Hmmmm. Anti-Latino law? What’s so anti-Latino about wanting kids who live in America, are being educated by America, fed by America, housed by America, and healed by America to be American? Damn those evil racist Americans! Expecting American culture to be dominant in AMERICA!!!!

Of course, you open-minded, anti-racists here at VivirLatino have no problem with Mexican culture being dominant in Mexico or Brazilian culture being dominant in Brazil or, for that matter, Japanese culture being dominant in Japan. And you know what? Neither do I. Every nation has its own heritage which SHOULD be dominant within its own borders. And every immigrant has the moral obligation to assimilate into the culture of his new country. If I moved to Mexico I’d have to become Mexican; I wouldn’t expect anything else. Once you enter another country your native culture no longer applies. The Chinese put it this way, “When you enter a village, follow its customs”.

Here is real racism: it’s Latinos, in and out of the US, thinking they are and should be above the law simply because of their race. Well, you’re not. If a white immigrant like the late Hollywood director Billy Wilder had to come to America legally and learn English in order to succeed here, then SO DO LATINOS. Yep, you Latinos have to follow the same laws and live up to the same expectations that applied to Billy Wilder and millions of other white immigrants. You don’t get a pass just because you’re brown. That’s real anti-racism. Get used to it.

Happy New Year to you too, Maegan. Your question, though, is ridiculous and a lame attempt to avoid the points I made in my first comment here.

The word “America” refers to an individual country and to two continents, plus a small strip of land linking the two continents. I don’t know how it came to be this way, but when the word stands alone it refers to the country, my country. When speaking or writing about the continents and joining strip of land, you put the appropriate adjectives in front of the word “America”: North America, South America, and Central America. Like I said, I’m not sure how that evolved but people understand this linguistic situation and nobody confuses America the country with either of the two continents or the strip of land that joins them. Maegan, I don’t see how this amounts to US supremacism when all the other nations on the American continents have their own names that work for them and have historical validity, just like “United States of America” does. So this “US supremacism” you mentioned is a red herring.

Maegan, why don’t you just address the points that I made in my first comment? America, as a distinct, sovereign, and independent nation has a moral right to assert the supremacy of its own culture within its own borders. That is the right of every distinct, sovereign, and independent nation. You wouldn’t dispute that fact with regard to Mexico, so why would you dispute it with regard to the US?

The second point I made was that, with regard to immigration, it’s NOT racist to hold foreign Latinos to the same standards and expectations that applied to millions of WHITE immigrants in the past. If white foreigners had to enter America legally and then assimilate once here, so do Latinos. It is the demand for a different, more lenient standard for Latinos that’s the real racism. Why should Latino foreigners get a pass just because they’re brown? I’d like to know your answer to that question, Maegan.

Ladymorgue, the people who have a chip on their shoulders are the (mostly Latino) illegals and their supporters who are pissed off that they are being held accountable for breaking the law.

America is a melting pot but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a right to control its borders or to assert the supremacy of its own culture within its own borders. Or, Ladymorgue, do you deny that there is an American culture? And do you deny your ignorance?

America takes in more than one million legal immigrants each year, the vast majority of whom are NON-WHITE, mostly Latin Americans and Asians. How do you explain that, Ladymorgue, if America’s immigration laws are “…anti-anyone who is not white”? I know that people like you need to believe in a hopelessly racist America, but the facts don’t support your dark vision.

The real racism in America comes from Latinos who demand to be above the law just because of their race, and from diversity liberals who think the less white America is, the better. If you really believe in equality, Ladymorgue, then you’d have no problem with Latino immigrants having to live by the same rules and expectations that applied to white immigrants in the past. So, do you believe in equality, or are you just a rank brown supremacist?

Maegan

“Arizona freedom schools anyone?”

SB1070 and more recently HB2281
have increased Arizona’s racial and political tensions to a flash point.

Such racist,fascistic,xenophobic laws must be opposed.

The anti-Latino,anti-immigrant racists have thrown down the gauntlet on the sand.Latinos must pick it up and fight back.

The challenge has been issued,it is time Latinos and other people of goodwill respond.

Maegan’s proposal of setting-up Arizona freedom schools is a great idea!
I would absolutely support it.

Re: “Damn those evil racist Americans! Expecting American culture to be dominant in AMERICA!!!! ”

I think you’re missing the point. People of Mexican and other Latino descent are also part of US culture and history. What Jan Brewer and other racists are trying to do is erase Latinos from the US history books and instill in these children the lie that their ancestors had nothing to do with the building of this country. They usually allow a section on Cesar Chavez so that the kids will think that all their ancestors have ever done is manual labor.

Frankly, I don’t know why we allow our history to be called “ethnic history.” It’s American history, and we should continue to teach it regardless of what Jan Brewer says.

Well I think in all honesty the reason that courses in ethnic studies exist is to balance the whitewashing of U.S. history. But yes Karen, the point U was trying to make was that the history is American history

That is why I kind of let it flow….all true colors are revealed eventually. Happy New Year Bryan