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I find the term "gringo" offensive.
where do I complain?
Occupied America, the fifth edition, includes an image of Fidel Castro on the front cover, and Castro and Che Guevara on the back cover. It refers to white people as gringos and actually includes a quotation on page 323 from Jose Angel Gutierrez of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), who was angry over the cancellation of a government program. He declared:
We are fed up. We are going to move to do away with the injustice to the Chicano and if the gringo doesnt get out of our way, we will stampede over him.
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The American Educational Research Association (AERA), which Bill Ayers serves as a vice-president, includes a Paulo Freire Special Interest Group in his honor. AERA has more than 25,000 members, including educators; administrators; directors of research; persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists.
More open than even Bill Ayers about the mission, Paula Allman wrote Critical Education Against Global Capitalism, incorporating the ideas of Marx, Freire and Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist who emphasized the subversion of Western cultural institutions such as the educational system.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington; founder of La Raza Unida political party; and beneficiary of American generosity: "We have an aging white America. . . . They are dying. . . . They are ******** in their pants with fear! I love it!"
"We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."
And since 1970, he has professed, "Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes."
Arizona school board?? (perhaps even your own university)
The word 'gringo' originated in Cuba when we had troops there and the Marines had a marching song; "Green grows the grass" and so the Cubans called Americans 'gringos.'
Then again, maybe not:
Origin:
184050, Americanism; < Sp: foreign language, foreigner, esp. English-speaking (pejorative); prob. alter. of griego Greek. The belief that word is from the song Green Grow the Lilacs, popular during U.S.-Mexican War, is without substance
The warning follows an indictment unsealed this month in Texas federal court that accuses a Somali man in Texas of running a large-scale smuggling enterprise responsible for bringing hundreds of Somalis from Brazil through South America and eventually across the Mexican border. Many of the illegal immigrants, who court records say were given fake IDs, are alleged to have ties to other now-defunct Somalian terror organizations that have merged with active organizations like Al Shabaab, al-Barakat and Al-Ittihad Al-Islami.