AMERICAN ME, NOT YOU.
I had to break away from my regular blog to chime in on the big upset going on today about the “unfair” immigration laws sparking so much protest.
I may not be a very intelligent person. Book smarts and recalling factual information has never been my strength. I’m not going to disguise my prejudices for facts (although, I may walk a very thin line) and embarrass myself, doing damage to my cause. I don’t think I have to, because it doesn’t take an intelligent person to see this debate is nothing, but bullshit thrown back and forth.
Maybe I see the world too often as black and white with not enough grays. I think too many times we use the “gray area” to excuse what we know is wrong. Too many times in the past weeks I heard someone argue points on immigration. I watched several people on the news go on and on about immigration. It was on their signs, t-shirts, and in their speeches. But, the issue isn’t immigration; it's ILLEGAL immigration.
Normally, I wouldn’t give a shit. I was born here, what the fuck do I care about those who aren’t. Save for those occasions at work when a Mexican will automatically assume I speak their language, even though they reside in my country. On those days, I can understand the Minute Men’s approach, and wish I could join them. What has me so up in arms about this issue is the irony of people residing in our country illegally saying what’s fair and unfair. Non-citizens filling our streets, protesting about what’s due them, and what our politicians and citizens can and cannot do.
It’s very simple, if you’re here illegally; you’re a criminal and need to get the fuck out of dodge. It doesn’t get any simpler than that. A lot of people want build up the issue with facts on how American corporations are taking over Mexico and Central America. I heard Yarehli Arizmendi, writer of A Day Without A Mexican, make a big deal about Costco and McDonalds in Mexico.
Is there anywhere on this planet you can’t find a McDonalds? How is that any excuse for people breaking the law? And, again, that’s what it comes down to folks, a whole bunch of people breaking the law and reaping the benefits it took others five, ten, even twenty years to work for legally. Is that fair? Is it justice for people who learned our language and laws bending over for those who don’t give a damn?
As I looked at the big protest in Los Angeles that kept so many hard working citizens from getting to or from their jobs, I was awe-struck by what I saw. A city filled with criminals. People who have no problem breaking the law to get what they want, and those who support them. I became afraid for my family, that we lived in a country that would allow such injustice, and for what - a freshly mowed lawn?
And that brings up something, an excuse that’s far too old to use any longer. It’s the age-old justification that illegals belong here because they do the jobs white Americans won’t. Funny how they completely omit the other ethnicities, isn’t it? White America hasn't done menial labor since indentured servant ceased being a legit job title. Before the gardener’s name was Ferdinand, it was Jackson, and somewhere in-between it was Lee.
In this economy, I can think of a lot of people who would love to have some of those cushy jobs cleaning up hotels and mowing lawns. I’m one of them. For years I searched for a third-shift job as a cook or janitor, but couldn’t find one, none that would pay me my due. My mother went to college to study landscaping and pays hundreds of dollars for the license, only to have her clients taken from under her because Felipe will mow the lawn for 75% less. And, that “picking fruit” thing – unless you were forced to come here on a boat to pick the white man’s cotton, bare his rape children, get lynched, burned, bred, and struggle against 500 plus years of oppression that many would debate still exists today, I don’t want to fucking here about how you chose to pick fruit. We cannot forget in all this, these people are making a choice. The white man isn’t smuggling immigrants here illegally to mow lawns. These people are choosing to do it. How can you feel sorry for them, or hold them up as modern martyrs of the system?
I ask you, where’s the struggle? Is it really so difficult to stand on a corner all day, waiting for someone to pay you $50 - $100 a day to paint a house versus doing what it takes to go to school, learn a trade, and become a professional? My experience with these “hard working people” has been they hate to work. They try their hardest to get something for almost nothing. Even the housekeepers at my hospital, whose job it is to clean, don’t want to do their job when it’s required, and look for ways to get out. I don’t have enough fingers or toes to count the times I’ve seen immigrant workers fuck up a simple paint job, then demand full payment. Don’t get me started with the “precious” gardeners who have no idea what they’re doing - asking for money, then spending only fifteen minutes to cut your lawn. Prejudice, racist though it may be, we all know of neighborhoods that have gone to total shit with the increase of Hispanic residence.
It’s hard to feel sorry, or fight for the rights of a people whose rallying cry is: “We’re taking California back one block at a time!”
Is it wrong for this country to have certain rules about whom we let in, and if you don’t fit, we deny entry? Illegal immigrants have this idea that they are somehow deserving to enter this country, when the whole basis of them being here as an illegal proves they’ve done nothing to earn the right. Okay, so you clean some toilets. Is that a legitimate requirement? Robert Heinlein wrote about this subject in Starship Troopers, a science fiction novel turned motion picture, where citizenship had to be earned in the armed forces. Those who lived to become citizens embraced that gift and the responsibility that comes with it. If illegals do anything, it’s proving how unpatriotic they are. They’re deserters. If things are so horrible in Mexico, why don’t they fix it? If there are one people, deserving of special treatments it’s the Native Americans.
