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Special April Fools Edicion
Rather than me prank ustedes, I give you the cruelest joke of all — ex-congressman and eternal Know Nothing Tom Tancredo! For allowing us to debate in Denver last year, I’ve allowed him to answer two questions.
Got It All Figured Out
I also despise historical idiots like Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata (his men hung my great-grandfather in front of his family, only because he had the smarts to have his own business and create jobs for their communities).
The Fate Of The West
The U.S. acquired most of the West by force from Mexico, due to the war with Mexico. Agreed the U.S. won the war with Mexico, but did that make it right? Why does Mexico not go to the World Court and sue?
Identification Issues
I am a mocha-skinned woman. Puerto Ricans always ask if I am Puerto Rican, Dominicans just start speaking Spanish, Cubans ask if my abuelita made good arroz con leche but Mexicans know I’m black. What gives?
Can A Gabacho Be President Of Mexico?
Although we like our leaders light-skinned, we already got our share of a part-gabacho president in Vicente Fox — and he was as pendejo as his American counterpart, Dubya.
Citizenship Birthright
In Switzerland they have a law stating that foreign workers could legally come, have families, pay taxes, but could never acquire citizenship. That strikes me as cruel and unpleasant, but at least honest.
Memorials In The Median
These little piles of beads — sometimes piles big enough to have bikes — are obviously memorials to deceased family and friends. My question is this: Why the need to litter the medians or roadsides?
Are You Church 'Scum'?
A now-10-year-old church in Denver ministers to (as contemplated by 1 Corinthians 4:11-13) the homeless, the reviled and the persecuted and formally named itself after the actual words in verse 13: the “Scum of the Earth” Church.
Playing The Blame Game
DEAR MEXICAN: I’m not Mexican (or from a Spanish-speaking country for that matter), but I get mad when the gabachos in my town say that all Mexican girls do is take drugs and get pregnant, drop out of school and end up on welfare.
No Hunting Cactus Leaves, Please
Read your column in the Village Voice and am hoping you can help me: I think I have a Mexican problem. In short, I have a home in sunny California on a property with an abundance of agave cactus and Century plants growing along the street.
