I will be less terse this time because I know you are a reasonable guy. So here is why your joke offended me.

My attitude used to be about the same as expressed in the joke, i.e. not exactly pro-Hispanic. Wetbacks, busboys, lawn mowers, and why the hell do we need 50 million of them in this country? You can describe my attitude then in a word: bigot.

And then I got involved in soccer. The details aren't important but I have come to know a lot of Mexican-Americans through soccer and realize how wrong I was. If anything they are more American than the typical native-born. They came here to seek a better way of life. That is the entire tradition of this country! We all came here from somewhere else. The ones I know care deeply about their children, love their families, and bring a passion to the sport they sort of left behind, soccer. I had this really bigoted view that their views on life were different from mine. I was so wrong. We are richer for their presence among us, not poorer.

JFK: "We all share this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal." He said that in October of 1963.