Moz Angeles
Only one white man in the world—and he’s not the pope—can tell a group of Mexicans in the United States to return to Mexico and not only avert death, but be loved for saying so.
His name: Steven Patrick Morrissey, former lead singer of the Smiths, current saint among countless young Latinos.
Morrissey’s most famous confession of unrequited love, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” (”And if a double-decker bus/Crashes into us/To die by your side/Would be a heavenly way to die”) emulates almost sentiment for sentiment Cuco Sanchez’s torch song “Cama de Piedra” (”The day that they kill me/May it be with five bullets/And be close to you”).
Their Charming Man: Dispatches from the Latino Morrissey love-in by Gustavo Arellano
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