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Home / Articles / Editorial / Letters / Dixie Republicans using immigration as cover for same old racist habits
Wednesday, June 15,2011
Deep-South Republicans are at it again. Robert Bentley, Republican governor of Alabama and former Southern Baptist Deacon, signed into law what can only be described as the harshest and most draconian anti-immigration initiative yet. So much for Christian love!
Dixie Republicans using immigration as cover for same old racist habits
To the Editor:
Racist, racist, racist.
Deep-South Republicans are at it again. Robert Bentley, Republican governor of Alabama and former Southern Baptist Deacon, signed into law what can only be described as the harshest and most draconian anti-immigration initiative yet. So much for Christian love!
Whitey, the Ku Klux Klan and the GOP are no longer happy to just discriminate against black-skinned folks, but have changed their priorities and are going after brown-skinned Hispanics and Latinos. Alabama follows Arizona, Georgia, Indiana and Utah's fixation on anti-immigration.
All the flowery talk about illegal immigrants is a cover to hide the stench of racism and bigotry. Immigration is another "hot-button" issue the Republicans and Tea Party are using to fire up their base.
Ron Lowe
Nevada City, Calif.
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I don't think people in the US mind immigration to our country as long as its legal.
Apparently Mr. Lowe thinks its ok for illegals to break in to our country and live happily ever after. He should look at the financial condition of his own state which is billions in the red partly because of paying for the education, healthcare, incarceration, crimes, and property destruction caused by illegal aliens. In effect he is saying people are racist because they are against people being in our country ILLEGALLY.
I think the real racism that exists lies within the Democratic Party. Democrats have kept blacks in poverty for years, through welfare, food stanps, ttraining for jobs that don't exist, minimum wages and excessive regulations that stifle job growth and entreprenures from starting small businesses.
And the only reason why the Democrat Plantation masters want to coddle illegals is get them to live on the old Democrat Plantation and vote Democrat when and if they do become legal. Hopefully hispanics will not fall for this!
I see Rocker's been reading his tea bag emails, and reguritates them freely. Steven tries to use the past to justify his position today, even though times have changed, and his racism peeks it's ugly head out of his a__, where he keeps it hidden from reality. The hate is strong in these 2, as is the ignorance. But, hey, they're good for a laugh,............if it weren't so darn sad.
Well said b.
Yeah, you really told em b - calling folks who disagree with you a disgusting name like "tea bag" to denigrate them and not addressing a single issue Rocker raised. Well done! You've certainly shown who is filled with hate.
Oh, and thanks Terry for including this brilliant thinker from California on your pages - we don't have enough of his sentiments around here, so it's good to import some.