Well, Do You, Punk?

Friday, Jun. 13, 2008 - 12:38 a.m.

I got the Brady Bunch episode on tape which features the appearance of Christine Baranski some thirty eight years ago; I'll try various methods of securing some stills and let you know how that turns out.

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Today is Friday The 13th.

There are actually people who have a genuine fear of this day, which astonishes me, since I tend to fly in the face of convention.

Today, if I can find one that's small expendable, I'll break a mirror.

I'll also step on cracks, and I'll be extra nice to any black cats today.

I do plan to travel soon, even though not today, but at least I'll be travelling on a relatively friendly airline with no unlucky logo.

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I got a letter from one of the regular people who sends me things: (Please pardon strange word wraps)

I hope this email does something to get us all involved, this is just wrong on so many levels...
As I had even been told local papers chose to not get involved as to not upset there minority readers?
School Officials did not do anything either at the time!

Celebrate YES you just Graduated, but desecrate the flag and the country that gave you the education?

GOD BLESS AMERICA (I guess they already finished their English homework!!!

Protestors at Montebello High School took the American flag off the school's flag pole and hung it upside down while putting up the Mexican flag over it.

I predict (HOPE) this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington . The image of the American flag subsumed to another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail.

Pass this along to every American citizen in your address books and to every representative in the state and federal government. If you choose to remain uninvolved, do not be amazed when you no longer have a nation to call your own nor anything you have worked for left since it will be 'redistributed' to the activists while you are so peacefully staying out of the 'fray'. Check history, it is full of nations/empires that disappeared when its citiz ens no longer held their core beliefs and values. One person CAN make a difference.
One plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one........

The battle for our secure borders and immigration laws that actually mean something, however, hasn't even begun.

If this ticks YOU off...PASS IT ON!
IF IT DOESN'T IT SHOULD!

So I took a deep breath -- and I wrote back.

Despite his use of an Irish last name, I'll have you know my husband is of Mexican ancestry. He was adopted. His name at birth was John Espinosa. My best friend also has Mexican heritage, and his name happens to be David Marron.

If we didn't have workers in the fields who are willing to pick crops in the fields for twenty dollars a day during the summer, with no water and no bathrooms and no way to go rest in the shade -- our food would cost a lot more.

I am astonished at the complete absence of thanks and gratitude for the presence of Mexican nationals in this country who are willing to do the dirty work. If we're so all fired interested in making the immigrants return from whence they came, how come I never see any anti-immigrant feelings directed towards the hundreds of thousands of Dutch and Irish nationals who are here illegally? What's the difference? Skin color? And why aren't we native-born Americans out in those fields doing that terrible work instead?

So now I wait and see what response I get. I know what will happen.

My father was a peach inspector during the summer, and he said there were no harder working people on the planet than the Mexicans he worked with. My grandmother lived in a neighborhood where there were eventually Mexicans living on three sides of her, and they treated her with exquisite respect and gentleness and considered her their own abuela, and their love surrounded her like a big warm blanket for the last thirty years of her life. Personally I have never found a kinder, more funny, and more hardworking group of people than Mexicans. Any time I have ever traveled and there's been a Mexican standing next to me in line somewhere, a conversation is begun and food is shared.

The thing about the United States of America is that, despite feelings to the contrary? There's room enough for everybody, honest there is.

Amnesty programs are absolutely valid and neccesssary, and I hope the situation with immigration is remedied in a reasonable manner so they can stay here and continue to contribute to our culture.

I'm sick of the shit shovelers. If you don't want non-immigrant Mexican workers here, then speak with your wallet and don't ever buy fresh produce from anybody, anywhere, ever again.

Because uh-oh! Guess what?

Those goddam Meskins done layed hands on ALL OF IT.

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All right, that's enough. Have a LUCKY DAY!!!!

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5 of my readers commented on this entry

Jemma - 2008-06-13 07:52:50
Ah well actually Friday 13th is considered a lucky day in my family! My grandfather was born on Friday 13th July 1913. :)
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art - 2008-06-13 12:23:45
friday the 13th is just anutter day to me!!
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bluesleepy - 2008-06-13 15:21:17
I hate those kinds of emails. I've gotten that one more times than I can count. But people look at one tiny element instead of the entire picture, and then try to scare everyone into thinking our country's going into the toilet. If anything, it's our foreign policy that's causing us more problems than immigration. Let's try to get other nations to respect America again, then we can figure out immigration.
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boXx - 2008-06-14 00:08:47
I'm really tired of all the hate that is said about Mexicans, too. The hate comes from a place of ignorance, low self esteem and fear. This world needs a whole lot more LOVE. We all need to be working together to solve our world's problems. Peace, Love, and Happiness. ~BoXx
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Amanda - 2008-06-14 05:25:32
I have never understood the whole freaked out on this day either. My Mom totally gets weird about it all too, just strange to me! Great response by the way to that letter. You rock.
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