Michelle Malkin reports that our National Anthem was re-recorded in Spanish by several Latino artists and renamed Nuestro Himno as a “show of support for migrants in the United States.” Check this out:
NEW YORK – Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, Puerto Rican reggaeton Ivy Queen and Tito El Bambino and other Latino artists are recording a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem in a show of support for migrants in the United States.
The Latino-oriented record label Urban Box Office (UBO) said Saturday it plans to release the new version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to coincide with the U.S. Senate’s debate on immigration legislation next week.
Congressional debate over immigration bills proposing everything from toughened border security to the legalization of undocumented migrants in America have triggered huge demonstrations across the United States in recent weeks.
“We chose to re-record ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ to show our solidarity with the undocumented immigrants and their quest for basic civil rights,” UBO President Adam Kidron said in a news release.
The recording, dubbed “Nuestro Himno” or “Our Anthem,” is set to “rhythmic Latin musical arrangement” but respects the song’s traditional structure, UBO said. The song will be primarily in Spanish with a few words sung in English.
The song is on the album “Somos Americanos,” which will be sold for $10, with a portion going to Washington-based National Capital Immigration Coalition, UBO said.
As Michelle asked, who’s assimilating whom?
David Hinkley of The New York Daily News is a little concerned:
The intent with “Nuestro Himno,” or “Our Anthem,” is quite specific.
“We decided to show our solidarity with the undocumented migrants,” says President Adam Kidron of UBO Records, which is releasing the track to coincide with a U.S. Senate debate on an immigration bill whose carrots and sticks could change the lives of maybe 12 million immigrants, documented and otherwise.
The song tries to say in music what millions of immigrants have argued in recent street demonstrations: America’s tradition is inclusion.
Let’s just not be surprised if it stirs other folks to say that America also has a tradition of English, and that if you really want to be part of things here, you don’t make it by singing her song in some other language.
Kidron dismisses the cultural-subversion theory. Today’s immigrants want to become part of America just like earlier generations of Germans, Italians, Irish and Russians, he says.
In fact, he argues, they have: “Today we are Americans and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents everything to us.”
It sure would lower our national blood pressure if everyone accepted that.
But the national anthem, ridiculed though it may be as a piece of music, has deceptive emotional power.
That’s why artists from Jimi Hendrix to Marvin Gaye as well as jokers like Roseanne Barr have used it to make some larger point – and that’s why they were all blasted by choruses of critics who told them to make their point somewhere else with some other song.
I understand an immigrant’s desire to come to the US to find a better life for himself and for his family. However, to do so without any regard for our immigration laws and to later demand full rights and American citizenship is unacceptable. Now we have our American Anthem, a moving and loved tribute to America’s fight for independence, has been taken over and used as an illegal immigrant call to action.
Stuck on Stupid asks if a latino Pledge of Allegiance is next.
Unabashedly Unhyphenated is offended.
I’ve been reading this post and another (http://latinmusic.wpadmin.about.com/?comments_popup=257346?comments_popup=257346) all day yesterday and now this morning.
I see that there are some hispanics that understand that this is an outrage to have the words to our National Anthem changed. But others don’t have a clue. If the song was really trying to show they love our country, then they should also try to KNOW our country. You can’t relate, or be a part of something that you don’t even know.
The analogy that they are moving into our homes is a good one. You don’t walk into someone’s home to live without respecting the people that live there.
I live close to Orlando, and have lived here off and on for 20 years. In the last 20 years, it’s obvious that a take-over is in play. I’ve been told I need to learn spanish. (This was when I worked in an area that 20 years ago was predominently white, but now is 80% spanish.) Legal or not, they live by a different culture and set of standards. I don’t want to America to lose its identity. And it will.
People want to point out that we took this country from the Native Americans. Was that 500 years ago? What does saying that mean? That I should step aside and let this country be invaded by people with a different set of values?
It’s now politically incorrect to say “Merry Christmas”. I was in line at Walmart the other day, a LONG line, and the register next to us opened up. The hispanic woman who had been standing behind me for all this time raced in front of the registers to get to the newly opened register so she could get there before me.
I know that there are good and bad in every race. But down here, white people are very conscious of the differences between us and hispanics. This immigration wave is different from the others because of the sheer numbers and the fact that they do not have to learn English. As more and more come, businesses are forced to hire more of them to accomodate the ones that won’t speak English.
I have become alienated in my own country. Bleeding hearts can say we are a free country, give us your weak and poor… But we no longer have the resources to support every one, and when I got turned down for a job that was perfect for me, (the guy basically told me, I want to hire you but I need someone that speaks spanihs), then I cannot have a bleeding heart. When I had to apply for food stamps, I counted 28 non-whites, and only 3 whites. I had a customer (a young 20 something year old male) standing at my checkout line with another young male and the one said “How did you get it?”, the other said, “You just go up to the office and fill out the paperwork and tell them you’re not working and they give it to you.” They were talking about the food stamp card that the first one was using.
In America, it’s rare to see a young white male who would think about getting welfare. Once again, I know that this one doesn’t represent teh whole, but from what I saw in the food stamp line, he does respresent a lot. AS A WHOLE, the way of life they bring here, is not American and they do not even care to be American.
When I came here 20 years ago, the wages were just a little higher than where I’m from. The rent was a little higher. NOW, because of the spanish influence down here, the wages are the same or lower than where I’m from, and the rent is 3 times higher.
