Why I Feel Completely Safe

Good & valid points SSS. I’ve known lots of latinos over the year and most are as you describe. Family is #1.

It is a feeling that hasn’t disappeared in years, the suspicion that browns won’t be accepted into the main culture easily; we’re too new, too many and too dark.
The main issue is because of jealous blacks and race-conscious whites. (My buddy from NH said it’s a fact that white is superior to brown and black.) The love-hate relationship of blacks and whites totally excludes us arrivistes.
It’s a shame that youths have adopted the black lifestyle that older hispanics rejected. A lot of undocumented youths got deported for gangbanging. My buddy said he came here in the 80’s Salvadoran invasion. He said it was a shame that those kids would be here at a huge cost to their parents, only to be deported as fully developed criminals.

SSS, yep you are safe, or feeling that way.

So was the 84 year old woman, whom couldn’t get out of bed, but didn’t stop the cops from entering her bedroom and repeatedly tasering her (which, btw, people die from all the time) because she was frightened and wouldn’t let go of her butter knife.

The Vietnam Vet who had his “help me I’ve fallen” alarm go off accidentally, wasn’t afraid of cops either. He refused them entry, so they tazered him to death in a NY borough. In his own home, btw.

The business owner, grandpa and homeowner that had lived for over 40 years in the same home in Georgia wasn’t afraid either. But after a thief robbed his home, stole his truck and was caught, said thief traded evidence with the cops and accused the old man of drug dealing. Cops and prosecutor, instead of applying a lick of common sense, entered his home late at night and shot him dead when he “acted aggressively” as in his INNOCENT mind, his home was being invaded.

Or the elderly native with hearing problems that died for whittling.

The list of those that believe exactly as you do, that are no longer with us, is growing longer by the day.

Keep on thinking you are safe. I’ll pray that it is true.

But counting on it is going to get more citizens like you dead.

Rest assured the rest of our generation will continue to think the same as you do now.

Cognitive Dissonance is a very real condition.

This isn’t an inner city, or drug, or gang, or black issue.

This IS the result of out of control laws and out of control cops that believe they are above the laws they hold us to on a daily, and anal, basis.

Peace SSS, I wish you continued peace in your life.

Triple S says 42% Latino. That’s huge. Are they a threat during civil unrest? No, and here’s why in one word. Family.

Drop south just a bit and go walk around Nogales for a few days then come back and convenience me of that.

Triple S Im just pulling your chain. You are correct Mexicans for the most part are very good people, hard working. MS13 which is not Mexican, whole nother story.

SSS, I’m not much of a sociologist, so I failed in my attempt above. I can say that as far as assimilation, blacks and browns have a public language and a private language. Hispanics speak English in public usage and Spanish in private conversation. Blacks have their Ebonic language for private use and if they are inclined to speak the White man’s language, they speak English.
My son had a friend, a polite black kid who always called me Sir. He said he and his friend Aaron were in a music store (long time ago) my son asked the black clerk for Bones, Thugs and Harmony. The clerk was irritated at my son’s white English. Aaron translated, he mean Biggie and Bone. Ice Cube behind the counter pointed to the far corner.
As a general rule, Hispanics like gringos, particularly foreign born Hispanics. Chele, Guero, Bolillo are all terms of endearment for white folks. Gringo is a nuetral term and Yankee is hardly used in the southwest. Conversely, mayate, chombo, tinto, etc. are not very positive terms for black folks. Negro is the preferred term and it is sometimes softened with the diminutive ‘ito’ – negrito. My buddy Diana told me it was racist to call a black person by that and years later, a black co-worker drove the point home when he took to calling me, ‘the little Mexican’.
I think little details like these tend to color my comments, though you already know my love of things American includes people of all colors, I must acknowledge that my Kumbaya attitude is not shared by all Hispanics and sometimes even I become, as the beautiful blonde put it, ‘high maintenance’ or emotionally needy.
Thank you for your comment, I will keep it in mind while writing my own article.

I lived in El Paso, TX for 8 years, having just moved to Dallas in the last year. I echo SSS thoughts. For several years, Juarez, Mexico was one of (if not the number 1) the most dangerous cities in the world. The violence that I read about daily was staggering and breath-taking. One wondered how humanity could treat humanity in such a brutal fashion. Yet, El Paso remained extremely safe. The FBI crime stats always placed it #1 or #2 safest city in the US, for it’s size. In other words, Sure, crimes and even violent crimes happened there, but for a city with over half a million people (Over 1 million if you consider the whole metropolitan area) very little crime occurred.

I never could quite figure out the reason for the dichotomy. I heard many different explanations from many different people, but nothing ever really made sense. It just was.

