Amnesty for Illegals

I realize Asian culture is heavy on parental involvement, but seriously people need to learn to use their own brains instead of going with the collective hive mentality. :smt011

 

Espy you're an absolute gem baby.
Fam its enough to make you disgusted with people. I understand most of the non white world was subjected imperialization of the 17th 18th 19th and 20th century so I get this marrying white means marrying up mentality but how did we earn the bottom of the barrel spot? Does it always come down to skin complextion does merrit count for nothing? Smdh

 

India is a sub-continent full of asslicking brown-skinned white supremacists.

They kiss ass clean thru the fabric...drawers and all....LOL

 

Outside the US, nope.

 

I'd hate to say this without sounding ignorant as all get out, but I've always thought it might be, and I'll quote Public Enemy and say, "A Fear of a Black Planet". You keep someone down, they can't rise above type mentality. Whatever jealousy or even guilt WP along with other non-WP have felt, I think it's like when rumors are told. You keep telling them, people start believing them and then they get passed on from generation to generation.

 

I love your honesty sweetheart

 

Awww..... Thank you!!! Really!!! Vuv U too!
But its true tho.
I wanted to say inside The US too.. but I dont think Middle Easters get stopped just for driving nice cars
:-(

 

I seriously count of you guys for honesty because I know its hard to ask wp in my life because they don't want to come across as racist but I need to know the truth. Without I'm blind so trust me I appreciate the light not only from you but all the beautiful women on here who can see a man first and skin color second. Damn I wish I could get a group hug lol

 

He will not do this. People have come here illegally.The president can't support breaking the law. The economy needs to be addressed now.

 

Its sad that a lot of wp, are so freaking afraid of being judged instead of hanving a fruitful dialogue......

Vegas baby - first thing on the agenda - grouphuuuuuuuggg!!
and then we sing Kumbaya and light candles....

Or not, that might cut in on serious party time.

Will you bring bail money?

 

After the hotel drinks and strippers ill be lucky if I can pay attention baby girl lol.
I'm excited about Vegas though. Has a date been committed yet?

 

No, just the dates that Tarsh will be in the states, we need to get on that.

 

yes we do geeky. i'm all in for the group hugs and i've already put my bond money aside

 

No icon for a group hug ???

Hugs for you!

I grew up color blind. I've always looked beyond the book's cover to the story of the book.

I think racism is inculcated into our children through personal experience and misunderstandings of cultural differences in living life.

If I live in a location where the media and my personal experience predominately disparages black men and woman, and I see such men and women on a consistent basis, then I may be prone to believe the negative slant on black men and women; however,
but my opinion would not be based on the color of the skin, my opinion would be based on the actions I observed in a small portion of the black population. To generalize that all blacks are the same is ludicrous.

There are all shades of good and bad in every ethnic culture.
Actions will speak louder than words.

It is the fear of those differences overpowering one's own culture that causes racism, IMO.

 

Let me see if I understand this. We are literally being invaded by new racists who spout brown supremacy as being pushed by LA RAZA (The Race) for the reconquest of the Southwest U.S. and conqu the rest. They kill blacks for sport as they have done in Newark, Baltimore, Atlanta and numerous other cities and blacks are quiet about this? I have yet to hear from the so-called black leadership in this country of the looming threat. Should blacks arm themselves against this new wave of racism that want them dead? Will there be a race war between blacks and browns in our future?

 

One thing I gotta cosign is there is heavy racism against blacks from hispanics. That's big out here in NY

 

I'm beginning to connect the dots to things I have heard. My sister in Southern California confirmed with me that those highway shootings last year in LA was targeted at blacks for revenge from a mexican gang that took revenge against blacks for attacks from black street gangs against hispanics. Can anyone confirm this? I believe the fuse someday that will set blacks and hispanics against each other will be incidents like this, if true. The competition for jobs, political power, women, and status will only get worse.

 

You won't hear a peep from Black misleadership about this.

Read this...it was written by a mexican...rarely would you see this type of honesty in print nowadays:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-hernandez7jan07,1,414328.story

By Tanya K. Hernandez Tanya K. Hernandez is a professor of law at Rutgers University Law School. January 7, 2007



THE ACRIMONIOUS relationship between Latinos and African Americans in Los Angeles is growing hard to ignore. Although last weekend's black-versus-Latino race riot at Chino state prison is unfortunately not an aberration, the Dec. 15 murder in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old African American, allegedly by members of a Latino gang, was shocking.

Yet there was nothing really new about it. Rather, the murder was a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods. Just last August, federal prosecutors convicted four Latino gang members of engaging in a six-year conspiracy to assault and murder African Americans in Highland Park. During the trial, prosecutors demonstrated that African American residents (with no gang ties at all) were being terrorized in an effort to force them out of a neighborhood now perceived as Latino.

For example, one African American resident was murdered by Latino gang members as he looked for a parking space near his Highland Park home. In another case, a woman was knocked off her bicycle and her husband was threatened with a box cutter by one of the defendants, who said, "You niggers have been here long enough."

At first blush, it may be mystifying why such animosity exists between two ethnic groups that share so many of the same socioeconomic deprivations. Over the years, the hostility has been explained as a natural reaction to competition for blue-collar jobs in a tight labor market, or as the result of turf battles and cultural disputes in changing neighborhoods. Others have suggested that perhaps Latinos have simply been adept at learning the U.S. lesson of anti-black racism, or that perhaps black Americans are resentful at having the benefits of the civil rights movement extended to Latinos.

Although there may be a degree of truth to some or all of these explanations, they are insufficient to explain the extremity of the ethnic violence.

