Absolutly

I am a brown man. Well, OK, I am half a brown man. Lately, I have been reading Hispanic literature; in English. See, i grew up int he white suburbs of Los Angeles, but i am inf act Mexican. I do not speak espanol. Maybe un poquito. Lately, I think because of all the attention immigrants, and more specifically Hispanics have been getting in the media, I have been reading books by Hispanic authors about the Hispanic experience in America.

side note: is it not odd that we segregate books in book stores and libraries by ethnicity, but say only through education can we rid our society of such evils?

I started with HISPANIC. It's a good book besides the fact it's written by Geraldo, who I think can sound like a quack at times. It is interesting because it addresses what I have been saying about news commentators, and those who oppose immigration. That lately, its seems ok to be blatantly racist towards Hispanics. However, if one was to say the things that some have been saying on both CNN and FOXnews about blacks, or Jews, you'd get the Anti-defamation league, the NAACP, and Al Sharpton on your ass. For some reason though, its OK to say anything about Hispanics no matter how overtly racist it is. Please see many of my other blogs on this subject.

Recently, it has come to light about this ad from Absolut vodka:

ABSOLUT WORLD(thanks to Ramona). this is map of north America. it is what North America may have looked like post 1848 had the Mexican American war not been fought.



Now, I thought it was hilarious. Of course I would. I have seen many of the absolut ads over the years, and I think they've got friggin geniuses working for them. On a more serious note, it proves what i also have been saying for some time: My people never crossed any fucking border. the border in fact, did cross us. It why San Fransisco is San Fransisco and not Suttertown, which following the gold rush, would surely have been. Understand that the ad only ran in Mexico. as you can see, it is all in Spanish. Any map made in Mexico would be in Spanish plain and simple. Same as how school maps here in the US are all in English. However, there are many detractors that say it is promoting illegal immigration and what some people have called Reconquista. I think it was a funny ad that played to its audience, just as many Absolut ads have done before. The fact that many people get pissed off about it is what pisses me off.
Maybe because you see an ounce of truth that in fact, US expansion in the late 19th cetury went a bit too far with your Manifest destiny. Invading sovereign lands and taking what was good, and forcing indigenous people from their homelands and then claiming you were there the whole time? It wasn't like the plains Indians started int he plains right? Illegal immigration of anglos is how that map got screwed up in the first place, all your Tuberculosis and small pox moving west to dry climates.

or maybe its just a fucking ad.

for more funny and controversial Absolut ads go here: Absolut Ad Gallery.

In he immortal words of so many who have come before me:

Fuck em if they can't take a joke.