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Mexico leader out of line in making point
May 19, 2005

Mexico President Vincente Fox needs to find himself a good political adviser. He put his foot in his mouth recently when he said Americans should be grateful that Mexicans want to come to the United States to work since they are hardworking, honest and "will do the work that not even blacks want to do there."

While Fox and the Mexican foreign ministry have issued statements that Fox did not intend to offend blacks, he has declined to apologize for what many here in America consider a racist remark. While he is the leader of a sovereign nation and can do as he pleases, he is making a mistake, one probably fostered by Fox's lack of sensitivity to the race issue in this country.

Unfortunately, some of the criticism of him is tainted by the fact that it is coming from people who mask their own racism against Mexicans behind a facade of being opposed to illegal immigration. We doubt they would be nearly as offended if something similar was said about Mexicans or Hispanics in general.

The point Fox was probably trying to make in a clumsy way was that Mexicans coming to America â€â€