The diabolical New York Yankees are in town this weekend. Yesterday, to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the Texas Rangers wore special jerseys with "Los Rangers" across the front. I watched the game on television even though it was being played only nine miles from my house. Michelle Malkin sees something sinister in this, but I don't. It's just another marketing gimmick for the Rangers, no different from wearing "throwback" uniforms, giving bobblehead dolls to the first 20,000 fans, or selling hot dogs for a dollar apiece. The idea is to sell jerseys and drum up interest in the team. I don't see anything wrong with marketing products to the Hispanic community. The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex has a sizable Hispanic population, and many of them are baseball fans. Only someone who wants to suppress Hispanic culture could possibly object to reaching out in this way. Chill out, Michelle. There are bad things happening out there that deserve your attention. This is not one of them.
Los Rangers
Posted at 6:24 PM CT on Saturday, 6 May 2006
Only xenophobes would be threatened by such a mundane showing of culture and history. Afterall, unlike northerners, Texans are friendly to diversity and share our holidays, whether it's for immigrants to our state, or to those who were here before Europeans illegally immigrated here! We don't celebrate just the ones honoring slave-owners. We remember our six flags, and that we had Spanish and Mexican governors before "white" power. We don't care what the Yankees thinkg, because Tejas en Espanol means "friendly." :)