Why is it that our latino brothers and sisters can get out in mass ? [View All]

[tavalon]

Have white t-shirts (a major coup for the picture taking folks) and stay on message and when that message includes carrying a flag from their own country and that pisses off someone somewhere, suddenly these folks have all the American Flags they could want. We as the peace movement have never had their sponsor, that's why. These protests are being spearheaded by big bidness as Molly Ivins would say to get what big bidness wants and fuck them latinos - they are just mighty fine agitprops.

I'm not dissing the amazing work that is being done, I'm questioning how the money is happening for these poor immigrants to be so well seen. I'm not trusting the underbelly. Karl Rove has trained me to scan the horizon every time one of these "grassroots" things happens to see what is really happening.

Thoughts? Oh, and for street cred one of my partners was in an LA gang when she was young, another is half hispanic and one of them lost a number of family members in the ovens of germany. I'm the only american mutt and with a little work I could get my american indian cred.