Trimble, it’s interesting reading your comments first of all thanks for taking pride in your work and for looking past an individuals color or heritage.
I was in the store this morning and this Caucasian lady came strolling in with the hugest smile on her face, she was glowing. The cashier then asked her why she was so happy, mind you this lady was at a Latino supermarket - the cashier was also Latina. She said “I just did my good deed for the day.” The cashier obviously intrigued by her vague answer and whit a huge smile on her face asked her what the deed had been. She came back with, “I stopped by homedepot picked up 3 of them dirty Mexicans and drove them directly to the Sheriff’s office.”
Her response outraged me, I wanted to jump on her ass and just tear her to pieces; but I decided to swallow my pride and walk away. Is what this lady did any worse than what Joe Arpaio is doing? His “crime suppression” sprees are nothing but round ups; yet he claims he doesn’t profile. Then why is it that he’s only capturing Mexicans? Rapist, murderers, robbers are all safe as long as they aren’t Latino in Arizona.
This is definitely the United States of America that we know and love… The land of opportunity, a land that was built by immigrants whether you agree or not.
Where I live there are Mexican, Russian and Chinese illegal immigrants. I find it hard to believe that the cops are going to be able to take a quick glance at a person driving by and go "Hey look! That guy is an illegal!"
If a cop is awesome enough to pick out the illegals based on looks alone then why can't they just pick out the wife beaters, thieves, drug dealers, tax evaders etc. as well? They can't because people come in all shapes and sizes, including illegal immigrants.
I live in the American southwest, in New Mexico and lived many years in Southern California. I like Mexicans, they are good people even the illegals. It is not hard to sympathize with poor people whose only hope is in El Norte. Some have walked all the way from Mexico City and Central America to come here. I respect that effort, it should be worth a green card. If I were in their shoes I would be doing the same thing. We should look at them as economic refugees, not illegals.
What I don't like is uncontrolled illegal immigration, borders where crime and drugs accompanied by violence flows freely and corrupt racist lying Democrats and Republicans who use the suffering of others for political gain by playing race cards, pitting racial group against racial group, ignoring the chaos at the border, favoring and allowing the exploitation of people for cheap labor who have no protection from our labor laws. I will not hold illegals responsible for the failure of the political class or make them scapegoats for our problems.
You know who is even more responsible than the political class? If you are an American, go look in the mirror, that is who. You are the ones who elect morons over and over because they promise you a society where you don't have to take care of yourself. Many have given up freedom and individual responsibility in exchange for being wards (and property) of the state. My fellow Americans you have been deceived, by the President on down and a propagandist media, sadly you just don't know it … yet.
I have a few points to make which I couldn't do last night as I was a wee bit drunk.
I get racially profiled all the time here. Every time I have to go somewhere in Europe I need to go waste a day getting a visa and provide all kind of documentation to prove it. I have been prevented from boarding a plane until they called the embassy to make sure I wasn't some kind of- I don't know what. I've been harrased by the Spanish guarda because I was the only non European at an airport which left me trembling because he was grabbing his gun revelling in his power. And it isn't a great feeling believe me. I have friends who are Indian who have been stopped and searched at airports because American airport staff thought they were muslims. Not to mention that I get labelled as a racist because I'm a white South African. I have to continue fighting against being labeled all my life when it would just be easier to fall in and prove them right and be a racist.
Moving to another country is a big thing. You have to make new friends and effectively start your life over which isn't made easy when you are profiled,hated and feared because of your race,religion etc
Um, is this or was this a good thread gone bad?
♥ Listen, touch, and look around in the air and on the ground. If you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wings. ♥
Ok, my bad. I just kind of peeked in here and thought....well the worse obviously. LOL Carry on with the good discussion!
♥ Listen, touch, and look around in the air and on the ground. If you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wings. ♥
I have seen about a 1/4 of this video and that was enough for me. Like a lushy Author once said why do I keep seeing thing's that I don't need to see.
To me this video could have been targeted about anyone, blondes, black hair etc you get my point.
The larger issue is that people world wide have been targeted for the same reason- for being different!
Returning to the video for a moment, it's got a lot of symbolism in it that relates to profiling/racial violence of any type. There's the obvious ginger theme, bur did anyone else notice that the facecloths the street fighters wore looked a lot like the Palestinian keffiyeh (sp?), or that the rounding up of the young males is reminiscent of the massacre at Srebrenica. I won't bother to go on with the imagery, except to say that it's also reminiscent of rounding up Mexicans at the Home Depot and delivering them to the Sheriff.
Which in turn, I suppose, is rather a lot like picking on about 1/4 of the world's population (that'd be the 22% of the globe that's Muslim) simply because a couple dozen of them happened to be retards with boxcutters. Should we punish entire groups of people because a couple of them did bad things to the US?
Let's see where this will take us:
-LA's Hillside Stranglers were Italian... better toss out all the WOPs.
-Ted Bundy was a law student... better lock up the lawyers. OK, maybe that's not a half-bad idea, actually.
-Jeffrey Dahmer dropped out of college... so let's get rid of the dropouts. Fuck, I'm screwe; or maybe I`m OK cause I went back and finished up years later.
-John Wayne Gacy was molested as a little boy, so let's do something about all those victims of child sexual abuse. They're Killer Clowns in waiting, you know.
-Timothy McVeigh once said, "Science is my religion." Should we keep scientists away from federal buildings? Or is it OK, cause you know... he was a white guy.
"Let's start somewhere" is the most bullshit ridiculous defence of the Arizona laws that I can imagine. `Let`s start somehere"? really? You can't come up with any better defence of this affront to human dignity than "Well, at least it's something." Fucking nuclear weapons are something, too. Maybe you should just go straight to the source and blow up fucking Mexico.
You know someone needs to make the comparison, so here goes: I wonder if, 60 years from now, historians will look back at the Arizona Immigration Laws as the 32st century's Nürnberg Citizenship Laws.
Why are we more important? Look at the news; it’s not JUST Latinos out demanding their legal rights. There are Africans, Asians, and many other minorities. Federal law requires “legal” immigrants to carry their cards with them at all times – ok. What about the Latinos that were born here and now have to carry around their birth certificates or else they could end up in jail. An Arizona issued state ID is not enough anymore.
We are not only fighting for us, but for every other hard working immigrant in the US… Please don’t put words in my mouth Chef, that’s not nice.
The main reason I’m stating that the Latino community is being profiled is because that is precisely what is happening. They are hunting Mexicans Chef, rounding them up like animals and shoving them in a cage. I’ve had four cousins arrested last week, and two yesterday. All legal, US born and raised… They had ID and their social security cards but they took them in anyways, they speak broken English. My aunt had to take all of their paper work down to the Sheriff’s office to have them released.
Yeah I've been asked for my drivers license too. So I produce it, hand it over, take the ticket and go about my business. End of story.
We can judge and race-bait and demonize all we want, but they don't come here to screw the government and be criminals, they come here to save their lives and give their family a shot at a future. They can't reasonably get here legally, they are refugees. We would all do the same thing, unless poverty and oppression were things we enjoyed.
