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CRYMTYPHON6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Hi guys!
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'Wetback' is kinda more controversial now than the good
old 50s when you could do all kinds of fun stuff and only
get a ticket for damaging a park tree by hanging heavy stuff to it.
In fact, a lot of hispanic-americans would get kinda
angry that you use it at all.
I know; you are safe; you are just anonymous screen-names.
Pero oiga, mamarachas, la palabra 'mojado' no es exactamente
la manera simpatica para dar la bienvenida a los latinos
a la partida Republicana, entiendes?
No, I suppose you don't.
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bluetexasvalley6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Pues yo si entendi.
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I was a kid in the 50s and well remember this. On Saturday nights, when the citrus farmers would truck their laborers into town to do their shopping, the Border Patrolmen would walk up and down the main street, walk up to any Hispanic-looking person and ask "Tienes papeles?" Do you have your papers?
For the most part, the people being questioned were part of the Bracero program, people from Mexico legally brought in to help the farmers. But some of the people being questioned were U.S.-born citizens.
That was the problem. American citizens were insulted to have their citizenship questioned just because they were Hispanic. Many of their families had been here since way before the gringos came. Many of them were doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc. and resented being taken for mojados. Talk about racial profiling.
Yeah, I know just how the Arab-Americans feel. Well, OK, it never happened to me because I was light-skinned and looked very much like any American kid. But, like Sotomayor, I have empathy and I could feel their humiliation.
If the Republicans want to introduce a bill to bring this back, they can really kiss their Hispanic members goodbye for good. Gone are the days when Hispanics shrank away from demanding their rights.
What if the illegals were coming in from the Scandinavian countries and the Border Patrol was questioning every blond(e), blue-eyed person right on the street? You'd love that, right? -
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