Well, when Arizona Law SB 1070 passed, a whole lotta Black folks were like, ' good', because they have resentments towards the Latino community.
Let me make this clear. I believe I'm to right of the rest of the FP bloggers when it comes to immigration. I don't only dislike illegal immigration, I'm not too fond of legal immigration. The whole ' nation of immigrants' thing - try it on someone whose ancestors weren't brought here stacked up in the hull of slave ships.
But, for me, this wasn't about immigration. Even Rev. Al admitted that on The Ed Show: he was like, ' yeah, I guess we gotta do immigration reform, but that's not why I'm against this bill'.
Rev. Al saw it as I did:
the attempt to CODIFY RACIAL PROFILING INTO LAW.
There's a Black person, more likely, a Black Man, racially profiled EVERY DAY in this country.
The only way that we've remotely been able to fight this, is because it was ILLEGAL.
Now, if this happens when it's ILLEGAL, what do you think is going to happen if they make it LEGAL?
Well, I'm not willing to find out.
IS there a Black person out there that thinks that doesn't recognize THAT WE ARE NEXT ON THE LIST?
Please point to me something in the history of Black folk and Law Enforcement in America that could make me conclude anything OTHER than this.
So, it's opposition to SB1070 for the selfish reason of SELF-PRESERVATION for me.
But, you couldn't possibly have thought that they were going to stop with SB 1070, did you?
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