Dear Mexican: Why do Hispanics deny that George Zimmerman is Hispanic? He did nothing wrong and has been crucified in the media--La Raza cannot bow down to the race baiters and race traitors that call themselves African-American leaders!
Brown and Down
Dear Wab: This column is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not ¡Ask a Hispanic!, but I'll play, only because negrito-hating pendejos like you need to get smacked down. No Latinos deny that Zimmerman is half-Peruvian, and the reason we're joining African-American leaders in vilifying him is because Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, a story of racial profiling gone horribly wrong that our respective communities know far too well. Wish there was a joke here--oh, wait, it's your tortured logic. ¡Gracias!
We have much in common. I live in Washington, DC; you live in Wab-ington, OC. My fair city is the capital of Los Gabachos Unidos de America; your fair city is the capitol of La Raza Mojada. You have a poorly disguised desire to abandon your Mexican heritage and become a gabacho: you use English like a native, you vote, you pay taxes. I have a poorly disguised desire to rise above gabachismo and become Mexican: I butcher Spanish and I listen to son huasteca, son jarocho, corridos from the 1940s and '50s, and mariachi--the jinete variety without the trumpets, as played on the haciendas. (Notice the lame attempt to appear more authentic than those fresas who listen to urban mariachi with trumpets.) You console yourself with the thought that, no matter how much you fall short as a gabacho, you will never be Guatamalan. I console myself with the thought that, in spite of having been born next to the border, I will never be from West Virginia. What's a failure of a vendido to do but hide his despair behind racial slurs directed at the object of his aspirations? Ah, but your racist Rolodex is so much more extensive than mine.
Which brings me to my request. You've created a glossary for those of us who need to expand our rolodexes, but you haven't updated or expanded it in a long time. Please, help out a brother crypto-vendido and add some new Spanish language epithets to your glossary periodically. Yours in the despecho, born of ambición frustrada, sign me:
Frito Bandito (Cockney rhyming slang for "cripto-vendido")
Dear Gabacho: BRAVO! Here I am, plugging the hell out of my new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America--and you're plugging the glossary for my ¡Ask a Mexican! tome! I should hire you to do publicity! But you bring up a great challenge, one I'm more than happy to extend to my readers. So, gentle readers: time to create a new glossary for this columna that's the Mexi equivalent of The Devil's Dictionary, something that'll further teach gabas the essentials of us. Example: "Mujer: Mexican worker whose only purpose is to make sure fresh tortillas greet the familia daily." Surely, ustedes can do better than me! Start sending them in, and I'll compile the best in an upcoming column!
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Rev. G. Jude Geiger: White Rage
Case in point...Zimmerman is quoted as saying that he is "hispanic" and then that admission is interpreted as some recognition of a specific "race".
NO! the word "hispano" or "latino" has absolutely NO racial connotation in ANY Latin-American socio-cultural context, EVER!
That is as silly as any American in the States ascribing racial identity to anyone claiming to be from New Jersey, New Mexico or New York.
Seriously, isn't it time to think about these things a bit more intelligently than the level of the Taco Belle drive-up menu, dontcha think?
Any that I know with even 1 shred of intelligence and integrity KNOW better than to make specious claims about 40 MILLION categorically "Hyspanik" people.
We are NOT the same politically, ethnically, racially or even cosmically.
Please stop writing these inanities about the "Hyspaniks" as if we were of one brain, heart or soul.
You are only feeding the stereo-type machine in Hollywood and Washington, DC.
And NEITHER endeavor is worth the plastic trophies and prizes they receive each year by the promoters of this cr*p.
Pero aun siguen bailando como munecas en seda...dios mio!
I am very weary of reading one non-story after another about the "Hyspaniks".
They are insulting, patronizing and not much higher than junior high school attempts at very incompetent journalism.
You can learn more about "hyspaniks" by listening at the rear orifice of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.
Pero sigue bailando y brincando en el charco de tu estupidez
I don't know how "clearly" anything is about this travesty in the making judicial freak show.
To say Mr. Z looks "brown" is not the most intelligent thing to write here.
And please don't ever travel to Mediterranean Europe where you will be overwhelmed by the seemingly "brown" people you will see after a lifetime of living and working in sun-filled days and being of southern European background.
I don't know what his racial background is and no one else should focusing on that either.
What is more relevant is whether he killed this kid deliberately, out of some psychotic delusion or if he really was defending himself and "standing his ground".
However, being VERY familiar with the level of ignorance, ethno-centriism-gone-wild and the chronic provincialism and totally misinformed race "knowledge" that represents itself as adolescent "race awareneness" in the US, I am not hopeful of anything more "just" than a kangaroo trial by bigots, TV networks and "race" spokes-idiots on the 6 o'clock news.
And BTW..."La Tino" has never been a race or a color or even an ethnicity or culture.
However, to the very narrow mind of most Americans, "La Tino" has evolved in a grossly misinformed political coin of the realm which only explodes in the hands of those who pick it up and hug it to their chest.
“When is the mainstream white community going to show wide scale introspection on the same issue?”
It’s about time, actually. The real barrier is that many White people (and I know because I am one AND I live in the conservative South) are extremely defensive when it comes to interracial matters. Like if something comes up pointing to a White person being racist, there is immediate defensiveness by this community and attacking the accuser. It’s like it’s impossible for people to just admit that racism still exists – because somehow they feel it’s a personal attack even if it’s about someone else entirely. If we could be more honest about the inequalities and prejudices that still exist, I think there would be less anger and resentment from who feel eternally frustrated that their inequality is constantly denied by those who perpetuated and institutionalized it.
“white people do not let men who look like Zimmerman be white in the US”
Going back to my above statement, by pointing out that “he’s not really White,” they alleviate those feelings of defensiveness “of the white race” because someone outside the group can be blamed. Historically, White people tend to classify people whit “One Drop” of any other kind of blood as the “other” group – because somehow it makes their Whiteness impure.