That’s right - call me an asshole now, fuckers. Just when you thought I was a racist bastard because I don’t swallow the burrito of bullshit, I hit you with some fucking sympathy for a race of people near extinct. Where’s the protest for the Native Americans who watch as their people are being swallowed up, their lands stolen even today, unless they can build a fucking casino. Where am I going with this? One simple fact, no matter how fucked up it gets, they don’t leave. If any people have a right to immigrate, legal or illegal, it’s the fucking Indians, but here they stay, fighting it out with the white man. The real Americans, the original citizens of these United States where’s their fucking protest march for civil rights?
I know I’m getting carried away with myself. Hell, that whole last paragraph cold be the biggest chunk of bullshit ever. But it angers me, and it should anger everyone, to see such an open and outward display of criminality. It’s really not about who does what for how much money. It’s about the simple founding fact that illegal immigration is against the law, and those who break the law deserve to be deported. If doing so would open a greater number of jobs for the rest of us, then good. That means the rich white people would have to pay more for “menial service”, and isn’t that better? More jobs with better pay for American citizens.
You know, it’ll never happen.
Just like we all thought it was plain to see that Bush Jr. was a monster that shouldn’t get a second term. All us Americans who look for a day when illegals are forced out and we can sow the benefits might as well keep dreaming, because no one has the guts. In the end, it’s all about them. The rich who need their lawns cut, shitholes cleaned, burritos cooked just right, and children raised by anyone but them because their too busy carving up the country on laptops while drinking Pete’s Coffee(not you, Doc).
Isn’t that sad, the course of a nation decided on the number of criminals residing and how many butts they wipe? The irony: many can’t even vote.
I feel sorry for the people, the immigrants, the ingredients of the great melting pot who busted their butts to get to America and did whatever they could to become a citizen. They stood in that fucking line, waved those stupid little flags, and said the egomaniacal pledge, just for the right to be subjected to American bullshit. What does it matter? Who fucking cares?
It was reported that the first soldier to die in the Iraqi war was the son of an undocumented worker. It’s held up as proof of illegals and they’re contribution to this nation. You now what I call it?
Finally paying the price of admission.
JPG.
I may not be a very intelligent person. Book smarts and recalling factual information has never been my strength. I’m not going to disguise my prejudices for facts (although, I may walk a very thin line) and embarrass myself, doing damage to my cause. I don’t think I have to, because it doesn’t take an intelligent person to see this debate is nothing, but bullshit thrown back and forth.
Maybe I see the world too often as black and white with not enough grays. I think too many times we use the “gray area” to excuse what we know is wrong. Too many times in the past weeks I heard someone argue points on immigration. I watched several people on the news go on and on about immigration. It was on their signs, t-shirts, and in their speeches. But, the issue isn’t immigration; it's ILLEGAL immigration.
Normally, I wouldn’t give a shit. I was born here, what the fuck do I care about those who aren’t. Save for those occasions at work when a Mexican will automatically assume I speak their language, even though they reside in my country. On those days, I can understand the Minute Men’s approach, and wish I could join them. What has me so up in arms about this issue is the irony of people residing in our country illegally saying what’s fair and unfair. Non-citizens filling our streets, protesting about what’s due them, and what our politicians and citizens can and cannot do.
It’s very simple, if you’re here illegally; you’re a criminal and need to get the fuck out of dodge. It doesn’t get any simpler than that. A lot of people want build up the issue with facts on how American corporations are taking over Mexico and Central America. I heard Yarehli Arizmendi, writer of A Day Without A Mexican, make a big deal about Costco and McDonalds in Mexico.
Is there anywhere on this planet you can’t find a McDonalds? How is that any excuse for people breaking the law? And, again, that’s what it comes down to folks, a whole bunch of people breaking the law and reaping the benefits it took others five, ten, even twenty years to work for legally. Is that fair? Is it justice for people who learned our language and laws bending over for those who don’t give a damn?
As I looked at the big protest in Los Angeles that kept so many hard working citizens from getting to or from their jobs, I was awe-struck by what I saw. A city filled with criminals. People who have no problem breaking the law to get what they want, and those who support them. I became afraid for my family, that we lived in a country that would allow such injustice, and for what - a freshly mowed lawn?
And that brings up something, an excuse that’s far too old to use any longer. It’s the age-old justification that illegals belong here because they do the jobs white Americans won’t. Funny how they completely omit the other ethnicities, isn’t it? White America hasn't done menial labor since indentured servant ceased being a legit job title. Before the gardener’s name was Ferdinand, it was Jackson, and somewhere in-between it was Lee.
