Bienvenido a Los Estados Unidos!

Please allow me a quick disclaimer:

I am not a racist. Those who know me well can attest to the fact that I treat people fairly and make no judgments based solely on a person's skin color. I teach young students of all shapes, sizes, colors, and cultural backgrounds. I do my best to view people in terms of behavior, never race.

Great way to start a blog entry huh? I just wanted to say that upfront because the things I am about to say frequently get responses by non-critical-thinking people as being racist. That sort of response is generally an excuse for not wanting to seriously consider the issue at hand.

I was driving to Gilbert last Friday to drop my tax documents off at my tax guy's office. I noticed that the I-10/202 transition was slammed because the 24th Street exit was closed due to a large group of protestors marching up toward Camelback Road. The protestors were marching for civil rights for illegal immigrants. The group of about 20,000 people were specifically protesting a bill from the House of Representatives and were headed toward the office of Senator John Kyl to express their displeasure (why they chose to picket Kyl's office is beyond me -- he doesn't support the bill in question).

After I got home, I turned on the news to see the crowd of protestors chanting (mostly in Spanish) and waving flags (mostly the flag of Mexico). It struck me as odd that a group of people who were wanting special rights for illegal immigrants in America, would proudly fly the Mexican flag during their demonstration. If I didn't know what was going on, I would have thought that Mexican citizens were demonstrating outside government buildings in Mexico City.

My views on illegal immigration aside, I have a big problem with people who would go through great lengths to escape from their country, and then get here and give honor to that same country by flying their flag on American soil. It boggles my mind. If they see America as a land of great opportunities that their country cannot give them, then why not fly the flag of the Unites States during the protest? I could respect that more.

The true problem, in my opinion, is the insane push for multiculturalism. I have decided that