People can say it's not about race
Sat Sep 08, 2007 at 07:37:18 AM PDT
When that is all it is about.
Before all you labor leaning people jump all over me, let me say that as a teacher I have belonged to a union and am pro labor. Even though many folks don't think that being prepared as a teacher has value. In many situations people can walk off the street with a degree in anything and be employed as a teacher on a temporary basis for some time as long as the schools can't locate anyone. So the argument of stealing jobs by other workers happens to teachers, too. Emergency certification, etc.
I have never supported illegal immigration. It is an anathema to me as a Mexican American that poor folks come in paying a huge amount of money to go through risky travel to get here. We went to school with the children of these pobres. We didn't have much as kids, but the other kids had no shoes and we had a house, a back yard and a big plastic swimming pool that my parents would put up in the summer.
But after reading the comments made by Ed Martin about Mexicans gave me a chill.
http://kcblueblog.blogspot.com/...
The illegal alien problem is not just about corporations taking advantage of people but also regular everyday folks that don't think they are racist.
In areas that have had Hispanic Americans for a long time , the race question is very blurry. Because the Americas were settled by Europeans that also blended their "genes" with the locals folks there, there are differing amounts of "whiteness" to the Hispanics. Some are very pale and blue eyed, other very dark and many some mix along the way. Add the historical movement of people of Sephardic descent fleeing the inquisition and you have a large population in the Americas with individuals that sometimes blend in and sometimes not. So what this did was allow some folks in the U.S. to bypass the use of African Americans in certain situations because with certain prejudice they preferred to work with people who looked a little more like them.
When I was to marry, my mother in law refused to offer the San Antonio country club as the location for the after rehearsal dinner because it wold be "uncomfortable" for all parties, however I wasn't Black so it was ok for me to marry her son. As the wife of a wealthy doctor they had entertained rich Mexicans in their home so a Mexican daughter in law was ok. only not for the country club. I loved her so I am not saying anything against her. It was a wonderful affair.
So When a person says
" I'll tell you what's available to every developer in order to figure out who's illegal. When there's a bunch of Mexicans out there, there's probably some of them who are not legal."
Good lord! I went to school with 99.9% Mexican Americans. Of course you would find some illegal aliens there, but most of us are not!!!!!!!!
The only blue eyed kid in my school was named Lomas ( a Spanish name) we had a small amount of Black kids, too. My part of town was gerrymandered by people in power at the time into an area for Mexicans only by prejudicial housing discrimination and school district lines. Black people in San Antonio were on the east-side and whites on the north. San Antonio has grown tremendously and there is more mixing however as a child I grew up knowing I was a citizen but not equal.
And don't tell me that the Irish were mistreated, too so get over it. My folks came over around the time of the Mexican revolution , the same time as the Irish came over. But now the Irish Americans are no longer "pig shit", but my family still has to wonder when someone looks our way they see illegals.
The comment made by Ed. Martin intimated a visual signal of appearance.
When there's a bunch = when you see a group of Mexican looking people.........
Gee, how exactly should I take that?
It sounds like making judgments on appearance to me. Some of you are worried about the many illegals coming in a suppressing wages.
I am worried about the loss of by rights as a American Citizen because I have been blessed with beautiful skin color.
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