I woke up this morning and went to go get an OC Weekly like I do every week and what I saw on the cover absolutely appalled me. Take a look and see for yourself.

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http://www.ocweekly.com/ I am going to set up a protest some time this week to let the OC Weekly know they can not blatantly post racist material like this. If you are willing to help me organize this protest against the OC Weekly and their advertisers please e-mail me at paul_lopez16@yahoo.com

Here is the OC Weekly's information below I have already wrote to them and they were trying to tell me the picture wasn't racist. Give me a break. When is a picture like that not racist towards Mexicans?

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Paul Lopez "Proud Mexican American"

Here is a picture of what i am talking about. Tell me if that is not a racist picture.

Actually, yes...they *can* print "racist material like this," blithely or otherwise. The Constitution guarantees them this right.

More to the point, the working (and would-be working) people in this country, and in Mexico, and in every other country on this sorry planet, are under attack by money-grubbing corporations as they haven't been since the 19th century; and civil liberties (you know, like freedom of expression) in the United States are under attack by all levels of government in a manner never before seen in the entire history of the nation. And you're sniveling about a goddamned magazine cover? You should be deeply ashamed of yourself. Grow up, and go organize a protest against something that matters.

I'm no fan of the OC Weekly, and my views have nothing in common with the rant of the clown who calls himself Big Deal above. But I think that it is obvious why a stereotyped picture of a "Mexican" appeared on the cover - the article is on the subject of stereotypes of Mexicans. Seems like a duh to me. The artist was trying to represent how people with stereotypical views of Mexicans view them.

Paul lopez.

I myself am an anti racist anarchist but maybe you actualy read whats in it. Dont judge a book by its cover. And maybe people like you need to take this 'pc' bullshit out of your ass and learn to enjoy or laugh at things. not hop on somthing you think is offending right when you see it. that cover isnt hurting you, its not hurting anyone, its not preventing us from living or moving in our lives and if it is then that person needs to get a life. Im sorry but all this rhetoric bullshit is getting tiring, thats why the left and liberals are going nowhere. the right wing and even us like myself on the left are just getting tired of seeing people jump on ridiculous shit like this when there are far greater problems happening. why dont you go out and help a homless mexican family with food or shelter rather than rant about some image on a cover of a magazine, that wont get you anywhere.

I read all of the articles about the hatred against Mexicans. Does it still make it right to use a racist stereotype to fight racism itself? In my opinion the really fucked up. You can't fight racism with racism. I was and still am very offended that they used that picture to try and get their point accross.

I'm an anti-racist anarchist too, and I am offended by that cover. I'm not as offended as Paul, but, I'm not Mexican.

One thing's for damn sure though. I am not white, and I don't appreciate when a mainstream, implicitly white, publication like the OC Weakling uses stereotypical imagery or language to make fun of racism. It's an insult.

At the personal level, I can handle racist hate speech. Most of it rolls off me, unless it's said with a menacing tone. I can handle when some neo-fascist rag, and even assholes like BA and Wanker use stereotypes, because, I consider them shit on my heel when they do that.

In the public spere, though, there are still standards of politeness and behavoir, and that includes not breaking out with racist caricatures to show that you're "down" with "the people". Not every person of color engages in using stereotypes or hate speech to disempower those words. I expect the liberals at the OC Weakly to know this, and act accordingly.

The OC Weakly may have thought it was cool and edgy, but it wasn't. It was edgy when Lalo Lopez and Esteban Zul made fun of Chicanos in Pocho zine more than a decade ago. It was edgy when Martin Wong and Eric Nakamura in Giant Robot zine made fun of martial arts films a decade ago. But ten years have passed, and that particular edge is blunted.

WHATS UP WITH THESE ARTICLES MAKING FUN OF MEXICANS WHATS THEIR PROBLEM WHAT ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE ARE MEXICANS LAZY SLEEPY COME ON SHUT UP WHY WHY ?? MEXICANS DO JOBS THAT WHITRE PEOPLE ARER TO"BUSY" AND DONT PAY VERY WELL. THEY DO WORK U KNOW AND THEY STILL MAKE FUN OF THEM COME ON WHO GROW CROPS,VEGETABLES ? GOODS IMPORTED, WHERE IS YOUR CLOTH MADE ? HATS ? ENTERTAINMENT ? WHERE DOE TACO BELL MEXICAN FOOD AND RUBIOS REFER TO ???? IS IT MEXICANS YES AND ITS NOT JUST US ITS ASIANS, DARKS ALL KINS OF RACES.!!!"THERE IS ONLY 1 RACE THE HUMAN RACE " !!!!!!!! SO LETS STOP RACISM

i myself am not mexican but can understand what you guys mean. Its one thing for people to make up different stereotypes but some things just arent cool. i have mad love for the mexican race and respect every aspect. People need to be able to set themselves apart show people that some things are just stupid. I am a young black american and face stereotypes everyday from being a minority alone. No need to add to from ignorant people.

