gringos out of the country, to Canada, back to Europe, whatever, just get out of this country because we’re taking over, and we don’t want you racist gringos here. We will drive you out of here as sure as I’m standing here. For The Race everything. Outside The Race nothing.
You might be ‘united’ but your ‘neighborhoods’ are a hot mess.
We are invading, conquering, and colonizing the country. We are repopulating the country. We are driving you out of neighborhoods, cities, states, and the entire Southwest. Eventually we will drive you out of the country altogether. You will be forced to escape to Canada, or Europe, or Mars… You gringos has been defeated by your superiors, La Raza. When we have the numbers we will deal with you… Time is on our side. You racist gringos are aging, shrinking and dying. You gringo imperialists will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The gringo is toast, burnt toast. Bye bye gringo. You are finished. Gringo America is no more. We have taken over the country. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos. For The Race everything. Outside The Race nothing.
You’ve showed us that y’all suck at it. Your populations are too busy killing each other to bother us.
Until that glorious day La Raza would you please finish washing my car.
You’re absolutely right, ‘ese. We’re tired of leading the world. Let’s let La Raza do it, instead. They certainly have the track record for it.
We’ll take some time off, and work on our tans. Somebody get me a Cerveza, and the remote – wrestling’s coming on.
You’ll “deal” with us? Dude – you do NOT want to get an American angry enough to pick up a gun. Once that happens ya’ll are FINISHED!!!
Too many times I’ve heard this thing about we should only let people into this country if their parents were on top, so that the kids could get the education the rest of their countrymen were denied. So we get plenty of people who may sneeringly refer to construction workers as ‘the gorrilas’ (yes literally) and disdain the idea of the people serving as jurors rather than an elite that is smart enough to do so.
Sorry. My dad had to work for a living and I relate more to the construction worker who had to sneak across the border than the scion of some family that doesn’t know which end of the hammer you hit the nail with.
An adequate job as Judas goat, Panchito, luring those cholos over the Rio Grande where we can make them work for sub-minimum wages lest they be reported to La Migra. I’ll have the overseer put an extra tortilla in your bowl tonight.
@la raza, when you say “we”, you are talking of la raza, the lawless communist organization. There are many law-abiding patriotic latinos, who became American citizens by obeying the law. THEY do NOT stand with you! I know this because my American friends of latino heritage make it very clear. Leftists in the media don’t interview these friends of mine; the media has become the propaganda arm of the socialist and communists in this country. But they do not represent the majority. And if la raza were made of law obeying people, you would not have a majority of 18 year olds.
Perhaps we have been too complacent, as we have allowed communists to infiltrate our government up to the highest office. But the sleeping giant is waking up.
At any rate, I would not advise you to try to drive us out of this country. You will learn your last lesson in North Carolina if you try it here.
“My one complaint is that, while I realize that Rove has to play the cards he’s been dealt, he’s smart enough to know he can’t duck the immigration issue — no matter how much of a mess Republicans have made of it. Until that issue is addressed in a fair and reasonable way that combines enforcement with earned legal status for at least some illegal immigrants, Latinos simply will not give the GOP or any Republican candidate a fair hearing on any issue. The party brand is that damaged.”
More crying and sobbing from the Latinos. You know what, keep your vote. Oh, and by the way, who was the last president to even ADDRESS the issue, to even have it brought up in Congress? That’s right, it was George W. Bush. That guy. And even though the Democrats had ALL of Congress and the White House for over two years, what did they choose to concentrate on? That’s right, Obamacare. And illegal immigration? Sorry, it wasn’t even close to coming to the top of the list. Face it, latinos, to the Democrats you just were NOT that important enough to waste political time on. Sure, during elections they will come to you and promise you the moon. But do they ever, ever, deliver on anything? Nope, not a thing. At least the Republicans TRIED. Can you say the same thing for the Democrats? So now who’s party “brand” has been damaged? I can’t see Latinos voting for people like the Democrats who never deliver on anything, but still always “claim to feel your pain.” Bunk.
It’s political calculations like these that made me stop identifying with either party.
