Dear Wabette: To paraphrase the Mexican’s mariposa counterpart, Dan Savage: Dump the Pendejo Already (DTPA). It’s one thing for a current partner to keep talking with their exes, quite another for them to keep photos of said exes in a place where they see them daily, and quite pendejo to have said pictures of exes hugging and kissing said partner and show them to their current beau. Sure, Mexicans are a bit more skeptical of maintaining a relationship with an ex-partner than gabachos, and that’s due to a Catholic worldview deeming any previous partner as whorish and unworthy of further thought (unless in the safe zone of being borracho), but your man should’ve shoved those photos to his digital trash bin the minute he committed you. That he hasn’t says more about him than you, Dolores—so please, DTPA.
Dear Mexican: Know Nothing Mexican-haters frequently misquote a report about the California prison population in 2006 by stating that 38 percent of the incarcerated males in Califas are illegal alien Mexicans. They state that “Mexicans,” whom they see as all being illegal, should be deported. There is one fact that the racist pendejos do not mention: 39 percent of the female population in California prisons in 2006 were white! In order to facilitate the Reconquista and reduce crime, do you think that white females should be deported to Europe? —El Habrano
Dear Wab: That original stat you cited—the 38 percent one—isn’t too far off: that’s the percentage of Latinos incarcerated in California carceles. But that number covers all imprisoned Latinos, legal and not. As we well know, though, Know Nothings ignore such inconvenient facts in favor of the “findings” of hack think tanks like the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, “findings” that our lamestream media usually repeat without question, thus confirming the suspicions of Know Nothings, who repeat them and point to both said hack tanks and media as their citations when arguing. Like that oft-repeated lie that immigrants are more prone to crime than citizens? Debunked by most every legitimate researcher, yet you’ll never see such reality enter their discourse.
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