December 2, 2002
The Haters Wear
No Clothes
By Raoul Lowery
Contreras
Two groups rejoiced in last year’s
September 11th. America-haters and Mexico
and Mexican-haters are the two groups.
They are, arguably, one and the same.
These hateful people are all around us,
sometimes next door. They are white,
black and, sometimes, even Hispanic.
They are private individuals and public
people. They write emotional,
amateurish letters to the editor; some,
however, are professionals who write
Op-Ed pieces like this one.
They, like one of their leaders,
Democratic West Virginia U.S. Senator
Robert Byrd, usually have a long history
of racist activities. He was, of
course, a card-carrying Ku Klux Klansman
who recently called people “white
niggers” on television. In the
Senate, he was anti-Mexican just as he
was 10-years ago in his opposition to the
hugely successful North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This time
it was Mexican trucks.
Like the Ku Klux Klan, these people lie
about people they don’t know, or
know about. For example, they fume when a
Mexican gets caught committing a felony
crime and carry on as if every one of the
120-million Mexicans in the entire world
is guilty of that particular crime. For
example, now that black and Hispanic gang
related killings in Los Angeles have made
it this year’s murder capitol of the
United States, we are flooded with
anonymous e-mails about that fact.
They don’t even read the articles
they send. As an example, one
article in the LA Times, stated clearly
that the problems written about where in South-Central
Los Angeles, the Times’ polite way
of pointing out black gang perpetrated
crime and murder. Not a single
Spanish-surname appeared in the article.
Nonetheless, the haters carried on about
Hispanic crime and murders—crimes
and murders not even mentioned in the
article.
Their frantic efforts to lie and flood
print media and the airways with false
information is highlighted by their
hysterical efforts to limit legal
immigration and to block any of President
Bush’s proposals to legalize Mexican
workers. To push their hysterical
efforts, they shrilly point to September
11th. Immigrants, they scream,
immigrants were responsible for September
11th.
That is a lie. Yes, the
perpetrators were all foreigners, but
Arab-Muslim VISITORS, not immigrants. Not
a single one of the 19-suicide hijackers
came from or even through Mexico. And, of
course, these haters don’t seem to
have noticed that the several alleged
terrorist “cells” that have
been arrested in the United Statesare
mostly native-born American citizens, not
Mexican immigrants, legal or illegal.
Immigrants come to live and work in the USA.
Illegal immigrants from Mexicocome to
find work. Some, of course, do
commit crimes, but, on the other hand,
hundreds of Americans go to Mexico,
commit crimes and wind up in prison. If,
however, one only listens to the people I’m
writing about only Mexican illegal aliens
commit crimes in the USA.
Another lie: On Mexican
trucks, rumors floated through the talk
radio circuit that after NAFTA passed,
Mexican drug smugglers were using Mexican
trucks marked with Hazardous Materials to
avoid inspections. The only problem
with that lie is that Mexican NAFTA
trucks still aren’t rolling across
the border. Those trucks that are,
are usually dual licensed and fully
inspected. What we have here is
just another lie by liars.
The word liar is, of course, very strong
and some editors don’t want the word
used, but isn’t that what editors
pushed when American citizens were being
lynched across the United Statesa hundred
years ago? The haters must be exposed and
called what they are, subversives and
racists undermining the very essence of
what this country has always been, a
place to live free and better.
I speak not only of individual
Mexican-haters, but also of organized
non-profits who hide behind their
charters to lie and lie.
Washington, D.C.’s Center for
Immigration Studies (CIS), for example,
demands restricted immigration because
terrorists might come in as immigrants,
legal and illegal, despite no proof that
such people caused September 11th. The
entire mission of the CIS is to attack
immigration because most of it now comes
from Latin America. The CIS was
founded as a front group—a “legitimate”
front group-- for the notorious
immigration and Mexican critic of all,
the former head of Zero Population
Growth, an eye doctor from Michigan.
Immigrants did not commit September 11th,
especially immigrants from Mexico. Nonetheless,
Mexican-haters, be they individuals like
Democratic U.S Senator Robert Byrd or
organized groups like CIS and the nascent
blowhard “vigilante” groups
that bluster about “sovereignty,”
permeate our air with hateful lies that
hurt the country far more than those guys
slicing bacon, trimming lawns, or picking
strawberries.
Contreras's books,
THE NEW AMERICAN MAJORITY: HISPANICS,
REPUBLICANS
AND GEORGE W. BUSH
and A HISPANIC VIEW: AMERICAN POLITICS
AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION, are
available at www.amazon.com,
www.barnesandnoble.com
and www.iuniverse.com
E-mail:
sdraoul@att.net
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