Carrying the Cross of the Conqueror

IT IS TRULY GROSS to me that a popular Latina stereotype for a certain lusty, lazy-minded American man (and I would go as far as to say "hateful" in the extreme of this specific type of racist thinking) is that of the Dirty Hot Latina Maid who longs to fawn over her White master. The dream, eh? This is one of the rewards that lay in wait for those Indians and Mestizos from México that yet survive. If the gun and the knife cannot be used, psychological warfare is still very much allowed and encouraged in this Long War.

To paraphrase a Black comedian I've heard..."Why she gotta be dirty?" But I guess I know the answer. And we sure know why with mainstream American Male thinking, she "gotta be" a maid. Yet, like mi amigo Kai points out here, so many of these stereotypes arranged for People of Color are so contrived, and cater so insensibly to some twisted hate-power-thirst, they break down into total contradictory nonsense when examined closely. The "unskilled" laborers who build railroads. The "lazy" Mexicano who crosses deserts and braves death to come work hard and send money to his family. The "dirty" Latina who spends all her time cleaning up after a bossy, perverted, crude, White man who (clearly) cannot do it for himself.