Soccer Mom: Unplugged

I got one of those emails last week.  You know.  The ones that have really inflammatory comments supposedly made by the guy across the aisle politically.  The over-the-top comments that are supposed to ignite a fire and passion in the reader so that he becomes a one-man vigilante, a political crusader. 

Usually, I ignore those emails and when I do choose to read them through, I invariably check the source. This time I read the message and immediately typed www.snopes.com into my web browser's address bar.  I was surprised to find verification of every single quote in the email. 

The email contained quotes from "Hispanic Leaders" speaking out about immigration and issues involving the growing Mexican immigrant (legal and illegal) community.  Most of the quotes are from the nineties but seem particularly relevant when you consider the current immigration issue.  They reveal a mindset that is extremely radical and disturbing. From the email:

Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over.

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, "The American southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."

Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, "Remember 187 — proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens — was the last gasp of white America in California."

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor, "We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country ... I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General , "We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California."

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University; "We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos ..."

Are these just the words of a few extremists? Consider that we could fill up many pages with such quotes. Also, consider that these are mainstream Mexican leaders.

I encourage you to click the link above (Hispanic leaders) and to read the rest of the email, if for nothing more than curiousity's sake.  As for my take on it, here goes:

I wonder if Sr. Cebada has considered the ramifications of old white men packing up their toys and leaving the playground.  After all, it is the old white men who are funding the FREE education his kids are getting and who are giving housing and benefits to his illegal and legal border crossing compadres. 

I wonder if Sr. Cebada would consider it difficult to make such radical statements in a country where old white men hadn't written free speech into the most powerful political document ever penned.  I wonder, if those white men hadn't come with their outlandish ideas about liberty for all,  if Sr. Cebada would live in a country free enough to publicly declare his racist opinions without fear of retribution. 

Old white men have made many mistakes, but as far as I can tell, they did a hell of a lot better job than say, those nicely tanned folks in your homeland.  Oh by the way, how is that country that your own people ran into the ground doing these days?  Rumor has it they are on the verge of electing a die hard communist as the national president.  I guess lining up for toilet paper will make even more of your people flock to old white man's land. 

Let me make it clear, Sr. Cebada and you other idiotas who are speaking such hate filled non-sense.  I don't care if you are black, white, or purple.  This land is for people of any color who value freedom and liberty.  It is not an institutional sugar daddy like you seem to think.  And the only people holding Mexican immigrants back are people like you who are determined to make victims out of lawbreakers and hard working law abiding immigrants alike.  You are hurting the people who want a free future.  You are hurting the cause you claim to espouse.  You are the racist bigots who are undermining the cause of those who, but for their own illicit entry into the nation, could be enjoying the liberty and upward socio-economic mobility that my parents achieved for their children in one generation.  You, Sr. Cebada.  You.

And while we're using racist rhetoric, Sr. Cebada, why don't we address the racism that exists in latin America where fairer skin is at a premium.  I lived there for years.  Alone, as a non-citizen. Not as a military wife but in my younger pre-wife and mommy days and I know exactly what it is like.  There, where you "populists" condemn anyone darker than a very creamy cup of java.  Don't come here using colorful talk like that when your apple doesn't fall far from the same historically racist tree. 

As for the whole idea of reconquista, well, you can't reconquer something that the idiots in Washington are willingly giving away. 

That's how I feel, unabridged, uninhibited, uncensored. I still believe that we need some humane and reasonable immigration policy but I also believe we need much stronger enforcement of the laws keeping illegals out.  They must come through the system.  They need to be paying taxes and paid at American wage rates.  They need to be assimilated and welcomed as future Americans not as Mexicans living abroad.  They need the same legitimacy and possibilities that are open to all Americans - that is what drives assimilation and pushes people to move out of the ghettos and barrios and into the suburbs.  And once they have earned their way into the middle class (which usually takes a generation) and are enjoying the American Dream they will be hard pressed to give it up for the likes of Sr. Cebada.  

America - write to your congressmen and senators and lets get some reasonable and humane immigration policies on the books, remove the disincentives to legal entrance, and demand some serious enforcement measures.