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31 de Mayo, 2007
Show Them the (Whitewashed) Liberty Door
A FANTASTIC POST from Laurafern, about her experience married to un migrante mexicano, and some realizations and fears and hopes she's having about life in America. The sad truth is that Fermin’s attitude reflected on things I wouldn’t have believed, that my pro-immigrant views are not the mainstream, that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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CRIMEWATCH (Fair and Balanced!)
ANYBODY WHO READS THIS PAGE regularly needs no further introduction to the following news item, nor any analysis of what it means to yours truly. A mob of 20 to 30 white teenagers beat and threw stones at two Latino men in an unprovoked attack at a park south of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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30 de Mayo, 2007
Tony Salazar Leaves This World
I REALLY WANT TO POST THIS, but am crazy-busy with graphic design work (and grateful to have it), so formatting and commentary will be minimal, but message is important. Dear Friends: It is with sadness that I inform you that Tony Salazar passed away yesterday morning in San Francisco.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Letters for the Bizarro Hole
THE KEY TO SUCCESS and happiness in the USA? Apparently, it's an easy formula. Assimilate, stop calling yourself a "Mexican American," open your eyes to how evil the Democrats are, and vote Republican! Ay. This letter is gross (not to mention condescending, fullofit, and transparent) in so many ways... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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I'M RICH, MATE!
HOLY CRAP, the God of capital letters and sweepstakes has informed me that I've won the "AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY"!!! Wow! Moreover, it seems I've done this three times today, already! I've half a mind to just hang out in my junkmail folder all day with this sort of fortune. Damn.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Corporate Czars and the Beet Field Peon
AND WHILE WE ARE DISCUSSING the validity of "law," the morality of the "force" that fuels these laws, the agents who prosper from our swallowing them whole, and the hypocrisy therein that cannot withstand close inspection, I offer this:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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29 de Mayo, 2007
The Mysterious Case of The Ungrateful Natives
SPEAKING OF CONNECTING THE DOTS, The Glennstitution digs in under the skin. It's about time we began using such awareness in the larger spheres of political commentary. About time we all began calling things what they really are. In general, human beings do not appreciate it when foreign armies... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Choke on the Rainbow.
DEAR COMMENTER AT 71.146.149.242, You said: [...] Not real fond of the criminal turds flooding into my once beautiful country, raping, murdering and stealing everything not bolted down either. When we reach the tipping point that the stupid collectivist Democrats will be the ones that will lash out the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Media Excuses Itself, Part 814
QUESTION: Why is it when you turn on the TV, click on a news Web site or pick up a newspaper, the only Latinos you ever see or hear about are criminals, illegal immigrants or half-clothed female singers with dyed blond hair? ANSWER 1) There is no agenda to demonize... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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A Lot of Electoral Votes
FINALLY, someone in the MSM compares America's historic land grab in Mexico with her current oil grab in Iraq. Wars of aggression trumped up on lies and greed. It's a clear comparison, and I've been making it for a while. But what does the New York Sun come up... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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28 de Mayo, 2007
187 Reasons Promo Site
THIS IS MY OLD MAN'S promotional site for his new book 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border. So far, it is just a temp splash page for the book, but I'm doing a lot more work on it. Doubling up the column, toolbar on top, blog, pages, banana... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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WoC Fundraiser for Allied Media Conference
FROM BFP: As you all may know, Women of Color Blog (brownfemipower.com) is currently directing readers and supporters to the blogs (and pay pal buttons) of some really great feminists of color media makers. These amazing women are raising money so that they can attend the Allied Media Conference... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Nezua Limón's Tome of Tequila Etiquette: Rule 71
Page 27, Rule 71: SHOULD THE MOMENT ARRIVE in your Tequila-enhanced conversations in which you find yourself loudly proclaiming "I AM CALM! I'M AS CALM AS A RIVER FLOWING DOWN TEMPLE STEPS, MAN!" it is best to simply excuse yourself politely, apologize to your host for referring to his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Skinless
SO HEADLINING IN THE ALL-NEW CHRONICLES OF NEZUA is the fact that "The Skinhead" won't be coming home this weekend after all. Now, I know it's a bit dehumanizing to call a man "The Skinhead," and I don't call him that in my everyday life. It's really only how... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Mayo, 2007
The All-New Chronicles of Nezua
THIS BLOG NOW TAKES A TURN and becomes a chronicle of Nezua's trek through the adventurous interstate Summer of 2007. Bound to remain fully rooted in the dramatic and ridiculous and philosophical and overzealous, yet perhaps to include a bit of journally type jottings, mundania from daily trottings, worrisome... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Mayo, 2007
¿Donde Va?
