Friday, September 28, 2007
ANDREW GREELEY ON POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Andrew Greeley asks the question "When will anti-immigrant bias become politically incorrect?" His purpose is to suggest that Mexican illegals are really not doing anything more wrong than we are doing when we jaywalk or double park. He writes:
To enter the United States without the proper papers is a misdemeanor like double parking. Does it justify a righteous anger that permits storm troopers to break up families or deprive young people of an education or adults of health care, including chemotherapy for cancer?
When will it happen that the American media will treat the "i" word with the same care as they treat the "n" word or the "k" word or the "f" word - all words that are bleeped out or repudiated or cost people their jobs?
When will it happen that his hard working, family-oriented, reliable group of human beings is protected from the storm troopers and the vigilantes who are like the Ku Klux Klan? When will Mexican immigrants become politically correct? Not in this generation.
He claims that we should not stereotype Mexican illegals who "don't drive trucks safely". Well, some of them don't. They don't get licenses even though they get jobs that require them to drive. I know from experience. One of them hit my brother-in-law's pick-up by running a stop sign. My sister-in-law's neck was broken in the accident. It was hardly the equivalent of double parking.
Greeley needs to stick to what he is supposed to know best--Catholicism. His wanderings into sociology, while being a major part of his expertise, are liberally prejudiced to a fault. Breaking the law is, in fact, not Catholic.
