# Mexicans control your damn kids while in public! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209 "2009-06-18T19:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/141 "2009-06-19T13:27:33Z")
When I read the thread title I thought: “Oh please, at least, let this be a silly story about a tourist in Mexico; not some racist prick in the US.” ---
**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/142 "2009-06-19T13:31:47Z")
> [@jackofsevens](#): > > I love Eskimos. Me too! I’m especially impressed with their pies! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/143 "2009-06-19T13:43:54Z")
Maybe you could ask [this guy](http://www.askamexican.net/) and we can get a definitive answer on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/144 "2009-06-19T14:17:17Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I’m afraid I have to call bullshit on this one. Nobody goes to Kansas City, Missouri as a tourist. Well, you’re right about KC. Not much of a tourist destination. Good for a weekend trip though. But the Mexicans and tourists that I’m talking about are in the southern tip of Texas on South Padre Island. I travel there about three or four times a year to [visit](http://www.sandyfeet.com/) [friends](http://www.amazinwalter.com/) and family and work on my [del][addiction](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubbapup/1799265696/sizes/l/in/set-72157602782444816/)[/del] [hobby](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubbapup/2964095955/sizes/o/in/set-72157608269060644/). That location has an abundance of Mexican Americans, Mexican Nationals, native Texans, and a buttload of people who escaped Iowa and Michigan. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/145 "2009-06-19T14:31:36Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > How did the OP know they were Mexican? Even if they appear Latino and speak Spanish, there are many countries they could have come from which would make them pretty indistinguishable from a Mexican, especially from the OP’s non-informed POV. > > If you’re gonna be a racist, at least do it right. He doesn’t know. Every brown person who speaks Spanish is Mexican. But let us not lose focus on the real problem here. Lest we fergit, _they’re takin’ our jobs!!!11_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/146 "2009-06-19T14:33:50Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > [Suck this.](http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/ohio/cleveland-terminal-tower) [Bite it](http://student.plattsburgh.edu/jfree001/Pittsburgh%20Steelers.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/147 "2009-06-19T14:46:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Bite it](http://student.plattsburgh.edu/jfree001/Pittsburgh%20Steelers.jpg) Girls, girls, can we all just agree to hate Mexicans, regardless of our city or origin? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/148 "2009-06-19T14:48:58Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Girls, girls, can we all just agree to hate Mexicans, regardless of our city or origin? Hmmm…I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/149 "2009-06-19T14:53:25Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I’m not. I think it would be awesome if my kids could make me some kick-ass carne asada burritos when I got home from a hard day’s work. 😃 That’d be awesome indeed. OTOH, my own kid is totally controlled by Testosteroans at this point so I don’t want him even _close_ to the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/150 "2009-06-19T14:55:05Z")
> [@](#): > > But let us not lose focus on the real problem here. Lest we fergit, they’re takin’ our jobs!!!11 Damn straight. I was this close to getting that part on _Nash Bridges_ and then that bastard Cheech just walked in and stole it from me. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/151 "2009-06-19T14:56:57Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > Dude - if you could - could you bring up the price a bit? We have a couple five gallon buckets in the garage of that shit that we were going to take in with our copper and our aluminum for recycling and want to get the most bang for our buck out of it. I hear copper prices are on the rise - what can you do for zinc? > > And if you ARE in charge of copper and aluminum or have any influence on the group that does, we’d appreciate a little help there too. We drink a LOT of beer, so our retirement fund is growing as aluminum goes up on a per pound basis. Unfortunately, zinc for three-month delivery is down 6.2% for the week on the London Metal Exchange at the moment and copper has dropped 4%. Aluminum is up a piddling 1.5%, though. I blame that bastard \*\*Valgard \*\*and, of course, the government. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/152 "2009-06-19T14:58:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Girls, girls, can we all just agree to hate Mexicans, regardless of our city or origin? OK. Yes, can’t we all just get along in our mutual hatred of . . . who was it we were hating on, now? Oh, yeah. Mexicans today. Swedes tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/153 "2009-06-19T15:13:52Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > California borders Mexico also, but I’ve met tons of Guatemalans, Costa Ricans, Salvadorans, etc. here. Even though L.A. is half Latino, it seems like I hardly ever come across Mexicans here. Seriously? This is a whoosh, right? ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/154 "2009-06-19T15:19:28Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > …Hey, and why do black people always go to McDonalds!? > > I’m black and I don’t freaking know. > > People are people. [McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers](http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/306778/fun_facts_about_mcdonalds.html) Hot damn! I didn’t know there were so many black people in America! ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/155 "2009-06-19T15:21:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The best part of this promising debut post is the title: “Mexicans, control your damn kids in public!” is an order to Mexicans about how their kids behave when they’re outside. But “Mexicans control your damn kids while in public!” means that the OP believes when my awful children are in public, somehow they are magically controlled by Mexicans. You rock, Marley. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/156 "2009-06-19T15:24:07Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > OK. Yes, can’t we all just get along in our mutual hatred of . . . who was it we were hating on, now? > > Oh, yeah. Mexicans today. > > Swedes tomorrow. So that’s Giraldo today Gorin tomorrow. Sorry Sorry …I’m leaving…Sorry ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/157 "2009-06-19T15:34:45Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > [McDonald’s has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers](http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/306778/fun_facts_about_mcdonalds.html) > > Hot damn! I didn’t know there were so many black people in America! With that many burgers, McDonalds hasn’t ground them all up? ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/158 "2009-06-19T15:58:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > With that many burgers, McDonalds hasn’t ground them all up? Black people, or cows? McSoylent Green is PEOPLE! It’s BLACK PEOPLE! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/159 "2009-06-19T16:10:14Z")
If there’s one thing I cain’t abide, it’s an ethno-centric racist. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209/160 "2009-06-19T16:22:28Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > With that many burgers, McDonalds hasn’t ground them all up? Can’t answer that, but it certainly explains why you now have a black President despite what must have been a gimongous fraud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexicans-control-your-damn-kids-while-in-public/500209.md?page=9)