I’m Not The Only One

Today is the last day of Black History Month, an empty gesture by mainstream America to acknowledge the aspects of the African-American experience that makes them the most comfortable. (more…)

The other day I came across the term “voodoo economics” while reading some nonsense written by Paul Krugman.

The term really gets under my skin for two reasons.  But before I get into that, a brief explanation as to to what voodoo economics refer and a history of the term. (more…)

The following is in response to “A Letter From A Republican to Hispanics” by Dennis Prager.  Reading will more easily put the following into its proper context.

Prager begins by addressing all the illegal aliens within America’s Latino community, despite the fact that most Latinos are not only here legally, but were born here.  And of those of us born here, the majority of us are not “anchor babies” but the descendants of immigrants and of people already residing in the lands the U.S. has conquered (i.e., Puerto Rico, two-thirds of Mexico known today as the U.S. southwest, Texas, etc.) whose ancestors became U.S. residents (not citizens, at least not right away, and certainly not first-class citizens) not by choice but by as a result of Manifest Destiny, the sick ideology that demands the United States dominate the entire Western Hemisphere. (more…)

So President Obama is asking black people to “guard the change” come November (translation: vote for liberals only), I suppose, to avoid a changing of the guard.

Well, he didn’t actually approach the black community; he addressed the Congressional Black Caucus (I’ve actually heard one black conservative refer to them as the Congressional Black Caucasians!), who obviously represent all people of African descent in America.  I mean, duh, they’ve got the word “black” in their name! (more…)

In my last blog entry, I explained how the Free Market almost ended slavery, if it weren’t government keeping that gruesome institution alive and well until Lincoln was ready to slaughter scores of Southerners when the federal government was ready to stop supporting slavery.

Today, I’m going to explain how the Free Market  eliminated widespread discrimination in the private sector and would’ve done so even if the Civil Rights Act had never banned private sector discrimination. (more…)

If you’re not familiar with the term, Mexican hunting refers to a recent practice of white Americans (some blacks, too, although to a lesser extent) of looking for people who “look” Mexican and then beating them, sometimes to death.  Of course, for most white people, almost all Latinos can be visually mistaken for a Mexican.  Already, an Ecuadorian immigrant has been beaten to death and a Colombian immigrant was almost beaten to death.

It’s great to see that blacks and whites in America have transcended their rocky historical relations to come together to attack Latinos. I also find it interesting that this sort of violence is primarily taking place in states like California, New Jersey and New York and not places like Arkansas, Georgia or Arizona. (more…)

Well, every Latino blogger seems to have something to say about the whole mess in Arizona, so I might as well say my piece too.

The new law is ridiculous, for several reasons.  Let’s cut the bullshit and not pretend Arizona is looking to keep out illegal Canadians, Englishmen or Germans with this law.  It’s the illegal Mexican immigrants that have white Arizonans going nuts, and it’s that specific group for whom the law is intended.

Law enforcement are required to ask the legal status of anyone who “appears” as if they may be in this country illegally.  Aside from raiding the parking lot at Home Depot, how do they actually accomplish this?  How does one “look” illegal?  Furthermore, if such a thing existed as an illegal “appearance”, wouldn’t illegal aliens in Arizona deliberately change their appearance so as not to “look illegal”? (more…)

Remember John Rocker?

In 2000, John Rocker was a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, and was actually enjoying a pretty successful career.  But that same year he said the following in a Sports Illustrated interview:

“Imagine having to take the 7 train [in Queens] to the ballpark [at Shea Stadium], looking like you’re in Beruit riding next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old Mom with four kids. It’s depressing……The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”

That pretty much ruined his career.  He later apologized for the remarks, and upon playing the Mets later that year at Shea Staium, New York fans chanted “asshole” when he came onto the field.  Three years late his MLB career came to an abrupt end.

Fast forward 10 years.  It appears African-Americans are once again breaking the color barrier, not only in the White House but in bigotry and color prejudice as well.  In a move that probably makes John Rocker proud, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter, who is African-American, used an interview in USA to spew his own hateful thoughts for Latino baseball players, particularly those with dark skin, wide noses, thick lips and kinky hair. (more…)

For those who wonder why Americans are seen as ignorant and Christians are viewed as narrow-minded bigots, one only has to consider the recent remarks made by televangelist Pat Robertson about the earthquake in Haiti.

