Vicente, Vicente, Vicente. You disappoint me. I know various and sundry groups of Americans drink the U.S. government kool-aid, but you too -- or should I say tu tambien?? You should know better! You have to know better! What is this "not even blacks" stuff?? You, of all people, should know that Mexicans are hired over here in the U.S. of A because they're willing to work for any wage you can draw out of a hat. Benefits? Hah! Insurance? You're killing me! Advancement? No, really, stop already, my sides are splitting. There is little to be proud of here, Vicente; most Mexican workers are heinously, egregiously exploited here on American soil. It's a complete travesty, and your speech did nothing to help their situation over here. If anything, you gave your blessing.
But it's not all thorns I'm offering you, bud. You only need to have your eyes opened. Please, don't say anything else to anyone until you read Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, which does an excellent job of laying out the situation of your people over here. And here's a clue, you may want to ask somebody in the USA what the term "sharecropping" means, and listen to a little ditty that mentions St. Peter. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Actually, though, I think Spike Lee said it best.
WAKE UP!
This is amazing I tried to get Uppitty Negroe to publish a piece I did on immigration about a year ago, and never heard from y'all. The funniest part of all this, is I can tell the story from the inside out. As a black person employed in horse racing for 31 years I'm particularly aware of the who, what, where, when, and why of the story. Fox isn't stupid, neither is any student of patterns of American immigration. Hispanics have already begun to assimulate into the mainstream culture. And I love the way they have turned this racist ploy to further disenfranchise blacks, into a race issue. Anybody who is against illegal immigration is racist, even those whose real wages have been directly effected. It's a brilliant strategy, and blacks like lambs to the slaughter, will endorse amnesty and guestworker programs for fear of being what we most despise. Simply brilliant! Another thing a better book to read regarding immigration would be "Working Toward Whiteness" if you want to understand wha't really at stake.
Please forgive the errors on my post like uppitty should be uppity and wha't should be what's.
Well, Uppity-Negro.com is a personal blog, not an online magazine for others to submit articles to. It was originally the blog of Aaron Hawkins, who you can find out more about on the Founders Page (see link at top of page).
Sure you weren't trying to submit something to UppityNegro.com, which is a whole different web site--?
Okay, but are you the same people who own Uppity Negro? I'm talking about the tee-shirts and bags.
It's UppityNegro.com, the one without the dash, that has the t-shirts. Uppity-Negro.com is a different owner. You're not the first and you won't be the last to be confused by the similar domain name!
Mexican President Fox
His 'comment' about work "even Blacks do not want"
was ignorant enough - I mean can't he see that in 200 years, the Mexican-immigrant will want 'more' as well.
HOWEVER, NOW WITH THIS POSTAGE STAMP THING - IS HE TRYING TO START SOMTHING??!
You took the words right out of my mouth. Vicente is trying to paint it like it's this cute little image from a certain Mexican generation's childhood --including his own. Well, fine; there's a bunch of people here in the USA who still insist that Little Black Sambo was just the cutest thing alive--but even they wouldn't try to put him on a postage stamp!
Good for you if you can look at the Memin Pinguin stamp and see a heroic figure. But what I personally see is more proof of Fox willing to display on an international scale how much he wants to ingratiate himself with the higher-ups in American society and its government, doing it in the quickest and most ignorant yet oldest way possible...