Dear Mr. Will
I am a great admirer of your work and mental ferocity but your piece on Arizona was predictable, I knew your stance even before reading it - you may be the single WHITEST guy in America.
I suspected you would endorse something as un-American as "guilty until proven innocent," even just to roll your intellectual dice but probably, again, because you actually radiant whiteness, like over-bleached chompers.
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Yet, this is inherent ideology for someone such as yourself, no offense, who is white and does not understand the already tedious daily struggle to prove we are "legal' and not criminals or drug dealers.
I assume you are not followed every time you go to Target, or get funny, frightened looks by simply walking around? Or pulled over for any little issue?
It is inherent amongst many whites that, for some reason, they are entitled to this land above anyone else, even though, they are all descendants of immigrants. About 70% in Arizona. As Colbert said, "My great granddaddy didn't come 4,000 miles to let this place get overrun by immigrants."
But really, it's a stupid fiscal move. I am Puerto Rican. The law insures me and all my other 6 million bretheren won't be seeing Camelback anytime soon. Not to mention anyone who even remotely looks Latino or who has brownish tones, brown eyes, black hair or likes tanning salons.
Yes, I am guilty as charged, Mr. Will. I am brown and breathing, I must have done something wrong. Or else why would God grant me this color?
And finally, found this to be borderline ridiculous:
"Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns"
How, exactly, are you any different? Also sounds like you are implying,as well, that all Hispanics do is cut people's lawns, clean their houses.
This is not about borders or immigrants sir, it is about the mentality that permeates and makes difficult our daily existence and presence in this country. This law complicates our already complicated relationship with white America.
Yes, I may be at a distance but this effects ALL Hispanics. Sorry, but only a Hispanic can understand the distinction, not the whitest human being in this country, huh, George...Will?
I write more nutty crap at http://www.headcase.com
UPDATE: To help you visualize how 'white' Will might be, imagine him trying to dance to K$sha's Blah, Blah, Blah.
UPDATE 2: WTF! Someone here posted this to argue my tongue in cheek post,
"After all, I'm a white person who thinks I have more of a right to America than, say, the President of the United States..."
And thus he/she proves the point.