Good for her. The story is too important to remain just on a blog topic and a scribbling the details of a phone interview counts as journalism, right?
I'm happy with my blog posts on the subject earlier in the week and yesterday. Thanks to Crime Scene KC for documenting the story as well. It's good news that Sanchez picked this up if only because there will be another forum in Kansas City for so many anonymous white people to make anti-Latino racial slurs. Welcome to the party Mary!!!
I'm happy with my blog posts on the subject earlier in the week and yesterday. Thanks to Crime Scene KC for documenting the story as well. It's good news that Sanchez picked this up if only because there will be another forum in Kansas City for so many anonymous white people to make anti-Latino racial slurs. Welcome to the party Mary!!!
Bravehearts!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy with MY blogposts as well. Not sure what Byron was getting at, but the Braveheart crowd lost.
ReplyDeleteI'll be watching with interest to see if Machette makes it to regular theaters and is widely seen. If so, it may be historic like Uncle Tom's Cabin, but in reverse.
If it triggers another civil war, well the machete holders are outgunned. And leading the charge would be the business types who will do anything to keep from losing the society from which they draw their wealth. Then you'd see the Tea Party types with a real cause. And the Darla types wouldn't even put you on the air, T.
I bet it was pretty tough bein an arab in America after 9-11. We haven't begun to see profiling if people get the idea Machette would happen. I hope the guy who keeps saying it in these comments is a white guy practicing scare tactics. If its a Latino estupido.... its a really dumb idea to try to exercise rights ya don't really have, is all I'm sayin.
And this seems to be the local blog where people are testing waters and limits. What did Tony call it, operationally ready battle station?
It was a sittin duck, if you remember THAT film. I don't see this as being the great civil rights cause that we saw in the sixties.
Why? Because I don't see any appetite for putting any more stars on the flag. And even though Mexicans might be tolerant of it, I don't think Americans will warm to the idea of ten thousand people and cops getting killed by drug thugs.
It's a level of lawlessness and lack of accountability that comes from citizens not having 'papers.'
Papers have a way of keeping people behaving properly, we've discovered since the days of gunslingers in the old west are a thing of the past.
Hope you enjoyed the treatise, I just wasn't in the mood for a twit. Its an important issue.
Anony... I'm so glad you're not in charge of anything. Tweeting is the logical extension of your generation with Attention Deficit Disorder! Soundbite decisionmaking. Sheep!
ReplyDeleteI do not consider this young woman a criminal, but rather a refugee. I do not consider her to be a Mexican, but rather an American. I hope she comes home to Kansas City, soon. I'm sure her loved ones miss her.
ReplyDeleteThats so much word twisting, Byron. Refugee defined in dictionary.com
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a person who flees for refuge or safety, esp. to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
She certainly doesn't follow that definition. The vietnames who had supported the US govermment and fled as boat people to Manilla would be refugees. Not Mexicans sneaking across the border to just get a better life.
She's a Mexican if she's a citizen of Mexico and not of the US. I don't understand why you're choosing to put a shine on illegals that simply isnt there. People who are born here are citizens, plain and simple.
Dodging the realities of their illegal status does NOT advance the cause for reform that we need and they need. What you're doing is just more postponment of what we need to do... provide them worker rights and a path to REAL citizenship. More pushing the dirt under the carpet.
I don't see that it's in America's best interest to have a two culture society--not if we want to end descrimination. People who want to remain Mexicans should go to Mexico, birthplace of their culture and heritage.
As an American policy, we've seen wisdom in blending people and assimilating them, not just making room for them. Mostly that's done through education and language. Lets not screw up what's worked for so long.
They want to come here, FINE, do it in the public society and become American, not just foreigners living here. I am hard pressed to figure out how you wouldn't support that, bud.
Here here Mr. Radio-dude!
ReplyDeleteI think we shoud adopt an immigration policy that professes "Do unto others and THEY do unto Others" If Mexico has a problem with our immigration law or that of Arizona, let's adopt the same policy they have.... Oh, that's right, they rape, kill, and beat illegal immigrants from their southern border. Care to comment on that Tony (of illegal mexican heritage)
I hope this does touch off a civil war. Time to cleanse this country.
You're confusing real life with a Hollywood adventure movie?
ReplyDeleteCan I suggest, maybe, "The Day After", or the British TV film of the same theme called "Threads"?
How about "Gettysburg"?
You're an idiot.