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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:42:57 -0700 (PDT), hpope@lycos.com wrote:

>On Aug 15, 9:49�pm, "Iconoclast" <iconocl...@ecoweb.co.zw> wrote:
>> This editorial was featured in the anti-white, anti-American "Colorado
>> Daily" in Boulder Colorado yesterday. �Hispanic "leaders" and writers can
>> barely contain their hatred for white Americans and their wishes to copy the
>> policies currently carried out in Zimbabwe and South Africa against people
>> of European descent.
>>
>> http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/x169545974/De-la-Isla-Intoler...
>>
>> By Jose de la Isla/Syndicated columnist
>> GHS
>> Posted Aug 15, 2008 @ 12:23 AM
>>
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>>
>> The hate-crime and incident blotter is filling so fast now, it suggests the
>> mean side of our national character is rising. To look away from what is
>> happening could mean something equally telling - a failure to face a problem
>> needing national attention.
>>
>> The latest entry, on July 19, found two white teenagers in Shenandoah, Pa.,
>> charged with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the beating death of a
>> 25-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Those charged are just 16
>> and 17. A third youth is charged with aggravated assault.
>>
>> In Nashville, Tenn., a pregnant Mexican woman stopped on a traffic violation
>> July 3 and found to have a pending immigration-violation charge was held in
>> handcuffs and shackles by the sheriff's department as she was in labor prior
>> to giving birth.
>>
>> In North Carolina, Hispanic leaders received death threats for supporting a
>> bill that would allow some undocumented immigrants the right to attend state
>> colleges. Two of the U.S.-born leaders reported receiving profanity-laced
>> messages and were told to "go back where you came from." Other demeaning
>> remarks included - you guessed it - their Hispanic ethnicity.
>>
>> In Phoenix, five individuals and Somos America, a Latino community-based
>> coalition, have sued Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, his department and
>> the county government, in U.S. district court for unlawfully stopping and
>> mistreating Latinos in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth and 14th
>> Amendments, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Arizona
>> Constitution.
>>
>> Plaintiff Manuel Nieto, Jr., a U.S. citizen, claims he was detained in front
>> of his family's auto-repair shop after police heard him listening to music
>> in Spanish. The two Democratic Party contenders for county attorney, seeking
>> to oppose incumbent Republican Andrew Thomas in November, say some
>> undocumented immigrants were singled out at the expense of overall
>> prosecution of crimes.
>>
>> Many, many more infamous incidents have received media attention - in
>> Farmers Branch, Texas, in Hazleton, Pa., in Long Island, N.Y., in
>> Pottsville, Iowa. They have played out in virtually every state.
>>
>> If left uncorrected, this social intolerance will become a part of our
>> national character, just as segregation became part of it.
>>
>> It gives license to discriminate. And all the while, nice people look on.
>>
>> The numbers - especially the smaller-scale prejudicial infractions - are
>> corroborated in a 2007 Pew Research Center report. Astoundingly, the report
>> found a majority of Hispanics stating that discrimination is a major problem
>> for them.
>>
>> Nothing like the current dimension has occurred in our country since the
>> Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 when racists threw Chinese workers out of
>> Western towns, driving many to seek refuge in Mexico.
>>
>> During the 1930s' Depression years, more than half a million "Mexicans,"
>> thousands of them with legal papers and thousands more born here, were
>> uprooted and shipped to Mexico like cattle, in trains and trucks.
>>
>> An unthinking rationalization says it's their fault. They have it coming.
>> They probably entered our country without permission.
>>
>> Did the 75 undocumented immigrant employees working in the Twin Towers in
>> New York on Sept. 11, 2001, have it coming when they perished along with
>> 2,700 others? Did they deserve to die?
>>
>> The need today is to reconcile and account, admit and acknowledge what
>> happened and what's driving it. One step in that direction would be to call
>> on all those running for a federal office to commit to conducting a national
>> reconciliation inquiry that identifies what was responsible for the
>> irrational overreaction to the immigration issue. Who are the opportunists
>> and provocateurs?
>>
>> Church leaders and human rights institutions should form part of the inquiry
>> to hear from victims of abuse living among us. And we ought to invite those
>> in neighboring countries to come forward with their perspectives. We
>> shouldn't listen only to ourselves anymore.
>>
>> Voters in November should demand not just a commitment to logical
>> immigration reform but to a national strategy to eliminate policies that
>> encourage predatory practices against our national scapegoats, the most
>> vulnerable among us. We can air out this pestilence with truth.
>>
>> Jose de la Isla writes a weekly commentary for Hispanic Link News Service.
>> He may be contacted by e-mail at joseis...@yahoo.com.
>
>Our political hacks pander to hispanics for votes. Never a thought to
>the future.
>
>Mitch
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