When they come here and are willing to live 8 people to a 3 bedroom apartment, landlords have figured out they can charge 1,000 dollars for rent. Employers don’t have to offer higher wages to keep employees. I’ve thought about jumping on the bandwagon myself, gather up 5 people to share a 2 bedroom apartment. But Americans aren’t used to living like that and don’t want to give up personal space. But we will be forced to. And I will be forced to learn spanish.
What it boils down to is a lack of respect for us. And some have written in saying that this country belonged to them first. It is definitely going to be a war once again for land. And the bleeding hearts are helping them. And either they don’t understand what we’re giving up, or they do and it doesn’t bother them.
Words are important. Business activity can’t flow without communication. Words are powerful and are used for communication. The words “Merry Christmas” will always mean something to me. Now I’m being told I should say “Happy Holidays” instead. You know what? I don’t have years of associations attached to “Happy Holidays”. “Merry Christmas” brings to mind many years of past Christmas’s where those words were given in cheer. “Happy Holidays” is alien to me. Check out what’s happening in this guy’s country.
“I am English and not American, but am very interested in hearing all of your views, as we have similar issues over here.
Whether you realise it or not, we are also a nation of immigrants, and have had massive influxes from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, and from Africa. We have been told to ‘adapt’ and accept that not every one can speak English. Our Government bodies publish most of their documentation in over 20 languages and do not expect people to learn English. In fact, we only just recently introduced a bare-minimum ‘citizenship course’ for those who want to naturalise. We are told that we are NOT allowed to fly our flag (Neither the British Union Flag, nor the English St. Georges Cross) for fear of alienating immigrants. We are not allowed to overtly display any forms of our own customs and culture. The Xmas nativity play has in many areas been banned, or at best diluted by characters from other religions added to it.
Our Government cannot, and does not control our borders (and don’t forget that we are an island) and tacitly turns a blind eye to illegal immigrants who work below the minimum wage – because that way, effectively the country DOESN’T have a minimum wage… get it? Businesses do not want a minimum wage and the Government always do what big businesses want”
Do we want that here? I’m ready to hear some solutions. We’re not going to convince the bleeding hearts. So for all you out there that understand that we’re going to lose a way of life, (yes, just like the native americans, cept it’s through simple over population, majority rules sort of thing, instead of bloodshed), – how can this be stopped?
Read Theodore Roosevelt’s views on immigrants.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American… There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
Now there’s an idea worth following.
As far as rewriting the National Anthem-EAT SH*T, BARK AT THE MOON AND DIE!
“personal note to self-dogs will be dogs.”
Believe the news media if you wnat, but personally, I prefer to believe the stories from our brave soldiers instead. Ask them about the people who stop them on the street and shake their hands, ask about the schools that have been rebuilt, the hospitals…etc. Its only the nutjobs who think that they will go to heaven and get a whole shitload of virgins if they blow themselves up and take a few others.
Note to the nutjobs-Heaven has run out of virgins!
Have you ever read the Mexican laws on immigration?
Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
• in the country legally;
• have the means to sustain themselves economically;
• not destined to be burdens on society;
• of economic and social benefit to society;
• of good character and have no criminal records; and
• contributors to the general well-being of the nation.
The law also ensures that:
• immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
• foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
• foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
• foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
• foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
• those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.
Now for all those who comply, WELCOME!! For all those who don’t, read the last 4 lines above!
But really, who are we to bitch? With all the children lost in the last 20+ years to abortion in this country, who is left for the basic jobs now being completed by these people?
Ponder wisely grasshopper.
Do to the Hispanics what we did with the Injuns. Take their kids away, put them in English only boarding schools. forbid them to practice their religion…HEY WAIT! That was done TO the inhabitiants of this land by illegal immigrant invaders — THE EUROPEANS! Now that the Europeans have taken over this land, they want to turn EVERYONE white. No reds or browns allowed — blacks only because we illegally immigrated THEM by force.
If we wanted the National Anthem to be sung in Spanish, it would have been based on a Spanish drinking song, not an ENGLISH DRINKING SONG!
The sort of chicken and egg argument for who is invading whom is getting old. Yes, the American Indians murdered each other when they were competing for resources; The Europeans invaded the Americas and colonized it;
In the carribeans, the Carib Indians murdered the Tainos; In turn, the Carib Indians died off when the Europeans came; Then the Europeans were replaced by the black slaves.
The fact is that land changes in hand. And the loser is either get killed, abused, or moved away. The land was taken with blood. Whoever wants it must pay by blood. That was the old way.
If the hispanics can over populate America, kudos to them. But I want to stay in the land that the European immigrants have carved out and established a strong nation.
True, this nation was a land that says “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…”. But folks, America is no longer a rising nation. America is an established nation. America is a supper power. The America today is not the America of the past in every sense. We don’t want to open all our gates and let all the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses into its border.
I am half Mexican. My grandfather came to this country in a farmworkers union legally, and my grandparents worked hard to live thrive here even tho it was not in the best conditions. But I do know many illegal immigrants and not just from Latin america, and JUST BECAUSE THEY R ILLEGAL DOES NOT MEAN THEY R BAD PPL, OR THAT THEY SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE CRAP.
This whole country has been made up of immigrants. I think it is a very good way for them to show support for the immigrants by making this song. Most of the immigrants who come to this country come to help people and there families back in their country were otherwise they would have a harder time than they all ready do. And most immigrants legal or not help our economy by doing jobs that other American citizen wouldn’t do.
So none of this taking our jobs Sh*t. The things you have to do to become a citizen r hard like the test, most people could not pass it. And it can take years to become a citizen and by that time if you had registerd to become one they would have already kicked you out of the country for being here too long without being a citizen. And so much of American culture has been adapted from othe countries.