It’s not Mr. Navarrette’s fault– he’s a product of the two-party, identity-politics system we’ve created over the last 100 or so years. He’s no different than any other “rights” crowd. The fact is, from the political horse-race, rah-rah, GO TEAM standpoint, he’s right. Gay rights, abortion rights, religious rights, immigrant rights, women’s rights, veteran’s rights, seniors rights, children’s rights, animal rights– every little sub-culture has “rights” and needs respect, but no one has responsibilities and needs to be held accountable.
My fear is that we’re so balkanized that this wonderful experiment we call a country will have to collapse before it can be rebuilt and get better. We may be past the tipping point.
Not Navarrette’s fault? I’d like to believe, no matter what other nasty things I may think about this racial supremest, that Navarrette is at least sentient and capable of some degree of independent thought, even if it’s just the ability to decide not to think independently.
what is the “latino vote” exactly? the term seems disgustingly racist to me. the balkanization of america continues apace.
Leftists still like to segregate folks.
Rubén, you’ve finally identified yourself as primarily Latino with only a veneer of Anglo.
As an amateur epistemologist I can clearly see your revealing mistake — or shall I say, your unintended revelation?
“Respect” in English is not “respeto” in L.A. Spanish. In English “respect” is merited through cause. In Spanish it is merited through stature. One honors a person’s proven value, while the other honors a person’s position whether undeserved or inherited.
“Honor” is also an interesting word.
In French, “honor” means “doing the correct thing”. “Correct”, not “right”.
In English, “honor” means “doing the right thing (even when nobody is looking)”.
In Spanish “honor” means “personal dignity”.
English has many precepts which, when they exist in other languages, are merely concepts.
“Fair Play” is one. It doesn’t exist at all in Spanish. Nor in other descendents of the Second Caliphate.
Perhaps that’s why you can’t “get it”, as we say. Perhaps you project your Latino precepts on all Anglos, and thereby misconceive their sentiments (frugality with greed, austerity with lack of passion, etc., etc., etc.). Look to yourself.
excellent précis.
Might be interesting to do an entire post on that subject. “Why can’t they understand what they mean?” It’s because they’re hearing your words, not your meaning.
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Ruben, you need to write another opinion piece on Operation Fast and Furious. New information has come out since your last writing in April.
ABSOLUTELY! I was amazed by the amount of response which ignored the fact that the Casa Blanca Junta has been equipping the murderers for many years, and not just through the BATFE/FBI nexus! The State Department approved sales of RPGs, grenades, and a lot more through the Direct Sales Program… AND NO GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL (including our own) SOUTH OF THE RIO WAS CLUED IN!
You want to see real disrespect?
The Junta has more respect for Libya than it does for America!
“If you’re going to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs.”
Two of ours, Jiame Zapata and Brian Terry, and well over 150 of theirs, with the expectation of an overload of more….
I used to listen to a local host who saw this coming. He left a gaping hole when he retired.
The fact is that there are many poorer, less self-entitled people in Africa, the Carribbean, Asia and Europe who are more appreciative and eager to asimilate than many Latino immigrants show themselves to be. Let them all compete for entry on terms that offer this country advantage.
Indeed. Frankly, I don’t care what race America is. What I care about, however, is what culture we embrace and what foundation we are built on. If we have to decide between James Madison and Hugo Chavez, I’ll take the old, dead, white man.
However, if we have to choose between Paul Krugman and Marco Rubio, I’ll take the Latino. With either of my choices, I get a true American. With Krugman, we get the castoffs of a Latin-American thugocracy.
Navarrette will lead us closer to Chavez than Madison.
You don’t care what race occupies America as long as you approve of the culture? You mean Africans bringing European culture to America and Chinese bringing African? Something like that? Like race has nothing to do with culture? Nationalities where particular races live have nothing to do with culture? You mean if America was settled by say, Egyptians, we would still have the culture we have today? Gee who knew?
Ruben,
If “a pathway to earned legal status” means citizenship without having to get to the back of the line, then you lose this argument. That’s what it meant under Reagan… and that’s what it would have meant under Bush or McCain. That’s what it would mean under Obama… or any Democrat. What would it mean for you? Respect is a two way street. Are we required to respect the disrespectful…. as, in the case of Islam, we are expected to tolerate the intolerant?
John McCain was the one candidate who tried to help out immigrants. He did not carry the Latino vote. Mitt Romney has relatives in Mexico because it was a place for Mormons to escape religious persecution. If he is nominated he will not get the immigrant vote. If the dems run a dead cat the dead cat will get the Latino vote.
