How to Voice Your Displeasure and Other Thoughts
Okay, everyone! I need to let you know that it is imperative that you support the folks who are STAYING OPEN FOR BUSINESS on May 1. This means you call them or go to their store and SAY SO!
In my area, the Ralphs supermarket is voicing their "SUPPORT FOR WORKERS IN THIS SENSITIVE IMMIGRATION ISSUE"! I called the headquarters and told them that their public statement uses the word "immigration". In fact this is so NOT about immigration - but about ILLEGAL immigration. NO ONE on that side of the issue wants to use the word ILLEGAL. So, I simply said I would not shop at Ralphs any more.
I then went to the store I usually shop at to see the manager, who I know. I told him essentially the same thing. He clearly understood, appreciated my candor and explanation and we are still on friendly terms. He even agrees with me. But here is the problem... All who DISAGREE with the boycott should SAY SO. We cannot behave like the regular citizens of Germany in the early years of WWII and Nazism. Many Germans did not agree with THEIR own government's philosophy. They just remained silent as the pathetic 3rd Reich marched over countries, peoples, lives. They remained silent while millions were tortured, killed, imprisoned.
Although this is obviously NOT any bit as serious, the point is that citizens MUST STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. This is not to take away from hard work that illegals may do. This is not to hold a wholesale condemnation of any ethnic group. It is the Mexicans themselves who are choosing to call it a MEXICAN issue. I wonder how they will feel when people like me DEMAND that Native American be given MORE respect, when Poles and Italians and others are ENCOURAGED to come in through Mexico and/or Canada. Why not? If it's open territory, let the games begin.
The Mexicans do NOT own our National Anthem. The Mexican flag is NEVER to be flown higher than the U.S. flag in any U.S. environment (i.e., United States itself, U.S. airliners, U.S. ships, U.S. territories, and so forth). If the Mexican or any other flag means THAT MUCH to a person or to a group, then you should wish to be loyal to IT and to all that IT represents... It represents oppression to other persons who try to become naturalized Mexican citizens; it represents a president and political system more rife with corruption than most others (admittedly so by its own participants), it represents a dispassionate upper class who keep "la raza" down on the farm, so to speak. SO, if you LOVE your Mexican flag, then go back and fly it proudly and work, even unto revolution, to correct the country's flaws. This is what Hidalgo did. Do you not know that Mexican history? Are the Mexicans who are flying that "aguila" above our "Stars & Stripes" unaware of this? Or have they become a group that is satisfied with usurping the hard work of others, lacking the courage, fortitude, guts and yes, the HUEVOS to effect change in THE COUNTRY THEY RUN FROM! ?
The Mexican culture and history are filled with passion, war, bloodshed, appeasement, alliances, bravery, fools and heroes from many lands and cultures. They were ruled by Spaniards and a French emperor. The Mexican dictators executed priests and those who sought democracy (Father Miguel Pro and others during Obregon's despotic leadership). So now they discount all of that to run to the U.S. to fly that now pathetic aguila, unable to stand up and make changes on the soil where their illustrious history and culture lie dormant and anemic, dying sadly in the provincia where those ancestors once stood their ground for freedom. "El Grito" was not "Si, se puede". Learn history or repeat it...as was once said. The United States tolerates, welcomes, thrives on IMMIGRATION. It is the ILLEGAL part that is rejected, Mexican or OTHERWISE!
MY immigrant family served proudly in WWII Pacific Theatre, Korea, Vietnamese conflict. I was raised in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. I believe I am a "citoyenne du monde". I respect the laws of the land in which I find myself. I am a citizen legally of the United States. I fly NO OTHER than the U.S. flag!
Viva los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica! Orgullosos, honestos y legales!
Viva i Stati Uniti! Orgogliosi, onesti e legali!
In my area, the Ralphs supermarket is voicing their "SUPPORT FOR WORKERS IN THIS SENSITIVE IMMIGRATION ISSUE"! I called the headquarters and told them that their public statement uses the word "immigration". In fact this is so NOT about immigration - but about ILLEGAL immigration. NO ONE on that side of the issue wants to use the word ILLEGAL. So, I simply said I would not shop at Ralphs any more.
I then went to the store I usually shop at to see the manager, who I know. I told him essentially the same thing. He clearly understood, appreciated my candor and explanation and we are still on friendly terms. He even agrees with me. But here is the problem... All who DISAGREE with the boycott should SAY SO. We cannot behave like the regular citizens of Germany in the early years of WWII and Nazism. Many Germans did not agree with THEIR own government's philosophy. They just remained silent as the pathetic 3rd Reich marched over countries, peoples, lives. They remained silent while millions were tortured, killed, imprisoned.