And America has become overall so corrupt an sh*t its sooo rediculous and being american is not all somthing to be real proud of at the moment. And most of the ppl here are jus totaly oblivious and almost brianwashed and pumped full of fear and lies by the news and sh*t that they just do and agree with what there told without asking questions. But thats a whole nother thing.
Spanish and other hispanic stuff is part of ppls culture that makes them unique its somthing in families and traditions unlike the oh so american tradition of what sitting on ur fat a** 2gether watching football
To Tom Lefebvre: u dont say lets no have cinco de mayo cuz that is stupid that is part of mexican heritage and culture and just Like jewish people would celebrate a Hanukka or sunthin Mexicans will celebrate cinco de mayo. I hope ppl like you dont come out of their houses at all on Cinco De Mayo.
and yes racism goes both ways but did u notice out of what i said NONE OF THIS HAD TO DO WITH ME PLAYING THE RACE CARD
Ariel
I am half Mexican. My grandfather came to this country in a farmworkers union legally, and my grandparents worked hard to live thrive here even tho it was not in the best conditions. But I do know many illegal immigrants and not just from Latin america, and JUST BECAUSE THEY R ILLEGAL DOES NOT MEAN THEY R BAD PPL, OR THAT THEY SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE CRAP.
This whole country has been made up of immigrants. I think it is a very good way for them to show support for the immigrants by making this song. Most of the immigrants who come to this country come to help people and there families back in their country were otherwise they would have a harder time than they all ready do. And most immigrants legal or not help our economy by doing jobs that other American citizen wouldn’t do.
So none of this taking our jobs Sh*t. The things you have to do to become a citizen r hard like the test, most people could not pass it. And it can take years to become a citizen and by that time if you had registerd to become one they would have already kicked you out of the country for being here too long without being a citizen. And so much of American culture has been adapted from othe countries.
And America has become overall so corrupt an sh*t its sooo rediculous and being american is not all somthing to be real proud of at the moment. And most of the ppl here are jus totaly oblivious and almost brianwashed and pumped full of fear and lies by the news and sh*t that they just do and agree with what there told without asking questions. But thats a whole nother thing.
Spanish and other hispanic stuff is part of ppls culture that makes them unique its somthing in families and traditions unlike the oh so american tradition of what sitting on ur fat a** 2gether watching football
To Tom Lefebvre: u dont say lets no have cinco de mayo cuz that is stupid that is part of mexican heritage and culture and just Like jewish people would celebrate a Hanukka or sunthin Mexicans will celebrate cinco de mayo. I hope ppl like you dont come out of their houses at all on Cinco De Mayo.
and yes racism goes both ways but did u notice out of what i said NONE OF THIS HAD TO DO WITH ME PLAYING THE RACE CARD
Ariel
oh haha it like copied twice
This British piece of shit should be deported! He changed the words to our national anthem but you don’t see him changing the words to “God Bless The Queen”, England’s pussy national anthem.
I cannot believe we are going to allow 11 million law breakers to stay in our country. Wait… try 30 million illegals!
America’s education system has been detroyed by Illegal aliens. America’s liberal teachers are traders! They teach these illegals while American kids get forgotten. Why? because teachers only care about the Money$$$$ that they get for teaching illegals.
AND. Mexico’s scumbag president is going to legalize drugs! Now our children will cross the border for rrugs like heroin and cocaine!
We should be at war with Mexico, not be welcoming 30 million illegal aliens!!!!!!!!!!!!\\I’m furious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My grandparents came to this country and worked VERY HARD to become citizens. They followed all the rules! THEY DID NOT ENTER ILLEGALLY AND THEN PROTEST IN THE STREETS DEMANDING TO STAY.
Have we lost our minds???????????
i’m all for immigrants coming here and becoming LEGAL citizens, don’t get me wrong. but such comments as Mari stated above is pure bullsh*t. my sister in law is a hispanic american, meaning she was not born here in America. She got her citizenship in a little less than a year, so don’t sit there and tell me the legal process is so horrible and almost impossible because i know different. look, we have our laws for our reasons. you want to live here so badly and be american, THEN SHOW US BY FOLLOWING OUR LAWS!! i really could give a care less about who was here first, blah blah blah. it’s in the past and should stay there. what ticks me off the most is that illegal immigrants come here and try to force our great nation to bow down to them. to those people i ask ” who the hell do you think you are?”
We have never bowed down to anyone and we sure as hell shouldn’t be starting now. and this song to me is just another tool used to build the already high wall between americans and mexicans. don’t get me wrong, i’m not by any means racist, although i’m sure some of you are viewing me as such. when i say americans i mean legal US citizens. when i say mexicans i am referring to illegal immigrants from Mexico. So don’t try and play the racist card. and someone stated above that illegal immigrants pay taxes and such…. what a laugh. please explain to me how they accomplish this. illegal immigrants do not pay taxes, they do not vote. nor do they have the right to in my opinion. if you want the name “american” then you should go about it the legal way and do what we everyday americans do. someone above also stated that white people are lazy and blah blah blah. well, i see that someone confronted that statement with saying that there are lazy whites, lazy mexicans, lazy indians, etc. and i couldn’t agree more! finally i’d just like to add to the illegal immigrants here in our GREAT NATION, if you don’t like our rules and our ways… YOU KNOW WHERE THE DOOR IS AND GET THE F*CK OUT!
I want to SPEAK TO ALL AMERICANS (Black, White, Yellow or Brown)
Do you realize your power? You are not the victims here, you are the leaders, thinkers, and and creators of a Day that can and will rival any day set against this Nation of America! I call YOU to Action! Not only to talk about what you do not like, but to do somethng about it!
