Saturday, April 21, 2007

Touch of Evil | Charlton Heston | Waves of Grain | Waves of Illegal Aliens (sic[k]), Undocumented Workers


The mention of Charlton Heston, aka Touch of Evil's Miguel "Mike" Vargas, and his NRA-affiliation got me to thinking and reading yesterday, and it caused me to fall across a Salon.com hosted pdf. Now you would have to be "loco en la cabeza" to underestimate the impact that gang violence is having on major and minor urban spaces from Los Angeles to Detroit, from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to Sao Paulo; however, the particular and sophisticated graphic representation of the same from those gun-loving folks at the National Rifle Association are a tad, shall we say, extreme? In particular, for the purposes of this galleryblog and its lifelong pursuit of "Mexican" and Mexican-American representation is U.S. mass culture, the depiction of Chicano street thugs (latter day banditos)...



and a soon-to-be-deluged white family--this somewhat selective juxtaposition is telling.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, April 25, 2007 at 6:53:00 PM PDT

    This photo of a family waiting to be washed away is very sad because illustrates a solution to erasing the problem. The family seems to be standing strong and are willing to wait the storm than running for shelter else where.
    The message is on those who are not welcome because they stand for change on future laws and lifestyle. -mayra

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  2. AnonymousSaturday, April 28, 2007 at 4:33:00 PM PDT

    no estoy de acuerdo con mayra, como yo lo veo estan representando la migración como una oleada que va a destruir todo. No es así. Esta es gente que va a fusionarse y crear una nueva cultura mixta como de hecho ya lo es la norteamericana.
    yo lo veo mas bien como una ensalada a la que se esta agregando en este momento un ingrediente adicional. el latino. sin mas paranoias.

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