The arrest of a black Harvard Professor in his own home sent a wave of racial microwaves across the planet (see story). For arduous weeks the black verses white conflict has dominated the media and the Mexican population of the US is beginning to feel as if they have been discriminated against and neglected. A recent poll indicated that 78.3% of Mexicans believe that their exclusion from recent racial attacks on channels like FOX news is a form of discrimination. Africanlegend was on the scene of a peaceful protest in Washington DC, which was the ending point of the Million Mexican March. This march was for the Mexican's right to be discriminated against on over zealous news networks in equal measure to all other races. It had the turn out and spirit that must have been present in the historic Million Man March of 1995.
Mexicans, Mexican Americans and Americans alike gathered in one voice. “This is ridiculous! Why is nobody paying attention to Mexicans anymore? This is reverse, sideways, back to front discrimination. They can't just pick a group and focus on them for a few weeks. We have rights too!” an irate Cambridge resident called Isaac yelled out to no one in particular. His participation in this march miffed everyone involved since being the lone black person in the march he represented part of the subject of this protest. The general sentiment was that if this country was going to discriminate against people, it should be an equal opportunity discriminator. Or better yet that it should stop burying racial issues and waiting for silly events to make them apparent and divide a nation.
This uprising is coming off the back of Fox News correspondent Bill O'reilly and CNN's Lou Dobbs running sixty minute shows that failed to mention Mexicans for the first time in over 5 years. The shows usually target Mexicans and illegal immigrants, blaming them for an entire country’s ailments. The ailments have included things like: cancer, swine flu, drought, and obesity.
Emotions were running high and everybody had something to say. “It has just been about Obama and Gates and we are sick of it. My cousin tells me they had even stopped building the wall across the Mexican border during this fiasco!” These were the words of Miguel, a Mexican actually contracted to build the very same wall he was talking about. It remains to be seen, but for now we can see society has been called upon to exercise equality in all things, even in discrimination.
