House of Eratosthenes

Cecilia Munoz, speaking for the National Council of La Raza, defined for everyone interested why the Council is participating in a conference call to urge Greyhound Bus Co. to end its policy of screening for illegal immigrants. What’s that? Greyhound is appealing to the radical, bigoted right-wing fringe by sticking its nose into customers’ citizenship status? Um, well, no. If you read the article, it seems Greyhound is just doing what any profit-minded greedy corporation is going to do: covering its sleek grey ass.

Kimberly Plaskett, a Greyhound spokeswoman, said she didn’t know how many customers have been denied tickets under the policy but called it a “pretty rare” occurrence. The Dallas-based company adopted the policy in 2002 in response to the criminal indictment of a now-defunct, California bus company that pleaded guilty to immigrant smuggling, she said.

Well, Cecilia Munoz doesn’t like this ass-covering. Cecilia Munoz would be much happier if Greyhound left its ass nice and exposed, not that she’ll reimburse them for legal costs, thank you very much. Why does she want Greyhound to break the law? Why does she want illegal aliens to be treated exactly like people who belong here? I hope you’re sitting down. Get ready for this:

“When the standard is that you should know who is in the U.S. illegally, it is a recipe for singling out Latinos…You’re not going to go after the Irish-looking guy.”

Let us make something exceptionally clear here. La Raza is not standing up for Latinos, it is standing up for illegal aliens. This is important. All Latinos are not illegal aliens, and all illegal aliens are not Latino. Simple logic, therefore, makes no correlation between these two groups of people.

But Cecilia Munoz does!

What is wrong with our culture?

If you’re a Greyhound desk clerk and you do exactly what Cecilia Munoz implied they are inevitably going to do…if you mix the two groups up and say “that guy looks like a Latino, he might be an illegal alien” — our prevailing culture would not allow this. I don’t mean to imply you would never get away with it. I’m saying that kind of behavior, once exposed, would not be tolerated anywhere by anyone with a reputation or position to lose that is worth saving.

If I were to write a letter to my editor complaining about my new neighbors being illegal aliens, and I can tell they are, since, after all, they’re Latino — my paper would not publish it. If they did, they would do so at arm’s-length, holding me up as a laughing-stock. Which I then would be. And even then, someone at the paper might get in trouble.

If I were to write a column for a newspaper, in exchange for a paycheck, and I used “Latino” and “illegal alien” interchangeably — even unintentionally — I would be fired, reprimanded or both.

If I were to draw a cartoon for the newspaper, and made a point of using cartoon figures with Latino features to manifest illegal aliens, my paper would be forced to fire me, reprimand me, or both, and even then would be in a boiling stewpot of trouble.

But whenever some politically-correct lefty outfit argues against safeguards to keep illegal aliens out of our country — we tolerate, tolerate, tolerate, the mixing-up of these two demographies. Even when the mixing-up is not only intentional, but key to the point the lefty is trying to make. Suddenly, it’s all good. Sure, a latino is an illegal alien, and an illegal alien is a latino. If you say so, Mr. politically-correct lefty advocate person. Suddenly, we forget completely that there are Latinos that aren’t illegal, and we forget completely that there are illegals that aren’t Latino.

Why do we do this?

If intellectual laziness is intolerable when we talk about doing legal things, like, harboring thoughts in your own head deemed racist and bigoted by somebody else… it damn sure doesn’t cut the mustard when someone is arguing for illegal things, like selling bus tickets to someone who doesn’t even belong here.

Who may or may not be Latino.

Latinos, I think you should protest the comments of Ms. Munoz immediately, and demand that La Raza denounce them.

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