Friday, May 14, 2010

Boycotting the police state

Let me start by saying this topic has me fired up no im not ed shultz.By the way i love his show but to the subject now. As a mexican american living in nebraska and part of a union i hope this type of law does not come here.Arizona first passes the paper's ,please law and now they have gone further right by banning ethnic studies. Banning certain parts of american history is that not racist in nature.
Is this not the state that did not want to recognize martin luther king birthday. Now they do not want people to even have the option to study their own history be it they are african american, asian american,or a latino like myself.
Thinking back to my high school days during my sophomore year i took mexican american history so that i can learn more about my history. I learned and found out how pancho villa fought for regular folks but at the same time i learned he was not a great person. In arizona they have passed a law taking away the option to learn one's history. Taking away something that is not required only to make the racist folks in that state feel great.
Are they still feeling great knowing that they have lost at least 90 million. With so many events being cancelled my thinking is how far they will go along with law. This is the united states and money talks and tourism will drop in arizona can they survive losing this money. The one thing that is ironic is they did not get the republic convention in 2012 be it that conservatives we're in favor for the law. Their biggest star in that state is Mccain in he supports it the use to be maverick is trying to please the tea party the fringe of the republican party.
A conservative state education chief running for attorney general tom horne actually thinks this is the way to get to that position. Then targets rodolfo acuena for writing about the history of chicanos so he is willfully targeting hispanics. We may not be 1500 tea party idiots wanting smaller government but do not want the government to touch medicare and social security. We may not be out there arguing against reform but have no idea what's in the bill to actually put up a decent argument.We may not be out there complaining about paying higher taxes even though they are at an all time low. We may not watch fox news to get our case of nazi turrets or get falsified stories. One thing we are is that we are 45 million strong working on jobs most of these white folks do not want to do.
I do not doubt that there is folks coming over doing illegal things but america cannot put everyone in that category.Most immigrants coming over to better themselves for their family to give their kids a better chance.I do understand that crime on the border is a problem so passed a bill that confronts the isssue of border security instead pf attacking folks that pump 26 billion dollars in to the state economy. If they governor had any common sense she would have vetoed the bill but she was only concerned about making a statement in governorship.
64% of america support the law that only tells me that racism still lingers in this country. We have come to be hated because we do jobs better and cheaper than most folks will do but then why don't you attack those companies that hire illegal's. One thing is we as latino's seem to be underappreciated for doing things that we should be payed more for.
This law is racist and banning ethnic studies only reassures us that arizona is not a state worth visiting or worth even mentioning.This state is becoming more like the south used to be during the civil rights fight when martin luther king fought equality oh wait they did not want to recognize his birthday. My only thoughts now is that my nightmare does not come true that this type of immigration law comes here. The last thing i want to say is republicans keep saying the federal government has to failed to pass immigration reform.Then in that same speech you go on and say you are against immigration reform because the climate for it is not ready for it. Stop baming the feds when you are the federal government so get to work on a bi-partisanship bill.

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