Monday, June 21, 2010

FREMONT

FREMONT, as you go to the polls today remember this----
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other." ~~~~~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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  1. Defensores de DemocraciaJune 22, 2010 at 7:27 AM

    Fremont :

    After a two year battle, voters in a small city in Nebraska have decided that they will essentially make it impossible for paperless immigrants to live or work within city-limits. Under the harsh new law local businesses will be banned from hiring undocumented immigrants and landlords prohibited from renting to them.

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    Ethriam Brammer : Racial problems inside my car - Testimony before the US Commission on Civil Rights - Arizona’s SB 1070 and Michigan’s newly proposed HB 6256

    The Big Problem of being BiRacial : This guy has a Blonde Blue-eyed father and a Latina Mother.

    U.S.-Mexico Immigration News Stories
    US Commission on Civil Rights - Arizona’s SB 1070 and Michigan’s newly proposed HB 6256
    By Ethriam Brammer
    June 18, 2010


    http://usmexico.blogspot.com/2010/06/us-commission-on-civil-rights-arizonas.html


    Some excerpts :

    For those of you who are still naïve enough to believe that racial profiling would not take place in Michigan with the enactment of this bill, I would like to conclude by demonstrating how racial profiling on the U.S.-Mexican border is a way of daily life back home.

    How do I know? My father is white.

    Like so many things a child doesn’t understand about his or her parents until older, I never understood why my mother hated to drive. Whether consciously or simply a result of internalized racism, quite simply, my mother doesn’t drive, because we were treated differently with my father behind the wheel.

    Whether it was going across the U.S.-Mexican border or the California-Arizona border, we were treated differently when my blued-eyed, rusty blonde-haired father smiled and spoke to law enforcement agents. It was the same at the border check-points north of the border as well, because you can’t travel from El Centro to San Diego or Phoenix without stopping at a U.S. border check point—as children, we couldn’t even go to Disneyland without passing through multiple border check points, without ever leaving the U.S.

    During my last visit to see my parents back in California, I told my wife to pack all of our passports, including those of our two children. She asked if I planned to cross the border into Mexico. And when I told her no, she asked why we had to bring all of our passports.

    Luckily for us, she did it; because, between the airport and my parents’ house, we were stopped on the freeway by border patrol. My wife has a doctorate from an Ivy League institution. We are both college instructors and administrators. We were driving a brand new rental car, which had no broken lights; our two children were buckled into car seats; and, I was not speeding. But driving while brown in that border region constitutes reasonable suspicion.

    Had we not had our American passports, we may have well all been detained. My two year-old daughter and my four year-old son, ripped crying and screaming from their mother’s arms and placed into the custody of Child Protective Services—which is what they do with kids when parents are detained.

    The life-long pain and emotional scars inflicted by such a heart-wrenching experience is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, much less on any neighbor that I profess to love.

    Is this the kind of border our state legislature envisions for Michigan?

    And what do I tell my children if this measure passes in Michigan? How do I explain to my son, who looks remarkably like my red-haired, blue-eyed father, that he doesn’t have to carry his passport to school every day; but, his sister, who looks like me, does, lest she be arrested and taken away from us by any Detroit police officer or Wayne County sheriff under threat of law suit to do just that?

    Raciality.com

    Vicente Duque

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  2. UnknownDecember 27, 2012 at 7:38 AM

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