I say have a day, week, month etc. without us (Americans) patrionizing the Latino or Spanish community. Take away your money from the stores, foods we so easily buy in the grocry stores, resturants we all frequently eat at and everything we use that is of this origin. Stop buying and drinking Coca Cola which is bottled and produced in Mexico. Your money and wealth is way people have come here to this country and asked for a better way of life. They also sell to you all of their Mexican flavored foods and have made your pallets become acustomed to their taste. NO, MEXICAN OR SPANISH BASED RESTURANTS THAT SERVE THIS KIND OF FOOD, EVEN IF THE COMPANY IS AMERICAN OWNED! (Del Taco, Taco Bell etc.) DO NOT USE THIER MAIDS AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU CAN CHANGE A DIAPER OR CLEAN YOUR OWN HOUSE. BUSINESSES, ASK YOUR EMPLOYEES TO HELP OUT TO KEEP THINGS RUNNING SOOMTHLY. TAKE SHIFTS IF YOU HAVE TO. LET EVERYONE KNOW IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WROLD THAT WE HAVE THE POWER TO CONTIUNE TO BE “ONE NATION UNDER GOD” AMD THAT OUR ANTHEMS, PLEDGE OF ALLIGENCE AND ALL OTHER AMERICAN SPECIAL SONGS OR BELIEFS WE HOLD DEAR ARE NOT FOR SALE! ALL AMERICANS DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY FORM OF CINCO DE MAYO DAY!
WHEN WE CAN SUCCESSFULLY PLAN OUR WALK OUT, STRIKE OR DAY OFF THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO STAND TALL WITHOUT BEING THOUGHT OF AS LAZY OR INCAPABLE OF DOING WHAT WE ALL ARE CAPABLE OF AND THAT IS WORKING HARD, WHEN WE NEED TO. (JUST AS WE ARE CAPABLE OF PLAYING HARD AT OUR AMERICAN SPORTS,HOLIDAY’S ETC.)
LASTLY, POUR OUT LETTERS, CALLS, ETC. OVER THE NEXT DAYS, WEEKS, AND MONTHS TO OUR POLICTIAL LEADERS AND LET THEM KNOW WE WILL NOT BE OVERCOME BY FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES GREED TO KEEP A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. THEREFORE, THEY CAN MAKE BIG PROFITS AND DISRESPECT THE AMERICAN WORKERS WHO HAVE ALREADY GIVEN THEM 10, 15, 20, OR 30 YEARS OF OUR LIVES THROUGH GOOD HARD LABOR AND HAVE BE LOYAL TO THEM. (THEY TOO SHOULD KNOW WE ARE FED UP WITH PAYING HEALTH CARE BENEFITS THROUGH AID PROGRAMS FOR OTHERS, BUT MUST PAY FOR OUR OWN MEDICAL INSURANCE FROM OUR CHECKS THEREFORE LOWERING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR FAMILIES.) We need American based health care for all Americans and we are willing to share that burden for each other so that those who have owrked hard will have insursance when they need it and not pay for foreign illegals’ health care. THE JOBS AMERICANS NO LONGER DO ARE NOT BECAUSE WE ARE LAZY, IT IS BECAUSE WE TOO WORKED FOR A BETTER LIFE AND WE HAVE PAID THE DUES TO EXPECT TO BE PAID HIGHER SALARIES THEN WE RECEIVED 20 TO 25 YEARS AGO!
ARRANGE, SET UP AND HONOR YOURSELVES AND OUR CONUNTRY BY LETTING OTHERS WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE AMERICAN SPIRIT TO UNITE FOR WHAT WE BELIVE IN. THEY MUST KNOW WE TOO HAVE STRUGGLED, FOUGHT, DIED AND HELPED OUT MANY OTHER COUNTRIES AND NATIONS. YET, THROUGH IT ALL, WE WILL NOT FORGET TO HELP OURSELVES! THIS THE WORLD WILL KNOW!
USPOWER3FORTHOSEWHOBELIEVE
you mexicans are UNPEOPLE. you always will be. get used to it. you come here to be exploited and we are exploiting you. hahaha
I don’t mind the song; I don’t mind the enthusiasm for America. I do mind the changing of words and language of American history. Maybe we should change the Declaration of Independents to Spanish and change it’s meaning. If the Spanish people want a song then give it another name and sing it to their music and then it is worth listening to and then they have added to the American heritage. What they have done was undermine the American people and America. America doesn’t stand for the only the Spanish people, we stand for all people. I hate when I get on the phone and it says for Spanish press two. How about Chinese, what do we press to speak in Chinese. Did every one forget we buy every thing from China? What do we buy from the Spanish countries, coffee? I don’t see any contributions of technological, medical or production to better the advancement for mankind. Maybe it is time to learn Chinese because they will be the world leaders in the next ten years surpassing the US economically and educationally. As Americans we are giving away our country. God help us.
“I hate when I get on the phone and it says for Spanish press two”.
Damn, and they say that in Spanish too! That just burns me up!
If the Spanish speaking people want to use the American phone system, they need to learn American! And no phoning home either. Long distance calling to Spanish speaking countries should be forbidden. For all we know, they are just giving out directions!
Amen m3power! i couldn’t have said it better!
-Selene
Half present-day US territory was once Spanish and then changed to Mexican hands with independence. Look at the history of our country and you’ll see what happened in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. They were once pushed back illegaly (as with most US wars) and they are now reclaiming what’s theirs. Plus, Spanish is a beautiful languague. I think we should have Spanish taught at school as a compulsory subject. I will be necessary. It’s a fact of life.
