La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for December 16, 2014
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Anchor Baby News 24/7 Screaming Headlines Gibby Isabel Gibby: Murrieta, CA blocked refugee kids from their city, and the Orinda, CA school district hired a private eye to wrongly kick a 2nd grade Latina out of school. In other news- Murrieta and Orinda have enrolled in the new "racist sister cities" program.
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Don’t you mean “nina?” (insert the tilde over the second “n”).
AlnicoV about 10 years ago
Where it gets amusing is that a good portion of my extended family are Californios, descendants of the Spanish settlers. They’ve lived in what became the State of California for nearly 400 years. And even they are subject to that sort of rubbish.
cepa about 10 years ago
Instead of bragging about his Spanish ancestors AuvicoV should remember that the Spaniards raped enslaved and caused the death of 10s of millions of natives in the Americas.
Mexico fought Spain for independence in 1811 and again when Spain tried to reconquer Mexico in 1820.
Try reading the history of Mexico. Here is a clipping from one of many you can get on the internet:
The History of Mexican Independence – Mexico http://www.mexonline.com/mexican-independence.htm The message that Hidalgo gave to the indians and mestizos called them to retaliate against the hated Gachupines, or native Spaniards, who had exploited and …
My Gachupine family was not only discriminated against in Mexico because of their Spanish appearance but much of their property was confiscate property was confiscated(frankly they had it coming).
louieglutz about 10 years ago
i didn’t know latina was a race.
agrestic about 10 years ago
Of course, since Lalo brought racism up first today, you are including him in your tirade, right?….
Pointing out the racism that exists does not equal racism, as much as you’d like it to.
agrestic about 10 years ago
So it’s your position that neither of these things was driven by race. In that you would be mistaken, and possibly even willfully blind.
pam Miner about 10 years ago
And the republicans are going to end CHIP (food stamps) and end the minimum wage so low wage workers will soon be fighting to get $3.00 an hour jobs.big kick in the pants for about 40% of the citizens.
agrestic about 10 years ago
Fan of scatology, are we? You seem to be referencing it more and more these days. Mr. Freud might have something to say about that.
agrestic about 10 years ago
Except that the vast majority of immigrants are for amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Are you saying they’re spitting in their own faces?
agrestic about 10 years ago
Even Agrestic’s argument couldn’t prove it is racist
But the fact that it very likely is racist, and that you would jump to the conclusion that anyone making this argument is a racist (along with your overall pattern here), simply exposes you as someone who becomes resentful any time someone points out that, yes, we live within a racist system.