08/16/2006
Ah yes … September is Hispanic Heritage Awareness Month and silly me, I almost forgot!
The thing is, living in California it is rather surprising that this ethnic group even needs such an event — the everday goings-on at the local grocery store could easily be mistaken for "Hispanic awareness" festivities.
(In fact, you can find live Mariachi bands playing in the produce departments of several grocers — a truly unnerving experience which I imagine could only be enjoyed by the hearing impaired. I have also seen pinatas set up for the kiddies in the meat department … because everyone knows the only thing which could make shopping with snot-nosed, temper-tantrum throwing children more enjoyable is to give them sugar … and giant sticks to bang around.)
In any event … this year, the forthcoming celebration is to be noted by what else? Protest marches!
Nativo Lopez, director of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, is organizing a pro-illegal immigrant march in Long Beach, CA and well, everywhere else in the nation. Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Dallas and New York …
I think it’s brilliant!
What better way to highlight Hispanic Heritage than to focus on the fact that an overwhelming majority of Hispanics in America are here illegally?
Ooh I can just see all those Mexican flags now … and the reconquista signs … and the "AMERICANS GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY" signs — I can hear the si, se puede chant … the crowds speckled with Mechista morons … all those wonderful images of Hispanic Heritage.
Just in time for the elections …