Posted on 05/24/2004 4:52:39 PM PDT by chance33_98
Columbus never set foot in North America, by the way. I'm American, neither German nor English....but I suppose you're asking my ethnic origin. It's Anglo-Saxo-Viking-Pictish-Briton if you must know, and I'm neither proud nor ashamed of it. Besides, it has no place in a discussion over legal vs. illegal immigration.
I have no problem with Italians or with Americans who claim to be "Italian". You're the one who's got a problem, calling on ancient history when we're talking about today, here and now. You wouldn't bring up ancient history if you only merely had a problem with someone's immigration status.
Thankfully I don't live around people so ignorant as to call me a wetback illegal. Why don't you get angry at people who hurl ethnic slurs? Suppose someone confused you for a Arab? Or maybe black? I never put words in your mouth either so I have no idea what you're talking about.
LOL! Splendid allusion.
So what? California is full of teenagers, underemployed minorities, and retired seniors who can do a good deal of this work. As for a lot of it, people can learn to mow their own lawns and change their own kids' diapers. Might be good for them.
Yeah, but how would they vote if a conservative ran for President? How would they vote if we had a President that didn't want to pander to criminals?
"You are neither cold nor hot, and I shall therefore spew..."
You never stand for anything, so in the end you will have stood for nothing. Live free or die in America, I says. BTW, I don't need a history lesson from wiseacres like you, I had plenty getting a minor in college. So I guess Columbus DIDN'T discover America then huh? doh, it's all our turf. Except for that glorious little Hispanic Island paradise called Cuba, right? And Venezuela, they're just like the US right? And all the rest including Mexico, puh-leeze. You are as obtuse as you are obstinate. Remind me not to waste bandwidth on you again.
Probably the Arizona Border Patrol held their annual hunt in California, or Pat Buchanan found an ancient lamp on the beach and rubbed it.
I'm very sorry, that was meant for that wimp.
fair enough
LOL! It does doesn't it!
Does the film contain any scenes of near-empty prisons?
Columbus Day IS one of my favorites. I work only because CC wasn't a lazy man *lol*. I don't think people really have a clue about what Columbus actions meant for this age but I'll leave that to people to find out themselves. In every day life I can really care less also BUT if someone starts talking crap around me, I'll let them have it. Right now I'm more concerned about making money hehehe.
I don't know, I know 1/2 of all white people vote communist- for f-n' shame; European-blood should know better.
Hello, I'm a Hispanic Freeper also. There are a few jerks around here, don't worry about them, just state the facts about Hispanic Americans 85% are legal; 33-50% are Repulican; Catholics are natural castituants of Republicans- Communist suck a$$ as do jack asses... the standard stuff. I had a Hispanic ping list but I get too caught up in my own world. I'll see if I can dig it up.
Nice to meet you. One day I'll be a rich Hispanic like my father who hire white folk.
"White folk?" If, as you state, that 85% of Hispanic Americans are legal; then I assume that most of them have been here for at least a generation or two. By which point, they should have stopped referring to themselves as "hispanic-Americans." My ancestors, from varying countries, NEVER referred to themselves as anything but "Americans" and were proud to do so.
Perhaps you would find more friends if you didn't refer to yourself by using some sort of liberal victim-class terminology. Of course, it's obvious by your use of "white folk" that you see yourself as superior in some way. Otherwise, you would have said "I can hire other Americans."
I'll assume they're talking about the population of "latinos" that recently came from Mexico --- well --- they suddenly disappeared out of Mexico and you don't see anyone in Mexico complaining --- least of all Vicente Fox who screamed "we're going for more! we're going for more!" when he heard Bush discussing his amnesty plan.
The sentiment was already spawned.. hence the proposition.
I can't believe "hispanics" of American ancestry, or those "hispanic" professional types that live in California and others wouldn't find this movie extremely offensive. For one equating all people with Spanish last names with illegals, and implying we only need people with Spanish last names to wash dishes, mow our lawns, pick our grapes. After all there are Spanish sur-named doctors, engineers, etc --- in fact if you took away the immigrant factor, many of the "hispanics" aren't from immigrant families at all, many have lived in the USA for generations -- before the USA came so far west --- and not only that --- without the immigrants, their statistics for poverty and crime would not be worse than whites or others.
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