At 11:22 AM 4/14/2001, you wrote:
Am second generation Angeleno and a senior citizen. Mother at 87 is well and thriving; goes outside the home to work everyday. Two new generations in this family also born in the City. Mother's best girl friend and her family in the "teens", and that family is still our very best friends, is of Mexican decent as this family is of German decent. Both families resent Villaraigosa and his kind wanting to "liberate" California of "European" and those of other ethnic make-up. Americans, native born or naturalized do of course except a politician/leader of Mexican decent when voted in/hired BUT NOT ONE OF SUCH GROSS OPINIONS OF THOSE THAT HAVE MADE CALIFORNIA/AMERICA WHAT IT IS TODAY. Remember there was a war fought. In a war there is always a loser and a winner. American won the war. American did not "steal" California from Mexico!
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Americans are so "Race Whipped" by the likes of Villaraigosa, that we sometimes become unecessarily defensive. We all know the story of the Mexican War in which Mexico ceded California to the U.S. But let me tell you, it makes no difference what the circumstances of that war was. Today "CALIFORNIA BELONGS TO THE COUNTRY THAT PROTECTS HER SOVEREIGNTY" and that country is the U.S. It is politicos like Villaraigosa who want to change that.
Villaraigosa's refusal to repudiate MEChA, confirms that he is still a Machista. These anti-American "Mechistas" live with the false illusion that they are being racially discriminated against because they are Latinos while totally dismissing the idea that maybe it is their ideology that is being discriminated against.
Although I have been accused of it, I am not opposed to Villaraigosa because he is a Latino, I, like yourself, am opposed to his ideology and politics.
Hal Netkin