The reality is the Latino vote belongs to Democrats because of generations of brain washing that says people that care about businesses somehow don’t care about people, only people who work in for the government and do everything they can to prevent job growth do.
Its not a Latino thing. Its a disrespect for people who work for a living thing.
dead cat! ha! caught me by surprise. good one.
Ruben, let me ask you a few questions:
1)Do you believe in loyalty, or is disloyalty a Latino trait?
2)Do you believe in national pride or is patriotism disfavored in Latino countries?
3)Do you believe in assimilation or are Latino countries inclined to change their entire way of life to accommodate foreigners?
4)Do you believe in laws, rules, regulations or is it a Latino trait to be lawless, disrespectful of authority and inclined toward criminality, chaos and anomie?
You seem quite willing to speak for “Latinos” and you give the impression that they are of a single mindset. From what I am able to gather from the series of articles you create, Latinos come off as a reckless band of lawless marauders demanding to be served a “special” set of rules, applicable only to them …merely because they can “vote for the other guy”.
This thinly veiled threat seeks to bully the very people who are trying to defend a nation against the tyranny of totalitarian leftism. An illegal invasion of millions taxes this country financially, weakens its border protections, subverts its laws, and crushes its unity. It creates more divisiveness where none would otherwise exist between ethnicities.
And, yet you talk about “respect”. Where is there respect for the law? Where is there respect for our traditions as the host country? Where is there respect for assimilation? Where is there respect for patriotism?
If Latinos have been lied to by the leftists who only want “that vote”, maybe you might be able to cure your myopia and learn to deal with the honest people, who are telling you that respect is wanted on THIS side of the fence as well. Respect our laws. Respect our borders. Respect the life we provide her for our citizens and ask us not to change it…but respect assimilation.
Respect our patriotism and national pride.
Do that and you will find….as the legal community of Latinos has found, we respect and love with ease.
Do it not and you will find…you can take your veiled threat and shove it.
Brilliantly stated.
Great. How about they offer us what we crave? Respect.
Stop waving the mexican flag in our faces for starters.
(Republicans) can make a good start by offering Latino voters what they crave most: respect.
The entire notion of political parties purporting to offer this or that group (ethnic, religious, age, sex whatever) “respect” or anything else under the sun is a crock.
The country is founded on the acceptance of all peoples and is constructed to allow all peoples to realize their goals and aspirations.
“Respect” being offered to Latinos (or anyone else) should be rightly viewed for what it is, condescension & vote pandering.
Hopefully, when Barack Obama went on Latino radio just prior to the November 2010 election and told listeners they needed to “punish their enemies” (enemies=Republicans), Latinos saw through the ridiculously shallow ruse.
I respect all people who respect the law, regardless of skin color and welcome anybody likeminded to become a citizen. They just have to apply and wait like anybody else.
Since I am not a racist, I don’t think that Mexicans should get front of the line priviledges, nor should they get special exemptions from the law.
I’m against illegal immigration. But legal immigration is not an option. The legal immigration system is only for specialist like movie stars, wealthy business men etc. Normal hard working people don’t have a chance.
Illegal immigration should be halted. But you should not delude yourself into thinking that there is a legal option.
The GOP and Karl Rove have been wrong on how to attract the Hispanic vote. I am an American of Cuban descent. I am not of a different race; I am WHITE. My parents had immigrated from northern Spain to Cuba years ago. To be born in Latin America does not change your race! I came legally as did most Hispanic immigrants. Most Cuban Americans are conservative Republicans and oppose amnesty to illegal immigrants. We stand for the same values that made this country great; this is the reason we came.
The GOP has painted all Hispanics with the same brush; trying to reach out to all Hispanics by offering amenesty to illegal Mexicans. Educated Hispanics find this very condescending. We are Americans first and support border security, no benefits to illegal aliens, no amnesty, and deportation of all criminals. We immigrated using legal methods and we respect the law.
You’ll appreciate Gabriela speaking in Tucson.
Gabriela Speaks City Council Meeting April 27, 2010
Amen Elvira! Most Americans’ only experience with Hispanics is with poor Mestizo immigrants from Mexico, the Caribbean, or from northern South America. Much of Latin America is majority white and made up of immigrants from all over Europe? I just returned from a week in Chile’ and worked with colleagues with last names Dragocevic, Schneeburger, and Giuliani. None of them Spanish. Hispanic and Latino does not mean not white. Only to the Hispanic ethno-racists like La Raza does Hispanic mean not white.