Although this is obviously NOT any bit as serious, the point is that citizens MUST STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. This is not to take away from hard work that illegals may do. This is not to hold a wholesale condemnation of any ethnic group. It is the Mexicans themselves who are choosing to call it a MEXICAN issue. I wonder how they will feel when people like me DEMAND that Native American be given MORE respect, when Poles and Italians and others are ENCOURAGED to come in through Mexico and/or Canada. Why not? If it's open territory, let the games begin.
The Mexicans do NOT own our National Anthem. The Mexican flag is NEVER to be flown higher than the U.S. flag in any U.S. environment (i.e., United States itself, U.S. airliners, U.S. ships, U.S. territories, and so forth). If the Mexican or any other flag means THAT MUCH to a person or to a group, then you should wish to be loyal to IT and to all that IT represents... It represents oppression to other persons who try to become naturalized Mexican citizens; it represents a president and political system more rife with corruption than most others (admittedly so by its own participants), it represents a dispassionate upper class who keep "la raza" down on the farm, so to speak. SO, if you LOVE your Mexican flag, then go back and fly it proudly and work, even unto revolution, to correct the country's flaws. This is what Hidalgo did. Do you not know that Mexican history? Are the Mexicans who are flying that "aguila" above our "Stars & Stripes" unaware of this? Or have they become a group that is satisfied with usurping the hard work of others, lacking the courage, fortitude, guts and yes, the HUEVOS to effect change in THE COUNTRY THEY RUN FROM! ?
The Mexican culture and history are filled with passion, war, bloodshed, appeasement, alliances, bravery, fools and heroes from many lands and cultures. They were ruled by Spaniards and a French emperor. The Mexican dictators executed priests and those who sought democracy (Father Miguel Pro and others during Obregon's despotic leadership). So now they discount all of that to run to the U.S. to fly that now pathetic aguila, unable to stand up and make changes on the soil where their illustrious history and culture lie dormant and anemic, dying sadly in the provincia where those ancestors once stood their ground for freedom. "El Grito" was not "Si, se puede". Learn history or repeat it...as was once said. The United States tolerates, welcomes, thrives on IMMIGRATION. It is the ILLEGAL part that is rejected, Mexican or OTHERWISE!
MY immigrant family served proudly in WWII Pacific Theatre, Korea, Vietnamese conflict. I was raised in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. I believe I am a "citoyenne du monde". I respect the laws of the land in which I find myself. I am a citizen legally of the United States. I fly NO OTHER than the U.S. flag!
Viva los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica! Orgullosos, honestos y legales!
Viva i Stati Uniti! Orgogliosi, onesti e legali!
posted by Lucia Bartoli | 12:57 PM
1 Comments:
BRAVO! Funny how they so avoid that word illegal-& claim not to be criminals when they broke US laws just by how they choose to be here. As the grandchild of LEGAL immigrants I am proud of what my immigrant great-grandfather & grandfather did to become successful in the United States. They went through the LEGAL channels even though it was very hard, worked very hard at whatever job they could find, learned the language IMMEDIATELY & in the case of one (he was Russian) worked EXTRA hard to become accepted as American. They served this country in several wars and are SO proud to be American Citizens and would have considered it an insult to all they had worked for to be offered special previledges others did not receive because of what country they were from. I have friends and a brother-in-law who are all LEGAL immigrants (So. Africa, Uzbekhistan, Kurgistan) & working towards becoming citizens & they are VERY angry also that someone who doesn't respect our laws enough to do it the right way would be given priviledges they have to work so hard for just because that other person is from Mexico. I think the booing of Ms USA at the Miss Universe pageant was a prime indicator of what our response should be. If you don't like our country & don't want to follow our laws or respect our flag then stay where you are or go back, our country will NOT shut down just because you don't show up for work. I would NEVER expect to go to another country & not have to pay attention to their laws. Worse yet- having had my ss# stolen & used by an "Illegal" in what they consider to be a situation that "isn't hurting anyone"....I am being held resposible for $6000 in unpaid taxes from that person who used my name & SS# paid no taxes & disappeared (probably to use someone elses SS# & make more $ elsewhere)To reiterate, as the descendent of people who did it legally against horrible discrimination & odds (think cold war or even earlier-Odessa Russia 1905-My great-great Grandmother starved to death in a shed surrounded by soldiers; my Irish ancestors were spit on & called dogs, further back, the treatment of my Native American & African American ancestors comes to mind) as a true representation of the melting pot & what a person or family can do here if you do it right I have NO sympathy when illegal immigrants of any nationality (but the Mexican seem to be the most vocal)claim they need special treatment because they come from Mexico & HAD to come here ILLEGALLY. To quote my children "Whatever".
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