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Harrier agrees that the OP understands that Anthony was born in New York and is an American citizen, so why send mixed messages?
Because even though Marc Anthony is an American who was born and raised in New York City, New York in the United States of America some yahoos called him racial slurs and called him a non-American simply because he is of Puerto Rican descent. He was not an American to these folks because he is Latino.
Because even though Marc Anthony is an American who was born and raised in New York City, New York in the United States of America some yahoos called him racial slurs and called him a non-American simply because he is of Puerto Rican descent. He was not an American to these folks because he is Latino.
Wouldn't matter if he was born in Puerto Rico instead of New York City - he would still be a natural born U.S. citizen.
Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.
And yet somehow the racists that saw Marc Anthony singing 'God Bless America' couldn't figure that out. They only see a "foreigner" when they see a Latino.
Well, although ignorant, to the average person he does seem like he is from latin america and much of his life revolves around it. The comments are ridiculous regarding his birthplace and nationality but it does seem to boil down not to the fact that he is latino but that he is not your typical pop singer or country star that the majority of baseball fans that made comments would prefer to see.
You said "non-American(but New York, NY, US of A born)".
Harrier just wanted to be sure that you understood that a person born in New York, NY, USA is by definition an American citizen and not a "non-American".
mmmjv thinks you should know that the non being in italics and then right after followed by saying he was in fact born in America meant that the author wasn't saying he wasn't born in America but was in fact saying that others did say that
1) If you click on the link in the OP, many of the tweets called Marc Anthony the "s" word (racial slur reserved for Latinos)
2) Their Twitter profile pictures indicated their own racial backgrounds (Caucasian)
Using racial slurs does not necessarily make one a racist - it just indicates that they are an ignorant and unrefined buffoon.
If we are going to have a productive discussion, we need to agree on certain definitions. Harrier submits the following definition from Merriam-Webster dictionary:
Quote:
racism: belief that certain races of people are by birth or nature superior to others.
Since Eric Holder wants us to have a conversation about race, getting the above definition agreed upon would be a good first step.
How can one fight something if they have no basis for accurately identifying it?
Certain 'types' of baseball fans are really angry that a non-American (but New York, NY, US of A born) Marc Anthony had the audacity to sing "God Bless America" to open the All-Star Game.
So why all the terrible tweets accusing him of not being an American and telling him to "go home"?
They were probably sent by conservatives.
Because we don't have a lack of rules on twitter like we do here. If allowed we'd see plenty of true colors.
This does remind me of the boy in San Antonio that got the same crap.
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