Mary Sanchez starts another lame immigration column by noting that she has absolutely nothing in common with most Latinos despite her token status at the paper-of-record.
Then she uses a Euro-trash example of an immigration "problem" unique to the Americas that so many have claimed is really the migration of indigenous people and not immigrants.
In so many respects, my thinking on this subject is becoming more influenced by Machete and the money line from the movie simply states a matter of fact and history:
"WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED US!!!"
Still, I understand that life as a corporate media person is hard for the newsie Sanchez right now despite the fact that she seems to apologize for her own existence with every sentence. She doesn't come close to solving the immigration "problem" in her column and her waffling won't satisfy so many racists hiding anti-Latino sentiment behind anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Being a Latina isn't a brand. It is a reality, no matter how many generation removed from where your people originated.
ReplyDeleteSecond, third, fourth generation, what's the difference? You are still a Latina. Mary, hermana, you can be a Latina and still be a very solid United States of America Citizen.
Si.
ReplyDeleteI heard no Latinas ever eat at Taco Tico unless they've been here at least two generations. Is that true? Do you know the URL of EL SNOPEZ so I can check it out?
ReplyDeleteMy ancestors came mostly from Great Britain and Germany. I find it interesting at times to consider these origins, but I don't obsess about it.
ReplyDeleteThere was a great program on KCPT last night about origins. Think it was called the Face of America. It turns out we are more inter-related that most of us would have believed. One guest, a Mexican-American woman, was very proud of her "Mexican," heritage (as she has every right to be). But she submitted to DNA testing and found that she was predominately European. A black woman (a poet and writer, I think), found through DNA testing that she was 66% white.
gens suma uns.
ReplyDeleteThe Mexican-American woman was Eva Longoria and they traced her family back to the early 1600's in North America with her family having land deeded to them in what is now Texas by the King of Spain.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that her ancestry was European, which it was, but the fact that they were from Spain which just happens to be on the continent.
The black woman writer is a professor of African Studies at Harvard. She looks white, buts holds such traits as nappy hair and has some African features. She turned out to be about 77% European and only about 17% African ancestry.
I think that testing is a scam.
ReplyDeleteGood comments though.
ReplyDeleteActually, the DNA testing is going to be very very good, and troubling for some families when natural marriages DNA shows infidelity. Which also happens.
ReplyDeleteTrust me on this...I have much of my fam back to 550 AD in the United Kingdom. But all bets would be off if I submitted my DNA! So far, I haven't. But I might come around if I'm curious enough to challenge the Maryland/Kentucky documents I have already!
Who knows, it might change everything I have nailed down from 1665 here, and before over there!
DNA FREED OJ!
ReplyDeleteReally? Your intellectual inspiration is a Lindsay Lohan movie? Wow.
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