Holiday enlightenment?

Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:16 a.m. MDT
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A newspaper opinion paper and some Internet research has led me to the steps of enlightenment. No longer will I be jingoistic or patriotic in my decisionmaking — or in my acceptance of all things Latino ... or should I say, Mexican.

The person who wrote that opinion is really funny. Insultingly so. To label all Latinos as people who celebrate the "Mexican resistance" against French occupiers back in the 1860s is egotistical. To insinuate that the rest of America doesn't recognize the day because we are close-minded, bigoted, overbearingly nationalistic racists is a poor reflection on the author.

Keep pushing this issue and you may find that those forced to celebrate this day, despite their "fear of change," recognize it as a "faux holiday" in observance of the fall of Mexico to the French and their little dictator, Maximilian, and not because of the weak reasons of the author.

Michael Porter

Orem

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