See I told you, "racists".

[The*Empress]

Mexican President Under Fire for Remark About Blacks
By MORGAN LEE, AP


MEXICO CITY (May 15) - President Vicente Fox came under criticism Saturday after saying Mexicans were willing to take jobs ''that not even blacks want to do in the United States.''

Fox's remark Friday came a day after Mexico announced it would formally protest recent U.S. immigration reforms, including the decision to extend walls along the border and make it harder for illegal migrants to get driver's licenses.

''There's no doubt that the Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States,'' Fox told a meeting of the Texas-Mexico Frozen Food Council in the western city of Puerto Vallarta on Friday.

The Mexican newspaper Milenio cited ''Vicente Fox's racist comment'' in a small front-page headline, while the newspaper Reforma called the president's words ''controversial.''

The Rev. Jesse Jackson told CNN that the comments were ''unwitting, unnecessary and inappropriate.''

He said the president ''should not confuse the need for sound legal immigration policy between the two countries, which is important, and the border disputes between the two countries, with a spurious comparison.''

Mexico's foreign relations secretary, Luis Derbez, said Fox was not motivated by racism but was emphasizing that ''Mexican migrants are making great contributions in the United States and that their role is a positive role.''


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[Steel X]

one of my friends used to tell me that all mexican guys are homosexual.

I guess he has some point in there...

(remember, it's NOT me who said it...my friend did so don't look at me like that.)



(seriously, I believe everyone are treated equal, but anyone who say racist remarks are just gay, which means stupid...so yep just clearing things up, if you didn't know. peace.)

 

[mlkshkgrl]

Ain't that a b*tch coming from the man in Mexico that wants Americans..including blacks....to pay for the insurance of the illegal immagrants coming from his country....

 

[Oceanbreeze]

I also wouldn't believe everything you see/read, either. Remember, the media protrays "news" with whatever slant they choose, so be wary. It may be that the Mexican Pres is the biggest racist to ever grace the planet Then again, he might also have said something that the media quoted in a unfavorable way. You just never know...

 

[mlkshkgrl]

Mexico's Fox Won't Apologize for Racist Comment

MEXICO CITY — President Vicente Fox (search) refused to apologize Monday for saying Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won't — a comment widely viewed as acceptable in a country where blackface comedy is still considered funny and nicknames often reflect skin color.

Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, said Mexican and foreign news media have misinterpreted the remark as a racial slur. He said the president was speaking in defense of Mexican migrants as they come under attack by the new U.S. immigration measures that include a wall along the U.S.-California border.

Stung by the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants, many Mexicans — including Mexico City's archbishop — said Fox was just stating a fact.

"The president was just telling the truth," said Celedonio Gonzalez, a 35-year-old carpenter who worked illegally in Dallas for six months in 2001. "Mexicans go to the United States because they have to. Blacks want to earn better wages, and the Mexican — because he is illegal — takes what they pay him."

But the Rev. Jesse Jackson (search) said Fox should apologize.

"His statement had the impact of being inciting and divisive," Jackson said Monday, noting that in many U.S. cities tensions are already high between blacks and Latinos because they compete for scarce jobs and often have children crowded into underfunded schools.

Another American civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton (search), said the comment was especially disturbing because Fox was educated in the United States and "he is not unaware of the racial sensitivities here."

Fox made the comment Friday during a public appearance in Puerto Vallarta, saying: "There's no doubt that Mexican men and women — full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work — are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."

Responding to the criticism during his daily news conference Monday, Aguilar read a statement expressing Fox's "enormous respect for minorities, whatever their racial, ethnic or religious origin."

"The purpose (of the comment) was none other than to show the importance Mexican workers have today in the development and progress of U.S. society," Aguilar said, repeating a statement released Saturday.

He refused to comment further, saying only that Fox would "intensify his diplomatic efforts to protect the integrity of the Mexicans living in that country."

The dispute reflects Fox's growing frustration with U.S. immigration policy and deteriorating relations between the two nations.

The Mexican government was expected to send a diplomatic letter to the United States on Monday protesting recent measures that include requiring states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally, making it harder for migrants to gain amnesty, and overriding environmental laws to build a barrier along the California border with Mexico.

The measures have been widely criticized in Mexico, where residents increasingly see the United States as adopting anti-migrant policies.

Even Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, the archbishop of Mexico City, criticized the U.S. policy as ridiculous and defended Fox's comments, saying: "The declaration had nothing to do with racism. It is a reality in the United States that anyone can prove."

While Mexico has a few, isolated black communities, the population is dominated by descendants of the country's Spanish colonizers and its native Indians. Comments that would generally be considered openly racist in the United States generate little attention here.

One afternoon television program regularly features a comedian in blackface chasing actresses in skimpy outfits, while an advertisement for a small, chocolate pastry called the "negrito" — the little black man — shows a white boy sprouting an afro as he eats the sweet. Many people hand out nicknames based on skin color.

Victor Hugo Flores, a 30-year-old bond salesman, cringed when asked what he thought of Fox's comment, but said it isn't too different from popular sayings celebrating what Mexicans see as a strong work ethic among blacks.

"It was bad, but it really isn't racist," he said. "Maybe the president shouldn't have said it. But here we say things like, 'He works like a black person,' and it's normal."

 

[mlkshkgrl]

Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, said Mexican and foreign news media have misinterpreted the remark as a racial slur. He said the president was speaking in defense of Mexican migrants as they come under attack by the new U.S. immigration measures that include a wall along the U.S.-California border.

Stung by the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants, many Mexicans — including Mexico City's archbishop — said Fox was just stating a fact.

Okay, so now we're back in Kindergarten...um we wont let you in our club so you're going to bash us....oh yeah and while we're being mean to you we want you to give us your toys too....what

 

[The*Empress]

Some Blacks don't get along with Mexicans.
I see them arguing in chatroom in AOL.