cinko da mayo

[concerned]

is everyone celebrating

mayo doesn't sink it floats.

[corner]

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico.[1][2] The holiday commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.[3][4] The outnumbered Mexicans defeated a much better-equipped French army that had not been defeated in almost 50 years.[5]

Cinco de Mayo is not "an obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, but rather a holiday that can be observed voluntarily.[6][7]

While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.[8] A common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day,[9] which actually is September 16 (dieciséis de septiembre in Spanish),[10] the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.[11]

so whats the big deal not too many mexicans in the area

[chris]

I'll celebrate when they are all back on their side of the border.

[corner]

amen

[Clipper]

Ditto

[dgriffin]

Hey, this is the melting pot. Your grandparents or great grandparents met similar resistance, but stayed to become the majority.

It won't always be comfortable, but us lily whites will be a minority in the not too distant future. You don't like them for it, but your politicians have opened our borders. They had no choice, really. Business runs this country, not the ideals you were taught in grade school.

And the country needs tax dollars and the people willing to pay them. The country doesn't need no gun-totin' white honky bitchin' 'bout havin' to pay lots of dough to live in a ten room house on rolling lawns, while he writes letters to the editor complainin' of paying so much for medicines that'll save his sorry ass. Or bitch about the price of gas to drive his guzzler down to the Best Buy to charge a 97 inch wide TV set on one of his 17 credit cards! The country needs a bunch of freakin' peasants who ride their bicycles down to the town hall and say "Thank You very much, M'am, for being here every day just so I could come in and pay my taxes."

"And here's a tip for ya, M'am."

Cuz the country don't need no latter day George Washington to stand up and spiel on 'bout his right not to pay taxes or his right to free doctors or his right to an education, to a job and to go to heaven after all of that. Not while right down the road in any city is kids going to bed starvin' at night and their mother pregnant again and their schools full of sh*t and their teachers too. Or his right to own a gun and to blow the little f*ckers away when they come up the road from the city in a few years asking Where's Mine?

But not Mexicans .... they wouldn't do that. They know how to behave.

[chris]

My parents (and I ) learned to acclimate. We learned the languge. We didn't ever look for handouts, was never on welfare etc. I feel we are the minority already. I am tired of hearing "press one" to speak English. I am tired of recieving things printed in English and Spanish. What happened to the rest of the languages and cultures ...they don't count. I am bi lingual and since when did that mean English/Spanish only. Please don't get me started. This is my "Achilles heel".

[dgriffin]

I volunteer with a woman who sees the colors in everything. And everyone. Thank God, considering some of the things we're witness to. It's true she's somewhat of a holdover from the Sixties, and around here that can be almost a profession. But rather than dope up and tune out, she gets up and helps out. One more language or cultural artifact doesn't bother her in the least. In fact, she welcomes the various hues of humanity and looks forward to whatever wave of them might be coming next over the horizon. Rather than view the Mexicans as so many little brown Indians washing over the border to land in our neighborhoods and light up the night with cars parked in their front yards and electrified Madonnas standing on their porches, she looks closely at their Aztec heritage to see how it could add to our own society. (Excepting human sacrifice, of course.)

I can't say I always share her enthusiasm as I'm tossed about on a sea of languages, cooking smells and liberal multicultural bullsh*t that seeks to minimize the problems when cultures meld together. But I do take a lesson from her attitude, and I realize that as a descendant of immigrants myself, this land will always have to be your land and it can never exclusively be my land.

[jamesbreadfrombond]

AMEN !!!