This isn’t about ethnicity, it’s about LEGALITY.
We ARE a nation of immigrants. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free….” Who can blame anyone for wanting to come here? I certainly don’t. It’s completely logical to want to come here.
And all of those immigrants that populated our country, our ancestors, did it legally. They worked their butts off. They worked the system. They had to prove that they were healthy, that they had someone (like a family member) willing to sponsor them, had some sort of skill, a link to a job…Something that would mean that they wouldn’t be a burden to society.
And they had to go through the hoops of citizenship. And they had to work hard to prove themselves.
We have people on waiting lists for YEARS wanting to come here. People who’ve waited and waited to get approved. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we have thousands of people here who just walked across our borders and now are demanding equality under the law when they have already broken it.
This flies in the face at what is the very foundation of our country: It’s laws. The idea of the people speaking through Congressional representation or voting directly for a particular idea.
ALL of that is being disregarded. Instead of the American people directing immigration policy, instead of US deciding what we want and how we want it…ALL of it is being usurped.
If we allow this to happen, if we say “go ahead” and become citizens, what we are really doing is allowing illegal aliens to dictate what our immigration policy is.
Think about that for a moment. The will of an entire country, filled with MILLIONS of people, usurped by a group of people who werent’ interested in respecting our laws in the first place. Who are going to tell US what to do??
So it’s more about, ‘give us rights, give us power, give us social programs, give us every damn thing that a citizen has’…withdoing any work at all! Oh, and by the way, screw the American public. Screw your laws, your legislators, your votes, your voice. WE think that we’re right and we’re in charge’.
Any person of any ethinic, religious or cultural background that wants to come here with good intentions, is welcome in my book. Go through the legal process and I will put my arm around your shoulder and call you ‘American’.
But to do it any other way is the anthesis of what we as a country are about. You, the illegal alien, do not have the right to tell us what our immigration policy is. You do not have the rights or the voice of a citizen. You have an opinion, offer it respectfully, and we’ll listen.
Meanwhile, get back to your place in the line. You get to wait and work the system like every other person wanting to come here.
As to the hispanic anthem? What ‘anthem’? It’s not our national anthem, it’s merely a song. We already have one, the Star Spangled Banner and it’s sung in English. Don’t like it? Get over it.
If listening to the other song is something that you enjoy well then, viya con Dios.
But just because someone proffers an idea like that, doesn’t make it a reality.
Everyone who is hatin on latinos for tryin to make a better life is hella igonrant–america was made of immagrants, most of your ancestors are immagrants, america is supposed to be the land of the free, racist a*s people on here saying everyone in the states should speak just english shi* language has been in the states for ever, english wasnt even the original language, shit americans go to every country and expect everyone to understand them and to bow down shi*, and being in the U.S. army and seeing people like that just shames our country. most you are saying there taking our jobs shi* there taking jobs that americans dont want, there taking dangerous as* jobs for the lowest pay and your complaining,
You know, I grew up in San Diego in the ’70s, and I said the pledge of allegience every day in Junior High — half of the time in Spanish. Just so you know, “Prometo fidelidad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de America, y a la republica que representa, una nacion bajo Dios, con libertad y justicia para todos.” I resent the idea that it is not patriotic: I am a citizen, and have been one for generations. The translation is quite faithful, and flows nicely with the pledge in English. Do I think that everyone should learn English? Along with 90+ percent of the Latinos in the country, I’d vote YES. The other 10% just yell louder because they’ve always been wrong about everything else, too.
LOOK I DON’T BELIEVE IT IS RIGHT TO SAY THAT MEXICANS ARE NOT AMERICANS, IT IS IGNORANT. SIMPLE QUESTION…WHAT CONTINENT IS MEXICO ON? YES. THANK YOU. PLUS MY PARENTS ARE MEXICANS AND AT FIRST I BELIEVE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN SPANISH WAS A BIT DISRESPECTFUL,BUT THE INTENTIONS WEREN’T THOSE. THE INTENTION WAS FOR THOSE WHO ARE IMMIGRANTS AND SPEAK SPANISH TO FEEL THE SONG. IT IS NOT A METTER OF KNOWING ENGLISH OR NOT.. IT WAS A MATTER OF FEELING THE WORDS.
PLUS I DO NOT BELIEVE I SHOULD ASSIMILATE TO THE POINT I FORGET WHO I AM. I AM PROUD OF WHERE MY PARENTS COME FROM ( SORRY FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW) AND YET I HAVE ROOM TO BE PROUD OF THE COUNTRY I AM IN. LATINOS ARE LEARNING ENGLISH AND, YES WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP OUR LANGUAGE.
ALSO, THIS SHOWS THE RACISM AGAINST LATINOS BECAUSE LATINOS ARE NOT THE ONLY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND YET EVERYONE PRO HR 4437 ARE PICK POINTING THE LATINOS…SPECIFICALLY MEXICANS.
MAN F*** THIS BULL….THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT SHOULD BE SAYING GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY IS THE NATIVE AMERICANS(INDIANS) THEY ARE THE ONES THAT SHOULD HAVE PEOPLE ASSIMILATE. THOSE OF EUROPEANS (I SAY THAT BECAUSE I WILL NOT CALL YOU AMERICANS IF YOU CAN NOT CALL MY PARENTS AMERICANS) ARE HYPOCRITES. AND THE REASON WHY THE PHONE SAYS “PRESS 1 FOR SPANISH” IS BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY OF US THAT IT IS NEEDED AND “YOU ” GUYS HAD TO CHANGE THINGS BECAUSE YOU NEED US.
