dear fellow white people who think the new Arizona law is hunky dory

Just because the person at the next table in that restaurant has blond hair and blue eyes doesn't mean you ought to assume that they think the same things you do, or that they are, indeed, the same version of whiteness that you are.

Where your grandfather came over here as an immigrant "and obeyed the rules," maybe mine was born in Mexico. And maybe his ancestors (and therefore mine) go back on this continent a hell of a lot longer than yours. Maybe that blonde woman at the next table traces her family ancestry back to the goddamn American Revolution via the surname "Lopez", on both sides of the now-border.

So maybe, you know, there are people within earshot who might take some of your anti-Mexican bullshit kind of personally.

And even if there aren't? You're an American, goddammit. Read your motherfucking constitution and stfu.