Posted on 05/14/2005 4:58:28 AM PDT by FlyLow
A controversial billboard campaign in Los Angeles continued to make headlines this week as anger rapidly turned to confusion and hysteria.
The billboard, advertising a Spanish Language television station, originally made news by enraging many Americans with its aggressive Mexican Nationalist message --declaring that Los Angeles was no longer part of the United States, but was instead a Mexican city once again.
Below the banner message in which "Los Angeles, CA" had been crossed out and changed in blaring red type to read "Los Angeles, MEXICO," the billboard pronounced in Spanish "Your City. Your Team."
Now Gringo anger is the least of the problems caused by the Billboard, as the apparently quite believable reconquista it announces sends shockwaves through the city's residents, Anglo and Latino alike. In a scene reminiscent of war-torn Europe 60 years ago, the roads leading north out of Los Angeles are choked with thousands of Mexican refugees stoically carrying their meager possessions with them.
When I asked what had precipitated this mass exodus, one migrant, whom we'll call Jose "X," simply turned, pointed to the Billboard looming over his neighborhood and said, "¡Oh Man! I stopped walking too soon!" --then bravely continued on with the others.
I asked a second man why he was fleeing Los Angeles, Mexico. "I did a lotta bad things back in Mexico, I'm afraid of police there," he said matter-of-factly, then added "In America, police must give me Latte, so I walk to America. Again. ¡Norte!"
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Thanks for the ping Meek. This is kindof hard to believe, most of those illegals are more 'savy' than that!
Hi Boazo, good picture. It makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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Cool it.
Talk about "Thunder on the Border". Well, here's a sign of things to come, I'd say. You nailed it.
You guys have a tough, thankless job. Thank you for being patient with 'flylow' and not deleting his account on the spot. That is very much to your credit.
FRegards....
There's still hope. There's still a fighting spirit, even in LA of all places. And now we need to ask ourselves, if it wasn't for Arnold's outrage and leadership on this billboard, where would this moment be, today?
You're sure to meet some homeless people there.
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