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English 725 Seminar Agent Natalie Susi writes in to the Text[t]-Mex Galleryblog with a tip to a gaming blog story on racist, anti-immigrant entertainment; the link is here. A newstory on this tex[t]-mexual travesty is here.
Need a purge--introduce yourself to the work of Louis Hock whose work is on display at the SDSU Art Gallery.
That’s pretty low making a game of people who risk their lives to come to our great country out of desperation to improve their own lives. Nobody got upset when game manufacturers came out with numerous video games that allowed you to be a drug dealer, auto thief, or a cop killer. What’s next, a game that makes fun of one legged soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan? Sure, there are criminals/drug traffickers that migrate across the Mexico border, but they go southbound from San Diego as well. I was born and raised in San Diego, and I have seen the increase in Hispanic gangs, drugs, drunk drivers, etc., but I also have many friends that work here and live in Mexico. I have learned first-hand about their struggles on both sides of the border. I am by no means what I would consider “liberal,” but I do believe that some of our best people/workers, whether here legally or not, are from Mexico. I have done their backbreaking work, and I would gladly pay them to do it for me; and they would gladly accept if for no other reason than to feed themselves and/or their families.
ReplyDeleteI think, however, in this day and age with the threat of terrorism rampant in the world we need to have some way to document anybody that comes into our country; but there are also internal threats that need attention as well. Realistically, I have no better solution than anybody else on how to keep illegals out or how to track them. It’s obvious that building bigger and thicker walls or hiring more border patrol agents doesn’t work, and the Dept. of Homeland Security is merely a political band-aid. After all, if we want to connect illegals from Mexico to a threat to national security, we have to remind ourselves that the attack on the World Trade Center was not done by people to the south; they were from the east.
Todd Wilkinson