4th of July

Today is always an interesting day, I remember that the first time I voted here I had just arrived and I voted for George W. Bush. The guy is passionate when he speaks, and Gore choosing Lieberman was a horrid mistake, look at him now, following McCain. Still, I voted and I went and got my Social Security number and my Driver's License and while I have always been an American Citizen I had never really lived here, but the pride has always been there, as is the love for this land.
I'm in America and I'm an American. I speak English and I fear God. I'm a sinner and a tax payer, my dad was a Korean War Vet and I'm registered with the Selective Service. I'm also Mexican and that's where I was born, and I pay taxes over there too (in case you thought Mexicans don't pay taxes, I do ...twice) then again I'm an exception to the rule.
Today, however is not about me. it is about this Great Nation.
We are multicultural and we love and hate everybody.
We nuked Hiroshima but we love Karate Kid.
We don't agree with how China violates human rights but we love made in Honk Kong.
We volunteer as minute men to shoot Mexicans in the border but we love Cancun and making a total ass of ourselves at any Mexican Restaurant (they even put the pictures on the walls).
We still have racism as a social problem but we cry when the Williams and the Woods and the Jordan's raise our flag up high, against the best in the world.
We dance to Tupac and Garth Brooks and Shakira and we love saying "Arroz con pollo"
As different as we are, redneck is still something no one wants to be... and yet we all watch Nascar, wear sandals with socks, jeans with high heels and chew gum loudly. We not only make the worst voice mail recordings, but we also have El Debarge or the Bee-gees as a ringback tone. We decorate our cellphones with shiny plastic diamonds, put puppies in pink purses and believe that Elvis is still alive, then we mix it all and plaster it on myspace. Who told us that Jessica Parker was sexy? Gabrielle Union is sexy. Still, I've been to many places and it is here where I see most of the children going to school, receiving health care and growing in homes. It is here where I see women leaving their abusive husbands and raising their kids on their own, it is here where I see huge medical and technological advances, it is here where I know I must follow the law and it is here that I've decided to make my home. To me that's reason enough to fight for.
Unfortunately there are some people who live here and yet whose relatives never served in the military, who don't fear God, whose vote doesn't matter, whose Social Security number and Driver's Licenses are only documents that enable them to be here. Even though they don't feel pride or love for this land, quite the opposite: they hate us.
They are in America and some are becoming American. They speak English (really bad I must say) and follow and teach a distorted version of one of the oldest religions in the World, one not so different from Christianism.
I'm a sinner and I can tell you that there are 4 virgins per men in this world and I already had mine and yours too, so if you where told that you would have 20 or 40 waiting for you when you die I can assure that women don't really put out if you're dead, and if they are virgins they also don't wait very long.
Today, however is not about me. it is about this Great Nation.
We are multicultural and we love and hate those who hate us.
If you thought you were hiding and that we don't know who you are: today I'm letting you know that we do, that for us today is September 12Th and that we will never forget. We are just waiting until you step over the line again.
We are multicultural and today we all celebrate, today we remember your coward attack on all of us, today we remember our brothers and sisters and husbands and wives and daughters and friends and cousins and nieces and neighbors serving overseas, and when you see us looking at you at the traffic light, on the street or at the store and you feel that hatred, remember, it is hate, and we know who you are, and you are NOT one of US.