LATINOS and how the AZ GOP just handed us a gift!!!

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When the Republican movement uses the word "illegal Immigrant" they aren't fooling anyone about who they are targeting. They are targeting poor Mexicans coming across our southern border, plain and simple. They are declaring a human hunting campaign on these folks who just want to survive. Any Latino who has grown up in the Southwest part of the country will tell you stories of their family and encounters with the same mentality. My Grandmother used to have to drink from separate water fountains in southern Texas when she was young because she was "different". The same condescending nature of discrimination and blatant racism of throwing all Latinos under one canopy and calling them names had revealed its ugly head once again!!

The fact of the matter, it is a small group of people who want to control the many. I have news for them. This is a different time and a different country we are growing up in. My generation of Americans are not going to take this sitting down!!!

This is the fire the Arizona Republicans are stroking, this is the dangerous path they are playing. This is why they cannot gain traction and increase their tent. They think they are better than everyone else and feel an entitlement to this great country versus anyone who feels contrary to their belief system, has a different culture, or looks different. It is the same old stereotype that the Republican try to isolate themselves from (in regards to being racists) but their actions always reinforce the opposite of their wishes!!!

I challenge every person who wants to end racism to call these guys out and tell them enough!!! I call on every American who is sick of this crap and wants a better future for our children who don't see people in regards to color to stand up to these bigots!!

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/24/860263/-LATINOS-and-how-the-AZ-GOP-just-handed-us-a-gift!!!

p.s. from kpete - this is MY story, this is many of YOUR stories
STAND UP TO THESE BIGOTS!!!!

with our Canadian and Mexican neighbors.

are illusions............kp

which is why I believe the concept of them should be open. :hi:

drawn by frightened idiots.

are free to move around the different countries of the European Union with few restrictions.

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This is gonna get ugly, but it's been a long time coming.

Looks like the GOPers will regret this in Nov.

in AZ, they have lost their minds...

and I agree..too many here in Az have lost their minds or never used them in the first place!

...there was a main street that divided the town and unless a Hispanic was a "known domestic", if he/she was seen on the wrong side (read the side opposite of where the barrio was) after 6:00 PM, he/she was automatically run in and harassed by the PD. Just to make sure these brown people knew their place.

The shit I saw in supposedly librul SoCal in the mid-1960s was fucking disgusting. I had a friend and her anglo mother made the "mistake" of marrying a Mexican ~~ her anglo grandparents and cousins had less than nothing to do with her. She was a "half breed" to them. In fact, one of her all white cousins was in our class and that asshole would not speak to my friend.

Unbelievable shit that I thought (incorrectly) was hopefully in the past re the horrible discrimination I personally witnessed against Hispanics about 40 years ago. Boy, AZ has made sure that the Southwest is contaminated by this bigotry and racism by condoning racism legally and out in the open.

Fuck them...this is evil and sick.

Edit for spelling error.

JMHO

because we were light colored "brown people"
we were accepted,
as long as we hid it behind our green eyes and blond hair.

NO MORE!!!

because I spoke Spanish to the workers and frequented the Latino bakery in the neighborhood. One of them seemed delegated to check me out and he decided I was some kind of Berkeley radical after grilling me for about 20 minutes. I never saw another Latino in that hood that wasn't behind a stroller or a lawnmower. It was so nice to leave in 2004.

I lived there for thirty years and fifteen of those were in a mixed race neighborhood, with AfAms, Latino and later Persians as well as Anglos. Of course it was below Santa Monica Boulevard and not one of the rich neighborhoods. It was basically working class. There were all white neighborhoods, now that I think about it above Wilshire Blvd..

worked at the Macys which is now the LACMA

a surfer's haven. By the time I went down there, it was so gentrified you had to really look to see if people were actually breathing. A big disappointment to us. I couldn't wait to get out of there.

It was awful. This was an all white neighborhood and none of these people were actually wealthy.

maybe, my mom has green eyes and blended in with the "white neighborhood" but her mother's family was from El Paso, TX and her father's family from Spain.

color is so subjective...kpete

but the composition of that neighborhood and what was welcomed there was pretty obvious, sad to say.

my Latina mother, they weren't rude to her and in a short time accepted her as family. My cousins used to call me their beaner cousin but they never shunned me or refused to play with me or be seen in my company.

Mom says she never knew she wssn't white until she came to the United States.

lol

... the day before the pool was cleaned.

illegal employment problem.

BUT I WANT THE WHOLE OF DU TO STAND WITH ME ON THIS ONE!!!

I am truly sick about it - my own mother (3rd generation Mexican-American) agrees with this ASININE kick in the gut!!!

I have not been so pissed since 2000!!

kp
(my abuelita would have gone after these people with her broom...)

The ol' Law Of Unintended Consequences does it again!

I will stand with you Kpete

DearAbby

... well done!

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