Hi Elvira. I understand you , but your anger is misplaced. repubs/conservs are damed if we do and damed if we dont. either we are racist who hate all brown people or pandering. the anger should be directed at hispanics who come hear illegally and want something for nothing. and unfortyunatly there are far more(or at least far more vocal) We need more likeyou to help us scream NO. ive been called every name in the book. i have been told by my gf reletives thatim ‘racist’ for thinking all latinos are illegal….and in the SAME BREATH tell me they are. Ruben says latinos want respect but what the ones he talks to want is freedom to do whatever they want. The ones ruben likes are criminals nothing more.
does “reuben” post as “la raza” in these threads?
Ruben,
Do you believe in balkanization? You must.
In my own hometown, the immigrants from Mexico have adopted a small part of the city as their own. Their white neighbors have made a concerted effort inviting the recent immigrants to share in American festivities. They’ve been met with something akin to disinterest. Perhaps Mexicans are leery. Perhaps they are uninterested.
But in this part of town, the restaurant menus are in Spanish. Not a word of English on the menu. I don’t make this point lightly.
Your own are not even making the attempt to assimilate into a common bond called America. This separates them from the mass immigration of late 19th and early 20th centuries.
If you wish to join the ranks of America while adopting your own customs into melting pot, welcome. But do not think for a minute substituting Mexico for America to escape the bonds of Mexico is acceptable.
And that is exactly what you are asking the rest of us to respect.
Of course, as always, the devil is in the details of what the meaning of fair and respectful is, and what exactly does “some” mean in terms of the magnitude of the amnesty? Generally, in a multicultural world, agreeing to exactly what “equitable” means can be problematic. And, of course, I’ve seen no indication of any control over any of the borders by the no borders crowd crowing from their gated communities for compassion for the poor, the downtrodden, the lame, and the sick. Meanwhile the moonbeam man signs off on five billion in new California Wall Street borrowing while signing up the bankrupt state for a mini Dream Act for higher education’s elite, apparently in preparation for training all those newly released criminals for the new manufacturing jobs creating photovoltaics that are actually being off shored to China. Doesn’t look like a formula for success to me, but what do I know? I always thought American progress was fueled by cheap energy inputs and technological innovation, but hey, maybe Malthus was right and ten dollars a gallon for gasoline and twenty dollars for a bottle of Calistoga water is really a counter intuitive incentive for providing paradise on the planet?
Never mind voting, whether legally or illegally. That fact that California is cratering just ahead of the rest of the country and illegals are now jumping ship for more jobs back home spells doom. Dream Act part I(passed) and II(pending) and free everything won’t be much good in Calisomalia.
“Until that issue is addressed in a fair and reasonable way that combines enforcement with earned legal status for at least some illegal immigrants, Latinos simply will not give the GOP or any Republican candidate a fair hearing on any issue.”
Exactly how does one “earn” legal status by entering the country illegally?
To Navarrette, “fair and reasonable” of course means giving away the store – with someone else paying the bill.
Of course the Latinos will not give the GOP a “fair hearing” – not with people like Navarrette spending every waking hour writing columns demanding amnesty and criticizing conservatives for daring to want the nation’s laws upheld.
Reuben “one note Jarabe Tapatio” Naverrette should stop whining about his illegal immigrant pals and write a cookbook or celebrity suck-up biography. He’d make more money and annoy fewer people.
One more bad Ruben sandwich.
A Country Without Borders Is No Country At All —- Barbara Jordan, U.S. Congresswoman (Black!!!)
As a black man, I don’t give damn how the Tea Party crowds think about blacks but what I do recognize , they’re America’s strong-hold against illegal immigration while both political parties have sold out U.S. citizens to 30 million indigneous foreigners from Mexico.
And what I do recognize, they are “true” Americans….full-blooded Americans just like me. We share the same language, culture, heritage, history and everything else. We’re fellow Americans with a sense of pride and patriotism.
