Posted on 06/26/2011 4:28:59 PM PDT by mandaladon
It was imperfectly odd. It was strangely unsettling. It was uniquely American.
On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in a U.S. stadium … and was smothered in boos. Its fans were vastly outnumbered. Its goalkeeper was bathed in a chanted obscenity. Even its national anthem was filled with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls.
Most of these hostile visitors didn't live in another country. Most, in fact, were not visitors at all, many of them being U.S. residents whose lives are here but whose sporting souls remain elsewhere.
Welcome to another unveiling of that social portrait known as a U.S.-Mexico soccer match, streaked as always in deep colors of red, white, blue, green … and gray.
"I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I'm proud to be part of it," said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. "But yet, I didn't have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be."
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what we need to do is give California to Mexico
declare war and take it back
or just give it to Mexico
that way those votes are taken out of the equation
No wonder I never liked it...
Repressed feelings, perhaps? Just come out of the closet, already.
If non-hispanic whites were doing to another country what mexicans are doing to the United States, it would be considered genocide.
I of course was talking about much more than a soccer game. spanish is EVERYWHERE in this country now. Everywhere. I go to drive thrus in suburban Pittsburgh, and there are prominent spanish signs outside, in the same size as the English ones. Same thing with food and directions to just about anything. It is disgusting how the spanish-speaking scum have invaded this beautiful country, and coerced their ways upon us.
Not so fast. We're not "giving" anything away. We're trading it for Baja California which will become Lower Arizona.
Who won the game? Geez, who won?
Uh... didn't have a choice to come here? He's a resident of Monrovia which means he lives here! Was he kidnapped?
If his "heart will always be" in Mexico maybe he should repatriate.
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