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1 de Agosto, 2006
The Undocumented Illness of America
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No matter that this is the 21st Century and there exists all the technology that one needs to live a life that can virtually transport someone to any corner of the world and see how others live, too many are still afraid of what/who is different from themselves...
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She discovered that when they got sick, or their children ran high fevers, and putting off getting medical help could no longer be an option, and they made their way to a local emergency room, more often than is right, they were denied healthcare.
Luckily, there is one hospital, Mission of Mercy, in Hanover that will see the undocumented and other patients that can't be seen anywhere else.
Yet, what's happening to the Hanover Hispanics is only the beginning of a nationwide trend."
Latina Lista
And those passing legislation against migrants and Mexicans want to pretend they are not dividing the country they claim is "legal"? How am I supposed to feel when I read about poor people—my people—getting sick and being denied medical attention, about hiding out in fear because they are caught between Hate and Political Posturing? As if enough slaughter and aggression against brown people all over the world isn't done and hasn't been done for far too long.
Don't talk to me about "Legal vs Illegal." It ain't about that. And if you think that is what the Hate is about, you're a fool. It's a long war, vato. It's the true long war. And it ain't new. It's just that certain types of people don't want to see it because they benefit from it. This makes me furious. It's enough that this country is so full of apathetic and comfortable people that they don't pay attention to what their country does in their name, but when it is happening to their neighbors...oh why do I bother. People are too wrapped up in their 401Ks and trips to Cancún to care about starving, poor folk with life-threatening illnesses in their own country. "Illegal"? Attend the beam, amigo. Attend the effin' beam in your own casa blanca before you talk to me about the mote crossing the Moat.
It's not about HR4437, and it ain't about Prop 187. It goes back a long way, snakes through the Rio Grande, and winds around Tenochtitlán, swoops over the dusty fields of Chiapas, flew crunched up and compacted in the bullet that took down MLK, and once sat pretty on the rudders of the ships that came here from Africa. The True Long War, that rode shotgun with Cortés, Narvaez, Columbus; brought Chinese here to be slaves, and lay hunched and huddled in the pockets of the Patriots as they slaughtered the natives who once populated this land, the same war that coils up in the belly of white racists who think their new sport is taking a rifle down to la frontera. And if you like seeing people starve or sicken when they only want to live, breathe, and enjoy themselves, then you are on the wrong side of this war.
Go, read it.
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kick it, ése.