Dear Mexican: First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm Mexicans. It’s one thing to get called a dirty Jap or border hopper, but tell me: Is it possible that America will cause another ethnic group to suffer in a way similar to the Japanese and blacks? Or, do you believe that our country has matured enough to never again commit the deeds it has before? —Mex-Jap
Dear Wabby Chinito: A couple of key differences between the groups you mentioned and the people I study: Mexicans were never enslaved en masse a la Africans (Know Nothings can spare me their pseudo-populist bullshit about illegal immigrants getting paid slave wages—one man’s pennies is another’s muy grande pesos). Nor do the detention pens where la migra places recently rounded up illegals compare to the World War II internment of Issei and Nissei. And Mexicans in the United States definitely never dealt with genocide like the Indians (feather)—the Manifest Destiny-ing of Texas and the American Southwest, sí, but not mass extermination. I doubt Americans will allow any of those ignominies to occur again to any non-gabacho group, but residents of this Republic constantly surprise me with their repetition of historical skid marks (i.e., Dillingham Report, Vietnam War, a Bush in the Casa Blanca), and we’ve yet to truly see how America’s going to treat Barack Obama for his middle name. In the meanwhile, Mexicans can rest knowing we only have to put up with the same annoyances from gabachos we have for over a century—deportations that don’t work, unimaginative slurs, and the butchered mispronunciations of the letter ñ.
Why do Mexicans chain their dogs up? Seems kind of cruel. I’ve noticed that niggers do this, too. —The Hound of Honkeyville
Dear Gabacho: Because most municipalities require people to tether their dogs in some form at all times—Mexicans ain’t always rocket science, cabrones.
Why is it that Mexican parents don’t want their daughters to date or marry a black guy? I’ve seen them go crazy because they found out their daughter was going out with one, or brought him home to meet the familia. Is it a parental thing, or a sense of Mexican pride? —Black (Sometimes) Is Beautiful
Dear Gabacho: You know what film I caught the other day on cable? Only the Lonely, the 1991 comedy starring John Candy as an Irish cop whose mom doesn’t want him to marry a guinea Polack. Afterwards, I caught Mississippi Masala, the Denzel Washington flick where he beds a hot Indian (dot) chick to the consternation of her relatives. I concluded the evening with Ashton Kutcher’s reprehensible remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and remembered that the parents of my Vietnamese ex didn’t want their darling daughter to date a Mexican. I’m not denying the caca that some wabs throw at negritos, but if we’re going to play The Dating Game, let’s remember that parents of all races or immigrant status frequently freak out when their progeny date out of their social group—and if you don’t believe me, talk to Jeb Bush.
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Hello, Thanks for taking the time to express your opinions for all mexicans. Can I ask you though why would so many mexicans want to have you speak for them? Secondly what is Mexican culture that is so different from European culture? Mexico speaks Spanish like people from Spain, their main religion is catholic like Europe, their architecture is Spanish. Siesta's are also a tradition from Spain as well. Tell me why do you feel the need to say you are different when there are more similarities and hardly anything unique? Please join the party and quit sitting in the corner boobing. The only true native culture belonged to the native americans that are perpetually brutalized by the mexicans (which is a European trait as well haha) thanks again for speaking as if you are the voice of all that is Mexican.