It has been a few months since I wrote, too much going on primarily trying to survive.
I did publish my book "If Jesus Could Not Save Himself, How Would He Save Me: A California Mexican in an Anglo Midwestern Protestant Faith". It is available through Amazon.com I have had a few friends who read it and they gave me a B- which I think is about right. It is short, not too profound or imaginitive but that's how I write my non-fiction stuff without using science, English folklore or Greek tragedy. I hated that writing, still do because I can't understand British, it reminds me of Spanish from Mexico, they write and write and don't say much. Another friend told me he didn't like it because it was about religion and that should be private, he said he liked my other works. I liked Ramiro's honesty.
The presidential election came and went and Mr. Obama won because Romney reminded us of the Reagan years especially for Mexican Americans. Those were years were we went hungry, were block cheese that did not melt on the quesadillas was the extension of the neglected affirmative action we lived through. I know there's been mention about the hispanic vote and immigration but Mexican Americans don't care about legalizing others when economically they are experiencing high unemployment. Even legal immigrants have better employment rates than us but the fear of a mean CEO as the president scared us all. Vulture businessmen who are viewed as some generator of employment is not logical and absurd, they are there to make a profit so if it can be done by laying off, or hiring the issue is their own profit regardless of the benefit to society. We did not want to live through a worse recession. Now socially Romney would have been better because Obama's embrace of gay issues (like those Whites need help), women's issues (though those rape comments were beyond stupidity, a violent crime is a violent crime), even the Dream Act and abortion are all secondary societal needs. I am not a conservative but these issues are not even liberal especially when conservative White women can speul venom but people are afraid to tell the retard comments to shut the hell up. Shut up for your ignorant and racist comments! Now I have opposed legalization of foreigners not in the US legally but even I have a problem with legal residents because they progress more than me as a Mexican American. Legal residents are a competitive threat because they are more competition in the educated and post education employment realm because in simple terms there are less opportunities. I have a problem with a French (born) woman teaching full time in a community college or a Salvadorian born community college president. So they are more academically prepared than a US born who actually has more MA degrees or from better institutions, I doubt that a UC degree is inferior to a Cal State.
So all these people not American by birth are given access and they don't care about about my phlight, as I was once stupidly told by some one who was a mojado, undocumented until the age of 18, "that's the way it is" and had not qualms about saying it. Screw them, they can discriminate but I can't oppose them. So I oppose any attempt to legalize and hopefully the Republicans can hold their ground there. Otherwise, Ill find myself crawling to retirement pretty much were I began when I worked at a supermarket when I turned 18. But the fear of Reaganomics returning scared me and not just me. All this talk about the Hispanic vote is really much ado about nothing, in reality the Whites are divided, Blacks generally vote Democrat and so do Mexican Americans, they just came out in higher numbers for Obama from Colorado west because outside of that, they don't really matter. The economy is still struggling just as my brother's Hostess truck driving job ended because the bakers went on strike and the CEO's got their great cut, various of them. Mario stated, "this is an example of what Romney would've done en grand scale", so our life proceeds now without twinkies and ding dongs. As I learned from my father in the 70's, no job is ever secure.
On another tragic note, my friend Delia's niece suffered a tragic loss as her son and husband were killed by a Haitian neighbor who broke in and shot them. I bring it up because such tragedy occurred to somebody I know and because I lived on that street 99th Street in Inglewood between 1983-1985 where I have good memories of a neighborhood that was safe and tranquil except for that crazy Cuban lady who wanted slave labor which I was never good for. I just stayed away from her. This mother will forever be pained and her surviving children, may their souls rest in peace and life will be a struggle for those that survived, even anger for years but through years will learn to ease the pain.
Such a tragedy unfortunately!
