reposted 5/1/06

[moved from Say Grrr 5/1/06]

Now I am just offended!

People, get a clue. It's not all about the Latinos. You are not the only immigrants in this country.

So, while I admit to being severely cranky right now, this article really grates on my last nerve. Why? Because,

1. It makes me actually agree with Bush *shudder*
2. How do you have the nerve to compare some pop culture inspired musical gibberish to the National Anthem?
1. It's only audience is one group of people; it is definetely not about America, our country or values or ideals
   
2. It's lyrics are so so trite, make no sense, and puh-lease, cannot compose to Francis Scott Key's prose
   

Heck, why not translate the Constitution into Spanish while you're at it. Oh, how about making the official language Spanish. Then, we'll do it all over again for the Chinese, the Russians, the Koreans, the Africans - this obviously would be in french as well -, the Indians, well for everyone around the world. We'll have multiple versions. Or do these, or any others, immigrant groups not rate such special attention?

Per the shite lyrics, who are you battling? Americans? Isn't that counterintuitive.
And, by the way, you have to earn your freedom. It does not magically get bestowed upon you because you set foot up on our shores. Finally, one other fact.

If you are here illegally, you are breaking the law. End of story. No ifandsorbuts. You have no expectation of any freedoms under the law.

I mean shit, my parents struggled to become citizens, learned to become American. No one fucking handed them carte blanche to convert everything in English into Korean. It's called learning the language and uh-sim-mil-lating. That is what you do to fit into a new situation. They learned how to read and write in English. It's still broken and rusty but they have no expectation of it being any other way than English. Seriously, how about we translate all the traffic signs into Spanish? Does the government not accomodate enough to make governmental services available in a variety of languages? While I am at it, can we not make it the Driver's License exam in English only? All the sign are in English.

But critics are particularly upset with a remix to be released in June, containing lyrics in English that condemn U.S. immigration laws as "mean."

Mean? What the fuck? What are you a child? I DARE you to go to any other country and deal with their immigration laws. I DARE YOU!

Joshua Campos, 30, an accountant who lives in Spanish Harlem, said if the Spanish-language anthem were played at a ballgame, he'd actually be more likely to sing along

Well Joshua, just for you we'll have to take that up with the baseball leagues. But only one weekend a year, we'll have reserve the other weekends for the Chinese, Kurds, Polish, Jamaicans, you know.

"This is a melting pot," said Campos, whose mother is from Cuba, and father is from Brazil. "You're not going to eradicate the English version. It just shows that there's a population in this country that is American but that is also Latino."

I lost my birth certificate recently but it must say that I'm an American Latino-Asian, and my friend from Kenya is an American Latino-African, and my other friend is an American Latino-Canadian. My bad. I had no idea.

If you want to sing "Nuestro Himno" go ahead. No one is stopping you. That's the great part about all this stupidity. Sing it loud and clear, especially about how the immigration laws are "mean", about how this country sucks. While you do that, I'll be singing the national anthem at Yankee Stadium next week in English. And while you sing "Nuestro Himno", I'll be listening to Ricky Martin sing Livin' La Vida Loca.