Category Archives: Politics

After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town – NYTimes.com

Here’s the thing. You start fulfilling the sterotypes built by our enemies: you discriminate based on the color of people’s skin, you lock folks up and through away the key, you because what you spend a lot of hot wind saying you aren’t.

Welcome to Alabama, which thinks it is just fine to hunt down anyone brown and make everyone flee the state, legal status or not.

Hell, *I* sure the hell don’t want to go there and face arrest because I’m a darker shade than lily white.

And while they swear this isn’t about race and is a smart strategy, this law against Mexican first collared a Yemeni national in this nation legally. Nice job!

But hey, no problem, right? Oh, except for that whole “you have to prove you are a citizen just so you can get clean water” business. Hell, even the racist Minutemen give folks water!

I seriously hope folks of any type of tinted skin stay the hell out of that state. And if anyone could point out ways to not let any of our cash stray towards Alabama, I’d love to hear about it.

A State Without Mexicans? | Mother Jones

In Alabama, like Georgia and North Carolina before them, racism is put above both economic and civil rights concerns as the state basically makes it illegal to be brown.

Sure, there are undocumented and falsely documented workers in this country. Either find a way to get them to work legally or find a way to pay Americans enough to do the work. Because, whatever the current laws are trying to do is just going to make a lot of folks hungry, both the workers not getting paid, the farmers fined or forced out of business, and the rest of us paying more for smaller amounts of food as it rots in the fields.

Short-sighted and cruel conservatives will truly be the undoing of this nation if their agenda can’t be stopped. Or at least turned to productive ends. Laws like the one mentioned sure as hell won’t do the job.

Daily Kos: Anti-immigrant nativists show their true colors

Once again, it surprises me that most folks don’t believe that those driving the bus in the GOP are bigots and full of racial hatred. I mean, sure, not all members of the party are, but look at who they get as leaders.

So, it is nice to see the mask slip off if even just for a moment.

The shock value of those who are naive is funny, if depressing, to watch. You want to hope the folks on your side are smarter than that. What truly bites though is how otherwise decent conservatives just drive their heads further in the sand.

I am related to those folks. I am friends with some too. You want better for – and from – them.

Pity.

FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ | Danger Room | Wired.com

Your tax dollars at work.

The FBI is teaching its new agents that Muslims – all Muslims – are dangerous and to be suspicious of them.

So much for that “liberty and justice for ALL” bullshit we say we run our nation by.

Check the article for links to some of the odious training material.

Mother Jones covers more bigoted proposals from the nation that supposedly guarantees freedom for all.

This is despicable reactionary crap from a bunch of folks more afraid of living than of living correctly.