It's Time to Boycott Arizona

[Diva]

They might as well have taken out their pistol and shot themselves in the foot.....
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3hq0XM-cw"]YouTube- Racist Anti-Immigration Arizona Law Backfires[/nomedia]

[SuperFemme]

OMFG. Seriously? Seriously?

Crops need to be harvested? But he doesn't want a Mexican washing his car, mowing his lawn and he doesn't need to eat at fast food restaurants? Come here, work the job, pay taxes, don't have babies here or be a "burden" on the taxpayers and then get the fuck out and go home when the state of AZ is done with you?

Seriously?

[Soon]

via JoeMyGod: Dr. Sandra Soto is the Assistant Professor for Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she used this week's graduation ceremony to denounce her state's racist immigration law. It's a bit surprising/depressing that so many students would boo her. (Although she did get some decent applause at the end.) The Freepers are thrilled by the students' reaction.

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

via JoeMyGod: Dr. Sandra Soto is the Assistant Professor for Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, where she used this week's graduation ceremony to denounce her state's racist immigration law. It's a bit surprising/depressing that so many students would boo her. (Although she did get some decent applause at the end.) The Freepers are thrilled by the students' reaction.

Hey, many in AZ (including the Gov) do not want cultural and ethnic studies taught in the schools! This law isn't just about immigration, it's about right-wing nut cake bigots fearing the demise of white people!!! It was drafted in part by an organization (F.A.I.R) that has one of the world's leading proponents of racial inferiority studies of non-white populations (as in things like POC just not being as smart as white people based upon biology). As in the types of people that agree with racial and ethnic cleansing!!

We need to wake up. This stuff is not harmless talk. And it isn't just taking hold in AZ. Look at Texas and people there wanting to re-write history to align with WASP culture! It isn't just Limbaugh and mega-wacko Beck on the airwaves spreading right wing BS. More and more of these jerks are running for elected office and winning! What is going on in AZ and TX presently is a serious threat to every disenfranchised population in the US and to democracy. Movements like this always take hold more deeply during difficult financial times when the majority of the population is more worried about a job, keeping a home (owning or renting), putting food on the table.

I hate to be an alamist, but alamed is exactly what I feel 2010 is a critical mid-term election year. If you have even a small amount of time to get involved with political organizations that fight this kind of crap- please do so!

[sweetcali]

Originally Posted by SuperFemme

OMFG. Seriously? Seriously?

Crops need to be harvested? But he doesn't want a Mexican washing his car, mowing his lawn and he doesn't need to eat at fast food restaurants? Come here, work the job, pay taxes, don't have babies here or be a "burden" on the taxpayers and then get the fuck out and go home when the state of AZ is done with you?

Seriously?

It has taken me awhile to respond in this thread due to life not giving me enough stamina. LOL I lived in Monterey County for over 20yrs. The Salinas Valley salad capital of the world. I would see these workers out in those fields before sunrise and after sunset. I did outreach work for a while and I have seen the conditions these field workers live in. I have seen the terror in their eyes when some white person they didn't know approached them.

I have seen the delight in many a person's eyes as they eat their fresh salad on the table in front of them. I have heard jokes about "those" people that picked that very salad they were eating. I have listened to many a white boy complain about not being able to get a job; yet you never saw a white boy go apply to work in those fields. I never saw a white boy standing on the corner at the 7-11 or home depot looking for work; yet they would complain about not getting a job and make fun of the very people willing to work in deplorable conditions just to make a few pennies to feed their families.

I think it is time that some of these people get off their high horses, take off their rose colored glasses and take a serious look at how asinine their laws really are; whilst eating their fresh salad at their $1000 a plate fund raiser to create a racist law.

There ego's need to be put in check. They need to get off that all might white cloud they are sitting on.

Oh and I wonder if they enjoyed that nice little mint placed upon their $500 dollar a night hotel room.

The whole law makes me ill and it also makes me wonder how terrified some of these people are. I wonder if those great law makers realize the danger and fear of their own lives they just put these people in.

I wonder how many of them chased an illegal farm worker through the fields just to give them the information on where to go to get medical care, etc.

The whole thought process behind this law makes me ill.

sweetcali

[The_Lady_Snow]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/...rl_immigration

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/...rl_immigration

Whoa! Quite an interesting tid-bit, here!

Also reminds me of how many stories from the mouths of kids from various Latino families I keep hearing while listening to NPR (mostly). Makes out of the mouths of babes even more pertinent. The fear, the process of a little kid internalizing and speaking their truth in recognizing that they are the target of such hatred is heartbreaking beyond belief.

[Diva]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100531/...rl_immigration

Yes...I saw this earlier today.....and wondered what might happen to this girl's parents, based on the fact that she had "outed" them to MRS. Obama......I mean how easy could/would it be for her to 'report back'......or for them to find those parents.

It was certainly brought home to Mrs. Obama......AND the rest of us!

I hope all works out well for the Peruvian family.....and I hope the other daughter is brought to the US...........soon.

[Linus]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...tep-nation-ar/

Although he only quotes one poll, what is sad is that the rest are 50% or higher in favour of this law. That's pretty sad, IMO.

[UofMfan]

Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten The Faces Of Its Own Students On A Mural Because Some Racists Yelled At It

Jason Linkins
jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting

Via Ken Layne at Wonkette, this is just the worst story in the world:

An Arizona elementary school mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student's face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin.

F'ing hell. Read the rest of the details here. And here's Richard Lawson's reaction, at Gawker.

What can I say about this? We are talking about a bunch of mentally deranged adults, who have terrorized an elementary school, for daring to paint a mural featuring the faces of black and Latino children -- actual black and Latino children who live in Arizona. And we're also talking about a group of adults who have decided to send a stirring message to their students and the world: when a bunch of mentally deranged adults -- and we are not talking about people who are particularly threatening, this is a bunch of utterly gutless mopes, yelling racial slurs from their cars, egged on by some pinhead city councilman cowering behind a radio microphone -- threaten a bunch of children, the best thing to do is to accede to their psychotic, racist "demands."

Seriously, educators of Prescott, Arizona, when some creep demands you whiten the faces of your own students on a mural, the correct response is to say, "No, we will not be doing anything of the sort."

This story really should be blasted, far and wide. You cable news producers need to get this story in the mix with a quickness. And let me be clear to you all: there are no "two sides to this story." This is not something you need to have a panel discussion about. CNN, I don't want to see you plumbing the depths of your counterintuition on your website, or lending credence to the notion that the gutless mopes in their cars, shrieking racial slurs at the images of children have an interesting point of view that we should "hear out" because of the need to be "balanced." This is your moment to decry, condemn, and brutalize these evil people.

Blast them to hell, or go jump in the Gulf of Mexico.