Robertson’s remarks prove that he is duly ignorant of geography, (Haiti only occupies one-third, not half of the island of Hispaniola)

Unfortunately, this aging mental midget is half right.  Haiti is cursed, but not by God or the Devil, and certainly not because the Founding Fathers of Haiti drew a pact with Satan.  Looking at history, it appears that Haiti has been cursed by first Western Europe then later by the United States. and for the unthinkable sin of being black. (more…)

When the Man is looking for a terrorist, not a drug dealer or robber.

In America, blacks and Latinos are often guilty until proven innocent when the police are looking for a drug suspect.  As politically incorrect as it may sound, it makes perfect sense for police to use racial profiling against blacks and Latinos when looking for suspects of drug-related crimes.  Even though statistics suggest that white Americans are the largest consumers of illicit substances it is almost always people of color involved in the production, distributions and sale of these illegal narcotics and are most often targeted in the War on Drugs.  I’ve always said that the only way to completely put an end to racial profiling against blacks and Latinos by law enforcement is to decriminalize drugs.

That said,  I don’t believe racial profiling makes any sense when protecting Americans from terrorism.  Those Americans who support racial profiling as a counter terrorist measure are probably the same idiots who think Africa is a country and Mexico is a continent.  Why doesn’t racial profiling work to sniff out would-be terrorists?  Because the terrorists in question are of the Muslim faith, and like Christianity, Islam is a religion, not a race.  Muslims come in all colors.  Since 9/11 we have encountered white American Islamic terrorists, a Hispanic Islamic terrorist, Chinese Muslims and an array of Islamic terrorists of African descent and/or origin.  In terms of numbers, Islam in the U.S. has been the fastest growing faith, but by blacks and Latinos, not by immigration from the Arabian peninsula.  The country with the largest Islamic population in the world is Indonesia, nowhere near near Arabia but in the south Pacific.  The majority of black people worldwide are Muslim, not Christian. (more…)

I was elated to discover this morning that notorious Hispanophobe and major league douche bag Lou Dobbs has left CNN.  Dobbs has used CNN to spread the rumor regarding President Obama’s birth certificate, and has spread many rumors regarding illegal aliens, particularly a malicious one blaming illegal aliens bringing into America leprosy from Mexico.

Dobbs is such a racist he even got into a shouting match with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly and actually made the Fox anchor seem like a board member on the National Council of La Raza in comparison. (more…)

I recently learned that the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) is in serious financial trouble, to the point that the 25-year old trade association isn’t sure whether or not they will exist next year.  No, this is not a plea to whip out your credit card and make a donation; this is simply my slightly apathetic reaction to the organization’s $300,000 budget deficit.  A desperate plea from NAHJ’s President to raise $300,000 by December 15, 2009.

A little background: Upon graduating from college in winter 2007, I joined NAHJ in hopes the membership would help me find a journalism job.  Needless to say, I was more than disappointed.  Now NAHJ is asking for increased donations, even going as far as sending unwanted emails to former members such as myself to join their “Count Me In” initiative, asking me to either donate myself and/or raise funds from my friends, family, colleagues and employer.

This is what happens when you don’t change with the times. Just as the newspaper industry has been dying a slow fiscal death for the last few decades, shouldn’t the same thing happen to a trade association for journalists? This is why I did not renew my NAHJ membership. I graduated college with a large amount of debt, couldn’t afford to become a member in the first place but did so in the hopes it would give me an edge in getting into the newspaper business. To my dismay I never really got any work due to my NAHJ membership. (more…)

Yes, this gringo said it.

Brazil totally deserves to host the Olympics.  In fact, I’m shocked they’ve never hosted it before.  Most Americans have no idea why I’m saying this, mostly because many non-Hispanic whites and blacks can’t even find Brazil on a world map. much less know enough about Brazil to understand why they should host this international event. (more…)

Poor Carolyn Maloney!  The Congresswoman’s campaign for U.S. Senate died before it was even born.  Poor, stupid Carolyn Maloney!

For those of you not in New York or just not following the news, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat whose oddly gerrymandered Congressional district includes a portion of western Queens and the ultra-snooty east side of Manhattan (Tudor City, Murray Hill and Carnegie Hall).  Her Congressional website declares, “I think our district is one of the most diverse and exciting places anyone could hope to represent in Congress.”

She was staging a fund-raiser last week for a then-not yet announced campaign to run for the U.S Senate seat in New York.  Running against the incumbent Senator, Kristen Gillibrand, Maloney decided to talk some smack about Senator Gillibrand, focusing on her stance against bilingual education, a covert conspiracy by white liberals to disenfranchise Hispanic immigrant children into making sure they’ll never be able to fill out a job application in English, or anything else for that matter.  Puedes decir, “Home Depot”? (more…)