Hispanic Bigotry

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I ordinarily do not engage in interblog rivals or even devote bandwidth to pointing out the misgivings of other bloggers, but this is one that I feel must be an exception. Bigotry and hatred, regardless of where it comes from, is a dangerous cancer on our society that must be exposed wherever it rears its ugly face.

Hailing out of Dallas, Texas, we once found a blogsite named Latina Lista claiming “a viewpoint on anything and everything from a Latina perspective.” Her description is very misleading as a careful reading of just the titles of her posts reveals a deep seated hatred and bigoted view of “anything and everything” Republican or conservative. It is not as much a “Latina perspective,” as it is HER perspective against others.

If her perspective were being leveled against Blacks or Hispanics, she would be right alongside David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. But because she promotes ILLEGAL immigration, she considers herself “enlightened.”

This blogsite is owned and operated by a Marisa Treviño, a self described, “Syndicated journalist and local public radio commentator writing about family, education and other social justice issues for over a decade. Dedicated Latina, playwright, and citizen.”

Amongst her “social justice” issues are, Chilean students murdered by radical Republican obsessed over "national political issues", a post on the senseless murder of two Chilean students in Florida by an obviously disturbed person also filled with hate. And what makes him a “Radical Republican” you ask? He volunteered to work in a Republican Campaign office five years earlier and was asked to leave by those same Republicans.

Yet, in Marisa’s eyes, a few days of volunteer campaign work years ago now defines a brutal murderer as a “Radical Republican.”

In this “post,” Ms. Treviño Blatantly states, “People like Lou Dobbs or Rush Limbaugh and those organizations against undocumented immigration who are afforded the privilege of having their own platforms on TV, radio or as newspaper sources have not exercised the kind of self-censorship necessary to prevent inciting people to commit violence against Latinos,” yet provides not a single example of their inciting hatred or violence against anybody.

In another post, I posed a question to her as to how she would label the immigrant who killed a two-year old in a hit and run while high on drugs in Woodburn, Oregon recently, compared to the “Radical Republican” mentioned above.

Her reply revealed her hatred of “anything and everything” Republican even more. In part, she said, “Lew, in my book, there's a difference between someone, no matter how unbalanced, intentionally preys on certain individuals and someone who is under the influence who causes a horrific random death.”

Although she says “There is no excuse for either,” she goes on to say, “So, there's a big difference and if you can't see that, it's because you choose not to see it.”

We also see there, Sheriff Arpaio dares Washington to find him guilty of discriminating against Latinos, blasting Mesa, Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio for having the audacity to enforce and uphold our Immigration Laws!

Supportive commenters are equally hate filled as in the above post, one calling herself “laura” states, “In the case of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, international law states that they are to be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court for their war crimes if they are not prosecuted domestically. I believe they will soon be unable to leave the country for fear of arrest.”

Apparently unknown to “laura” is that to go down this road of prosecution, she must also call for the surrender of former president B.J. Clinton because Belgrade sentences Clinton for war crimes. Treviño saw fit to block mention of this little matter in her fulminating.

In yet another post, she laments Republican congressmen's threats of revoking protected status of El Salvadoran immigrants are repulsive and demands an apology, pointing out that two Congressmen, Trent Franks (R-Ariz) and Dan Burton (R-Ind) “went on record to say that if FMLN won the election on Sunday it would be very bad for the 2.5 million El Salvadoran immigrants in the United States.”

Totally ignored by Ms. Treviño is that FMLN in El Salvador is in the pocket of and under the influence of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, an anti-America pro-Marxist leader of that country, who is trying to spread his influence in hopes of being the next great Latino Dictator.

Ms. Treviño made no effort at showing Chavez’s direct influence on El Salvador’s elections, as I tried to point out with Front-runner Mauricio Funes struggles to distance himself from Hugo Chavez, Hugo Chavez Meddling in El Salvador Election, El Salvador's next president will be the ruling party's candidate or a former journalist who could increase ties to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and More vitriol as election nears in El Salvador.

Throughout her blogsites, Ms. Treviño advocates ignoring and violating our Immigration Laws and allowing free access across our borders to ILLEGAL immigrants, yet also says It's time for Washington to quickly address Mexico's cartel violence in the U.S.

Yet, did she not also blast Mesa, Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio for addressing such issues?

Treviño’s latest tirade, From Speaker Pelosi to local city leaders, more speaking out in defense of undocumented immigrants, is as revealing as any she posts. She states, “In the past, as of three months ago, it used to be wherever ICE wanted to build an immigrant detention facility, they would encounter some local resistance, but eventually they got their way.” Immediately following that is, “However, there are signs everywhere that people no longer feel pressured to "tow the party line" since the party isn't in power anymore,” an obvious dig at Republicans yet again.

How it is that Republicans alone are responsible for ILLEGAL immigrant detention facilities escapes me, but it is most revealing that Treviño agrees with current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that upholding and enforcing our Immigration laws is now “Un-American.”

To me, it is “Un-American” to advocate creating a secondary slave class of people in our country ostensibly to “keep our food costs low.” As communities across America invoke the name of Cesar Chavez to “honor Hispanics,” they ignore just how opposed he was to Illegal Immigration and that his purpose was to create better wage scales and conditions for Farm Workers, directly the opposite of what bigoted people like Marisa Treviño advocate.

Comments from me to Treviño of, “if you advocated changing immigration laws, it would be different. But your position is continually to just ignore those laws. Instead of spreading hatred of Republicans, Marisa, why don't you circulate a petition to place an initiative on the ballot to modify existing law, LEGALLY?,” go unheeded and ignored as she continues in her hate-filled diatribes against enforcing standing laws.

Hatred is an all-consuming thing that eventually eats a person up totally from the inside out. Hatred is as ugly as humans can get. Hatred is of Satanás. Hatred is demoníaco.

Marisa Treviño’s Latina Lista is filled with some of the most unreasoned hate filled words I have ever seen and equates her efforts alongside those of White Supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan and even puts her own mindset on par with that of the “Radical Republican” that brutally murdered those two Chilean Students above.