Posted on 11/08/2002 5:53:16 PM PST by John Jorsett
Appearing on The O'Reilly Factor with her sister, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, the newly-elected Linda Sanchez got into a spirited debate with the host. During one exchange regarding defense of U.S. borders with the military, Sanchez cited the military history of sniper John Allen Muhammad, and asked: "how are we going to protect our own people from the ex-military?"
It would be nice to find nice conservative Hispanics to replace both of them in two years.
I think it might be a new record.
Well, whatever name they choose to be called is really up to them.
As a Cuban-born American, I just wish that the media and everybody else would stop calling then "Hispanics" as that automatically lumps us with people we have almost nothing in common with except for a common language in the Old Country.
If it were up to me, the political radical types would be called "Chicanos" and the ethnic group in general would be called "Mexicans" or "Mexicanos".
The problem is that the news media has adopted the term "Hispanic" as the Politically Correct euphemism for "Mexican".
These individuals hate the term "Hispanic" because they still blame their conquest by Spain to be the source of every problem they have on Earth. And yet, the media insists on using that term.
As you can see from their web site, these individuals hate the Spanish whites, they hate the "Anglo" whites, they hate the Jews, they consider themselves (and correctly so) to be mostly MesoAmerican Indian in descent, they have their own peculiar outlook on the world and have their own set of social problems ranging from poverty to lack of education to teenaged pregnancy.
We Cuban Americans are mostly of 100% Spanish descent, consider ourselves to be a very successful immigrant group and have an American patriotism index straight out of 1940’s America. And yet, we get automatically lumped in with every social and political pathology that comes across the Rio Grande by the “Hispanic” label.
The following are titles of FreeRepublic threads taken straight out of the titles of national news media articles:
Census: Hispanic poverty rose 500% in '90s The article starts "As Hispanics pour into metro Atlanta, poverty is coming with them." What the article really meant was that as Mexicans poured into metro Atlanta, poverty was coming with them.
Hispanic Dropout Rate Four Times That Of Whites. Now "Hispanic" has become a race.
Hispanic group protests driver license restriction for immigrants. The actual group in question was the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund .
As I noted befoere, the news media has adopted the term "Hispanic" as a Politically Correct code word for "Mexican".
When the liberal media wants to bash Cuban Americans, which is quite often, they just flat-out call them "Cubans". When the liberal media wants to write about Mexican crime, drop-out rates or other social pathology, they call them "Hispanics".
When Mexican illegals bring poverty to Metro Atlanta, "Hispanics" take the blame.
When Mexicans drop out of school in record numbers, "Hispanics" take the blame.
When a Mexican political lobby tries to facilitate illegal Mexican immigration, "Hispanics" take the blame.
When no one wants to ackowledge that what the Mexicans call "La Raza" is simply Mestizo, the Politically Correct crowd solves the problem by declaring "Hispanic" to be a race. Thus you get: Hispanic Dropout Rate Four Times That Of Whites.
As a blonde, blue-eyed Argentinian once observed, "I never knew I wasn't white until I came to the U.S. and got labeled Hispanic".
As a Cuban-born, blue eyed, U.S. Naval officer with 20 year of active and reserve service, with an M.D. degree, who has never committed a crime, I get a little tired of having myself, my family and my entire ethnic group automatically lumped in with these people.
If the media called them “Hispanics of Mexican descent” or “Non-Cuban Hispanics”, that would be fine with me. If they called them just plain “Mexicans”, “Mexicanos”, “Chicanos” or “Mexican Americans”, that would be even better.
I would be happy if they called them anything at all just as long as the Mexicans take credit for their own accomplishments, take credit for their own failures and leave the rest of us with Spanish surnames out of it.
FYI:
The Cuban Americans in Congress, Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, are both Republicans and both quit the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as they found they had absolutely nothing in common philosophically with the other members.
Although a Catholic, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of Israel’s strongest supporters in Congress.
Don't know how that can be any different from the German Octoberfests and German-Americans glorifying their roots considering Germany's violent,aggressive past and its concentration camps and crematoriums for virtual human sacrifices.
From what I've read about the Mexican educational system, a lot of poor people are poor-educated (probably some illiterates, too). I'd like to know if these illegals can even read a Spanish-language newspaper fluently! If it is true that many Mexican illegals in the USA aren't even literate in Spanish they're not going to make it here easily.
This should be bought to the attention of the media and to the government.
When filling out applications for whatever that ask for you to specify your nationality, is there check boxes for Cuban or do you have to check the other box.
At least you know what you are at all times.
Me, one ten years I'm Negro, the next ten years, I'm Black, and presently I'm African American. Who knows what I'll be in another 10 years. But I guess thats for another thread.
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