[Autonomous User]

Austin sucks. It is a liberal shithole. Just say’n

[SamuraiScot]

Nancy Guevara said the billboard is about the "border and border culture

What armchair onanism is this? Austin's not on the border. Unless you count the border with fantasy.

[basil]

No, lady—if you want to speak your language and practice your culture, stay the hell at home!

[VRW Conspirator]

Translation: FU gringo. Thanks for making USA the greatest country in the world but we are going to take your s417.

[smokingfrog]

I almost fell asleep watching that video. The ‘artist’ sounds like a pot head.

[GeronL]

how much did it cost the taxpayers?

Have an image of people holding up grocery bags, “Arise and revolt”

[Jane Long]

Vuelva a Mexico!

[drypowder]

we need to be proud of our roots and fight for our rights here

What is she talking about, what rights are the Mexican people here in this country being deprived of? If one is here illegally, then one really has no rights nor privileges that one can say is legitimate other than the right to live but not at someone else's expense. So what's this rise up crap? Against who???

[FlingWingFlyer]

...we need to be proud of our roots and fight for our rights here."

Obviously you are too yellow to "fight" for your "rights" in Mexico where your government would kick your asses for trying to pull this crap down there.

[Temujinshordes]

Where is today’s Captain McNelly?

[fwdude]

Sound like a good time for paintball practice.

[Feckless]

Yeah, rise up... it gives me a better center mass to work with.

Austin = San Francisco, TX or Hanoi in the Hill Country

[Dallas59]

I want Mexican-Americans to know that it is okay to speak Spanish ... we need to be proud of our roots and fight for our rights here."

Does this include cartel beheadings and executions? No thanks nina.

[GJones2]

>”The words on the billboard “Arriba Mi Gente” translate to “Up My People” or “My People Arrive.”<

‘Arriba mi gente’ means ‘Up [literally] my people’, roughly equivalent to ‘Viva mi gente’, Long live my people. The translation ‘My People Arrive’ must be a Freudian slip :-), or else Spanglish. In standard Spanish it has no such meaning.

I agree, though, that putting up a picture in the United States of a logo of the Mexican flag with that kind of slogan, along with clinched fists, is very provocative. How does she think Mexicans would like it if that kind of billboard were put in Mexico with an American flag logo, clinched fists, and “Long live Americans”?

[Right Wing Assault]

Yeah, go back to Mexico and “rise up” against the thugs running the place and the cartels that are destroying the place. Yes, take you country back.

If you eff THIS one up you will be in exactly the same situation you ran away from.

You folks are morons.

[publius911]

Anyone up for a few dozen billboards reading “Regresa a tu pais, pendejo ilegal!”

[GJones2]

Correction: I see that the verb ‘arribar’ can be used to mean ‘arrive’ (which is usually ‘llegar’), especially for ships reaching port. So I suppose ‘Arriba mi gente’ could be a kind of pun with two meanings. (Sorry. I haven’t used Spanish much for decades, so my memory of it isn’t as good as it used to be.)

[Pox]

The artist of the billboard Nancy Guevara said the billboard is about the "border and border culture ... I want to inform people and empower people about the culture ... I want Mexican-Americans to know that it is okay to speak Spanish ... we need to be proud of our roots and fight for our rights here."

If you want to speak spanish, carry your ass back to Mexico as far as I'm concerned.

If you're so proud of your culture, why did you come here? Your culture is what you fled, you piece of shiite!

Too many cowards afraid to fix what's wrong in their country of origin and instead move their "culture" here to pollute this country and leave it a cesspool like that from which they left.

This type of mentality cannot last long without civil war, IMO.

[dfwgator]

This is what happens when you go from a “melting pot” to a “tossed salad.”