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Richard Rodriguez writes of the border at the US-Mexican border: "Cynicism, hypocrisy and an entirely un-American urge to exclude are the foundation of the barrier that stretches along the border with Mexico."

Bollard Fence, Los Algodones, Baja California, 09/05/10. (David Taylor/Special to The Times)

Comments

+9 # Guest 2010-09-05 21:45

We are building a wall that does more to symbolize a barrier that we'd rather hide behind than merely preventing outsiders in. I have a better idea: build a wall around the criminals in Washington that have abused their power and their corporate owners, Lock them within and throw away the keys.

+9 # Guest 2010-09-05 23:26

This is an excellent piece of news. It makes a difference to me if the truth be told.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-06 04:40

Unless you, like my daughter-in-law, are a descendant of a native American tribe, you are a descendant of immigrants. That means almost all of us. Now the philosophy seems to be "we got ours, but you can't get yours." This is so hypocritical and unworthy of a nation that was founded on the principle of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

+7 # Guest 2010-09-06 06:34

The true facts are, Mexicans are native to the Americas. But the US trying to rewrite it's History based on lies, ignorance or bigotry, refuses to admit that. It always has. The term "Latino" has been applied to Mexicans and Mexican Americans because it easier to admit that Mexicans are "European" which is based on some truth because it was the Spanish and Portuguese that interbred with native women during the colonialism period. But almost all Mexicans and Latin American, for that matter, perfer "native blood" than European. That is the primary reason that even blond blue eyes Hispanics in Latin American claim to be "brown" instead of white. To me, labeling us "Latino" is an insult because it ties us to Europe!

The fact that Latin Americans are an inter-racial people, their "Hispanic" so do for now. The insult now is, the US census is trying to classified Mexicans-Mexican Americans as mostly "white or black" which in fact we are multi-color.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-06 05:15

God, I love Richard Rodriquez! That wonderful prince of a man with his glowing sensibility and gift for language! To bring in Christo and Jeanne-Claude is a wonderfully deft way to make a contrast between beauty, grace, and humanity on the one hand, and our stupid, ugly, hideous wall.

Rodriquez goes to our heart--our American heart. And that's where our problems lie. They lie and lie.

Where is our President? He seemed such a bright guy when he was campaigning. Did someone kidnap him after the election, and dress up a "double" in an Obama suit?

Our Constitution provides for replacement of a President if it can be ascertained that he is brain dead. Maybe it is time to start looking into that.

+5 # Guest 2010-09-06 06:14

Most US citizens bask in ignorance which leads to arrogance and bigotry.
Obviously, History, geography and more important, the language of the Americas, Spanish, are ignored which has led to the disrespect almost all Latin American nations in the Western Hemisphere (the Americas) have acquired for US and it's citizens.

For decades, if not for centuries, the US has ignored and discredit everything Latin American. Yet, these same hateful people claim Latin America as their backyard and interfered by either covert activities to destablize their enocomy furnishing what the US does best, export weapons so they can kill each other, much like it's doing to Mexico, all in the crap of illicit drugs coming into the USA is a lie. In fact, the USA's biggest cash crop is marijuana and biggest exporter of weapon are the problems that need to be discussed.

The insatiable craving and the inability to remedy the crises has to let to finger pointing along the border.

+4 # Guest 2010-09-06 06:27

The Great Wall of China didn't keep the Mongol,s out. The building of that wall was an expression of fear and weakness.
Isn't it the same here? But the question should be: who is afraid, and of what?
Profiteers alone cannot explain such things.

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