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On Aug 16, 6:07 am, wis...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:42:57 -0700 (PDT), hp...@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
>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-----
>
> >> 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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>
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