a friend of mine wrote this on sanantonioimports.com about an idiot writer for super street. so now SAI and it's members will BOYCOTT super street. imo, they can eat it!!!!!! how dare you rip our city and tha alamo!!

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There aren’t many things that **** me off. Seriously. Hurting animals that can’t defend themselves pisses me off. Hurting kids because parents can’t control their alcohol pisses me off. Talking trash about the city and state where I’m from pisses me off. Although there are many things wrong here in Texas I still love this state.

A one Roel Concepcion from Super Street has managed to **** me off. First off let me say that this is not a rant about Super Street. I have been a loyal Super Street reader for over 5 years. Hell, I even posted on the same site as some of the staff frequented (World of Pacific Rim) when it was up way back in the day. Even when people talked badly about Ricky Chu and his car, I tried to step in and at least correct the haters out there in the 240sx world. I give “props” where “props” is due you could say. This is a rant about their associate editor Roel Concepcion and his lack of tact. I understand that the magazine is going through changes but the low blow dealt to my city was unwarranted. What did he say you ask? Let me tell you. On page 176 of the September 2005 issue in the top right hand picture it states:

“Continental and General Tires took me to San Antonio to mess with Texas. And like Tim Duncan, San Antonio was tediously boring, especially The Alamo. Sorry Davy Crockett, but your battle sucked.”

And has a “thumbs down” in front of the Alamo.

The article itself was fine. It’s the unnecessary bull****, which had nothing to do with Continental tires or the trip to Uvalde that is offensive. In the article itself it states that he was in Uvalde, Texas. Uvalde is not San Antonio. I agree that there isn’t much to do in Uvalde, so I hope he was confused with the two cities. However, I seriously can’t believe that anyone can claim San Antonio is so boring that you have to take a picture of your thumb pointing down in front of the Alamo and print it in a national selling magazine. It would have been better if Mr. Concepcion had defecated on the grounds rather then print his opinion. Why is it so offensive? Because I believe that the Alamo stands for the sacrifice people are willing to give for freedom. Because the Alamo is a historic landmark that Roel thinks is amusing to make fun of. Anyone from Texas can understand that. I guess someone not from here won’t understand. So I’m going to put it into simple terms that people everywhere can understand.

Would you go to the beach of Normandy where soldiers died and take a picture on the beach and say that the battle sucked? No.

Would you go to Oklahoma City and take a picture in front of where the Oklahoma City bombing happened and put a thumbs down in front of it just because in your opinion Oklahoma City was boring? No.

Would you go to the Vietnam wall and pick out a name and tell people across this great nation that they died for nothing? No.

Are you starting to understand why it’s offensive? I would hope so. Give respect where respect is due. People died there. At least have some respect for the dead.

If Mr. Concepcion found this city so boring then I’m sure he would have at least checked out some of the local shops here to see what this city has to offer the import world. Did anyone hear about Super Street going to one of the shops in San Antonio? If he was so bored then I’m sure he tried to get a hold of someone out here to at least find a decent strip club to go to. Hell I would have bought for him that night if anyone had told me someone from Super Street was in town. Hmm, now that I think about it, if Mr. Concepcion was so bored then I’m sure he went out of his way try to find out what there is to do in this town. Sadly if that were the case, he wouldn’t have submitted a picture that would offend a Texan. Even if the disrespect displayed in the article were towards any other city like Dallas, El Paso, Austin, Houston or even Laredo, I would still be writing this.

I do not want an apology from Mr. Concepcion. Hell I don’t even expect a response. Instead I have decided to never read Super Street again. Don’t get me wrong; the magazine has a lot of cool cars, and keeps me entertained while I’m taking a **** in the bathroom. It’s the lack of respect that has slipped through the cracks that has forever put me off. I’m sure losing one more reader won’t change anything for them. However I’m not the only one who has decided to end their subscription because of this offense.

Dorian E. Perez

PS: As for the Tim Duncan comment…well…Tim has enough money to buy Roel’s life 10 times over. So say what you want about the NBA champions of this year. They still have millions of dollars...and better cars.
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here is a bit of the mad and the pic!


i have not bought a ss mag in like 2 years but this idiot will not talk about my city and it's history. any of you all see him or any texan for that matter, throw a beat down on him. 'cause if he comes down here again we are getting a rope!

 

Well written response, and I can be counted in on never buying a SS mag either.

 

Well that SOB!! Wish he would hop his happy a$$ back down here and spout off like that again, then he really wouldn't like Texas cuz I would be glad to give him a good ole fashioned Texas a$$ whippin!! I'm with you, SS won't get a single cent of my money.

Have you sent a response to this Idiot?

 

SS can suck a big ****. totally agree on the topic above, and i cant believe how much they put down the lancer and had the nerve to write an article about RRM. they suck..... and swallow. complete a$$ clowns.