IT'S A GOOD TEN MINUTES I sit and watch the planks of wood that are my fence warm with the rising of the sun. The green mustard tufts of treetop recede to the towering fold of hill on the horizon—its a horizon lapping just at the edge of town,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Mayo, 2007
How To Not Make Excuses
THIS CAT makes me look like a sloth, lately. ...although my own cat makes me look like a sloth, lately, so that's not saying much. I must get out more. Got to. Anyway, enjoy your weekend, vat@s. I know I've been light on posting. Earning tortillas, you know? I'll... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Real Life
I REMEMBER WHEN studying film for my second degree, there were some who were taken with the purity of Documentary, of cinema verite; the TRUTH in capturing Real Life. Our fundamentals professors broke us of that idea when they taught us that even choosing film stock was an editing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Mayo, 2007
blackbird gasoline
IT IS A MOMENT DRENCHED in foreshadowing. I feel it immediately upon me, as if the wind has quieted down for this very reason. The sun is floating behind my back, staring as if lost in thought. Overhead, the hot blue is sliced into odd rectangles of sky. Telephone... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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In Memory of Mrs. Nueces
I'M NOT SURE why it matters at this point...but the brief consideration, or appearance of respect for past treaties is—though quaint—a sweet one. HARLINGEN, Texas -- A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Rio Grande river could skew the border and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Mayo, 2007
Aliens Vs. Senators
THE DAILY SHOW. When I first saw a clip of them testing out the Mexican humor (and it was with Gonzales) it felt off to me, I posted on it (Seedy Gonzales and such, sorry no time for linkness). But I thought this clip was good, realigns the humor against... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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A Cage of Many Purposes
OKAY, this has got to end. My blood is boiling and I am afraid to even hear the whole truth. Listen, I know I shouldn't be surprised that there are now allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the concentration camp known as Hutto. That doesn't mean I'm not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Mayo, 2007
Five Damn Good Blogs
OKAY, STILL NO TIME to really finish any posts that require time and an editing mind. But I have a slight break between jobs (like an hour or two?) so let me answer the tag from Migra Matters about Five Damn Good Blogs or something like that. I really can't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Mayo, 2007
Sunday Skillet Blogging #5
BEFORE I GO back to my webgrafikky world, I better post this a day late, before a certain law student loses her patience with my running on extreme Mexicano time! For your viewing pleasure, Sunday Skillet Blogging número cinco! (Now with high-rez close-up shot, over 18 and hungry patrons... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Lull for your life
BRIEF LULL in the usual ongoing stream of words. I do have a couple posts building up here and there. Right now very busy on web design junk. One job overlapping another. I'll tell you one thing, though. Go away for a day or so and you realize the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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20 de Mayo, 2007
Bedhead
I HAVE MUCHO TRABAJO I'm doing today, getting ready to prepare latinalista.net for the exciting launch tomorrow of the new look and functions of Marisa's blog. But I didn't want to leave you with nothing today. So meanwhile, please enjoy this hella good black and white short from the early... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Mayo, 2007
Anchor Around Her Own Neck
CAN WE, as honest and intelligent people, really ignore the disturbing contradiction existing in the Malkin? It's been said before and I'll say it again: What's up with the Anchor Baby raging eternally against immigrants entering the country, sometimes in the same way as she did? Michelle: is it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Excursions
IT'S JUST ME AND LIL 'NITA for usually about a quarter to a third of a day, and sometimes, all day. She's a lot of fun to watch as she begins to find the many pieces of the world, as she assigns meaning to them, as she responds emotionally... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Mayo, 2007
You Can Do It, Mamá
I'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT the Democratic party is the "Mommy party" and the Republican party is the "drunken psychotic Daddy party." So okay. Offered for your consideration: If "Daddy" has turned out to be an unreliable and arrogant idiot who talks a lot of shit about Living the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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From Freedom to Fascism
FOR YOUR FRIDAY or Saturday night movie watching. If it interests you (and if you haven't seen it, of course), and you have time, I do recommend it. I originally wrote a long intro, but I've deleted it. I don't even want to do that. I'll leave all the punch... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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El Cumbanchero (and Other Precious Stringed Singles)
FRIDAY NIGHT and los niñ@s are SMOKIN'!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Fiebre Primaveral
THE SUN IS RISING STRONG and it looks to be a beautiful day. Already the light strikes sideways the wooden shingles, plating each one with a polished bronze. There won't be much if any posting today. I will return soon. Accept my wishes that you have a joy-filled and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Mayo, 2007
Truth Conspires to Start Tiny Fires
OH, HELL just when those grassy knoll people started getting quiet. This is only going to stir things up. In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Bush League
IF BUSH STATES HIMSELF that the terrorists who struck us on 9/11 are "trying to get us to withdraw from the world," please tell me how this syncs with his vehement denial that America's bases in other countries and our interference in their affairs is "to blame" for those... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Immigration Reform Deal Struck
