No Gringo Papers Required
A furniture store in Alexandria Virginia has what can only be described as an offensive sign on their property advertising easy credit with “no gringo papers necessary“.
A sign outside the store at the intersection of North Beauregard and King streets reads, “Credito sin papeles de gringo.” In English, that could be translated to say “Credit without gringo papers.”
Blanca Granados, the store’s assistant manager, translated the message to mean “just ‘without white papers,’ like Social Security or like that.”
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word gringo as “a disparaging term for a foreigner in Latin America, especially an American or English person.”
But the word “gringo” in the store’s sign is not intended to offend anyone, Miss Granados said.
In all likelihood, the term ‘gringo’ in the sign was not intended to offend anyone, and was put there to attract Latino customers. Fact of the matter is though, it is very offensive and not for the reasons you may think.
Personally I am not offended if a Latino refers to me as a gringo, or any other name which describes me based on the color of my skin. The same way I stood up for Don Imus when me referred to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as ‘nappy headed hos’, I will stand up for this companies rights to use the term gringo in their advertising. After all, those who are offended simply will not shop there, so if the company is willing to risk losing business over this sign, that is their prerogative.
What does offend me about this sign however, aside from the fact that it has been there for years with no mention in the mainstream media, is how the stores assistant manager described the intended meaning of the sign. Had the term ‘gringo’ been used as a slur I would have found it less offensive than having it refer to a Social Security number being “white papers”. A Social Security card is an American document, and anyone who feels otherwise needs to pack up their things and head home.
Liberals continue to fight for the 12 million illegal aliens in this country right now, most of which are Latino, claiming they only want a piece of the American dream. As I have stated many times however, these people do not wish to become American, their loyalties will continue to lie with their country of origin, and they will raise their children in the same manner.
I do not find this sign offensive as a white person, I find it offensive as an American, and you should to!
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I find this sign offensive on both accounts - as a white person and as an American. And frankly, it’s the white person part of me that is more offended.