I've been super busy lately, and I haven't been reading up enough to put up an informed post. But, I did find this video in my twitter time-line care of the Huffington Post. Of course, there was an American citizen whose illegal papers were ignored and presumed to be fake! According to the video he was held for 2 days. The most chilling statement from the piece was, "We know of instances in which young people in his same situation are actually taken to the border and deported from the United States." This reminds me of Charlie Murphy's Hot Ghetto Mess (We Got to Do Better) Come on America!
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Showing posts with label arizona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arizona. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The more things change...
Watching the happenings in Arizona is a heart wrenching experience. What is worse is listening to the amount of people spew hate from their mouths. This is America. Yes, I understand that something about immigration needs to be done; but, it seems like not too many Americans know their history or have chosen to catch amnesia. The majority of “Americans” are immigrants. Unless you are a naturalized American Indian, your ancestors were immigrants. Now some of you might say, “Hey, I came here legally, I’m a real American!” Well if you consider the European colonization of the Americas legal, I guess your right. But taking land that was already claimed, killing off an ethnicity of people, raging wars, spreading disease, and forcing American Indians into the corners of the country to live in confined spaces seems like the most legit takeover ever.
Throughout the years of our American takeover history almost every ethnicity or religious group has been demonized throughout the years. People do not like change. People do not like to be outnumbered. People do not know their history. Fear and ignorance cause discrimination and hate. But the fact is that immigration is what keeps our country thriving. America the ugly was built on the backs of indentured servants and slaves. i.e. cheap labor. After slavery was abolished, there were waves of different cultures that continued to come into our country both legally and illegally for various reasons in order to thrive in a new world. These immigrants took those jobs that no one wanted for wages that no one wanted in order for big business to continue to grow and thrive. The truth is we have a problem, but we should not solve our problems at the expense of American citizens being profiled and badgered because they look like a group of people who continue to enter this country illegally.
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Throughout the years of our American takeover history almost every ethnicity or religious group has been demonized throughout the years. People do not like change. People do not like to be outnumbered. People do not know their history. Fear and ignorance cause discrimination and hate. But the fact is that immigration is what keeps our country thriving. America the ugly was built on the backs of indentured servants and slaves. i.e. cheap labor. After slavery was abolished, there were waves of different cultures that continued to come into our country both legally and illegally for various reasons in order to thrive in a new world. These immigrants took those jobs that no one wanted for wages that no one wanted in order for big business to continue to grow and thrive. The truth is we have a problem, but we should not solve our problems at the expense of American citizens being profiled and badgered because they look like a group of people who continue to enter this country illegally.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
WTF Moment of the day...
One of the more disappointing tweets to my day for was from @blackvoices “@blackvoices Arizona Law: Give It a Chance http://bit.ly/cxn68a” I hesitantly clicked the link hoping that there would be some kind of spin to the article; however, the title pretty much speaks for itself. For a website geared toward the issues of Black people to tell Black people to give any sort of creed to this new legislation that has been voted upon in Arizona is absolutely hypocritical and ludicrous. One of the major problems facing the communities of color is our disrespect for one another’s issues. I am not saying that it is something that everyone does; however, I believe a lot more could be done if we stood up for the rights of everyone as opposed to just standing up for the rights of ourselves. Holding someone else down is not the way that you will be able to rise up. Despite the fact that there are giant loopholes in the law it is unconstitutional and blatant racial profiling. Yes, there is an issue. No, I do not have a solution; however, this violates the rights of those CITIZENS who live in Arizona and have done nothing wrong. We should not wait until their civil liberties are violated and hope that someone will do something. We should fight to protect the civil liberties of all American citizens.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Help Police Neutrality!
Some times I need no words. (i know i know my grammar... sssshhh and watch the clip)
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