I read the news on-line.  I think I must be a masochist because I read the blogs attached to the articles too.  Right now there is an article on CNN about Latinos not flexing their political muscle yet.  The blog is depressing.  So many people just don’t get it.  They can’t get their mind around the fact that Hispanics are Americans.  The article discusses Hispanic voting and it’s potential yet the very majority of the bloggers think it’s about illegal immigrants.

The anger and hatred is blatant.  I would like to thank the Republicans for that.  They are well aware that people will go to the polls if they are afraid and/or angry.  Republicans played on those two emotions, with Hispanics as the scapegoats, all with the ultimate aim of getting back in power.  Power.  That’s what it’s all about for them but what they’ve done is shameful.  I want to believe that it got out of hand for them.  I can’t imagine any decent human being really wanting people to be in this mindless mob mentality.

The comments I saw after this article I’ve seen over and over after other articles.  From all that I’ve read I’ve come to the conclusion that all Hispanics are illegal, we are only capable of manual labor jobs that pay pennies an hour, we’re all on every form of welfare there is, none of us can speak English, we’re too lazy and/or stupid to fill out the paperwork to become legal immigrants and because of us America is going to collapse.  I’m still waiting for someone to say that the world is going to implode because of us.  I haven’t seen it yet but it’s probably coming.

I am an American.  I love my country.  I would give my life for it.  I look upon anyone who would jump in front of the president to stop a bullet with a heart bursting with pride.  It doesn’t matter who the president is.  It’s the office and what it represents that matters.  I get so angry at the comments, especially those saying Hispanics are un-American, that I’m tempted to answer but then I think of this quote from Nietzsche:  “Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you”.

We do need to push on.  We do need to continue trying to get people to understand the issues we face.  But we need to always be on guard that we never become monsters.