by Jerome du Bois
It was a success.
It was a failure.
Meanwhile, I was and remain astounded that not one of the four Hispanics I mentioned below in my last post --Linda Valdez, George Diaz, Jr., Salvador Reza, and Linda Mazon Gutierrez-- has yet jumped on the story about the Mexican government wanting to sue Sgt Patrick Haab for violating seven illegal aliens's civil rights. The story broke May 7th, and even with boycott day, they've all had plenty of time to toss something off the cuff, their usual style. But nothing. Oh, well, all that preparation for the boycott, the boycott itself --maybe kicking it at the State House for a while-- then home to recoop; it was an easy story to miss. And tomorrow, after all, is another day.
We received one comment on the post below, from, as usual, someone with neither ovaries or cojones, who wrote:
Somos todos mojados
which I translate as "We are all immigrants." Typical category-smearing. I don't know how to say it in Spanish, but it runs,
We are all immigrants. The illegal ones are criminals.
Meanwhile, an illegal alien and criminal who worked for the mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper, in one of his fast-food places, killed a Denver detective and headed back to Mexico.
I hope you bow your heads for Donald Young, you four pluggedin writers.
I wonder what any of you would do if you knew when and where his killer was crossing the border.
Harsh words, I know, but based on your writings --I wonder.
And before anybody calls me a racist, grow a brain, read the blog: I'm a Darwinian who subscribes to the Out-of-Africa theory. There is only one race, homo sapiens sapiens. Some of us are just smarter --mas sapiens-- and/or more civilized than others. Some of us have learned "property" and some of us are still learning "hands-off."
Which reminds me that we received a comment waaay back on April 5th, on Catherine's piece about the Scottsdale United School District's dhimmitude. it went like this:
Nice hate website you have. It belongs on display in the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles or DC, next to the Holocaust, slavery, and white supremacists exhibits. Your closed-mindedness, bigotry and intolerance is a prime example of why Americans are hated worldwide.
Of course, I could go on about the copy, but I won't bother. Our blog stands or falls on our tens of thousands of words over two years, and on our speaking up for the vulnerable and the voiceless, the broken living and the innocent dead.
But what cracked me up was the signature --the last three letters:
Anne Baker, PhD
All rise! No, wait, bow down! No, wait --who gives a damn? I am not impressed. (Her email return was yvegan@yahoo.com. Yahoo is right. Also bozo.) I snack on PhDs. Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Camille Paglia --these people all have PhDs, but they sure don't sign their names that way. They don't need to.
PhD --in what? Piled higher and Deeper for what? Those letters used to mean something, including framing an argument, not just slinging out slanderous, unsubstantiated words like "bigotry" and "intolerance."
So, to return to the four Hispanics I was addressing above, should you decide to respond to my email alerts, please try to act like grown-ups and keep race out of it. As I tiresomely repeat, since 1996:
You gotta face your face when the race fad fades.
In the meantime, close the borders.
Posted by Jerome at May 11, 2005 11:28 PM | TrackBack