There were occasions, rarely, but it did happen, that I would wake up in the morning, and realize I had left the garage door open overnight. Nothing was ever missing, and no incidents ever happened. I did have some scrap copper pipe [from my jobsite] stolen out of my yard once, but that was clearly my own fault for leaving it out there. Leaving it outside, in plain sight, was very dumb, in retrospect.

We had lots of Mexican friends. We went to many, many parties and get-togethers with them. Some of the happiest people in the world. We laugh now, looking back, about being the gringos who show up at 3:00 PM, promptly. Because that’s what the invitation said. But a 3:00 PM start time really means 5:00 PM. Now that we’re in Dallas, we’re always late for our family get togethers, because, you know, manana. Sometimes, we’d stay up late and listen to the live band that would sometimes play in the house behind ours. I didn’t let my daughter climb up on the roof to watch, though. That seemed a little too intrusive, somehow.

There was a column I read in the local rag on Becoming Bi-Cultural in the Borderlands. Or anywhere, I guess. It highlighted some of the differences between the two cultures. A Mexican house is noisy, chaotic, and full of life. An Anglo house is cold and sterile. Mexicans treat their dogs like dogs and their children like children. Anglos will let their dogs sleep in bed with them. And as SSS said, family was first. The saying was, that if you married a Mexican gal, you married her whole family. I knew lots of Anglos who loved Mexican gals, always stating how good they will treat you.

We used to joke around with our friends about the differences in our two cultures. One common joke with Enrique was based on something he said once. “Don’t worry about it. We’re Mexican.”
“What’s that supposed to mean, ‘we’re Mexican?”
It means we don’t care about money. Take it.
Which soon led to the running joke, “Don’t worry about it, we’re white.”

One time several years ago, we went to New York City. One night, wifey and I left the kids with my mom in the hotel room and went out to explore the city. We found an Irish bar with a Mexican bartender. Funny shit right there. I was going to laugh and kid with the man about it, but then I realized he didn’t know I lived in El Paso and loved the Mexican people there. He probably wouldn’t get the joke. Wisely, I kept my mouth shut. Una mas cervaza, por favor.

In an unknown and uncertain future, I don’t doubt that El Paso and much of the southwest will have their own growing pains. Too many people competing for too little water. The federal border patrol agents likely as out of control as the local copfuks. The mass immigration of illegal immigrants. Of course, when an illegal crosses the river, he doesn’t stop in El Paso. He goes on to Houston, or Dallas, or Chicago.

But on the whole, I think SSS largely correct. I would feel much safer in a primarily Hispanic city than I would feel in Newark, NJ.

You are not safe in any large city. Whites are not immune to the coming financial collapse. Food will eventually become a problem as well as medicine and water. Society is on the edge. Severe financial distress will finish us off. It will get very ugly. Then the government will give us a war to help control us. Can’t feed us use us for cannon fodder.

Billy says: You backstop my point nicely about multiculturalism – once folks get past the subject of “food”, it gets pretty thin.

What else are people of different races and cultures supposed to share, sex? No, you prefer murder, like LLPOH said, Billy see Billy kill. Your contributions are pretty thin gruel once you strip away the posturing and uncouth language. It all boils down to hatred of anything not approved by your sect.

Damn, I miss bb, at least he is right once a day.

Oh, I know Billy is going to sacrifice me on the altar of Thor, ah well, ignorance has to be pointed out.

We’re rooting for Pac Man. He is an evangelical Christian, you know a lot of folks are going to be praying for him. Di you ever watch Cesar Chavez?
I heard the 15 was down to a crawl earlier. A fellow at the NYNY told me SoCal residents are the major portion of Vegas customers. A lot of folks from here retire to Vegas for a few years until they get tired of it. I’ve been there several years in a row and I have seen enough of it but I wish I was there for the fight.

Stucky says: “They [Latinos] embrace their unique culture” ———– SSS

Hey, El Coyote!! In another thread I mentioned something about “American culture”. And you asked “What culture is that?” Why don’t you ask SSS the same question about Latino culture? What is it?

Dorothy Parker said Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city. American culture is 72 sub cultures in search of a national culture. When you were speaking of “American culture” I asked because I wanted to hear your definition, culture is so many different things to different folks. Culture is not just food as some folks claim. It is food, drinks, bars, music, conversation, words, gestures, smiles, agreement, winks, teasing, pouting, tantrums, apologies, goodbyes, longing, pining, reconciliation, (we were walking around downtown LA when the woman selling women’s undergarments said, take a look here at the thong of reconciliation) culture is gathering or avoiding, fighting or overlooking, it is Catechism classes, youth baseball, beer kegs at a kid’s birthday party, love connections at a hillbilly family reunion, gossip, boomer mindset, it goes on and on but American is too general a term but still special and different from all other cultures. Ethnic cultures like German or Irish are part of that American culture but they share dominance with Hispanic culture and Black culture.

Why would I ask SSS what Hispanic culture is? I wouldn’t go to an Irish bar for a margarita.