[ilbegone]

What cracks me up is how changeable the word "Latino" is according to convenience of the moment.

I've been reading a bunch of "news" articles crammed full of quotes from "Latinos" foreign and domestic born about how great it is to have a "Latino" Pope from Argentina, again a country with much the same illegal immigration problem from Bolivia as the United States has from Mexico. It's usually a description of racial mixture with Latin American origins as used in the United States.

Argentina, a nation chock full of people with Spanish, German, and Italian ancestry which had about the same 19th century history with Indians as did the United States.

A Pope who is "Latino" in a similar manner to the people who ran Mexico from the Conquest until the collapse of the criollos immediately prior to Benito Juarez wielding power, the "rapist father who beat, disinherited, and disowned his mestizo children": a Pope who is the son of European immigrants.

Maybe they're just happy about a white man "going back to Europe", in this case Vatican city.

Collective America twice elected Obama, described as being black, as president in spite of all the race baiting rhetoric about the fanged white boogeyman who is out to screw over every minority which can be conjured up, and now there is all that crowing approval from the very same race baiters about an old white man becoming Pope - having been elected by a very small group of old white men having among them those who protected priests who sexually molested little boys.

It's a topsy turvey world, isn't it.