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Somebody blogs about this blog. Blog! | Josh Fernandez — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:50:13 +0000

[...] happenings, along with stuff about Scientology, racism and my favorite topic: drugz!) said all this really nice stuff, which means I have to keep stressing out about what I’m going to fill this space [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:28:02 +0000

Congratulations, Jamie. You’ve taken a lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek, if heartfelt, tribute to a good journalist and turned it into a cheap political platform.

Bleh.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:07:10 +0000

re: Using the term “half-Mexican” in a derogatory sense actually isn’t racist per se. I know that the “in-crowd” may find that offensive since, well, that’s what they do, but “half-Mexican” would at best be, well, just anti-Mexican; sort of like anti-American or anti-Singaporean. If you wanted to add a racist tinge, you’d have to call him something like a “dirty latino wet back” or maybe “smelly spic”. Now, that would definitely get the crowd going. As it were, I consider myself to be roughly one third chilango at this point, having endured Mexico City for way too long and having a deep appreciation for & connection to the Latino experience. One last thought, when you hear someone call Latinos ‘hispanics’, there’s a subtle racist foundation to the hispanic term because it refers to ‘of Spanish descent’. Latin America of course is about as diverse as the US in terms of migration patterns over the last 500 years. It would be like calling someone from the US a ‘Britain-American’. Now, I bet THAT would get the Big O off center and away from dithering in the rose garden…..

By: a

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:33:36 +0000

i don’t know how good he is, but at least he’s hot. half the battle.