It's March Madness, and the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles have already made their mark. Not by making the most baskets...would have been nice. No, their fans were chanting to a Kansas State player that he needed to get his green card while he took his foul shots. Their racism was so gross that the Southern Mississippi college president quickly apologized with "deep regrets." We are so proud.
Well, I am happy that the college has enough sense to at least put a good public face on the state of racism in the great state of Mississippi. While on the stage of the NCAA basketball tournament we would not want to display overt racism...wouldn't be right. Read about it here.
While the kids are being reprimanded for their racism at the NCAA tourney their state leaders are proceeding with their own agenda at the Mississippi State House. The legislature in Mississippi is controlled in both houses by the GOP and the governor is a Republican, so it follows that they are in the process of passing an immigration law similar to the Arizona's and unfortunately the law we have here in Georgia. The kids will always share the truth...and in this case the truth is ugly. Create a law that singles out those with brown skin, arrest them and remove them from our streets. Call them illegal and teach your children to hate them simply because they are looking for the chance we have had and they have brown skin.
Ronald Reagan gave amnesty to undocumented workers. Congress was supposed to pass a comprehensive immigration law and didn't. So for over 25 years the USA was exploiting the labor of those brown-skinned workers and benefiting hugely by their labor. These undocumented have families, houses, kids and lives here in the USA. As a country, we have a responsibility for all of those that came, worked, and created a life. There is no doubt in my mind that our implicit allowance for their coming and going to the USA carries a responsibility for fairness. And then, there are the words on the Statue of Liberty:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Every day some poor soul will be pulled over for some minor traffic infraction and after their rights as human beings have been trampled on they will ultimately be sent back to Mexico. So much for probable cause, so much for the words on the Statue of Liberty. Our police will pull you over and because you are brown skinned and undocumented we'll mess with your life and your rights as a human being.
Those kids from the state of Mississippi were only saying what their state leaders were telling them was OK to say. Unfortunately we won't be getting any apologies from the parents of Mississippi or Georgia, or Arizona because the "Golden Door" is closed.
(Originally posted on The Daily Liberal, a blog by Wes Allen.)
Diana Dice
Sorry sir, PLEASE point out the specific clauses in print where ILLEGAL Violators are defined as BROWN? Where ILLEGAL violators are of a specific race? Can't be done because ILLEGAL is a state of being or presence, NOT a RACE or origin. So the RACE issue is NOT actually in any bill recently passed in any of the states you mention, your opinion itself seems to be what is injecting a skewed and RACIST view on the issue. Are you actually stating that ALL deportees go to Mexico? "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." So that CLEARLY states that as long as the Statue of Liberty has stood the world acknowledges that the US of A HAS a DOOR to enter through, one that has and STILL is accepting those that ENTER THROUGH it. This does NOT imply that the US of A will take those who enter at any other point due to ease of entry. Would you accept anyone who enters your home through any other means than the DOOR? Would you accept just anyone? If your invited guest came though a window, would that be acceptable to you - even if it appeared to be open at the time because it WASN'T locked... Would you greet an UNINVITED guest who came though that same closed but UNLOCKED window? I venture to say that police would be called and rightly so. That's what many citizens and LEGAL aliens desire, its as simple as that.
The state may have finally caught on that the loss of that long term tax revenue from those whose income has been eliminated or drastically reduced due to encounters with these "undocumented" drivers is funding that they can't spend in times of ever larger budget shortfalls.
I was thinking the other day that I wish a law could be passed that would prevent people from voting while they're angry. People tend to make poor decisions while they're angry.
Simply stating facts that have long been pushed off to the corner by others who stand to profit from the lack of focus. If people support bad policy, they should be educated in the ramifications thereof. And as to the case I made, there has been no rebuttal of substance yet.
Gang activity, no license or insurance, assault, drugs - sorry, but anyone who breaks those laws gets locked up. Look at the docket books at the sheriff's dept.
Check the Gwinnett County mugshots website and check out how many (apparently Hispanic) people are arrested for: no DL, no insurance, no registration, etc. It is dangerous out there. Talk about naive, Dave. Get you head out of the sand.