look i get what you are saying and all. but how can you say that no one is hurt by it? if no one was hurt by it then there wouldnt be a reason that some people are even saying anything about it. i think that you need to look deeper into it because i myself am not mexican but all it takes is one stupid person to look at that picture the wrong way and get more stereotypes started. is that really how you want you people viewed?

finally!!! thank you. the whit man dont like us al!!! mexicans and blacks we are both minoritys. but with out us theyd be no where. Taco bell, soul food... where would the white man be?? think about people. Mad Love To Mexiacans from a Black

do you really want to be viewed like that as a mexican. i am black and i am somewhat offended. wake up and smell the cofee. its not cool.

i do not live in america at the moment, but i do notice the racism all the way to here,, i hate america and most of latin america do aswell, who the hell do you lazy non hardworking people think you are??!! all you do is wake up at 6 go to your office and sit there till 10, that is nothing!!, then you get home and be racist to new comers?? wtf is your problems,, i myself am white, blonde, mexican, and i was raised in mexico,, wow, omg im blonde, so what??!! i know many blonde ,red headed, what ever mexicans,, fuck you racists, fuck america, you hate us, and we hate you, thats how you started it, im tired of you lazy ass mother fuckers making fun at the so called minorities,, if i go up there , its to spit on your grounds. America is trash, without the immigrants you would not br stable,, we make up alot of america, not only mexicans, but south americans,, its very ironic and you bastards dont seem to understand!! i go to college here in mexico become a doctor ect,, and i see jobs in usa that require less college time and they pay more,, over there doctos get payed 3 times what they do here,, a mexican goes there to support himself and his family,, our economy is a bit bad, doesnt make our people idiots or trash, fuck america for being idiots who dont even investigate!! oh and btw, if you havent figured it out yet, im anti america, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,trat me like shit and i shall treat you like so aswell

-anyone needs to see for themselves just how retrograde the racist mind is.

See above for clinical example.

seek help.

Look up Polk and the trumped up war against Mexico.

Now after that, stop complaining about the blow back of Norte American Imperialism.

Ok first of all I'm a french citizen born from a mexican mother and a french father, and I AM ALSO ANTI AMERICA. The world should be anti america and give me a break but that's not about being racist, it's about common sense, the USA has a monkey as president, they wanna build a wall just like berlin's wall all along the border, they LIED about Irak having weapons and the people didn't realized, as somone else said these mexicans are feeding u, they make ur clothes, and u pay them back with that kind of stupid racist cartoons? why are u americans so arrogant and stupid? open ur eyes, try to be humans. Vive la France et Viva America Latina. I wish the greenhouse effect melts the poles so america sinks! it was bush who said no to the reduction of carbonhidrates at montreal right? oh yeah of course it was the USA!

Are you able to let things roll off your back, or are you a mewling shit magnet.

Sorry sir, the position of shit magnet has been taken by a certified mental cripple. (TM)

I told you that position has been taken. Jealous person. I hear that some acne crippled brown noser has been trying to get his attention for years.

Well!

Okay, you may as well know... all the posts except, of course yours, are mine.

Boy, are my fingers tired!

And I think the magazine cover is racist.

The reason I think the illustration is racist is because it is an obvious STEREOTYPE of an outlaw replete with unappealing physical attributes that if portrayed from any ethnic group would be disparaging.

Interesting .

Why are you always reduced to corrupt accusations that, like your crazed and bitter worldview are the products of pure ignorance?

Perhaps you are a seemingly crazed reactionary and your personal life is a social ruin but, please, just answer this question.

Have your ever served in a combat unit?

Such a fuss you're having.

You were yapping like a chickenhawk.

What was your unit? When did you serve?

