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13 comments:
If I lived in Alabama, I'd vote for him.
Please tell me this is a joke!!
LOL.
Definitely not a joke. I hate this guy.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the racists in America are coming out of the woodwork? Like the Tea Party movement made it stylish once again to let your bigotry fly high and proud.
Maybe it's always been there, but hasn't received as much national attention. I don't know, but it makes me really embarrassed for our country.
This whole Arizona thing is just baffling. One third of their population is hispanic, with 25% speaking a language other than English in the home. Is anyone really going to make the argument that there won't be civil rights abuses?
The past year or so has been completely mind blowing to me.
My feelings/thoughts too, Pieter. The teachers in my hall and I were talking about this today. I also read an article today that said that Arizona is banning ethnic studies courses and not allowing teachers with accents to teach in classes where students who may still be learning English are present.
I haven't read too much on Arizona, but I'm curious as to why it is bothersome in your thinking, Sherry and Pete? In my limited understanding, it seems that they will be requiring documentation to be carried.
Hey Steph,
The problem for me is that it's legalizing racial profiling. Who "looks" illegal? What's next? Putting brown people in camps, the way we did with Japanese Americans during World War II? It is so backwards and exactly the same mentality: Because someone is of a certain race, he should be suspected of sabotage/crime. Fuck that. In a state with a history of racist legislation, this law WILL be abused.
This explains some of the issues:
http://restorefairness.org/2010/04/arizonas-harsh-anti-immigrant-bill-gives-racial-profiling-the-green-light/
Here are a few articles that illustrate some of the concerns.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/08/arizona.sheriff.immigration/#cnnSTCText
Woops. Here are the rest. Sorry I couldn't get the link thing working.
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=12391381
http://www.kpho.com/news/20468282/detail.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/29/arizona.immigration.lawsuit/index.html
And that's before the law came into action right, Pete? Now they are, in fact, going on street corners and grabbing people who look like they're from another country--just when it felt like it couldn't get worse than what was described in that article. This feels like the twilight zone.
With guys like Arpaio enforcing this law, there's no question about whether or not it will lead to racial profiling and discrimination. It already has.
I'm all for immigration reform, but this isn't the way to do it.
Thanks, guys. The articles you linked to were helpful in understanding.
Pete - I'd be interested to hear how you think immigration reform could come about in a healthy way - although we don't have to do it here on Sherry's Alabama blog :)
Its just sad to me that the law in and of itself does not seem bad to me, but that there are people/police who will use it to abuse people.
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