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"I’m not Mexican, so in a proper argument I have no say in the matter, but I wouldn’t mind if someone threw a party based off of my culture. Maybe other people do, but I find that a bit hypersensitive, but then again, maybe I’m just an ass hole, who knows? And these are just a bunch of kids. They have no power, they don’t hold office, they don’t make any difference, so slap them in the face and move on to the bigger problem, the white people in office. Yo, fuck white people. Oh no, I’m racist now? BOO FUCKING HOO. This is the point where I choose to stop walking left."
- AHahaha, The Dumb - This is commentary gold, you can even follow it. The individual begins with an opinion that he has reservations about before coming to the realization that the opinion is racist and then rather than admitting that it is insensitive, they walk away from the conversation altogether. The writing style even changes from calm to anger. You’re a bigot, BOO HOO.

(Source: blck-grrl)

Cafepress under fire for Anti-Mexican merchandise

nbclatino:

Cafepress removed its Anti-Mexican page after complaints. An Anti-Mexico page remains up (Screenshot)

Cafepress is an e-commerce website where you can buy user-submitted t-shirts, mugs, tote bags and much more. All manner of merchandise is available for purchase — including anti-Mexican items.

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This is disgusting. With that said, let me stress that for millions of undocumented individuals (human beings with needs and aspirations akin to yours and my own) living in the United States of America, they are home.

The Most Mexican Man in the World - @MexicanMitt [Pocho]

DEAD.

Ivan Lucero, 28, was expelled from his Bronx high school when he was 18, still in the 10th grade. Brian Harken for The New York Times. Note: this was supposed to be a piece of commentary attached to a somewhat personal entry regarding the article at this link that someone deleted before I could post. The links at the bullet points are lifted directly from that entry. Edit: The individual’s whose name was withheld, Informate, has decided to repost her work. Read it here. The New York Times is supposed to have one of the most educated comment sections for a paper of its size, yet I make an effort to avoid the comments because of “informed” liberal commentary like this which I find more harmful and offensive than straight forward racism that liberals love to mock. While I never doubted that I would someday attend college, the collegiate experience always seemed like a privilege and not a right. For a comparison many of my non-Latino friends at my university are from affluent backgrounds, these wonderful and very intelligent people never once doubted their place at an institution of higher learning. This luxury and psychological advantage, yes it is a very real thing, is something that I heartbreakingly realized was unfathomable and unavailable to millions of young brown kids like me at colleges and schools across this nation. It’s thousands of little factors akin to this, combined with many recent tragic statistics, that converge to produce the problems that ignorant people of all ideological backgrounds attribute to some negative cultural trait. More Latino children are living in poverty — 6.1 million in 2010 — than children of any other racial or ethnic group. Latino families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession. The United States is bringing back slavery for Latinos.  Children whose parents are undocumented or who lack legal status themselves face “uniformly negative” effects on their social development from early childhood until they become adults. More than 21 percent of school children are Latino while Latinos only compromise 7 percent of teachers. No other racial or ethnic minority group has such a wide disparity. Where are the role models? And EVEN when Latinos succeed in prestigious professions like law, they STILL face an astounding amount of racism and discrimination in their professions and in their communities. I can draw from many personal experiences but I’ll let the article, the statistics and the comments speak for themselves. Also, read this wonderful post by Political Prof regarding immigration. Let me reiterate, Mexican culture is not the problem. The problems are deeper and more engrained in our society than many of us (liberals included) are comfortable or willing to admit. With that said, Brown pride forever.

Ivan Lucero, 28, was expelled from his Bronx high school when he was 18, still in the 10th grade. Brian Harken for The New York Times.

Note: this was supposed to be a piece of commentary attached to a somewhat personal entry regarding the article at this link that someone deleted before I could post. The links at the bullet points are lifted directly from that entry.

Edit: The individual’s whose name was withheld, Informate, has decided to repost her work. Read it here.

The New York Times is supposed to have one of the most educated comment sections for a paper of its size, yet I make an effort to avoid the comments because of “informed” liberal commentary like this which I find more harmful and offensive than straight forward racism that liberals love to mock. While I never doubted that I would someday attend college, the collegiate experience always seemed like a privilege and not a right. For a comparison many of my non-Latino friends at my university are from affluent backgrounds, these wonderful and very intelligent people never once doubted their place at an institution of higher learning. This luxury and psychological advantage, yes it is a very real thing, is something that I heartbreakingly realized was unfathomable and unavailable to millions of young brown kids like me at colleges and schools across this nation. It’s thousands of little factors akin to this, combined with many recent tragic statistics, that converge to produce the problems that ignorant people of all ideological backgrounds attribute to some negative cultural trait.

I can draw from many personal experiences but I’ll let the article, the statistics and the comments speak for themselves. Also, read this wonderful post by Political Prof regarding immigration. Let me reiterate, Mexican culture is not the problem. The problems are deeper and more engrained in our society than many of us (liberals included) are comfortable or willing to admit. With that said, Brown pride forever.