Marc Anthony sings the anthem at the MLB All Star game and 'real' Americans bust a jugular (illegal aliens, suspect)
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I guess many people don't understand that latino's (as per progressive liberals and African-Americans) are considered to be White-Americans....
As far as I'm concerned Latino-Americans have just as much right to sing the National Anthem and guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as much as African-Americans (or any other XXX-Americans).....
I'm not surprised, my SIL is of Mexican heritage born in America, her 2 kids she brought to the marriage 40+ years ago are 1/2 Apache and the child my bro and her have is 1/2 NDN and 1/2 Mexican heritage and they live in SoCal and they face bigotry all the time. My brother is often mistaken for Latino but he's NDN.
MOST "Hispanics" in the US are at least quarter Indian like Aztec, Mayan, Mexican Apache and so on.
Welcome to 2013: prejudice is getting worse because of the illegal alien problem and possible "amnesty". Anthony sees a "Hispanic" in the mirror and lives up or down to that culture IMHO and other people pick up on it.
Because we have so many illegals here that are welcomed by our government that every Hispanic person is seen as a "foreigner".
If we had control of our borders we wouldn't have 20 million here and if our government actually upheld the law people wouldn't be suspect of every Hispanic person.
There is no requirement that says that someone has to be a certain race in order to be racist. You can even be the same race as the one you are racist against.
Racism has two sides to it: On the one hand, someone believes that one race is superior to another and on the other hand, someone believes that one race is inferior to another. In this case, those twitter posters obviously believe that because Mark Anthony is latino he is not worthy of singing "God Bless America," inferring that he is somehow less than American simply because of his name and the color of his skin. In essence, they believe that he is inferior to "real Americans."
That's why they are racist.
Of course they totally miss the irony implicit in rooting for baseball teams populated by players from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, etc.
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.
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.
Why do you dwell on a handful of racists? Agenda, much? Most Americans do not view Latinos as non-Americans as long as they were born or naturalized here and respect the rule of law.
Interesting. So how do the politicians find all these polls that show the vast majority of Americans want unlimited immigration and want all illegals coming here to be rewarded with amnesty and given US citizenship?
From the pictures, they don't look like all lily-white posters either.
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.
True.
I highly doubt that any of the same posters would be upset with latinos like Cristina Aguilera or Linda Ronstadt or even Selena Gomez or Julio Iglesias singing the anthem.
It's more the promotion of Latin America and it's culture that is resented. Not race at all.
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