Have you ever read the Mexican laws on immigration?
Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
• in the country legally;
• have the means to sustain themselves economically;
• not destined to be burdens on society;
• of economic and social benefit to society;
• of good character and have no criminal records; and
• contributors to the general well-being of the nation.
The law also ensures that:
• immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
• foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
• foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
• foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
• foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
• those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.
Now for all those who comply, WELCOME!! WELCOME!! WELCOME!!
For all those who don’t, read the last 4 lines above!
America is going to hell in a handbasket, and once they concure American they will set their sites on Canada too, the Cartels want it all and the politicians are giving it to them on a silver plater and the citizens have no say…do you think another Civil War is impossalbe?
American is a country for the Politicians, by the Politicians, to line the Politicians pockets and crap on the people.
Do you want to make a difference, then just pack your bags and illeagly enter the White House and camp there untill you become part of the senit, then abolish all the laws (they mean nothing already) and take over….hey, it’s working for the Mexicans…and lets not forget all the other loop-holes being exploited by foriegners from other countries too – have you been on an American college campus lately?
How many of you have been able to locate an American doctor or dentist within your medical policy lately – I haven’t, America has sold out a long time ago.
And DON’T anyone start pleging allegance to the flag – you’ll be shot on sight!
Well, to those that think that the sights are only on the Mexican-Americans, are truly incorrect. They are in the spotlight only because they are the far more the winner when it comes to the numbers game. If we lived next to Italy, it’d be a different story, but it’s not. So, the issue is that for far far too long, we’ve embraced and allowed folks to practically come here without much intervention/prevention. However, every taxpayer has helped pay for border patrols, and to have whatever semblance of a checkpoint in place. For us, it’s a no win situation. If we say we want to have the laws enforced, tightened, we’re called racist??? Amazing…. Seems to me that most who think this way are missing some very important facts—>>> THERE ARE TOO MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES INTEND TO TAKE CARE OF THIS!!!
I am a biracial korean american who married a Korean. After 6 years, my wife just received her citizenship. It was bureaucratic and tedious. But guess what, WE DID IT TOGETHER! So for all the whiny mexican invaders, suck balls! I am sooo tired of all this mexican crap. I know there are other latino nations, but it seems like the mexicans, specifically are the ones perpetrating all this nonsense (and trying to get other ethnicities to join in). Mexicans should do something about their own homeland. Why is it so corrupt? I can’t believe that a few “higher class” people make it so. Nope, it’s got to be because the majority of mexicans are corrupt. Yeah, we have corrupt americans, but somehow they are kept in check because the rest of us know what is right, or eventually agree on what is right. And all this mexican drama is just not right. I am afraid that a ‘race war’ or genocide thing will occur. I am terrified because of my tanned skin, I could sometimes be mistaken for a dumb mexican. I’m buying a gun this weekend, and if it comes to it, I will defend this AMERICAN SOIL with all my strength from the invaders!(funny, the Iraqi insurgents must also feel this way) My wife is totally upset because she went through the channels. She also is very fluent in English from having majored in it in Undergrad.
Americans, we are right to be upset and ready for action. I agree with the person who said if you think a day without mexicans is bad, what about a day without americans.
Well so now we’ve had everyone weigh in. The angry legals and illegals, the typical racists (you knew they’d join in). The crazy “lets take over the senit”(it’s senate you idiot).
Truth be told the people who are to blame here are the idiots organizing this whole mess. I don’t have a problem with Mexicans, or any other immigrants. My issue is not about race, that would be dumb I’m latino.
I think the problem here is that a few idiots, and you know who you are, are ruining it for everyone. So SHUT UP!. Stop saying stupid stuff like “Go home” or “Lets take over the White House” or “my parents came here illegally but they didn’t do anything wrong”. And finally the one that pisses me off the most, “We had the land first”.
What we should be doing is figuring out how to solve the problem instead of pointing fingers and calling names. We have a real problem here. There are hundreds of thousands of people coming every year, that we don’t know about. We need to stop that. Especially if they’re not looking for work.
Of the 12 million plus already here, what do we do with them? I for one say we treat it on a case by case basis. Keep the ones with a family that have been here the longest, and send the rest back.
Finally how do we prevent people from being enticed to come here. Start enforcing lawas already in place for companies that hire illegals. Fine them some crazy amount like $100K for each illegal. You’ll see how quickly things will change.
As for the Anthem anyone reading this knows my response to that.
I googled “U.S. National Anthem translations”. I learned that Samoans have translated our National Anthem to honor our great nation.
I googled “U.S. National Anthem translations”. I learned that Samoans have translated our National Anthem to honor our great nation.
Hello. I speak English! And in fact i AM English. So there’s a curve ball for all you sluggers out there.
A country can only have one language. I have to say respectfully that I think there’s already too much to divide y’all in the USA.
Here in England, even we have too many people who don’t speak English. I’m sure they are nice people, and nowhere in my Bible does Christ say ‘cursed are the non-Anglophones’, but how can we integrate people if we don’t know how to tell them ‘welcome’?
Live and let live. Work and let work. Pray and let pray. But learning the lingo really ain’t too much to ask.
God bless.
MDiaz said it fairly well.
If we could fix the problem going froward and hold the capitalists responsible for this mess !
Buisness and government are opposites and when they favor buisness they go against the people !
When you hear Bush talk he says everything is great.
