On my way home, I stopped by the cluster of mailboxes near the entrance of our complex to get our mail. We often forget and with ads coming in on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, our mailbox is pretty full by Thursday. There’s a bulletin board on the back wall of the mail center where people post up crap and announcements.
There’s been a letter from management about properly using the security gates around our complex and about checking our mailboxes on a regular basis otherwise the postman will assume we have moved for the last couple of months. Today, there was a new message on this letter. It stated:
INS will be picking up all wetbacks 4/20/07 please leave now
I read the message four or five times trying to grasp why someone would post that. Then I stood there trying to figure out why it was written there. Then I thought to all of the raids going on near Dan the Man’s work and wondered if this would really be happening. Then, I took my mail and continued to wonder. I wished I’d had my camera so that I could take a picture of it and analyze it further.
When I got home, I told Dan the Man and he insisted that we go take it down.
But what if it’s for real? What if they come raid our complex on the 20th?
Strange things are happening in this country, especially in the area I live in. People are still very xenophobic, and the diversion of attention from Iraq to immigration is really stirring the pot.
When I took down the warning, I slipped it into the mail drop at the office and added my own message “Is this true?”
There’s been a letter from management about properly using the security gates around our complex and about checking our mailboxes on a regular basis otherwise the postman will assume we have moved for the last couple of months. Today, there was a new message on this letter. It stated:
INS will be picking up all wetbacks 4/20/07 please leave now
I read the message four or five times trying to grasp why someone would post that. Then I stood there trying to figure out why it was written there. Then I thought to all of the raids going on near Dan the Man’s work and wondered if this would really be happening. Then, I took my mail and continued to wonder. I wished I’d had my camera so that I could take a picture of it and analyze it further.
When I got home, I told Dan the Man and he insisted that we go take it down.
But what if it’s for real? What if they come raid our complex on the 20th?
Strange things are happening in this country, especially in the area I live in. People are still very xenophobic, and the diversion of attention from Iraq to immigration is really stirring the pot.
When I took down the warning, I slipped it into the mail drop at the office and added my own message “Is this true?”
3 comments:
whoa. who is allowed to post signs at your complex? i'd complain or something.
You can thank that looser Carlos Mencia for making it ok for people to call Mexicans "wetbacks", and the many self hating latinos who laugh at his jokes.
I was shocked to find out recently that the INS actually called their crackdown on illegal immigrants Operation Wetback back in the 1950s. It's sad that people aren't much more enlightened over 50 years later.
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