Hey, Grand Wizard! Most people on FR who do other things besides spend all their time on immigration threads spewing hatred and bigotry against all Hispanics, legal or illegal, instead of sticking to the point of ILLEGAL immigration already know that I was born in Cuba, am an M.D., and served 20 years on active duty and Reserves as a U.S. Naval officer.
As far as Civil War threads, everybody with reading skills on those threads knows that I am Cuban-born, had no ancestors in that war but that I have always defended the honor of the Southern soldiers on those threads from bigots who spew anti-Southern hatred on those threads just as gleefully as you spew out anti-Hispanic hatred on this thread.
But, don't take my word for it. Ask "stainlessbanner".
Actually, other than me maternal granny who was an Ulster Scots-Irish woman (grandpapa met her while he was posted to Glasgow by the State Department), they all go back about, mmmm, 10 generations or more to, yup, .....
Oh, yeah, you claim you are so isolated that you never had a single Irishman in your family tree which the bigots like you caricatured with ape-like faces in the 1880's.
Is that why you now need to feel better about yourself by wallowing in bigotry against all Hispanics?
To make up for the fact that, in the 1800's, one of your ancestors was routinely caricatured in newspaper cartoons as a drunken ape by bigots like you?
.....and the Germans you forgot....
Ah, yes, the Germans that were mocked in the 1860's by bigots like you on BOTH sides of the Potomac as stupid, incompetent and cowardly, especially after what happened to the Union Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville.
Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory
Dayum, PB, you hit it, man! Ah is one of them. The Evil Anglos.
Even the weapons-grade sarcasm icons that I used when mocking reverse bigotry against "Anglos" did not seem to penetrate your dull intellect, did they?
What is being mocked here (and you are swallowing the bait hook, line and sinker) is your mindless and low class bigotry.
Whether you want to admit it or not, you and your ancestors in the mountainous part of the South were and are also the targets of bigotry.
Even in the South and especially in the South.
But you already know that.
Here is my Cuban great-great-grandfather in the late 1850's.
He, like the others from the rest of the branches of my family, was a man of wealth, education and distinguished pedigree. At the time, when traveling to places such as Charleston, South Carolina to conduct business, such a man would be received at the mansions south of Broad Street as a fellow gentleman.
By contrast, because of the social class bigotry that was the norm in the 1850's in both the U.S. and Cuba, a mountain man like your ancestors would have been asked to state his business at the mansions south of Broad Street at the back door.
That may not have been right but that was the way it was.
Somebody who is now truly secure in who they are and what they are has no need to constantly spew out bigotry in order to make up for the social class bigotry his family unfortunately experienced in the past.
Somebody who is now truly secure in who they are and what they are has no need to constantly spew out bigotry against those they call "n#ggers" and those they call "Eeeespannics" in order to say to themselves, "At least I am better than a black man and at least I am better than a Mexican."
When a white man needs to do that in order to build himself up, he qualifies for the time honored Southern expression of "White Trash".
Goodbye.