Prince William County ain’t standing itself no Messicans
Manassas, Va. land of hopes, dreams. and a hell of a lot of xenophobia.
take a bow, www.helpsaveManassas.org!
so there’s been an awful lot of hispanics moving to suburban Washington, D.C. suburban D.C. is fucking huge. it just goes on, and on, and on. Manassas, as I’ve always known it, is an awful congestion of sprawl. just superhighways and strip malls. and by God, the proud Americans who live there like it the way it is. and to make sure it remains that way, a lot of the local citizenry got the Prince William County board of supervisors to enact a resolution that makes local police ask about citizenship status and directs public services to withhold whatever they legally can from suspected aliens. that means don’t go to a park, don’t go to a doctor, don’t go to school and definitely don’t go to the library, Pedro; we don’t like what you’re doing to our community.
the most kick-ass thing about all of this is the fact that the measure was enacted under some veneer of public safety, take-back-the-streets bullshit. because crime has been dropping in Prince William for the last decade, just like in most of the fucking nation.
so, anyway. American Patriot Greg Letiecq talks a lot of shit and smirks at “yellow journalism,” and his blog (blogs are for assholes) has organized a lot of confused, suburban rednecks into focusing their vitrol on a new minority: the “Mexican.” he’s got a blog, Black Velvet Bruce Li, that’ll come up if you type that into a search engine. and he’s also responsible for Help Save Manassas, which is, sadly, what passes for community activism these days.
not a lot of this post makes sense, but I’ve been reading AP articles on this for the past month at work. PW isn’t too far from here. and these people are having a hard time reconciling the fact that the south is coming north, that it’s willing to do the work that it’s too lazy to do anymore, and there’s no easy way to admit that our communities aren’t static. shit changes. different skin colors may move in. and saying they’re raping, pillaging and spreading disease is desperate and pathetic, because it isn’t true. you don’t like Mexicans, you goofy assholes? write your fucking congressman and tell him you don’t like NAFTA. you might have to give up Always Low Prices at Wal-Mart, but it’ll stem the terrifying wave of construction workers and spanish-speaking grocery stores.
or, you know what? fuck it. just stay on your present course and create an obvious underclass. that’ll fix everything.
Virginia rules. oh, god, Virginia rules.
