Mexican the new black

Mexican is the new black. I know it's popular to claim that Arabs are the new black, and this post ins't in any way an argument against that, but seriously in some places in this country being Latino, and more specifically Mexican, or Mexican looking (See Dominicans African blood does have its advantages…sometimes), means that there’s a high chance you’re illegal; contribute to the localized drug trade, steel jobs from white Americans; I mean American citizens; and sometimes blacks, or at least when it advantageous to say so. And guess what, if you’re murdered it was almost definitely warranted, for the aforementioned reasons.
So last night I’m casually watching CNN’s series Latino in America, which a few scenes left me utterly speechless, although not surprised. Soledad O’Brian , who let me mention because I think it’s relevant, is part Afro Cuban, and usually CNN’s go to girl for all ethnic reporting (if only she was part Asian, then they’d have all their bases covered), was interviewing an “anti immigration activist”, who for the valid reasons stated above stands wholeheartedly against illegal immigration. In one scene Soledad is questioning him about purported job losses due to Latino immigration, in which he responds that neither he nor his friends have lost any jobs due to immigration. This then prompts O’Brian to ask him why is he so anti immigration, and in a seemingly genuine stance of solidarity with his African American brothers, offers that they take jobs away from the Blacks, all while straightening out his confederate flag. And no that wasn’t me trying to be funny, he really was adjusting a confederate flag hanging on his porch. Dear: sir, illegal immigration activist, I apologize for not graciously accepting your unselfish backhanded gesture of solidarity with legal colored citizens, I mean, negro, I mean African American brethren, but I got a little fixated on the confederate flag.
But even more disturbing than his transparent savvy, was his support for 4 PA teens who beat to death a Latino man last year. And in case any of you reading this jump to conclusions, you should know that he wasn’t beat because he was Latino; it was because he was illegal. That’s right. According to one credible woman, lacking shoes, who interrupted O’Brian’s interview with a local civil rights activist, the young man was murdered not because he was Latino; it was because he was illegal. Although I had trouble deciphering what she was saying in the midst of her incoherent tirade, she was very successful at conveying her hatred for Latinos, and I’ll go out on a limb and say anyone generally not white. She did however fail to mention one caveat in her justification for murdering illegals, successfully undermining what little intelligence she has. Could it be race? I mean Vincent Chin wasn’t murdered because he was Chinese American; it was because he was a Japanese foreigner steeling jobs from Americans, and the murder a couple years back of Sean Bell, well he must have been an illegal from who knows…that country called Africa.