Crazy times around here, these.
Posted on 05/16/2005 12:03:11 PM PDT by SmithL
MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox refused to apologize Monday for saying Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won't — a comment widely viewed as acceptable in a country where blackface comedy is still considered funny and nicknames often reflect skin color.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City had raised the issue with the Mexican government. "That's a very insensitive and inappropriate way to phrase this and we would hope that (the Mexicans) would clarify the remarks if they have a chance," Boucher said.
Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, said Mexican and foreign news media have misinterpreted the remark as a racial slur. He said the president was speaking in defense of Mexican migrants as they come under attack by the new U.S. immigration measures that include a wall along the U.S.-California border.
Stung by the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants, many Mexicans — including Mexico City's archbishop — said Fox was just stating a fact.
"The president was just telling the truth," . . .
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What else did he mean then? He opened his big yap and out came the TRUTH of what's in his heart and also his agenda. I'll not hold my breath for a word from Bush though.
OOOhh--Fox better get ready to run. Jesse jackson is hot on his tail.
Will Jesse HiJackson be on the next thing smokin' to Mexico City?
I think he's afraid to. Come on Jesse, prove me wrong!
'Mis-interpreted' my eye. He said what he meant and he meant to say it.
In the words of the late Jim Healy, Fox is a "J-E-R-Q-U-E".
Heh...Jesse ain't touching this one.
Just damn ping.
Fox is a racist european messican......thats why he is so anxious to unload the aboriginal mexicans onto the US......you don't see european-Mexicans hopping the border, do you?
People need to realize that there's some sort of friendly, at times testy, rivalry going on between blacks and Mexicans. Fox's comments doesn't surprise me, as the lack of outrage among blacks makes it evident.
Oh, yes, be sure to get the lefty archbishop's comments in there. The church is the lapdog of the state in Mexico, and keeping the 24 families of the elite happy is crucial. As for the millions of peasants, the message is, "We breed. You feed."
Got that right.
Well, in LA, getting testy sometimes involves assault weapons...
"a country where blackface comedy is still considered funny and nicknames often reflect skin color."
That's Mexico alright. A persons place in society is often determined by how much 'Spanish' ancestry there is compared to native or 'Indian'.
as usual the term "illegal alien" is totally ignored in this piece...
Fox has no problem securing his southern border but all the problems in the world with his northern border being secured...
can we say "hipocrita?"
Crazy times around here, these.
Just what I was thinking too. Also, where's Al "Sleeze" Sharpton, Louis "The Bigot" Farrakhan, or the Congressional "Holier than Thou" Black Caucus?
Same goes for any other labor-intensive job!
So maybe there is truth in what Fox says, but that doesn't mean I support open borders!
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