We don’t recognize that same sense of pride and patriotism from illegal aliens, nor from the majority of the “legal” Mexicans. There’s tons of evidence how illegal aliens (and legal Mexicans) have disrespected our country, demanding stuff they never gotten in their own country and somehow, think they’re entitled to our wealth and citizenship.
This is a call to the black southerns to wake up and see what’s happening to our country. Your congressmen/women are selling you out to the illegals. There’s no such thing to be generous to strangers that demand all you have as a Country. To give in to this notion of legalizing 30 million illegal aliens simply because, “they just want to work,” “they just want a better life for their children,” or, “this country was built by immigrants,” is a misguided sense of generosity.
Our country is being invaded! If the black Democrats and the Tea Party don’t join force now, we gonna lose this country and fall to a 3rd world status where our middle class would be completely wiped out. I’m for my country! For my fellow Americans, not 30 million illegal aliens and their Mexican sympathizers or those open-border loons that believes this country cannot survive without a specific indigneous nation as that of Mexico. You have to be out of your minds if you believe that craps. Enforcement-policies along with a push for a reduced level of immigrants is the way to go. Speak up!
YOU speak up. YOU go to the south and try and reach southern blacks. We need people like you in politics!
But I can tell you right now that dems will NEVER join with tea party folks. Oh – and there are more like 70 million illegals in this country. Not 30 million or the tired 12 million they keep lying to us about.
Otherwise, I like your spunk!
You want me to respect the hispanic illegal immigrants who invaded my once serene area and murdered my best friend and ruined his family business?
Hmmm.
Nope.
How about they respect us?
The nerve these hispanic immigrants have is unbelievable.
They illegally invade our country and demand we hand everything to him with a bow and a smile and a decleration from us about how great they are.
It would be like me sneaking into Japan and demanding they adapt to my way of life rather than the other way around.
Absurd.
How about we eliminate the hispanic vote by mass deporting illegal immigrants and reforming voting rights by requiring voters to pass a basic knowledge test, an IQ test, pay taxes and have a clean criminal background?
We’ll eliminate 90% of the hispanic vote that way.
How’s that sound?
i understand the whole respect thing but don’t you have it backwards, ruben? respect is earned because enough latinos show up to vote. at some point i gotta think, for any identity based voting group, your interests and your aspirations, regarding your money, what you pay in taxes, your position (left or right) on social issues, your opinion regarding defense and america’s place in the world would start to determine who and how you vote and no longer on such sentimental and symbolic but ultimately useless bases. the day latinos start to do so in california, is the day this state becomes again a two-party state and our dear california begins to right itself. that day can’t come soon enough.
Since most, if not all, U.S. politicians are avoiding the subject of immigration reform like the plague—I think it’s commendable that Ruben Navarrette dared to address in writing the elephant in the living room. In fact, he’s earned my respect for having done so. The immigration issue can be discussed/improved/resolved very simply, really: 1) Seal the borders. 2) Cut the bureaucratic red tape on the VISA process & renewal. 3) Sift through case-by-case solutions for (at minimum) 12 million illegal immigrants in our country. Some may have to be deported, to be sure. But the idea of sending each and every million back to their country of origin is not a practical option.
So, I agree that Republicans can (and should) take advantage of seizing a tremendous opportunity. Problem is, first they need to overcome their fears of even talking about it. In the end, if conservatives accomplish a reform deal, then capturing the latino vote would just be the icing on the cake.
I take the columnist’s sense of the word “respect” to mean, not respect for any of us individuals with all our faults and sins, but the kind of dignity, or acknowledgment of our God-given rights which the Declaration of Independence acknowledges and applies to all men equally. Had we or our pre-1882 ancestors had to suffer the bureaucracy and Numerical Limitations which we impose on immigrants today, we would call those laws “brutal”. We do NOT give immigrants the even handed “due process” which the 5th Amendment says federal law should have, or the “equal protection of the laws” which the 14th amendment says state laws should provide, and which was the phrase that made slavery unconstitutional. The alternative to believing all U.S. residents should have “equal protection of the laws” is to believe they should not. If they should not, then there is no Constitutional limit to how “unequal” their “protection of the laws” can be. We can legally enslave them.
Navarrete, you speak from the left and to the left. Most Hispanic-Americans that I know,vote conservative. Yes, not Republican. Where does that leave most leftist illegals assaulting our sovereign borders? Think about it, you 5th columnist. And don’t try to speak for all Hispanics.
