Posted on 05/19/2005 2:04:38 PM PDT by lsilver5
MEXICO CITY, May 18 - Five days after President Vicente Fox provoked a storm of outrage in the United States by saying that Mexican migrants do work that "not even blacks want to do," the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said in a visit to Mexico on Wednesday that he welcomed the remarks, in a backhand sort of way.
Perhaps the greatest denial has been here in Mexico, where there is usually very little public examination of race, much less racism. Here, too, Mr. Fox seems to have opened a door, and this week the country seems engrossed by it.
Mexicans typically pride themselves on being a colorblind society of mixed-race people, part Spanish, part Indian, and everyone equal.
But some commentators said that President Fox inadvertently exposed the disturbing reality beneath the facade and forced Mexico to take a more honest look in the mirror. Mexico's 10 million Indians are not only last in almost every social indicator, including levels of literacy, infant mortality, employment and access to basic services. They still appear on television mostly as maids and gardeners.
"Our Indians remain invisible," he said. And then, referring to the 1994 Indian rebellion in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, he added, "When our Indians try to make themselves seen, we kill them."
Is the American dream just a dream?
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Mexico seen thru a very narrow lense by a squish head who hasn't been there very long. One part she left out is how they make a near-cult out of their pre-hispanic indian culture and roots, and despise Cortez as an object of shame and ridicule. But if it weren't for him, they would still be sacrificing each other by ripping the hearts out of living unfortunates, throwing adolescents into wells and various other assorted unpleasantness. Not that the Spaniards were without cruelty themselves, but they confronted an even crueler and more barbaric culture when they conquered Mexico. Also, most of the blacks in Mexico came from Cuba and the Caribbean, very few to escape slavery.
Unfortunately white folks run Mejico...the ruling class is of European Spanish heritage, Irish heritage (Fox), or Arabic. The predominant faces on Mexican media are white...darker folks are comedic foils.
Not sure exactly where you're going with that comment... Would you kindly explain? What are you afraid of being censored for?
Oh yes my friend. There's a lot of haughty superiority going on that I've seen personally in my face where I live. Not to me, but to other folks and there's a reason why a lot of hispanics keep spanish as their first language and Thomas Sowell nailed it in his study of ethnicities.
One part she left out is how they make a near-cult out of their pre-hispanic indian culture and roots, and despise Cortez as an object of shame and ridicule.
Primarily the Aztec culture (the whole Aztlan tripe) which was only in central Mexico. The other Mexican tribes despised the Aztecs and joined the Spaniards to defeat them.
American citizens of any race would do the work, if they weren't living on government handouts.
and if wages weren't being undercut by illegals
Wages would be at a market level without government intervention in the labor market.
One question to Mexico. Why can't ordinary Mexicans prosper in your glorious country??
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