Does President Fox Think Mexicans Are Stupid?
By Robert Klein Engler (05/20/05)
It seems President Fox of Mexico does not like people pointing out why he is a failure. To hide his failure, he decides to not only insult Americans, but Mexicans as well.
Just look at one of Fox's recent comments: "There is no doubt that Mexicans...are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States." He said this in a speech broadcast in part on local radio and reported on newspaper web sites (Reuters, Fri. May 13).
LibertyPost.org reports the comment this way: "There's no doubt that the Mexican men and women...are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."
Nasdaq.com has the following variation: "There's no doubt that the Mexican men and women...are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."
Many in the liberal U. S. media have asked Fox to apologize for these remarks because they view them as racist. I see it differently. I see his remarks as a slur on Mexicans by their own president.
What Fox is really saying is that Mexicans are so stupid they are willing to take jobs that enlightened African-Americans won't. African-Americans are smart enough to know that they were slaves once, and have no desire to be slaves again. According to Fox, poor, dumb Mexicans, not smart enough to blame their own government for no jobs at home, go to the U. S. where they become a new generation of slaves.
Instead of building a country where all Mexicans have jobs, Fox wants to send his poor and jobless citizens to the U. S as illegal immigrants. Maybe "the Mexican men and women--full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work" should wise up and decide not to do stupid work in America anymore, but demand good jobs in their own country.
A step towards this enlightenment would be for Mexicans to kick Fox and his cronies out of office and then turn them over to "coyotes." Let's see what kind of work Fox can get in the U. S. as a failed politician after he sneaks across the border. Maybe there's an African-American contractor in Chicago who will hire him. It will be dirty work, but as president of Mexico he's used to it.
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