re: #288 thedopefishlives

HURR HURR BUT HE’S MEXICAN HE MUST BE AN ILLEGAL

or he speaks Spanish, he must be a Mexican. I remember a neighborhood friend, well he was more of my friend’s brother but we were sort of friends I guess but he loved bitching about the Mexicans this and the Mexicans that. I couldn’t get over it honestly. This guy was the most proud Irish-American you’ll meet right down to his name and he was keenly aware of what our (I include myself since I self identify as Irish-American) ancestors had faced when they got here from Ireland. I guess we took two different lessons from that. Knowing that my ancestors probably faced shit for being Irish also German and Slavic not to mention Catholic mostly from nativists has made me more empathetic to what today’s majority Latino and Asian immigrants go through. I know that an immigrant adult isn’t going to learn teh language on the dye and hell my own great grandmother died not knowing much English.