Funny huh ? He’s talking about the greedy corporations ! Not the people !
We live in a Plutocracy(rulership by the rich) a regular dictarship by the corporate machine.
And Immigration is the slave labor they need…it must be stopped for that reason alone !
Now that the ‘boycott’ has come and gone, it’s really only enlightened the folks who thought this was another ‘sweep under the rug’ issue. YES, there are more pressing issues facing this country and the world at large, but the fact remains that we have over 12 million illegal alines in the this country– not immigrants. Immigrants are those that come from other countries, and become legal citizens of this country. Who should we really blame? the last 4 administrations who have done nothing, or should we blame Ted Kennedy who gutted the amnesty act in the 80’s…. Actually we ought to blame ourselves for not doing anything as voting, tax paying, legal, authenticate, realia Americans. Of all the folks I know who are from Latin America, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Cuba… none believe it’s simply OK to just come here and live uncheked.
What has happened, in education for example, is that citizens are denied the oppurtunity to grow and to learn properly, and instead teachers, educators and districts are ‘required’ to accept students into the district without question, legal or not. I know from personal experience that one family intends to bring over 40 of their family from Mexico to settle in the midwest… What???
If you’re not legal, don’t come!!! Simple as that. I care that you are hard working, that you have families, and that you like me experience all the good times and bad times that all people go through.. HOWEVER, our 14th amendment does nothing to mention that it’s LEGAL to come to the United States and simply just stay here. The Congress should write the law to make it to be a dismeanor, and then give those that ARE here illigally to make a decision. YOUR COUNTRY is the one that screwed you, not the United States, and YOUR COUNTRY is the one that favors drug trade and illegal and corrupt government over taking care of it’s own!!! What is the most appalling is that to demonstrate shows to the citizens that the immigrant population really isn’t in touch with itself, or what this country is all about.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) introduced a resolution requiring the Star-Spangled banner to be sung only in English:
That flag and that song are a part of our history and our national identity. … That’s why in 1931 Congress declared the Star-Spangled Banner our national anthem. That’s why we should always sing it in our common language, English.
In his press release, Alexander said the Star-Spangled Banner has “never before…been rendered in another language.”
He’s wrong, as usual….something about this administration and disobeying laws or voluntarily ignoring research like it’s the clap.
In 1919, the U.S. Bureau of Education commissioned a Spanish-language version of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
The State Department’s website also features four-separate versions of the anthem in Spanish.
This is a country built on imagrants.Do you believe in Karma because what you all did to the indians is gonna happen here,white boys.You cant stop us this country is a multiracial country its not just a white country anymore. and it never actually really was
This is a country built on imagrants.Do you believe in Karma because what you all did to the indians is gonna happen here,white boys.You cant stop us this country is a multiracial country its not just a white country anymore. and it never actually really was
This is a country built on imagrants.Do you believe in Karma because what you all did to the indians is gonna happen here,white boys.You cant stop us this country is a multiracial country its not just a white country anymore. and it never actually really was
This is a country built on imagrants.Do you believe in Karma because what you all did to the indians is gonna happen here,white boys.You cant stop us this country is a multiracial country its not just a white country anymore. and it never actually really was
This is a country built on imagrants.Do you believe in Karma because what you all did to the indians is gonna happen here,white boys.You cant stop us this country is a multiracial country its not just a white country anymore. and it never actually really was
This is a country built on imagrants.Do you believe in Karma because what you all did to the indians is gonna happen here,white boys.You cant stop us this country is a multiracial country its not just a white country anymore. and it never actually really was
Dear Begonia,
What is most disgusting is the re-wording of it, and that fact it was deliberately timed with the May 1st (unaffectual) boycott! More threatening to most of us, more than anything else, was seeing viseo after video and image after image of Mexicans (mostly illegals I’m sure) fingering and flipping off the police who were there to do THEIR job; which is to protect everyone. When WE (those that are LEGAL citizens) and no matter where we’re from, SEE this kind of action, IT WILL cause a reaction. IF, those that are here illegally believe that telling cops to *uck off, eat *hit and die is the way we like to be treated, then keep it up. We don’t want a civil war, but keep pressing those buttons, and inciting disrespect for the country you’re standing in and just leave… Once the BENEFITS goldmine is cut off, most will have to go. Once the corporations are fined for hiring cheap and illegal labor, then most will go home. Once they have to wait for 1-6 years to become a citizen, most will go home.
What I don’t hear, is what you and many others did to protest to the Mexican government while there, or what activist things we’re done to change the way folks are living down there. NO one has carried on the history of helping the people in Mexico, as in it’s past history– THAT’S SHAMEFUL!!! NO AMNESTY! NO WAY! Become a citizen, as it is written and passed by us, or face the consequences…make sure it’s done correctly, humanely, and working with the Mexican government (who, I doubt wiil sit on it’s ASS once again!) After 13 million chances to do the right thing, American citizens have a right to change and require a difference in life within their country, no matter the cause!!! It’s too bad that all the illegal folks that are here will have little to no say in that decision, simply because they don’t have the right to !!!
Dear Robert Johnson,
Perhaps perception is different for you, but you seem to think that we only are blaming the immigrant who are here. Instead and including those immigrants, laws need to be put in place to make it more difficult than to just walk across the border. NO OTHER COUNTRY in the world allows so many folks to enter unchecked. What does this do to our schools, our tax base, our wages? Diversity and multi-clutaralism only come into part of it, and only after you refer to those that are here the right way, and legally. With many friends and family that are of Hispanic-American heritage, the vast majority thinks it’s disrespectful to show disfavor by ‘boycotting’. It won’t achieve a thing. What they should be protesting is the employers who make billions off their sweat and blood, or those that are killed because of increasingly violent and bloddy battles in cities and towns on the border. It has nothing to do with anything else except enough is enough and our country cannot continue to let folks in, without checks and balances, and still our country to function well FOR ALL AMERICANS>
Perhaps wisdom and perception from others will help guide you to a more common sense approach.