 

That's mest up! They went into a fight they knew they couldn't win to protect what they believed in. To disrespect what people believed in so strongly. That they would fight knowing their time would be soon. When he himself could never commit to doing a selfless deed on any scale, is rediculous. Just another case of ignorance, spawned somehow in this nation's minds', by tv or sumthin. Now i may be 17, but I know better than to disrespect what people believe in. Especially since he could be a role model for some . I would have shown him the Texas spirit, if i saw such disrespect. I'm sure a straight to the throat would knock him right off his feet . Much respect to all those who fought to defend the Alamo. Jim and all those unsung heroes did it for us, and i really look up to them, and everyone else who has fought for what they thought was right.

 

+1 never again

 

please keep us informed of there response if you did write to them.

 

that mag has sucked for the last 6 months.. it was the first mag i started reading 6 years ago.. till about 6 months ago... now i got 1 year left on my sub. oh well good fire starting paper..

 

ok guys, he responded and you will not beleive what he said-

OK so heres what he had to say when i showed him the "dear super street" letter.


"Sweet! I still say **** the Alamo!



BTW, if you know this guy, send him my reply or tell him to go to my Myspace homepage:

First, my reply to the jackass who wrote the following letter, who probably based his opinion from racist history books and mediocre movies. I say **** you to the Alamo because the people who defended that stupid site (I'm talking about Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, etc.) stood for slavery. They strongly fought the Mexicans because the Mexican gov't at the time became abolitionists, or anti-slavery. The Mexican gov't was in the process of enforcing this belief to the Texans, who made their living by agriculture and therefore needed slaves. Of course, the Texans wouldn't possibly allow their income to be taken so they fought back. This is one of the reasons why the battle came about, and why I wrote that piece in Super Street.

Note: Whatever you read in your history books are wrong. And don't ever believe what you see in the movies. So please do your homework before you say something really stupid: "
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dude he just said fawk us!!!!!!

i'm wopping his *** when he comes to TEXAS!

you can see he posted it on an houston site!

http://www.houston-imports.com/forum...d.php?t=217767

dude we need our forth worth buddies to find him and beat his a$$...

 

Yeah, he pretty much did.

How much of what he said about slavery is true? (I gotta admit its been a looong time since I read any Texas history, and I didn't pay much attention even back then.)

If he's even halfway close, it sounds like he has some legitimate reasons for not caring about the Alamo. If he's totally wrong, try sending him the facts.

But either way, don't let him get to you. He probably loves the fact that you're wigging out. Don't give him the satisfaction.

 

Mixed feelings here. Not cool to speak ill of anyone fought for our country - no matter if you believe in what personal he stood for - slavery, abortion, anything - they still fought to protect our rights. However, Texas - personally not a fan of it. Not trying to start a fight or anything, I just hate it here and can't wait for Uncle Sam to move me.

 

Actually, it wasn't "our country" or "our rights" they were fighting for. (Curiosity got to me, so I just did some reading ).

Texas was a Mexican state/territory/whatever, and the Americans who were there were fighting for Texan independence from Mexico, not for the USA, and not for the rights of US citizens.

 

True, you are right. I was speaking more on the lines of any soldier - whether for Texas independence, the Union, Normandy.

 

here is another responce from a SAI member-

WTF??? He's the one that doesn't know jack zhit about the Alamo or TX at the time. He's right that there are a lot of "Pro-American" myths about it, but the fact was that most of the fighters came from somewhere OTHER than TX. It was about the mistreatment and taxation of the Texans. They got taxed severely, but got jack**** in return. IT had nothing to do with slavery. It had to do with the greedy and ****ty gov't in Mexico. It couldn't govern itself muchless a land as big as Texas. The Mexican gov't STILL sucks and always has.
At the time, the American gov't had problems of its own and couldn't spare resources, so it was up to volunteers to defend the Alamo.

This guy is the biggest piece of zhit ever. I almost thought about blowing this off, but after that response, I would kick his a$$ if I met him.
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Embarrassed by my lack of knowledge on this subject, I did a little more reading. Apparently there are people (scholarly types) who think slavery was in fact an issue.

"....in an effort to curb the growing immigration from the United States, they [the Mexican government] passed an emancipation proclamation in 1829 forbidding slavery. While slavery was not a practice in Mexico, this law was aimed at the growing number of U.S. citizens holding slaves in the Mexican province of Texas."

Admittedly, I was looking specifically for info about slavery when I found this article. Everything I've found on the web seems to approach the Alamo with very strong feelings. Nothing I've seen so far comes across as unbiased. For instance, the article I got this quote from refers to the "myopic vision of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas". (I believe they're the ones who actually control The Alamo.)