NO Ethnic Studies?...Thoughts On the Anti Mexican Movement in AZ

Havoth's Thoughts on the Anti-Mexican Movement that seems to have overtaken Arizona: My message to those of Mexican descent or immigration: Leave Arizona. Let them mow their own lawns, take care of their own children, teach their own children, police their own crap. Remember the movie "A Day Without a Mexican"??? Leave, for a week or two or even three! They'll be changing their minds so quick it'll make your head spin! If you are Mexican and crossing the border illegally, cross somewhere else. I'd prefer you cross legally, but if you're coming over, don't come to Arizona and work in the kitchens, or anywhere else. The anti-brown policies in this country has got to stop, but then again Mexico needs to be a better country so it's best and brightest quit slipping over here. Stay in Mexico if that's your country and make it better. But if you are coming here legally, don't stop in AZ. Move on and let them deal with their own problems til they beg you to come back. I know the history...but this is now and that was then. Shame on Arizona and it's governor.

And Ofelia, wherever you are in Nogales, AZ, I know you are Mexican born here, but I remember when your prejudice of Obama because he's half black, made me uncomfortable with your racist remarks and apparent self-loathing for your own ethnicity. This is what that kind of racism gets you...only now-Dios mio! - you are the target, you and your children, who can't change what they look like to get a fair shake.

My thoughts on the Times Square Bomber

We'll see how off I am eventually...But I wrote this on CNN in response to the coverage of this story there and partly in response to some of the commenters calling for the death penalty for his crimes...I think there is an almost mysterious lack of mention about his wife and kids. I think they went to Pakistan in July 09 and were threatened and/or kidnapped until he agreed to do this thing. I think that's he messed up the bomb and it didn't go off. I think it's why he "planned" a "bomb" that wouldn't do much damage if it did go off. I think his wife and childrens' lives are now forfeit or worse and that's why he confessed so quickly and waived rights to an attorney etc. And I think the rednecks and xenophobes of the world need to wake up.