June 28, 2007
She's an American
Every so often, when you least expect it, a Hollywood type says something that makes sense -- doesn't have anything to do with lauding a dictator or trash-talking America. Film babe Jessica Alba is getting a ration from the race pimps for this statement:
"Alba is my last name and I'm proud of that. But that's it. My grandparents were born in California, the same as my parents, and though I may be proud of my last name, I'm American. Throughout my whole life, I've never felt connected to one particular race or heritage, nor did I feel accepted by any. ... I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."
Tell me that didn't make you feel just a little proud about the idea of America, a place where it doesn't matter from where your parents or grandparents came, where immigrants' children will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Of course, not everyone agrees.
One blog post on the comments remarks, “Guess sell-outs come in all races and sizes.” Another calls it a “disturbing hoard of quotes.” Another claims she “hates Mexicans.”
Comments about Alba’s comments include, “F**K YOU THEN, JESSICA…VIVA LA RAZA!!!,” “She should just change her last name to White, then,” and “I thought she could be a good role model for Latinas, but she is a fake, tryin’ to be white.”
Alba represents all that was good about the melting-pot paradigm of the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries, and serves as a forceful rebuke to the multicultural festishists.
Via Joe Sherlock.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 28, 2007 10:46 PM
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Comments
Go Jessica Alba! I'm so sick of all the ignorant people out here constantly having to draw race lines and think that the United States should bend over backwards and cater to foreigners.
I'm American, I was born and raised here regardless of what my religion or skin color is!
Let all of these "Viva La Raza" Ignoramuses get the heck out of our Country if they don't like it. They're bigger Racists than us "Whiteys" could ever be.
Posted by: April at June 29, 2007 11:51 AM
A Latino yelling "Viva La Raza" is the intellectual brother of a skinhead miscreant screaming "white power."
Posted by: Bill H. at June 30, 2007 10:53 AM