Posted on 05/05/2014 4:59:33 AM PDT by xsmommy
Can you say "minority set aside"?
I have no idea whether they were legal, or not. They just didn't want to go inside the church, but they would drive their wives and chidren to Mass. This was in the Houston suburbs in the 1970s. Fr. Bader would go outside and round them up and make them come inside.
To tell you the truth, in those days in TX nobody seemed to care whether they were legal, or not. Most folks considered them to be illegal, even if they had lived there for generations already. That was about the time that TX passed a law requiring the schoools to educate them, even if they were illegal. Prior to that, they didn't allow them in the schools without proof of citizenship.
How beautiful!
That is an appalling example of prejudice and willful ignorance, which doesn’t surprise me-I’ve never lived in or near Houston, which was at that time more like cities in some other state in the collective ignorance and bigotry seen there. The uninformed there call all Hispanics “f’ing Mexican”, but have repeatedly elected a representative who actually said America put astronauts on Mars-Sheila Jackson Lee...
Mexicans are people from Mexico, not Texas-people who consider native Texans of Hispanic/Latino/Mexican ancestry anything but Texans are insulting people who have been here since this was New Spain, and could be treated to tar and feathers by native Texans of any ethnicity in southwest Texas ranch country where my family has been for a couple of centuries-we are Texans, and have been for far longer than any other ethnic group here...
Thay’s what I say about the Swedish Bikini team.
I read that earlier and my first thought was how very Nixonian...
Holder won’t enforce the subpoena for Kerry either. They should all go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
I’m just relating my observations upon living in TX from 1972-1982. I was shocked too, having come from CA where Mexicans were not subject to so much discrimination — probably because there were not so many of them at the time.
The old timers in CA (Mexican-Americans) were well integrated into the communities, and the newer ones were migrant workers, or ‘braceros’, who crossed back and forth the border legally with the crops.
We built a house upon arriving in Texas and were finishing it up the first month were were there. There was a lot of touch up since it had survived a hurricane during construction and the interior got wet from a broken window when it was still unoccupied.
The head of the paint detail was a gracious, gentle, Mexican man named Tony. He had a very responsible job, and I worked closely with him. I was told to make a list of EVERYTHING that needed touch up and he would fix it.
I kept giving him my list, and I also asked him for the paint formula so that I could make repairs as my kids damaged the woodwork. He’d come out and work a day and get through about 1/3 of my list. Each time he came, he’d ask me to take him around and show him exactly what was wrong, but he’d never quite finished the job. And he would NEVER give me the paint formula. One day he frankly told me, “I don’t write!”
Insulted, I complained to the construction superintendant and was told that Tony neither could read, nor write, because he hailed from South TX and the counties down there did not make the Mexican kids go to school. He could only sign his paychecks. It was shortly after that the the courts passed a decision that required the Texas schools to educate the immigrant kids.
And, yes, I have Mexican-American relatives myself, including 3 grandchildren who carry Mexican names. They live in NY, however, where people think they are Italian! LOL!
I’m just relating my observations upon living in TX from 1972-1982. I was shocked too, having come from CA where Mexicans were not subject to so much discrimination — probably because there were not so many of them at the time.
The old timers in CA (Mexican-Americans) were well integrated into the communities, and the newer ones were migrant workers, or ‘braceros’, who crossed back and forth the border legally with the crops.
We built a house upon arriving in Texas and were finishing it up the first month were were there. There was a lot of touch up since it had survived a hurricane during construction and the interior got wet from a broken window when it was still unoccupied.
The head of the paint detail was a gracious, gentle, Mexican man named Tony. He had a very responsible job, and I worked closely with him. I was told to make a list of EVERYTHING that needed touch up and he would fix it.
I kept giving him my list, and I also asked him for the paint formula so that I could make repairs as my kids damaged the woodwork. He’d come out and work a day and get through about 1/3 of my list. Each time he came, he’d ask me to take him around and show him exactly what was wrong, but he’d never quite finished the job. And he would NEVER give me the paint formula. One day he frankly told me, “I don’t write!”
Insulted, I complained to the construction superintendant and was told that Tony neither could read, nor write, because he hailed from South TX and the counties down there did not make the Mexican kids go to school. He could only sign his paychecks. It was shortly after that the the courts passed a decision that required the Texas schools to educate the immigrant kids.
And, yes, I have Mexican-American relatives myself, including 3 grandchildren who carry Mexican names. They live in NY, however, where people think they are Italian! LOL!
Italians, huh? That is funny, and like the people in north Texas, when I was little-we used to visit an aunt in Amarillo, and my mom thought it was funny that they called my aunt and the rest of us “Spanish people”...
Cities here are the only places I’ve observed the bigotry you describe, and Houston was the worst-may still be.
Illegals are not welcome in the SW country and small towns-probably because there are so many old families there of primarily Hispanic ancestry, mixed with a bit of everything else through a couple hundred years of marriages-there are two young West Prussian men in my ancestry-came here from that part of Europe for whatever reason in the late 1820’s, stayed to ranch and marry into Hispanic families.
One of them married into mine, and wrote from a cattle drive that a friend who came with him from Prussia had sent passage money to his girl in Prussia for her come be with him after he had land and some livestock, but that seemed like a big expense when the Spanish ranchers all had healthy, strong daughters that were used to ranch work and made good wives. Not terribly flattering, but hey-it was the frontier...
Since mojados don’t get hired out here-everyone knows everyone else’s business, and will call la migra on them- they go to the cities where there are big companies and no one cares if they are breaking the law because they work cheap, and get paid under the table.
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