from HuffPost:
Axel W. Caballero
Brave New Films team, Cuentame, runs the Spanish language blog Metaforapolitica.comPosted: April 23, 2010 10:20 PM
No Brownies Welcome: The Arizona Persecution Today is a sad day for America. Especially for us Latinos who see this as a major setback in the fight for equality and civil rights. The immigration bill signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is not one designed to curb illegal immigration, but rather it legalizes racial persecution and institutionalizes discrimination.
It represents the first outcome -of many to come- pushed and supported by the hateful rhetoric peddled time and again by the Tea Party and many of its followers. Worst of all, there is no longer a disguise or an attempt to hide behind the cloak of an economic argument. It is the latent persecution of those who fail to fit the "American Citizen" model created by the imagination of Teabaggers, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the full array of cronies demanding to take a country back that never belonged exclusively to them.
The signs have been there all along. For the past month, the Latino group Cuéntamehas chronicled the racist agenda within the Tea Party and the targeting of our Latino constituency as a whole. Through a series of videos Cuéntame exposed the racial slurs, the violent actions and the hatred only to be dismissed as political hackery. Now the provocation becomes a reality, the threats become politics and the hatred becomes law.
This is what the Tea Party wanted all along. This is what FOX network, its biggest megaphone, had hoped for: A country willing to sacrifice its civil rights for an invisible sense of relief based on a false pretention that the country is or will be white and monolithic. ..........(more)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/axel-woolfolk/no-brownies-welcome-the-a_b_550396.html
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