Re: Rodeo announcer joke isn't funny to Hispanic family
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Re: Rodeo announcer joke isn't funny to Hispanic family         

Group: az.politics · Group Profile
Author: Sanders
Date: Jul 5, 2011 05:32

On 7/4/2011 7:00 PM, Dakota wrote:
> On Mon 7/4/11 13:35, Shylock wrote:
>> On Jul 3, 7:32 am, DakotaNOSPAMmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun 7/3/11 2:06, Sanders wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 7/2/2011 11:24 PM, J wrote:
>>>>> Some people need to lighten-up a little and learn to laugh. No doubt
>>>>> this is
>>>>> one of those "you had to be there" jokes but it seems most of the
>>>>> people in
>>>>> the audience enjoyed the pun. Next time, the sensitive senorita and
>>>>> her
>>>>> brood should stay home.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> LEHI A Utah County woman is reaching out to Lehi city leaders after
>>>>> what
>>>>> she felt was a discriminatory experience at the Lehi Round-Up rodeo.
>>>
>>>>> The woman, who didn't want to be identified, took her family to the
>>>>> rodeo
>>>>> last Thursday because her son loves horses. Things started innocently
>>>>> enough. The public announcer asked how many people in the crowd
>>>>> were from
>>>>> Idaho, who was from surrounding states, and people were raising their
>>>>> hands.
>>>
>>>>> He went on to ask people who were born outside the United States to
>>>>> raise
>>>>> their hands. Then he asked if there were any illegals at the rodeo. At
>>>>> that
>>>>> moment, a train went by, and the woman said the announcer said, Let s
>>>>> round
>>>>> them up and put them on a train.
>>>
>>>>> The woman said she was shocked. "I felt people's stares, or their
>>>>> look, upon
>>>>> my family."
>>>
>>>>> She said that really bothered her because she doesn t want her
>>>>> children to
>>>>> feel inferior just because they are Hispanic. She said she's lived
>>>>> there for
>>>>> years and her family members are citizens.
>>>
>>>>> "I'm not a person to complain about things, but this really did bother
>>>>> me,"
>>>>> she said.
>>>
>>>>> She told officials about it, they acknowledged it, but it allegedly
>>>>> happened
>>>>> again the next night at the rodeo.
>>>
>>>>> On Friday, the woman said rodeo officials told her they didn t mean to
>>>>> offend anyone, but they never apologized for the remarks.
>>>
>>>>> Andy Stewart, the announcer, is based out of Louisiana and travels the
>>>>> country calling rodeos. He says he asks illegal aliens to identify
>>>>> themselves at every event. He claims it's a joke and is "not
>>>>> offensive in
>>>>> any shape or fashion."
>>>
>>>> Should have put the wetback bitch on the train with her kids with some
>>>> tar and feathers on them.
>>>
>>> She's a US citizen you racist moron.- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>>> - Show quoted text -
>>
>> . . . and youare a dyslexic? She said her children were anchor babies
>> for her.
>>
> She didn't say that in the story at the link, you racist moron.
>
She's a greaser looking for free stuff.
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