Dear Mexican: Can you please tell me something? How do you think it’s fair that all the people that come to our country and stay get treated far better than some of the people who have busted their butt all their lives here—tell me how is that fair?! You people take all the white man’s jobs and leave us wondering how to support our families and you people have NEVER heard of the condom because if you have noticed—I sure have—your trashy kind are taking over. And you would think that if you go to another country, you would respect the people enough to learn the language spoken which here in the United States of America is ENGLISH! Please go back where you should be and stop taking all the benefits white people deserve. You all disgust me.
South Carolina Taco Eater
Dear Gabacha: This is what I love about ustedes Know Nothings: your aggressive ignorance of facts. A 2012 study by the Pew Research Center revealed that the birthrate for Mexican women is falling sharply, for both Chicanas and mexicanas. And while the birthrate for those mujeres is still higher than the birthrate for gabachas, it’s expected, not so much because Mexicans are naturally fecund, but because immigrants in general tend to have more kiddies than native-born Americans. Don’t believe me? The Pew Research Center also revealed that the percentage of children with foreign-born mothers is as high as the turn of the 20th century, the last time trashy, non-English-speaking immigrants came to this country to save the States from native-born pendejas like yourself.
I checked out of the Newport Beach Public Library a 2012 film titled For Greater Glory merely because my favorite actor (Peter O’Toole) was in it. And I was pleasantly surprised to find myself watching a well-told tale of a dramatic piece of Mexican history—La Cristiada—I’d never heard of. It seemed a pretty cut-and-dry instance of good versus evil: President Plutarco Calles in the 1920s brutally repressed Mexican Catholics from practicing their Catholicism. What surprised me was to then visit the IMDb message board for the moview and find some Mexicans who had viewed the film vehemently taking the side of President Calles. Are Mexicans not so hyper-Catholic as I imagine??
Bewildered WASP
Dear Gabacho: Just because one doesn’t side with the Cristeros doesn’t mean that one can’t be a good Catholic (and, yes, custodians of Shakespeare: I just used three negatives in a language where double-negatives are a no-no!). And, as typical of Hollywood when it comes to Mexican tales, For Greater Glory grossly simplifies the Cristeros revolt—but instead of me preaching, I’ll direct you to a withering critique offered by Rudy Acuña, the legendary godfather of Chicano studies who’s still at it in his golden years (he also just put the smackdown on the Mexican’s pal, Ruben Navarrette, and his bizarre attack at undocumented students). You can find the profe’s piece by googleando “Rudy Acuña Cristeros” but his summation is one that I agree with: Calles was enforcing the secularization mandates of the Mexican Revolution, which sought to not stop people from expressing their faith but rather take away the meddling might of the Catholic Church—you know, that whole chingadera about the separation of church and state? The Catholic Church, like today in the United States when it comes to Obamacare, took Calles’ enforcement of the Mexican Constitution as an existential attack on Mother Church, and the two sides butchered each other. Los Cristeros are still hailed as martyrs in Catholic Mexico, while historians nowadays consider Calles’ attack on Mexican Catholics as a continuation of the country’s constant conflict between the Church and its natives. But if you think Calles was a butcher, you should’ve seen what the padres did to the indigenous folks back in the days—simple facts that Cristeros fans never want to acknowledge because those priests made Calles look like Blessed John Paul II.
This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2013.
More specifically, the birth rate in Mexico, herself, is virtually identical to that here in the States. Which means very low – in fact, barely enough to maintain each nation’s populations.
It won’t be long before we see campaigns by both governments encouraging producing more kiddies.
Dear “Mexican,”
You must have made up that comment from the “South Carolina taco eater.”
No one could be that ignorant and have such ridiculous ideas about Mexicans.
If that comment is real, that person must never have known any Mexicans!
Funny you should bring up the indigenous peoples of Mexico – the way it’s written would suggest it’s past tense – or happened a loooong time ago(which is where a lot of the “movement” seem to be spending their time while texting on a 4g phone and wearing designer clothes and driving a new car and have never even seen a produce field except in swarmy emotional promos of suffering) – I digress -the enmity between the I’s and the Mexicans is every bit as energetic as it ever has been – suggesting not a lot of progress along those lines and not a lot of love lost between them and their border neighbors either if what my conversations with non Mexican emigres can be believed.
This gives the frothy “human rights” dialogue of Mexican lawyers in the immigration trials as “friends of the court” a kind of comedic flavor not to mention the “street demonstrations” but that’s something too – Mexicans are nothing else if not melodramatic.
But one of the mysteries that continues to puzzle me – the “immigration” numbers have long since passed beyond “immigration” to whole exodus. Now it would follow that a nation so concerned with human rights would ask itself – what the hell is going on here. Why are our people leaving their families and communities in such numbers? The fact is in my conversations with Nationals that I have talked to – that it appears – deliberate – by denying access to work through several methods – the most spoken about – low wages making it impossible to sustain themselves and their families.
This creates the suggestion of an purposeful “ethnic cleansing” of sorts on the part of the “uber-compassionate” Mexican government.. deliberate … preferring instead to migrate their social agenda northward … not northern Mexico who emphatically don’t want Surenos in their communities – North America. And demanding self righteously we handle it for them.
I would feel better too, if I thought the liberal crescendo was truly motivated by an understanding of the nature of this phenomena and not by an unconscious sense of righteous superiority ) ie: a missonary zealots saving lost souls or animal rights activists ) – to which M. L. King alluded to all to frequently in his writings.