A DEAL first negotiated by Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) has been has been accepted and agreed upon by a "bipartisan group" of senators. The deal attempts a broad reworking of America's immigration laws. In the details available so far, preference for attaining a green... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Yearning to Breathe Free
OAKLAND AND SAN FRAN pull a Lady Liberty!: Oakland officials are reaffirming their city will remain a "city of refuge." Voting unanimously Tuesday night, the City Council adopted a resolution that forbids city employees or police officers from participating in immigration raids. The measure also broadens Oakland's 1986 "City... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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La Migra, Asparagus Killers
I WRITE OFTEN, and have recently, about this self-defeating dynamic America sees fit to practice in regard to brown immigrants from south of the "Border." And deeper yet, this...utterly disgusting and strange notion that America has nurtured in one form or another since the days of her Jamestown aspirations—this civilized/savage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Updates on Site
THIS IS A NOTICE simply to let you know that certain "reference" pages on The Unapologetic Mexican have been updated in significant ways. • Copyright Credit Essentially, I require consent for derivative use of my work now. Note to bloggers and anyone quoting or blockquoting: nothing changes. This notice is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Mayo, 2007
Gravel Gives the Straight Dope
OUR MAN GRAVEL, kickin' out some more groovalicious gems: When asked whether he believed marijuana should be available next to beer in liquor stores, Gravel replied, "Go get yourself a fifth of scotch or a fifth of gin and chug-a-lug it down and you'll find you lose your senses... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Las Flores de la Ciudad
OKAY, the day is beginning to cool. I think I'm done with code for the day, you? I was going to suggest we crawl out onto the roof and finish this bottle of red, you know. Turn up that old Dylan groove, let To Ramona drift out over the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Defector From the Killer Robot Forces
I SHOW YOU, NOW, one of the most original, and heartfelt posts I've seen from el otro lado—that is, the other side of the white-brown thing—that talks about the White Lens, or the Haunted Land—or other things I've framed and named for my own landscape, but that we all... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Elvira and Saul Need Help - Stay of Deportation
A CALL TO ACTION to residents of Califas, from a friend and activist LaVerdad regarding Elvira Arellano and her son Saul. If you live in California, please join with us on this. With this effort I do think we can make a difference—a huge difference—to this family, and also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Quetzal at Centro
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Copwatch Benefit Concert - Santa Ana
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Kings of Our Time
YOLANDA KING—a heart filled with love—has left the building. She will be remembered well. The King Center in Atlanta - set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King - says his oldest child, Yolanda Denise King, has died. Steve Klein, a spokesman for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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15 de Mayo, 2007
Fall well
MAY JERRY FALWELL never meet a god so cruel as that which he had envisioned. On the other hand....who am I to spare him his due? May he get what's coming to him. Whatever the hell that is.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Choppin' Off the Nose
LATINA LISTA talks about some of the first signs of how Ordinance 2903, passed Saturday in Farmer's Branch, Texas—and the first of its kind in the state—will affect similar communities: With the passage over the weekend of Ordinance 2903 that starting May 22 will fine landlords $500 a day for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Caveman Underneath the Makeup
I DO NOT HAVE TV programming, only a DVD player and a VCR, so I don't know if The George Lopez Show was funny or if it was terrible, or somewhere in between. I know it lasted five years. But it seems that ABC has made up its mind... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Mayo, 2007
Citizenship Application Workshop
PLEASE see below the cut for information on a Citizenship Application Workshop on May 19, 2007 in Orange, CA.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Chican@ Art Mag #3 [Junio Release]
OKAY! A friend and reader reminded me that I have neglected to follow up on the Chican@ Art Mag dillio. (I also know I owe you a couple other posts on other issues I've mentioned). So without delving deeply into what a monster this maw of a blog is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Moral of a Truncated Tale
SOME DANGEROUS LESSONS ARE LEARNED when you pretend history starts with a specific land-grab. For instance, if you pretend that history begins once the bulk of the indigenous of (North) America were decimated, corralled, and had their land taken, you can apply the definition of genocide to the "melting-pot"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Del Diario - Entrada #051407 [(Re)introduction]
From the Del Diario Series, entrada #051407:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Mayo, 2007
Hasta Los Huesos
A SWEET SHORT to take us into our Sunday evening. "Until the Bones" would be the literal translation, but "Down to the Bones" is the more accurate (Usually called "Down to the Bone"). A short claymation by animator/director [español] René Castillo. It would be reductive to position this flick as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Carnival of Radical Action
FOR THOSE who like to write, think, protest, organize, or otherwise get your grassroots radical carnival action on: Announcing: The Carnival of Radical Action Most of us are organizers or activists in our real lives. Or at the very least, we think about it an awful lot and wish we... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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