No this is not about the word “Gay,” however it is about the word “Illegal” that was used by President Biden in the State of the Union.
I know Mojados that call other Mojados, “Mojados.” Mojado means wet, when you call someone a Mojado you are calling him a wetback. The word Illegal to describe someone here illegally is the equivalent of calling someone a Mojado.
What got my attention about the word Illegal this morning?
When I heard President Biden use that word that I had hoped Democrats had ceased using, I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was mocking republinuts’ use of it while making the point soon after that migrants are not the cause of crimes in the US. He responded with this after MTG screaming, “By an illegal!”
By an illegal. That’s right. But how many of thousands of people are being killed by legals?President Joe Biden, SOTU
The same person quoted above, also wrote the following;
As I stated in my previous post about a poll on Latino attitudes toward Biden, he has a 47% approval rating and a 44% disapproval rating among Latinos. Experts cited in the article also stated that while Latinos don’t rank the immigration reform issue at the top of their priorities, they do use the issue to gauge attitudes toward Latinos by both political parties.
Maybe the President didn’t read the poll. But he does need to respond for the use of this bigoted term. If he wanted to be “balanced” on the issue to satisfy the bigots in the audience, he could have talked policy to convince those that matter more right now–the voters–that compassionate reform is needed. Since this was the equivalent of a stump speech.
I guarantee you that person did not poll this Chicano.
Imagine how the racists would rake Biden over the coals for using undocumented during the State of the Union. This short video will show you how the fascists hating Republicans respond. Take some time to read the comments that follow the video.
Folks, we had to have thick skins in the past, and all those privileged young Latinos/Latinas need to thicken them, as politics is not for the weak. If you get so easily offended by words, I suggest you watch a few Popeye classics, “Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
Who is the author of Dos Centavos? He wrote the stuff about Biden? What are his life experiences? Other than writing about Tejano culture, what makes him an expert on Latinos?
When my father was told that he was a Mojado, he wasn’t, he would say yes, but I only swam a river, you had to cross an ocean.
The photo on the left is a photo of my father on the right and his brother. They served four years together in the Pacific Theater.
That is my MAYO button (on the right) from the 60s and 70s.
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