In this economy, I can think of a lot of people who would love to have some of those cushy jobs cleaning up hotels and mowing lawns. I’m one of them. For years I searched for a third-shift job as a cook or janitor, but couldn’t find one, none that would pay me my due. My mother went to college to study landscaping and pays hundreds of dollars for the license, only to have her clients taken from under her because Felipe will mow the lawn for 75% less. And, that “picking fruit” thing – unless you were forced to come here on a boat to pick the white man’s cotton, bare his rape children, get lynched, burned, bred, and struggle against 500 plus years of oppression that many would debate still exists today, I don’t want to fucking here about how you chose to pick fruit. We cannot forget in all this, these people are making a choice. The white man isn’t smuggling immigrants here illegally to mow lawns. These people are choosing to do it. How can you feel sorry for them, or hold them up as modern martyrs of the system?
I ask you, where’s the struggle? Is it really so difficult to stand on a corner all day, waiting for someone to pay you $50 - $100 a day to paint a house versus doing what it takes to go to school, learn a trade, and become a professional? My experience with these “hard working people” has been they hate to work. They try their hardest to get something for almost nothing. Even the housekeepers at my hospital, whose job it is to clean, don’t want to do their job when it’s required, and look for ways to get out. I don’t have enough fingers or toes to count the times I’ve seen immigrant workers fuck up a simple paint job, then demand full payment. Don’t get me started with the “precious” gardeners who have no idea what they’re doing - asking for money, then spending only fifteen minutes to cut your lawn. Prejudice, racist though it may be, we all know of neighborhoods that have gone to total shit with the increase of Hispanic residence.
It’s hard to feel sorry, or fight for the rights of a people whose rallying cry is: “We’re taking California back one block at a time!”
Is it wrong for this country to have certain rules about whom we let in, and if you don’t fit, we deny entry? Illegal immigrants have this idea that they are somehow deserving to enter this country, when the whole basis of them being here as an illegal proves they’ve done nothing to earn the right. Okay, so you clean some toilets. Is that a legitimate requirement? Robert Heinlein wrote about this subject in Starship Troopers, a science fiction novel turned motion picture, where citizenship had to be earned in the armed forces. Those who lived to become citizens embraced that gift and the responsibility that comes with it. If illegals do anything, it’s proving how unpatriotic they are. They’re deserters. If things are so horrible in Mexico, why don’t they fix it? If there are one people, deserving of special treatments it’s the Native Americans.
That’s right - call me an asshole now, fuckers. Just when you thought I was a racist bastard because I don’t swallow the burrito of bullshit, I hit you with some fucking sympathy for a race of people near extinct. Where’s the protest for the Native Americans who watch as their people are being swallowed up, their lands stolen even today, unless they can build a fucking casino. Where am I going with this? One simple fact, no matter how fucked up it gets, they don’t leave. If any people have a right to immigrate, legal or illegal, it’s the fucking Indians, but here they stay, fighting it out with the white man. The real Americans, the original citizens of these United States where’s their fucking protest march for civil rights?
I know I’m getting carried away with myself. Hell, that whole last paragraph cold be the biggest chunk of bullshit ever. But it angers me, and it should anger everyone, to see such an open and outward display of criminality. It’s really not about who does what for how much money. It’s about the simple founding fact that illegal immigration is against the law, and those who break the law deserve to be deported. If doing so would open a greater number of jobs for the rest of us, then good. That means the rich white people would have to pay more for “menial service”, and isn’t that better? More jobs with better pay for American citizens.
You know, it’ll never happen.
Just like we all thought it was plain to see that Bush Jr. was a monster that shouldn’t get a second term. All us Americans who look for a day when illegals are forced out and we can sow the benefits might as well keep dreaming, because no one has the guts. In the end, it’s all about them. The rich who need their lawns cut, shitholes cleaned, burritos cooked just right, and children raised by anyone but them because their too busy carving up the country on laptops while drinking Pete’s Coffee(not you, Doc).
Isn’t that sad, the course of a nation decided on the number of criminals residing and how many butts they wipe? The irony: many can’t even vote.
I feel sorry for the people, the immigrants, the ingredients of the great melting pot who busted their butts to get to America and did whatever they could to become a citizen. They stood in that fucking line, waved those stupid little flags, and said the egomaniacal pledge, just for the right to be subjected to American bullshit. What does it matter? Who fucking cares?
It was reported that the first soldier to die in the Iraqi war was the son of an undocumented worker. It’s held up as proof of illegals and they’re contribution to this nation. You now what I call it?
Finally paying the price of admission.
JPG.
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