Screw the latino vote. All latinos need to be deported.
Here’s a solution: Mexicans go back to Mexico, Cubans go back to Cuba, Puerto Ricans go back to Puerto Rico, Central Americans go back to Central America, South Americans go back to South America, and leave America for Americans.
I tender respect to courage, not to machismo bravado.
I give respect to honesty, not to cheats and liars.
I give respect to those who understand what lies at the heart of the United States and who desire to make a future with me, not as a parasitical invader, and not as a gang banger, and not as the wholly owned subsidiary of our current crop of left wing padrones.
Many Mexicans who cross into the US illegally have the notion that La Raza is a thing to be desired. Flee Mexico because it is a failed state, come here and become an American citizen, in thought and deed, and you have my greatest respect. Come here and bring the Mexican sickness with you to nurture in our midst, and respect should be the least of your concerns.
Ruben, you really do remind me of someone. You should not be flattered.
The area which is called mexico today, was ALSO inhabited by indians. There was no such thing as a mexican until the Spanish invaded and “mixed” with the indians. It’s too bad mexicans are so dumb they can’t even be bothered with their own history. With their lack of brains and education, they just make it up as they go along.
And while they are always trying to tell us we are europeans, they better think agaibn. Since they are half Spanish, that makes them europeans also. ROFLMAO at the dummies!!!!
As I recall, during the 2008 (and earler for all I know) the Spanish only radio and TV networks refused to run Republican ads. What are the Liberals scared of?
41. sorry for the typos.
As I recall, during the 2008 campaign (and earlier for all I know) the Spanish only radio and TV networks refused to run Republican ads. What are the Liberals scared of?
People, you need to realize that Latinos are and will always cross your border no matter what your do. Hunger is more powerful than your ignorant logic. It does not matter who came here first, that is just the U.S.A reality. Your neighbors are not Germans or Ukrainians but LATINOS willing to work their guts out to feed their families… so just fix the laws to legalize only the honest people who want to work! LOL!!
“Why don’t they just go back to their country?” That seems to be the catch phrase lately when talking about ILLEGAL immigrants, right? No, actually, a lot of people have decided not to discriminate anymore. It’s easier to just loop *them* all together. At first blush, the question is rhetorical, particularly when talking about Americans of Mexican descent—those born here—and commonly referred to as Mexican-Americans. All or part of present day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Texas were MEXICO, until the Mexican-American War of 1848, when large numbers of Mexicans crossed battle lines to fight on the side of the U.S. The result is that Mexico lost over 67% of its national territory (when you include Texas). The idea of complete assimilation taking place would’ve had to have been a “reverse type” of such, in that there exist deeply rooted Mexican traditions, customs, & values already firmly in place (mainly in the mentioned states). Hence, the heavy concentration of Mexican-Americans along our southwestern states. The United States is a beautiful blend of diversity, which directly includes the Mexican culture. So, when an American barks to another American (of Mexican descent), “Go back to your country!” One has to simply laugh, because the angered individual has only managed to reveal a fair amount of lack of knowledge—about the bona fide rich history of their own country, the United States of America. BTW, all my hispanic friends & colleagues prefer being called what they are: AMERICAN.
And to think, I have to vote Republican next year and be on the same side as these people posting here. O Bartleby! I’ll try to clean this out of my head like shaking an Etch n’ Sketch as I head to volunteer for Michele Bachmann in Ames, Iowa in a few days.
I sometimes wonder if many of these howling anti-Hispanic trolls who show up every time Navarrete publishes something are really just leftist decoys. I’ve been to Sarah Palin rallies and other conservative events; I go to political meetings often–This ignorant hate just isn’t there. We discuss immigration like rational human beings, sometimes agreeing and sometimes not. It’s only anonymous supposed right wingers who say things like “all latinos should be deported.” I wonder if they are just posing as right-wing. Interesting.
I am not a formally declared Tea Partier, but it’s amusing to think about how much I share the Tea Party belief system. I’m Hispanic. Conservative. Go figure.
I know that Obama’s minions will stop at **NADA** to get what they want. Obama has thousands of keyboard posers that are actual government workers. The only republicans I know of who want to kick out of USA the entire bunch of Latinos are the ones that post anonymously. Coincidence? Not so much.
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