Update (6/30): MM visitors, read about what I think of Mexico’s blackface comedy.
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American co-president and Mexican president Vicente Fox has stirred the racial waters. As a justification for flooding our country with his poor subjects, he said, “There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States.” (Source)
His office issued a lame apology. Honestly, I don’t know what he’s apologizing for. I think what he said is true. Americans in general, not just blacks, are so used to living in a welfare state, they’d probably rather exist on the government dole than do “undignified” work. I believe there’s dignity in all work, as long as you’re hard working and self-supporting. But nobody asked me.
Unfortunately, some people are taught from birth that it’s OK to live off the labor of others. Welfare checks are an entitlement instead of a source of shame. But Fox should have kept race out of it.
Vicente, I don’t know how you run things in Mexico (and don’t want to know), but if you’re going to co-govern a country like the U.S., you need to be sensitive. We have protected classes of citizens in this country, and saying anything negative about them could ruin your reputation. Truth is not a defense.
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Unrelated Update (11:48 a.m.): Another scam! “Black men” will spend $10 million to study racism. Good grief.
Update II (4:09 p.m.): Mexicans aren’t very nice to blacks in Mexico, it seems.
Reelcobra has the latest on the Vicente Fox “shakedown.”
Update III: Vicente Fox apologizes — to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? They don’t speak for me! I think I’m going to be sick.
Why doesn’t Fox apologize to all Americans for pushing illegal immigration on the U.S. and trying to erode our sovereignty? Why doesn’t he apologize to everyone who’s been victimized by some Mexican criminal gangbanger? After that, he can apologize to millions of American taxpayers whose local clinics and ERs have been shut down and schools overburdened with illegal aliens who just so happen to come from his country? And his remarks about the Minuteman Project, a group of American volunteers trying to do the job Curious George won’t do?
Disgust, disgust, disgust. All day long I’ve been disgusted by the news, by idiotic comments on this blog. Sometimes I wonder whether this blogging thing is really worth it.
