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Just Lindsey doing what he does best...shoving it in conservative ‘bigots’ (his words, not mine) faces. He has a soft spot for ‘hispanics’....

This from NAFBPO - just part of their latest M3 Foreign news report.

U.S. fan: “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”

El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 7/28/09

[Full transl. of op/column by Sergio Sarmiento titled “Mexican stadium.” The writer is nationally syndicated in Mexico]

Mexican Stadium

U.S. fan: “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”

The Giants’ Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with capacity for 75 thousand spectators, was full this last Sunday during the finals of the Gold Cup soccer match between the teams from Mexico and the United States. The Mexican team beat its rival “in its own territory” for the first time in ten years. Nevertheless, as is already usual in the soccer matches between Mexico and the United States, the stadium looked like anything except American.

More than 80 or 90% of the spectators were Mexican or Mexican-American, and their sympathy for the Mexican team could not be hidden. From the start, the spectators behaved as a ferociously local and discourteous Mexican public. Many whistled loudly when the National Anthem of the United States, “The flag of the stars and stripes” was played, and during the entire match they isolated the 10 thousand fans of the U.S. team, who for all intents and purposes, were in hostile territory.

It’s not the first time that this happens. In the book “Who Are We: The Challenges to American National Identity,” Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington, also the author of Clash of Civilizations, described what happened in another Gold Cup: In a sea of Mexican flags, many of the spectators booed the playing of the U.S. national anthem; they tossed waste and “cups of what may have been water, beer or worse” at the U.S. players; they attacked with fruits and beer those few spectators who dared to raise a U.S. flag. Huntington points out that these events did not take place in Mexico City but in Los Angeles in 1998. Huntington quoted a fan of the U.S. team “Something’s wrong when I can’t raise an American flag in my own country.”

Certainly, something is wrong. If something similar had taken place in our country, if a community of foreign origin had made a mockery of our National Anthem and our flag, (then) the mass media and Mexican politicians would have already started a campaign to lynch those anti-patriots and traitors. But since this took place in the United States, many Mexicans have thought of it as something to be proud of.

In his book, Professor Huntington, who died on December 24, 2008, called upon Americans to defend their country’s national identity. He pointed out that “Assimilation is particularly problematic for Mexicans and other Hispanics.” And he was right. The Germans, Irish, Jews and Italians who immigrated into the United States in the past were proud of their national origin, but they never ceased to regard themselves as Americans and to respect its national symbols. For that reason Huntington suggested that the entry of Mexicans into the United States ought to be limited and that more energetic measures should be taken to integrate those who may already be inside the country.

It’s not to anyone’s benefit that Mexicans be seen as traitors in the country which has taken them in with generosity and which has allowed them to build a prosperity that Mexico denied them. For that reason, at a time when there are people in Mexico who rejoice when the American National Anthem is booed at a sporting event in New Jersey, let us think what this would mean for us if a foreign community would do it at Aztec Stadium.

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