America’s World of Racisms, Reversals and Resurgence
Put forth on September 29, 2009 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Eliminationism, Prejudices, Racism, hate crimes
Yesterday, I wrote that Gov Rick Perry’s move to deploy the Texas Rangers to the border would only aggravate the public’s inclination to assume its role as vigilantes, enforcing media-fueled conceptions of legal obligations and the public good.
In the latest incident of violent rhetoric against the President, an anonymous user of Facebook who launched an online poll on Saturday asking “Should Obama be killed?,” with the choices of yes, no, maybe, and “If he cuts my health care.” More frighteningly, the poll drew attracted more than 700 respondents.
According to Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt, the poll was created over the weekend using a third-party application that lets users conduct their own survey and they shut it down once they found out about it. What is truly disturbing, the poll was up for three days before it was yanked down. Giving Facebook the benefit of the doubt that they acted quickly did shut it down once they knew about, that would mean nobody had the audacity to notify Facebook.
Fortunately, GottaLaff from The Political Carnival noticed the poll and alerted the Secret Service immediately and provided them with a screen cap of the poll.
This is not the first time Facebook has made the news for being a forum used for all kinds of hate speech. People used this popular social networking site to post anti-Muslim and anti-immigration rhetoric to college students posting pictures from racist theme parties.
The press continues to look past the obvious and blaming healthcare controversy for the current backlash. For example, The Christian Science Monitor headline is ‘Kill Obama’ Facebook poll: latest sign of healthcare anger?;
Racism is not dead. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Intelligence Report recently reported that the level of hate is rising. With the rise of hate, America is reverting back where blatant racism is becoming the norm.
As long as the right wing pundit dominate the airwaves with their fear mongering and lies, WE are in danger. The President is in danger.
Is there anyone out there interested in peace and unity anymore?
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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THE LADY’S LAMP DIMS AT THE SIGHT OF RACISM.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” by Emma Lazarus.
Of course, the immigrants who entered this country under the Statue of Liberty came through Ellis Island. They too were discriminated against at first, but they came BECAUSE WE INVITED THEM TO COME. Some came to flee from World Wars or atrocities we cannot imagine. Others came because they saw a chance to have a better life-or just LIFE itself. For whatever reason, they came to our country, and became citizens. For the most part, they have all NOW been accepted as Americans. The son of one Irish immigrant even became President of the United States!
Unfortunately, there is a stigma against those coming to America from our Southern borders. We don’t have the resources to deport all those who are here illegally and that stupid fence is not the answer. Give them a chance by offering them AMNESTY again. Did it not work before? Some, like those from El Salvador for example, are not only welcomed but given asylum because our government stuck our nose in where it didn’t belong. Cuban immigrants also seem to be welcomed because we don’t like Fidel. Therefore, anyone trying to flee from Castro must be a friend to America. HISPANICS or LATINOS face discrimination in this country. It doesn’t matter NOW if their ancestors have been here for generations, their skin color makes them different and hated.
The African-Americans had NO SAY about coming to America. They were chained in the belly of foul-smelling, filthy slave ships. It’s a wonder any of them survived. They weren’t even thought of as being human beings-just work animals. We fought a war to free them from slavery, but freedom still hasn’t come for them. AFRICAN-AMERICANS or BLACKS face discrimination in this country. It doesn’t matter NOW if their ancestors have been here for generations, their skin color makes them different and hated.
NEWS FLASH—We are all people of color! I happen to be kind of a pinkish-tan color.
NEWS FLASH—We all are immigrants. Unless you are a Native American Indian or an Eskimo, you are an immigrant, or were descended from immigrants.
The misguided people who took part in the 9/12 march were people of color! I did not see anyone who WAS NOT of the Caucasian persuasion. “White” people who were duped into taking part in this protest should be ashamed of themselves. Where was Glenn Beck when his people were marching? And why was it turned into an anti-Obama protest instead of what he wanted it to be?
It makes me sick to see the ugly head of racism rise up again. I truly believed we had rounded the corner on this issue. Lady Liberty might as well extinguish her lamp completely because while we may, at some point, have taken one step forward, we have now taken four or five steps backwards.
Thanks for the link to the Peter Thiel post. I don’t know if you saw but he bankrolled James O’Keefe the guy who did the ACORN videos, as well.
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