Please no one with any intelligence is saying that this is a “White Country”. What we’re saying is that this country has a set of laws, that as citizens we agree to abide by. If we break those laws we pay the price. For citizens that means jail for illegals that means exportation. It’s not that America does not value or want immigrants. The issue is that any immigration to this country should be done in a manner so that we can atleast track who it is that is coming into the country.
If you leave your front door open and allow people to come and go from your house as they please, you might get lucky and have someone come through that will help you out by helping you to make improvements to your house. But more often than not all you’re going to get is someone who wants to steal from you or worse yet kill you.
That’s why I keep my house locked up and have a bell at the front door. If I don’t want someone there I can just not let them in. I’m not just for securing the boarder with Mexico I’m for securing ALL our boarders. We need to know who is coming and going all around.
As for karma no I don’t believe in it. I believe that God is the ultimate judge of good and evil, and that one day we will all be accountable to him.
For right now though I want to make sure that my family is safe, my country is safe, and the laws which so many have died upholding are kept. I also want to make sure that anyone who is in this country can appreciate the blessings we have here, and frankly you cannot appreciate something you don’t work for if you just steal it.
Are the Mexican people hard workers yes. Are they good people? I’m pretty sure most of them are. Did those who are here illegally break the law to get here? Yes. Should they be penilized by paying back taxes, and waiting for citizenship like everyone else who came before them? Of course they should it’s only fair.
Why didn’t they just sing this version? This is authentic, untouched and in Spanish.
http://usinfo.state.gov/esp/home/topics/us_society_values/national_symbols/anthem_spanish.html
Why change the words?
Thanks MDiaz,
Well put.. and too bad for folks like MrJohnson, who himself seems like a reclusive snail living in a glass house. Foreboding are his words, not sure if he’d know an illegal if he saw one. AND NOThanks MDiaz,
Well put.. and too bad for folks like MrJohnson, who himself seems like a reclusive snail living in a glass house. Foreboding are his words, not sure if he’d know an illegal if he saw one. AND NO
We’re talking about those that are nice, sincere, hard-working people who are truly working to better themselves… with one BIG obstacle in their, and that’s their citizenship and the fact that they’re breaking the law and enough is enough.
(The correct POST_)
Thanks MDiaz,
Well put.. and too bad for folks like MrJohnson, who himself seems like a reclusive snail living in a glass house. Foreboding are his words; not sure if he’d know an illegal if he saw one. AND NO !!! We’re talking about those that are nice, sincere, hard-working people who are truly working to better themselves… with one BIG obstacle in their way, and that’s their citizenship and the fact that they’re breaking the law and enough is enough.. it should have been addressed over 4 administrations ago, when the issue was first causing problems.
People tend to pick and choose segments of United States history to support their cause. I hope no one uses the genocide of Native Americans as a tradition they desire to emulate. This statement is what it all boils down to, “However, to do so without any regard for our immigration laws and to later demand full rights and American citizenship is unacceptable.” Over 300 years worth of my ancestors came to this country, and all did it legally. Many came for the exact same reasons that today’s illegal immigrants are coming. But they had honor and followed the legal process. Quite frankly, if this new “tradition” of skipping the process continues and is promoted by our government, I think I’ll go back to the old country… that is if Sweden accepts me as someone with the qualities they desire in their citizens. Being American, I might not get in.
The american indians deserved to live but they also deserved indoctrination. If a tribe of humans live like animals one should not simply respect that and let them go, it is our responsiblity to educate all fairly and make them civilized. Otherwise ignorance is bliss and science and society dies to individualism ….
That’s why I’m Agnostic, I think a pre-concieved notion of any kind is wrong when it is somthing that you have no proof of and contridicts many. And culture and language goes with this too, another conflict in societies.
Man must learn that we must work togethor as one and stop doing things for the sake of doing them as before.
I dream of science one day creating a new race of human that is a combination of all, and one language agreed upon that is easy to learn and makes sense…otherwise history will repeat itself like the american indians killing off the people before them, us killing them later, and someone killing us in the future…etc..etc …
How did the American Indians live like animals? Because they only killed what they ate, or because they didn’t alter the terrain of the earth by chopping down every tree and poluting every stream? Wow that’s really barbaric of them.
The fact is the early settlers had one job, and one job only as Christians. They were supposed to tell them about God, and let them decide. Not beat God into them. There was no need for the bloodshed that caused so many lives. That was not God that was greed.
I am a Christian and I believe I have a duty to tell people about Christ, but I don’t force anyone to accept my beliefs. Christ said “I stand at the door and knock” not “I’ve just kicked your door in now listen”.
I do agree that we have to work together to try and make this world better, but I also know that without God it’s a pointless act.
NY Jaeger said it all
I have to agree with the notion that Mexicans and other latino groups base our economy. I also know that the constitution of the United States will permit it. However, most of the people who post comments on this website really deface their people by their racist remarks towards “white people” and their cursing! A previous post, by Ana, really infuriated me! She is trying to fight racism and defend her people yet she hypocritically curses “white people” … As long as idiots like her, President Bush, and all the other racists are alive than I doubt peace, equality, and unity can be attained.
Thats all.