This is from a friend on facebook that I love very much, but we don't see eye-to-eye on politics, culture or basically anything. I was thinking just a few days ago about how ironic it was first that America celebrates a "Mexican" holiday but doesn't want the people and second that it's not even a Mexican holiday--it's regional to Puebla--but America celebrates it anyway and third, that it actually originated in the United States although the events it celebrates did happen in Mexico. But I guess I was wrong; there are people that do hate Cinco de Mayo for being "Mexican."
Take your cinco de mayo an go back to mexico.
As much as I love the person that posted this, I can't help thinking of a lady in my ward who is the most humble, hard-working and sweetest woman I know who also happens to be an "illegal immigrant" whose children I went to school with and were some of the top performing students and athletes at my school. I don't want her to go back to Mexico. In fact I'd rather have a country full of people like her than my friend whom I love very much. Or at least I'd rather that her attitude was more popular than his, but ignorance and hate will always be more popular because sensationalizing and scape-goating will always be more popular than reality and acceptance. As I've already discussed before on this blog, being anti-illegal immigration is fine. Being anti-Mexican is racist.
For more history, check out the Wikipedia page about it.
On the other hand, Happy Fifth of May everybody! (It's Fast Sunday. That's why the pic is of food.)
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