(Thanks to Drudge) In what is symptomatic of what’s gone wrong in the U.S.A., Los Angeles Times sportswriter Bill Plaschke thinks it’s pretty cool that the United States soccer team, playing at home in the Rose Bowl, was soundly booed and the visiting team was cheered by openly America-hostile, pro-Mexico fans that outnumbered the Americans by the thousands. Plaschke says it’s great that Team U.S.A. played before an overwhelmingly Latino crowd that hurled obscenities and hatred at the Americans. Oh – and by the way, as a means of justifying the unsportsmanlike behavior, according to Plaschke, the American team “stinks”.
It’s re-conquista time, mujeres y hombres, as the open Mexican border is fully beginning to manifest itself without disguise or politeness in a spectacle that I’m glad I was not present to witness. And Bill Plaschke believes this is good old American sports fare. Well, make yourself at home, Billy boy. You can count me out.
It was imperfectly odd. It was strangely unsettling. It was uniquely American.
On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in a U.S. stadium … and was smothered in boos.
It was not uniquely American, Plaschke. It was like our team was playing in a hostile foreign country – because they were playing in a hostile foreign country. It’s called Southern California. I grew up there, when it was still a part of The United States.
Its fans were vastly outnumbered. Its goalkeeper was bathed in a chanted obscenity. Even its national anthem was filled with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls.
And all that’s uniquely American? Excuse me while I fight off a wave of nausea here.
Most of these hostile visitors didn’t live in another country. Most, in fact, were not visitors at all, many of them being U.S. residents whose lives are here but whose sporting souls remain elsewhere…
Yes. Did you interview them, Plaschke, to find out how many are living here illegally? If you think there was any love in that crowd for the U.S.A., you’re wrong, Plaschke. You may be able to kid yourself, but you’re not kidding me for a second.
“I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I’m proud to be part of it,” said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. “But yet, I didn’t have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be.”
Then why don’t you go back to Mexico? Well, now – wait a second – if we wait just a few more years, Mr. Sanchez, you may actually be living in Mexico, where your heart will always be. On second thought, pal, you already are living in Mexico. The deed hasn’t been signed yet, but the border has been ceded and your invasion has come to full fruition – thanks to our spineless leftist politicians – like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This was Staples Center filled with Boston Celtics fans. This was Chavez Ravine filled with Giants jerseys. This was as weird as it was wild and, for a U.S. team that lost, 4-2, it had to be wearisome.
No, it wasn’t that at all. It was not Americans from one city cheering for another American city’s team, Plaschke. It was open hostility against America and against Americans by people who may live here, but whose allegiance is not to this nation. And it never will be. This is reconquista, Guillermo. All of the equivocating, rationalizing and self-deluding you and your leftist anti-American Press Corps buddies may engage in will only serve to assist in the surrender of our national sovereignty to Mexico.
And, yes, when the U.S. team was announced one final time, it was once again booed.
“We’re not booing the country, we’re booing the team,” Sanchez said. “There is a big difference.”
My ass.
“Obviously … the support that Mexico has on the night like tonight makes it a home game for them,” said U.S. Coach Bob Bradley, choosing his words carefully. “It’s part of something we have to deal with on the night.”
Wrong, coach. We’re going to be dealing with this hatred of The United States until the official surrender and the repeal of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
It´s kind of funny what you´re saying. Mexicans don´t hate americans, they just used the game to regain some of the dignity they used to had in Mexico and lost in the United States. It´s funny that you want mexicans to fully embrace american nationality but, at the same time, many americans just consider mexicans second class citizens, or even less… Honestly, those mexicans in the stadium surely love the US too. I love America, it´s probably my second cultural source, I studied in California and I´m Mexican, and I honestly admire much of your achievements. So let´s stop talking about “reconquista” and stuff like that, it´s not like that. Also, It is very well known that the mexican passion for soccer is bigger than the american´s, so that explain in part why the stadium had so many mexicans and so few americans. I think this article is not serius and bring about racism, so pleas be a little more serious.
I assure you the post is written in all seriousness. Had Americans gone to a soccer match in Mexico and behaved the way these fans did would have been appalling to me. I would not have expected the ceremony to be announced in English. And I assure you I would not treat Mexico’s athletes in that manner. I would not have blamed citizens of Mexico for being critical of the American fans had it happened that way. This piece is not about race. It’s about national sovereignty and I have read enough to know that the reconquista movement is very real. There are millions of people who are in this country illegally from Latin America. And while the President of Mexico criticizes States like Arizona that have tried to protect their borders from the invasion, his law enforcement officers would put anyone who tried to gain illegal entry into Mexico directly into prison. By the way, my second language is Spanish and I am well acquainted with the Latin American culture. Unfortunately, this incident is about the impending erasure of the border between two sovereign nations. I object to the ongoing political movement to do that. I think you’re the one who’s kidding about what’s really going on. Escribilo en serio, no en chiste.
this is crazy; like when exactly are they actually going to carry out this “reconquista?”
I find this very illogical and implausible –surely they have the #’s, why haven’t they done it already if they’re so dangerous?
Those who demonstrated in such a fashion proves not just bad manners, but a lack of fear and understanding of their standing (may or not be legal) in this California I live in. It’s not hard to see where we are going…
Ahh the beautiful double standard of freedom of speech.
A group of passionate fans boo the opposite team and their seen as devils.
An everyday writer tells mexicans to go back home and it’s ok? Hmmm I can say much about but I’ll leave it simple.
The fans in the stands were expected to cheer for the team who tells them to go back home? Beautiful.
And so the fans acted out (as most fans do) and it’s an outrage
Usmnt golden boy Landon Donovan urinates on one of mexicos most historic fields and it’s all in good fun?
Great.
umm…are you ok?
Viva la reconquista! I think the progressive Hispanization of the United States is making it a better country, a more liberal/progressive/socialist country. Don’t forget, most Hispanics vote Democratic. America is full of nutjobs, like the Tea Party and most of the Republican party (and those few Republicans that aren’t nutters, like say Olympia Snowe, get dismissed as “RINOs”, and are on the way out). Most of the major league nutjobs are non-Hispanic whites. When the minorities become the majority, America will be a much saner place.
So, it’s important, in your mind, for the “Hispanic” race to take control of the country? Sounds like you have some racial supremacy issues. Or did I misunderstand what you’re getting at? As for me, I refuse to buy into framing everything within the context of race. Race doesn’t matter to me. But it does to you? Read Mein Kampf. Then go look in the mirror.
JW
“Hispanic” is not a race. It is an ethno-linguistic group. I don’t think there is anything inherently special about Hispanic people compared to other groups. In the specific historical/geographical context of the present-day and future United States, I think they potentially have a special role to play in pushing US society to the Left, which in my view is a good thing. But there is nothing inherently special about Hispanic people compared to other groups, just a special role they might (collectively rather than individually) play in a particular historical/geographical context.