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'Why Do You Hate Us?' He Asked. 'Because You're Mexicans,' She Replied.
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<blockquote data-quote="Go Braves" data-source="post: 72863609" data-attributes="member: 398403"><p>Well, you sure are lucky fellow then. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't know folks who hated Mexicans simply on account of them being Mexican or being assumed to be Mexican. I'm a heck of a lot younger than you. I was born in Atlanta, but we spent a couple of years & every summer of my childhood in a rural farming area where my grandparents live. Migrant workers are the ones who break their backs doing the hard labor of the farm work. White folks tend to stick their noses up in the air, refuse to do that hard work for the low wages it pays. For generations black people did the hard farming work, then the "Mexicans" (say that in quotations on account of how many are from other Central American countries but still referred to as Mexican). They think it's not work meant for white folks because when your head is bent down doing it, it gets sunburnt. Therefore, that a white person who works the field work in a farm is a redneck. Thing is, lots of them will just sit there & live off the government instead of getting up & doing the work, then have the audacity to resent the "Mexicans" who've "stolen" the jobs they refused to do in the 1st place. Lots of those migrant workers bought nice houses, have nice cars, have nice kids. So there's a lot of animosity towards them. Racism. A heck of a lot of racism towards blacks too. So much so that I didn't know the N word was even a bad word on account of having heard it so often, never once in our own household, but plenty of other places, till I got shamed for saying it when we were back in Atlanta. My mom was heartsick I'd learned that word, learned that hate (not from her.) I learned plenty of slurs for "Mexicans" too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Go Braves, post: 72863609, member: 398403"] Well, you sure are lucky fellow then. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't know folks who hated Mexicans simply on account of them being Mexican or being assumed to be Mexican. I'm a heck of a lot younger than you. I was born in Atlanta, but we spent a couple of years & every summer of my childhood in a rural farming area where my grandparents live. Migrant workers are the ones who break their backs doing the hard labor of the farm work. White folks tend to stick their noses up in the air, refuse to do that hard work for the low wages it pays. For generations black people did the hard farming work, then the "Mexicans" (say that in quotations on account of how many are from other Central American countries but still referred to as Mexican). They think it's not work meant for white folks because when your head is bent down doing it, it gets sunburnt. Therefore, that a white person who works the field work in a farm is a redneck. Thing is, lots of them will just sit there & live off the government instead of getting up & doing the work, then have the audacity to resent the "Mexicans" who've "stolen" the jobs they refused to do in the 1st place. Lots of those migrant workers bought nice houses, have nice cars, have nice kids. So there's a lot of animosity towards them. Racism. A heck of a lot of racism towards blacks too. So much so that I didn't know the N word was even a bad word on account of having heard it so often, never once in our own household, but plenty of other places, till I got shamed for saying it when we were back in Atlanta. My mom was heartsick I'd learned that word, learned that hate (not from her.) I learned plenty of slurs for "Mexicans" too. [/QUOTE]
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