Good evening people.
I have not been absent due to illness or new found love. Nope. No good reason really. I have just been spending all of my free time watching LOST. Now I know why everyone else is all about this show. It all started when I borrowed my brother’s copy of the first season of LOST on DVD. I burned through all six discs in a few days. I am retarded. So basically I have been wasting my life one episode of LOST at a time. I’ve even gone so far as to download this season’s episodes from iTunes in an effort to ‘catch up’. I really can’t convey to all of you how much of a loser I feel over that.
Moving on.
So the big to do right now is immigration. Since I am the voice of a generation, I figured I’d better say something. Oh, by ‘voice of a generation’ I mean ‘some loser with a computer’.
As I do not know enough of the specifics as I’ve been wasting my time watching a year old TV show, I can only state my opinion, and, be honest, that’s all you really wanted anyway. Here is what I think. I do not have a problem with making those illegal immigrants that are already here, citizens. If you’ve been here for more than a year and have been gainfully employed, welcome! We’re glad to have you.
How do we keep illegal immigrants from entering the country while processing those that are already here? I think we need to shut the borders down for three years. This will give us ample time to allow those who are already here to apply, and get, citizenship. You can’t expect to deal with the millions of illegal immigrants that are here if you’re not stopping them at the source. That’s as absurd as fighting a war when there is no real opponent or objective. We would never let that happen. Wait. Scratch that last part.
We don’t need to close the borders? We have a Border Patrol to keep illegal immigrants out? Huh. Ponder this. The Bush administration cut funding to the Border Patrol which is why our borders are now protected by a bunch of right-wing, gun wielding, rednecks who were too stupid to become real cops. I’m not talking about the Border Patrol. I’m talking about these half assed militia groups who sit down there all day drinking beer and ‘protecting our country’. We have basically allowed a group of guys who spend their weekends watching Steven Seagal movies and sharpening their scythes in preparation for Armageddon to protect our borders. Power to the people is something I agree with, but those nut jobs? Really? It’s like a group of Larry the Cable Guy loving Klansmen who are foaming at the mouth just to shoot a minority that are down there. “No way Joel! These are good Americans who love their country and want to protect it. You don’t know what you’re talking about!” As a grandson of a thirty year veteran of the Border Patrol, I think I have a pretty good idea.
“Look Joel. You don’t get it. These damn Mexicans are coming in and taking all of our jobs!” Really? When was the last time you applied to be a lettuce picker who only makes eight cents an hour? When was the last time you lost a sweet ass dishwashing job to someone? Never? That’s what I thought. The illegal immigrants in this country are here because of the opportunity America offers. These are people who do the crappiest jobs because, honestly, we won’t do them ourselves. If it weren’t for illegal immigrants, you more than likely wouldn’t have a mowed lawn, or clean dishes at IHOP or anyone to park your car when you go out to eat. It is time to stop persecuting the people who do those jobs. They are trying to make a living just like you and me. If you really want to fault someone for jobs going to illegal immigrants, fault the rich, white business owners who hire them. If you came to a country and someone offered you more money than you could imagine to do a job, and you knew you were in that country illegally, you would take it. They are only taking advantage of the opportunities given to them by American business owners. Don’t fault the immigrants.
My only hang up with the opposing side of the issue is that someone recently compared the plight of the illegal immigrants to that of slaves. Uh, no. Not even close. There weren’t a lot of Africans clamoring to get here. As a matter of fact not one single slave ever said “Wow, I can’t wait to get beaten, taken from my home and my family and shipped to America where they will continue to beat me and disrespect me and rape my people’s women and make me pick cotton in the heat until the day I die. Going to America is going to be great!” Not one slave EVER said that. This was not the land of opportunity to slaves. It was the land of effing slavery. To illegal immigrants, this land is the land of opportunity. They come here by choice, not by being beaten and dragged over here. Those are two totally different things so don’t even try to compare the two.
I think a lot of this opposition is rooted in racism. Who cares? Not me. I could care less what someone looks like or where they are from. We’re all gonna be beige in a thousand years anyway. Enough of this ‘protecting the white race’ crap. The white race hasn’t been worth protecting since, well, as long as there has been a white race. We have a history of rampant persecution and hate of all things not white. Those white people who do want to ‘protect the white race’ should go ahead and just accept the fact that more than likely your daughter or son, if they’re lucky, will date outside of their race and you’ll end up with a beautiful grandchild either way. It’s not about the white race. It’s about the human race. Get over it. Life is way too short to hate someone for their race or religion or whatever lame ass reason makes one feel better about themselves because they think someone else is inferior. Hate in and of itself exudes an inferiority of character beyond measure.
So where do I stand on the issue? If you’re here, you stay. Close the borders for three years to allow the immigrants that are already here to get citizenship. After that, anyone who wants to live here needs to apply for citizenship. Simple as that. Done deal. Now let’s move on.
By the way, Mexican women are hot. Just thought I’d throw that in there in case some hot Latina thinks I’m cool for siding with her people. That would be totally sweet. Hola Telemundo Chicas!
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SONG - Funk Phenomena by Armand Van Helden. This song is muy dope.
MOVIE - Stand & Deliver. In an effort to appeal to my Latino friends I figured I would recommend a movie with Lou Diamond Phillips that wasn’t La Bamba. Unfortunately this movies sucks just as bad as anything else he has done. And no, I didn’t forget about Young Guns II.
Holla.
- Joel
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