Don't know about you but so have I. That's why I don't understand your strange and rabid behavior.

Do you get any benefit$? I used the GI bill to study in college

in libraries and such. What's your excuse?

Not my particular ...

So you're just a skid?

Thought so.

Uh I asked first.

And I really want to know. I'm interested. Pretend I'm a PFC . You act like a shit talking kid. Skid.

you see this does all tie together in a weird way.

You see When your life looks to be awful short and painful and you are depending on Joe over there, it doesn't matter their color or accent.

they are your brothers. So are the ones over there trying to kill you.

All of you brothers in terror killing each other. For what? Individuals like you?

It makes me sick to have done what I've done and come back to the same morons beating their chests.

After so many of my true brothers have gone.

What the fuck are you talking about? Are you on some sort of guilt trip?

Believe me, I could lay to waste an IslamoFascist and not lose a minute of sleep. Hell, it'd cure insomnia.

Get something straight, Sheepdog - it's either them or me, and I choose me. My life is infinitely more worthy than Islamosewage or their fellating groupies.

And what exactly did they do to you, anyway? Raise the price of dates?

Say bad things about your mother or what? You are obsessive.

Tell Me about your ruined childhood. Don't hold back. You can pretend it's someone else you're talking about.

Nothing, Sheepdog. They never did a thing to me, and of course never will.

Wow, besides shopping around Jim Jones conspiracy shit, you've also fallen in with the rest of the cretins concerning the Towers being leveled by our own government.

Lemme ask you something - why didn't they just bring the buildings down without having planes fly into them first? We could just blame the bombs on the ragheads, couldn't we? And why didn't they level the Pentagon?

How about that field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania? It's below sea level too, ain't that right, Brainiac?

Ya know, for someone who is Ivy League material, you sure have the critical thinking skills of a pre-kindergartner. But what it really boils down to is that hippies are terrified out of their skull children, who can't accept the Darkness of the world, which they themselves perpetuate and enable and abet.

" ""why didn't they just bring the buildings down without having planes fly into them first? We could just blame the bombs on the ragheads, couldn't we? And why didn't they level the Pentagon"

That's kinda obvious after the botched FBI instigated 1993 WTC bombing where an 'informant' under the direct surveillance of said federal agency built the bomb.

And the rent was due.

Aren't arson and murder, capital crimes?

Here's what happened. This time they outsourced their labor and got the job done right.

We have only the CIA's word that al-Queda is no longer in its emloy. The CIA's word, plus a dollar, buys one cup of joe.

In a field of suspects for involvement in the Twin Towers detonation, I would hold Controlled Demolitions Inc. in the primary list.

Controlled demolitions, huh? Sorta like what goes on inside a Leftist braincase?

No No No! Controlled Demolitions *Inc. (!) and,(slap-slap) pay attention.

Why not ,they sure have the expertise along with 'confidential' contracts connections. I'd like to have investigations on Controlled Demolitions Inc. For starters where have their best people been the last five tears? Heh, heh, if they're still alive.

How could they have done something like that? After all, there's no secrets in Washington. How could your Democraps have remained in the dark?

That's a simple question. I await your tortured "logic".

Good question.

Do you remember the 'structural rebuild' a few years back for ' wind load reenforcement' when structural members ( incorrectly installed torque unions, I believe ) were replaced with welded unions? I'd like to rule out involvement at that point and work on forward.

Thanks for asking.

Why was my photo scrubbed from this thread?

This one, to show that the fires at the WTC weren't hot.

the other photo was saved. What gives?

Sheepdog, there's only one answer, johnk is part of the corporate cover-up of 9-11.

I find it verysad that so many people allow racism to exist because they quote "don't find it harmful". Who, will someone tell me, has never been hurt by a remark made from assumtions. I am dissapointed by my father and mother genrations who have had a changed mindset for 50 years now and still havn't causes a change. How long will it take? Will my children come home one day crying because rasict remarks have been thrown at them? When will it stop. When will people have enough will to say "It's over"? I fear not until the last 10 generatiosn die off. Even still, I hope that the one who have died for equallity, and there are some in every rest, don't cry at this very moment in the thought that they died in vain. I pray that one day, we can end the madness.

So what if some one is offened last time i checked in america we had freedom of speach! and freedom of the press!

Its offensive but still far less racist than Latuff cartoons