Over the years, there's also been a tendency on the part of observers to blame the conflict more on African Americans (who are often portrayed as the aggressors) than on Latinos. But although it's certainly true that there's plenty of blame to go around, it's important not to ignore the effect of Latino culture and history in fueling the rift.

The fact is that racism — and anti-black racism in particular — is a pervasive and historically entrenched reality of life in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than 90% of the approximately 10 million enslaved Africans brought to the Americas were taken to Latin America and the Caribbean (by the French, Spanish and British, primarily), whereas only 4.6% were brought to the United States. By 1793, colonial Mexico had a population of 370,000 Africans (and descendants of Africans) — the largest concentration in all of Spanish America.

The legacy of the slave period in Latin America and the Caribbean is similar to that in the United States: Having lighter skin and European features increases the chances of socioeconomic opportunity, while having darker skin and African features severely limits social mobility.

White supremacy is deeply ingrained in Latin America and continues into the present. In Mexico, for instance, citizens of African descent (who are estimated to make up 1% of the population) report that they regularly experience racial harassment at the hands of local and state police, according to recent studies by Antonieta Gimeno, then of Mount Holyoke College, and Sagrario Cruz-Carretero of the University of Veracruz.

Mexican public discourse reflects the hostility toward blackness; consider such common phrases as "getting black" to denote getting angry, and "a supper of blacks" to describe a riotous gathering of people. Similarly, the word "black" is often used to mean "ugly." It is not surprising that Mexicans who have been surveyed indicate a disinclination to marry darker-skinned partners, as reported in a 2001 study by Bobby Vaughn, an anthropology professor at Notre Dame de Namur University.

Anti-black sentiment also manifests itself in Mexican politics. During the 2001 elections, for instance, Lazaro Cardenas, a candidate for governor of the state of Michoacan, is believed to have lost substantial support among voters for having an Afro Cuban wife. Even though Cardenas had great name recognition (as the grandson of Mexico's most popular president), he only won by 5 percentage points — largely because of the anti-black platform of his opponent, Alfredo Anaya, who said that "there is a great feeling that we want to be governed by our own race, by our own people."

Given this, it should not be surprising that migrants from Mexico and other areas of Latin America and the Caribbean arrive in the U.S. carrying the baggage of racism. Nor that this facet of Latino culture is in turn transmitted, to some degree, to younger generations along with all other manifestations of the culture.

The sociological concept of "social distance" measures the unease one ethnic or racial group has for interacting with another. Social science studies of Latino racial attitudes often indicate a preference for maintaining social distance from African Americans. And although the social distance level is largest for recent immigrants, more established communities of Latinos in the United States also show a marked social distance from African Americans.

For instance, in University of Houston sociologist Tatcho Mindiola's 2002 survey of 600 Latinos in Houston (two-thirds of whom were Mexican, the remainder Salvadoran and Colombian) and 600 African Americans, the African Americans had substantially more positive views of Latinos than Latinos had of African Americans. Although a slim majority of the U.S.-born Latinos used positive identifiers when describing African Americans, only a minority of the foreign-born Latinos did so. One typical foreign-born Latino respondent stated: "I just don't trust them…. The men, especially, all use drugs, and they all carry guns."

This same study found that 46% of Latino immigrants who lived in residential neighborhoods with African Americans reported almost no interaction with them.

The social distance of Latinos from African Americans is consistently reflected in Latino responses to survey questions. In a 2000 study of residential segregation, Camille Zubrinsky Charles, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, found that Latinos were more likely to reject African Americans as neighbors than they were to reject members of other racial groups. In addition, in the 1999-2000 Lilly Survey of American Attitudes and Friendships, Latinos identified African Americans as their least desirable marriage partners, whereas African Americans proved to be more accepting of intermarriage with Latinos.

Ironically, African Americans, who are often depicted as being averse to coalition-building with Latinos, have repeatedly demonstrated in their survey responses that they feel less hostility toward Latinos than Latinos feel toward them.

Although some commentators have attributed the Latino hostility to African Americans to the stress of competition in the job market, a 1996 sociological study of racial group competition suggests otherwise. In a study of 477 Latinos from the 1992 Los Angeles County Social Survey, professors Lawrence Bobo, then of Harvard, and Vincent Hutchings of the University of Michigan found that underlying prejudices and existing animosities contribute to the perception that African Americans pose an economic threat — not the other way around.

It is certainly true that the acrimony between African Americans and Latinos cannot be resolved until both sides address their own unconscious biases about one another. But it would be a mistake to ignore the Latino side of the equation as some observers have done — particularly now, when the recent violence in Los Angeles has involved Latinos targeting peaceful African American citizens.

This conflict cannot be sloughed off as simply another generation of ethnic group competition in the United States (like the familiar rivalries between Irish, Italians and Jews in the early part of the last century). Rather, as the violence grows, the "diasporic" origins of the anti-black sentiment — the entrenched anti-black prejudice among Latinos that exists not just in the United States but across the Americas — will need to be directly confronted.
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Naw...it's not about retaliation..Blacks welcome those mofos like we do everybody else.

They just flat-out hate Black people.

Read "soledad brother" written in the 60's.

The author writes that EVERYTIME the Black inmates clash with racist whites..the mexicans ALWAYS intervene on behalf of the whites.

Mexicans..and other latinos...are USED TO abusing Blacks in their home-countries..

Bigots don't check their racism at the border..the irish didn't..the italians didn't..the jews didn't...and the mexicans sure as hell don't.

Just look how Blacks are treated in the spanish-speaking world..that can't be blamed on the victims.

 

Yes I have heard the latino gangs hunting down blacks. Osama had comments about black women. There is racist in Communist Cuba and China. The world has a blame blacks first policy. We are hated universally.