In Alabama's schoolyards, more reports of bullying since immigration law passed

[spanone]

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — It was just another schoolyard basketball game until a group of Hispanic seventh-graders defeated a group of boys from Alabama.

The reaction was immediate, according to the Mexican mother of one of the winners, and rooted in the state's new law on illegal immigration.

"They told them, 'You shouldn't be winning. You should go back to Mexico,'" said the woman, who spoke through a translator last week and didn't want her name used. She and her son are in the country illegally.

Spanish-speaking parents say their children are facing more bullying and taunts at school since Alabama's tough crackdown on illegal immigration took effect last month. Many blame the name-calling on fallout from the law, which

has been widely covered in the news, discussed in some classrooms and debated around dinner tables.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44999117/ns/us_news-life/#.TqMpYmDtjf8

[NYC_SKP]

1. Ah, Yes, Competitive Sports-- Such a Character Building Activity!

:puke:

Pretty sad stuff...

[xchrom]

2. dude -- i don't think competitive sports is the problem. nt

[bbdad]

6. Of course, it isn't.

We all know sports build character and that kids who have no interest in them are deficient and should be shown the door (or something else). We also know, thanks to the eternal vigilance of that beacon of journalism called the sports media, that moral blemishes and scandals on the part of individual athletes, coaches, etc. are unheard of. Glenn Ridge? That was a lie.

[AlinPA]

3. Parents and Alabama government teaching the kids hate. Sickening.

[JoeyT]

4. This isn't really new.

The law sucks, and minorities are bullied in Alabama schools. The two aren't really connected.

It's always been this way, and it will probably always be this way because no one in power cares enough to do anything about it.

[jowsybart]

5. the people of alabama are arising to throw out the invaders

now if they can only do the same to the wealthy elite that control the media and the federal gov't, and throw them out, too.
Citizens must unite against the rich and their cheap foreign labor and their fakeleftist political activists.