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\"\"<\/a>a santero’s altar<\/p>\n

++<\/p>\n

Iowa Republican Steven King (no relation to the novelist King!) \u00a0penned a bill called the \u201cEnglish Language Unity Act<\/a>,” which would declare English as the official language of the United States.\u00a0 This guy also defends dog fighting, okay?<\/p>\n

So the bill was taken up in a subcommittee hearing in Congress today \u2013 August 2. To make his opposition clear, Michigan Democrat John Conyers delivered his speech on the subject – in Spanish.<\/p>\n

This evening on Rachel Maddow\u2019s show on MSNBC, this bill was the lead story, with \u00a0the words TRABAJOS, TRABAJOS, TRABAJOS\u00a0 in the background.<\/p>\n

The word trabajos <\/em>\u00a0literally translates as jobs. The Republicans are always talking about creating jobs and about how ending the Bush tax cuts on the top one percent would be a job killer, as though extreme wealth is synonymous with job creation. The facts say otherwise.\u00a0 According to Bloomberg<\/a>,\u00a0 \u201cfewer than 1 percent of the U.S. population have annual income of more than $1 million. In the top two tax brackets, slightly more than one-third — 35.5 percent — were employers receiving business income, according to 2007 figures from the Treasury Department.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, among a certain faction of Cubans \u2013 and here\u2019s the trickster synchro –\u00a0 the word trabajos <\/em>means something else entirely. A trabajo<\/em> is a ritual that a santero \u2013 a practitioner of Santeria<\/a>, a Cuban mystical religion – performs for a specific purpose. The santero or santera usually goes into trance to perform a trabajo <\/em>and his or her spirit guides are the ones who actually tackle the problem.<\/p>\n

In Santeria, everything is believed to be the result of spiritual forces, and saints or orishas<\/em> whom the santero calls upon for help are really the guys in charge.\u00a0 So when a santero\u2019s spirit guides go to work (trabajar) <\/em>on the spirits that are causing your problems,\u00a0 it\u2019s as if your body and soul become a spiritual battleground. As the santero\u2019s spirit guides intervene with these malign forces, anything can be mitigated: health problems, love and romance issues, career and financial challenges, karma, even spirit attachment and possession.<\/p>\n

When we saw those words on Rachel\u2019s show \u2013 TRABAJOS, TRABAJOS, TRABAJOS \u2013 we burst out laughing.\u00a0 It was as if she were saying that the Republican party is badly in need of the kind of spiritual intervention that only a santero can perform, and\u00a0 santeros are, oops, usually Latinos, who under King’s bill would be required to learn English before they could do anything in this country. It’s as if the Republican Party is possessed by some sort of malign spirit that screams for domination and control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need Ruben to intervene,\u201d Rob said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr Nelly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruben and Nelly, a Cuban santero and a santera whom we got to know during our early years as freelance magazine writers, are a post for another day. But the trickster is definitely busy during this election season in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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