The Washington Post put Latino organizing efforts for illegal immigrants on the front page again Tuesday with the headline “Latinos Unite Across Classes Against Curbs on Immigration.” (The word “illegal” in front of immigration didn’t fit?) Reporter Pamela Constable quoted no one opposed to illegal immigration in her story, but that didn’t mean racist-sounding Americans weren’t quoted. The surprise: the racially insulting quote came from a wealthy Colombian-born businessman, Jose Marinay, who suggested he was scary to white people when he “looked Latino,” dressed down and went unshaven:
"I dress well, and I drive a nice car. But on the weekends, when I am in shorts and sandals and I haven't shaved, I look Latino enough to scare a few folks," Marinay said. "There is a definite chill in the air. We may be a fragmented community, we may eat or celebrate in different places, but now they are looking at us in the same way. If we don't unite and work together, we will all sink."
In general, the story is another set of sympathetic portraits of hard-working Latinos who weep on street curbs over how they're hated by the Angry Caucasian Menace. As usual, Constable's story mentions the radical leftists of Mexicans Without Borders without any label or other identification of their extreme ideology. If anything, the radicals' friendliness with the wealthy Latino lobbyists is added to grant some radical cachet to the new rich kids on the lobbying block -- that is, if these businessmen are really new to lobbying, as Constable contends.
The conservative side in Prince William County is only mentioned in passing: "Sponsors and advocates of the resolution assert it is neither anti-Latino nor anti-immigrant. They insist it is aimed at stopping the steady influx of illegal immigrants during the past decade, who they complain are crowding neighborhoods and burdening schools." Does Constable disagree with the idea that illegal immigration is adding to government spending burdens? If not why would she use "who they complain are" instead of "who are"?
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center
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Mexicans without borders, or just without northern-borders?
October 9, 2007 - 11:47 ET by sarcasmoDo they have any position on Mexico's tougher than the USA immigration laws? Don't be a Honduran or Guatemalan crossing illegally into Mexico unless you want to explore their penal system...
JMR
Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.
Latino "entitlement"
October 9, 2007 - 11:54 ET by RJ"Why can't we get these people off our backs?" Boo hoo. The poor business owners are upset because their customer base, illegal immigrants, has dropped.
At the same time the illegal immigrants are upset because they believe they're entitled to be treated the same as American citizens.
"Mexicans without borders?" How arrogant!
Sen. Reid - on illegals
October 9, 2007 - 12:02 ET by Gary HallSen. Harry Reid -- back when he had a clue.
Dem Senate Leader Harry Reid: 'Our Federal Wallet Stretched To Limit By Illegal Aliens Getting Welfare' August 5, 1993
"Harry Reid is a complete buffoon"
October 9, 2007 - 12:06 ET by RJ"Harry Reid is a complete buffoon." -Lou Dobbs, Oct 8, 2007
edhenry Help me here.
October 9, 2007 - 12:54 ET by Edhenryedhenry
Help me here. Latinos think of us as all knuckle dragging, Judeo-Christian, non-felon, hard working, xenos, who want to protect our families, cultures, borders as much as those in mexico.
Why do they want to come here and put up with us?
Enough is enough..............
October 9, 2007 - 12:59 ET by BrillianceI'm quite sick and tired of hearing dark skinned crybabies whine about how they feel that whites are scared or untrusting of them.
One look at the Federal interacial crime statistics would confirm that whites are justified if they feel uncomfortable around scruffy, dark skinned males.
Sound racist to you? Tough sh**.
I get the feeling that whites are aware of the racial double-standard when it comes to free speech, but withhold strong opinions on the matter in hopes that dark skinned bigots will eventually calm down, stop killing, robbing, and raping us - and we'll all live happily ever after. Bull****. It ain't gonna happen.
Some whites seem to think that there is some far-off mystical mythical badge of honor for laying down and staying silent on the issue of racism - Well, not me.
Illegal aliens harbor no loyalty or allegiance whatsoever to the United States. They are united in their loyalty to their own race and their homeland of Meh-he-co.
As a white male, I find this to be a dangerous and unsetteling prospect.
I don't feel guilty about expressing this opinion (come on, join in, it's fun!).
(come on, join in, it's
October 9, 2007 - 13:10 ET by MightyMouth(come on, join in, it's fun!)
OK I will!
What about them transtesticles? Those SOB's want to get married to each other now! Try to disagree with that and see what kind of bigot you get labled! Hell in a handbasket, I'm tellin ya!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Psychosexual disorders.........
October 9, 2007 - 13:40 ET by BrillianceComplex issue......You could write a book on the "trans-gendered" crowd.
In a nutshell, "tranny"males (guys that want to be gals) are basically either cowards or pain filled pressure cookers unable to cope with the demands of being REAL men.
"Tranny" females (girls that want to be guys) are basically the emotionaly scarred result of all the "tranny " males.
Make sense?
Brilliant.
October 9, 2007 - 13:42 ET by balboaBrilliant.
Why worry?
October 9, 2007 - 15:33 ET by okiehawk44We have been overly gracious hosts/hostesses of these illegal invaders of our country -- they cannot beat us armed and uniformed (Texicans beat them/Zachary beat them/Blackjackbeat them) so they send their pregnant women at us -- Stop smiling at them in WalMart! Stop trying to communicate with them in spanish! Stop renting to them! Stop hiring them to mow your yard or help you build that fence! STOP IT!
These lawbreakers get more
October 9, 2007 - 16:06 ET by Conservative_in_mass.These lawbreakers get more emboldened by the day. First the terminology metamorphasis:
Illegal alien to illegal immigrant, to undocumented immigrant to immigrant to undocumented "American" (which I find particulary insulting).
Then they play the the Jackson / Sharpton race card. We are racist because we want to protect our borders. Bull**t.
Mr. Marinay states "If we don't unite and work together, we will all sink."
That's exactly what we LAWBIDING legal residents need to do to protect out future against lawbreaking tresspassers who want to suck off my tax dollars. Screw you and those who promote this activity. If you are a criminal tresspasser, you have no right to complain about my wanting the laws enforced. Get it now, Mr. Mariany?
There are not "curbs on immigration"; want to come here? GET IN LINE. Simple as that. Unless the spineless wimps in Washington get a clue soon, it is incumbent on the electorate to take control once and for all and throw out the bums who won't enforce the law.
I could care less what these "immigrant" (criminal) rights groups demand. The point is moot. They insult all of those who came here the right way; they are the ones who are being racist.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. ~ Unknown