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2002-04-16

Selena (b. Selena Quintanilla Perez)
B. 4.16.71 Lake Jackson, Texas / D. 3.31.95 Corpus Christi, Texas
Assassination / Gunshot

Hispanic culture is one I find intensely frustrating. I don�t think Hispanics are asking enough of themselves. After I�d learned a little Spanish I started listening in on subway conversations and the like. More than a decade later I�ve no more than a handful of times heard ANYTHING that wasn�t all about trabajo. Thirty-six jobs apiece and they don�t support the arts, don�t dress well, don�t set up attractive shops. Labor of the cheapest most exploited sort, their sole idea of organizing is to buy larger television sets so that a larger portion of the people they live with can see Telemundo without leaving their store-credit-got modular berths.
The women lose their looks too young; their offspring teem and are obesity-inclined; and the reeling suicidal savagery to which the Hispanic male is reduced by intoxication�therefore frequently�it�s no urban myth.
As to the Hispanic middle class, its silence is deafening. Why? They all keep servants! Stunted closer-to-Incan creatures who barely speak Spanish and who will never read, scrub their floors and finger-press their tortillas�en casa, tax free! Maintain as a privilege unmolested by law the unrestrained beating of servants who steal: if the Hispanic middle class ever marched, this would be on the banners.
Untranslated.
And then there�s J. Lo.
Wherever they go might as well be a dictatorship.

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