Dear L.A. Times Unleashed:Thank you so, so much for the touching story of Angel the pit bull! If it weren't for stories like this, we pit bull defenders would always wonder if our pets might "turn" on us like furry time bombs. Thanks to you, we finally have proof that our dogs are happy and friendly and deserve to live! We defenders of the pit bull can't thank you enough for posting this story just for us! And not to nag or anything, but could your editors print "a story for all the defenders of Mexicans" sometime? That would totally rock. Thanks again!
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Here where I live, Mexican people come up in the summer to work on the farms. They arrive in spring, early, and many stay late, until mid to late fall.
They come into the village a lot, and on weekends line up at the phone booths to touch base with their families at home.
It must be damned hard to leave your home for six months every year to work on farms and it tells me how little opportunity must exist at home.
The farmers around here get the same guys back, year after year, as well as people from Jamaica. The local Canucks aren't as reliable and don't want to do that kind of hard, outdoor work.
They seem like nice, friendly, hard-working people to me but I don't like to generalize about 'breeds' or ethnic groups because I was raised to treat everyone as individuals - even 'pit bulls'.
"I don't like to generalize about 'breeds' or ethnic groups because I was raised to treat everyone as individuals - even 'pit bulls'."
Exactly. An LAT editor would never run a story on Mexicans [or blacks, or Muslims, or black Mexican Muslims] based on anonymous internet comments and Google alerts. But when it comes to pit bulls, hey hey, that's research!
For crissakes, Unleashed... stereotyping is so 1950s [TM Bad Rap].
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