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discuss your frequent derogatory use of the word "Anglo's" and "whites."

You said your last name is Herrera and that you are Latino. According to the Instituto Genealógico e Histórico Latino-Americano, Herrera is a Spanish name that originated in the Villa of Pedraza, in the province of Segovia, both in Castile and Leon. It comes from the Spanish word "Herería", meaning a place where ironwork is made or "worker in iron, a blacksmith.

This Castellan surname has a commonality with my surname Lee, isn't that odd? You might wonder, what could that be? Well, these two surnames share a common ancestry...you call that ancestry "anglo"; anthropologists call our mutual race Caucasian or Caucasoid. So when you denigrate "anglos" and point an accusing finger at them, you have three "anglo" fingers pointing back at yourself! lol Please, don't take my word for it, contact your nearest anthropologist for verification, that is, if races means that much to you?

I'm sure there was a time when some Germans would have been stunned to find their common ancestry was the same as the Jews, but that's reality for you, doesn't play favorites, no matter how much you may wish it otherwise.

If you think that is enlightening, just wait till you read what comes next!

You made the assumption that your parents came here to do the work other "white people felt above". I'm "white" and I still do that work, so I'm not too impressed. In fact, tomorrow I'm painting young walnut trees to keep them from getting sunburned. Want to come out to the ranch and help me paint small trees for $7.50 an hour? It's hot, dirty and hard work! Oh, let me guess, "no thanks", right? Hey, I don't blame you! I don't want to do it either, but I have too. Besides, I bet you can do better elsewhere. And here's where I am going with this...when your parents first came here, they did what they could, with what skills they had, and more power to them. You have a right to be proud of them for their struggle, hard work is honorable! I wish more people on welfare could have that character building experience.

If you don't want to do that same hard farm work, are you saying you're "superior" or it's beneath you or are you just saying no because you can get a better job elsewhere?

Getting that better job is something that is happening to most of the Hispanic kids of farm laborers that came here to work on a temporary basis. They don't want to work as hard as their parents for low pay, (duh) they want to better themselves; it's just human nature to feel that way and it's ok! Very few of the younger generation actually want to do hard manual labor on the farm, because they can do something else, unless they own the farm.

People are people, it's not a race thing, Amanda.

You said, "The Anglo race always needs someone or some group to feel superior too..." Again, an unfair stereotype. Uh, Amanda...that's called "bigotry" and you are doing exactly what you accuse "Anglo" people of doing. You are now using a mistaken racial identity to place yourself above another. What is worse, you lose your credibility when you use this race card. You alienate yourself from others by seeing your identity solely as a Latino, not as an American citizen with all the rights, responsbilities and privilages of any other citizen, regardless of their skin color!

Then you say, the "Anglo race is scared because even as we are Americans by birth we hold are culture and traditions close and we support our Native country's our language, are heritage that is rich with culture and we are strong together."

Similar words were probably said a "Leibstandarte-SS" meeting in Germany around 1939. Our race is strong our culture is rich...yours is weak, you are nothing, you are scared, we shall take by force what is rightfully ours...Seig Heil! Seig Heil! C'mon Amanda, that's not really you is it?

Don't you see how you're demonizing and blaming "whites - Anglos" for struggles that many of them went through just like your parents? Why bother to go there?

Think of those Chinese, Irish, Italian, Cuban, etc., all were immigrants, and they faced many hardships, some just a few generations back as they started out, working low paying labor jobs. Then it was your families turn to enter America. They came like everyone else, looking for a better life. They entered on the bottom rung of the ladder, but with determination, hard work, skill and education they did better so you could do better. But, it seems like you are saying you want it all now without making any of the efforts of past generations because you are entitled, but why?

This is the great melting pot society...so melt already, don't try to create an elitist sub-culture bent on destroying the main culture and taking over by force or fear. Thats called robbery and it won't work, it's self destructive. Just like walking off the job for a week. Try it and see how you like being unemployed.

But, by all means, feel free to work for change within the system as a red, white and blue American doing what is best for America, not whats best for just a few and certainly not as a "brown beret" racist! "Ask not what your country can do for you, but you can do for your country." JFK. And while you do this, I hope in your newly acquired wisdom, that you recognize the need for an orderly, fair system of legal immigration just like all the countries around the world subscribe too.

Your idea of "manifest destiny" by race went out about 150 years ago. Time to get up to speed with the real world.

¡Americano primero! ¡Dios bendice América, tierra del libre!