Reply #8: Excuse me. But my people were here while yours were

[EFerrari]

still painting themselves blue in a foreign land. The border crossers you're so upset about have been here much longer than the borders Bush won't "protect" because his cronies would have a fit.

You work at a crisis center? You don't know what crisis is until someone steals your home and starts calling you an alien. The very fact that you get to work at something someone named "a crisis center" already puts you at a level of privilege that you should appreciate, even if you haven't earned it.

This didn't start in 1994. Have you ever read the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? Have you ever even heard of it? Probably not.

And don't even get me started on homeless vets until you can pony up the numbers that are "hispanic".

Be sick of the reply, that's your problem. But get your facts straight.

On edit: This is what really cracks me up. I've yet to see on DU, which I love, one sentence of awareness about who "hispanics" are. "Hispanics" are people of Native American extraction that survived European colonialism. We're mestizos now but, we still belong to this land. And it didn't matter that they tried to obliterate our cultures, our languages, our DNA. Because this is our home.

And you can wave your flag and push your paper and it won't bother natural selection one single little bit. And although we fought for this country, we didn't start those wars and we're not proud of them or the faked "glory" of the needless blood sacrifice.

And, btw, there are no homeless people in our culture. Because that would be a shameful failure of family and community.