Disturbing Words

Georgie Anne Geyer * wrote in her syndicated column:

The most disturbing thing about this year's May Day was how these mostly illegal aliens, and some others, corrupted the language disturbingly, as did the communists.

Calling them "undocumented" does not change their status from "illegal", nor is "amnesty" to be granted by someone's demands. Close to home here in San Diego, I had been unable to comprehend demonstrations on this (U.S.) side of the border featuring Mexican flags. Isn't that the country these people hate so much that they're willing to risk their lives sneaking across the border?

How did this May Day refusal to work or attend school demonstrate economic power? It was in no way a boycott. All it meant to me was that a new client and I found three closed restaurants when we met. Despite the rocky start, he's contracted with me to edit his book. As Georgie Anne pointed out, the Mexicans' rally did not resemble "the great civil rights struggle in America" of the colored/Negro/black/African Americans then suffering the effects of slavery.

* Sound-alike in name and sister N.U. alumna.

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