your ahead of me
my best friend is Hispanic .. but she's one of the good girls who doesn't use those words *L*
Mo,just curious about your Hispanic friend and I ask this question because I have a couple of Latinos I work with whom I am pretty close to.
Is there a level of discomfort in discussing illegal immigration with them?I find my Hispanic friends often make jokes about the corruption in Mexico and about aliens tunneling over the border.Yet on the other hand they seem very proud to be of Mexican heritage and are generally sympathetic to the"Chicano"cause.I have this feeling I have to walk a careful line with them on the issue because for them the issue is not abstract,its personal.
Its like discussing the Constitutionality of Civil Rights Laws with a black person.To me as a white person,I can make some theoretical argument about how the Federal Government may have exceeded its jurisdiction in 1964.To a black person its like,"F Constitutionality.Do you want me and my family to have to go to the back of the bus again?"
Things get ugly and objective discussion is silenced.