Hispanics will be the majority it's come to this: they will need to catch the news on the spanish stations for the real story. I myself only found out about the Dream Act marches planned for 50 cities by switching to the local Spanish station in Phoenix. I recognized the words "Dream Act" (which were read in english) as legislation from last year, then found the story on the web. This report WAS NOT on channel 3, owned, operated and broadcasted from the same studios as 'MAS! And the march in Phoenix was the first of the planned 50! So they already have a NON-for-gringos news item pile. Congressmen Ed Pastor and Rick Rimzi are 2 of the 15 sponsors of the bill, for heaven's sake, but this is about "their people". After recently reading about the Mexican media being anti-war and reporting regularly that the southwestern states were acquired from Mexico illegally and therefore immigrants are entitled to any and all benefits that American citizens are eligible for, I am really getting mad. Reading Allan Wall's translations of last fall's spanish campaign ads in Texas and the references to "our people" I was mad. After reading that Mexicans often reply to gringos who are MAD about these things, "It's their own fault, stupid gringos!" I am red hot madder than I have ever been about the whole business.
What is on the mind of recently arrived hispanics is a sense of entitlement which must be felt to be believed. This feeling has nothing whatsoever to do with legality, or illegality. Our hispanic neigbors not only "feel" that they absolutely belong here, but that, since somehow it "belonged" to them, it should "belong" to them again. Naturally, it is the "Anglos" who do not "belong!" In fact, LA slang for an American is " huero" "foreigner!"
We are dealing with an extremely hardy hybrid of Islamic Latin, Indian, and Spanish (Northern European Barbarian Visigoths and Vandals) cultural and racial elements. Throw in Jungle Catholicism, and the mix gets very heady indeed. It's frankly more than a match for our now insipid, Caspar Milquetoast American Protestant Culture. It will not integrate, but rather naturally seek to dominate.
Recently, a major American Corporation with 15,000 employees, in an anomalously thriving part of our disintegrating manufacturing base, hired a training class of 300 youths from a midwestern town. The training consisted of "Work-hardening," "Time Discipline," "Safety," "Shop Math," and all kinds of handy stuff. The pay was $15/hr, and within two years, they could make $25/hr. Great benefits. Overtime. A full time employee can easily make $50Thou/yr. They wanted young employees who would stick with them.(And incidentally help keep the outfit non-union.)
It did not work. Within 6 months from the end of training,, only 50 were left(some still are two years later, thank god). 120 kids QUIT within 60 days of the end of their paid training! The company soon went back to hiring their usual "Temps," usually mature people whom they limit to 1500 hours/yr at $13/hr with no benefits, but who keep the place running. Except now, many of the temps are illegal Mexicans of the same age as the American kids who blew it. They are hired through a temp agency in which the corporation holds 40% of the stock! They are a great deal for the employer! No union. No benefits. Reliable.
Our kids (HS Grads for the most part) had good native intelligence, but there were many drug takers. Uniformly they were unable to shape up on time and ready for real work, and they knew absolutely nothing of a practical nature (i.e. tool use, measurement, reading instructions, etc.) Pathetic. The largely illiterate Mexican kids are supervisable (althought they need more), master the tasks faster, ride BIKES to work, and are more or less on time.
The point of this diatribe is that if you want YOUR kids to succeed, inculcate the work ethic, at the end of a stick if necessary,keep them off drugs, get them educated in a school you trust and participate in, and by all means, make'em learn Spanish. They'll need it to supervise (or Christ forbid, be supervised by) the migrating and fast-breeding hordes who are turning this country into another Spanish Speaking part of the new world.
The demographic is such, that if we were to close the border tomorrow, it would only take a little longer to go majority hispanic. Adios and circle the wagons.
PS, someday the African Americans will notice that this disturbing trend is putting them even lower on the olde commercial totem pole.