When it comes to immigration, some don't bother to hide racism

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/544662,CST-NWS-brown06.article

Sympathy for illegals? Forget it

When it comes to immigration, some don't bother to hide racism

September 6, 2000
BY MARK BROWN Sun-Times Columnist

Not surprisingly, I've been getting a lot of letters like this one that arrived Thursday:

"There is no compromise to the immigration "issue." They all must go. There is no issue. Illegal is illegal is illegal."

Luckily, I don't get as many like this one:

"The LATRINOS and the rest of the MUDS (Somalians, Hmong, etc. ) are a scourge, and must be eradicated from US soil. . . . What kind of mental defective hired a treacherous retardate like YOU? YOU leave this Nation. YOU don't deserve your American Citizenship. YOU are just as vile, and inferior, as the Mexcriment scum."

The first was unsigned, as is typically the case. The second is purportedly from a Ciaran Palmer of Bethlehem, Pa.

I would not normally think Ciaran Palmer's words fit for a newspaper, but part of me finds it worthwhile to put the ugly stuff on display as a reminder of some of the forces at work on this issue.

I do not think it makes you a racist if you take a hard-line position on illegal immigration. I may think it makes you short-sighted, uncharitable, misguided and a few other things, but not racist. But as my mail would suggest, the hardliners are certainly on the same side as the racists. snip

Some people don't bother to hide the attitude.

A guy who identifies himself as Victor Gerhard writes: "I certainly don't want 12 million illegal immigrants deported. . . . I want every single person of Hispanic ancestry deported, permanently, from our formerly White, clean country. Since you love them so much, you can go with them."

[wildhorses]

1. how about, since he HATES them so much he leave?

buh-bye victor. you ole hateful thing.

[Possumpoint]

2. Racism?

Racism, an easy label to throw around. I am in complete opposition to the premise that someone can sneak into this country and establish a legal(?) life for themselves. If you enter legally, welcome. If you have come into this country otherwise, go home.

The thought of 12 or more million illegals lhere turns my stomach. Get the buses rolling and send them home. You may not understand that this is an economic issue. Many of these are sending money home. There goes that much more of our economic infrastructure being sent out of this country.

If you come here to become an American, wonderful! If you come here only to suck the economic life out of this country go back. Fix you own country.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Really?

"The thought of 12 or more million illegals lhere turns my stomach."

So if they each had a little piece of paper saying they could be here you'd be fine with it? The absence of that little piece of paper is what turns your stomach?

Yeah, right.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Yes some people who oppose the undocumented are racists

Some people sit at the border with guns and shoot the immigrants as they cross into the US.

[emilyg]

6. Thank for. My view.

[goodhue]

7. What about those who come here legally, but not to be an American

They have legal visas. Sometimes they are permanent residents. They don't necessarily intend to become Americans. Many don't want to become American and I don't blame them, given jingoistic racist tendencies of most Americans.

[BlooInBloo]

9. LOLOLOL!!!

[mudesi]

10. Wow

I don't know what to say to that.

They're people. You know that, right?

[kineneb]

11. hope you enjoy picking your own lettuce. Have fun. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. It's the ones that hide it that you have to look out for.

[BlooInBloo]

8. That's the joy of being white - you don't HAVE to hide it.

[kineneb]

12. but I'm not white, am beige-pink!

don't think I have ever seen someone who is actually "white"(at least as defined by the tube in my oil paints)... I think of myself as a pigmentally-challenged beigey-pink person.

please pass the sunscreen.
:silly:

[BlooInBloo]

14. Aaahh.... nothing like autistically literalistic folks - they're such a joy.

[kineneb]

15. a whaaat? I'm a musician...

:)

[JeffR]

16. Musician? I have four words for you, in that case:

Johnny and Edgar Winter.

;-)

[KamaAina]

13. When was it EVER a "White, clean country"?

Last I heard, we had not "succeeded" in wiping out the original "Red" Native American inhabitants. Meanwhile, enslaved "Black" Africans were brought to the colonies long before there even was a United States of America.

Thus, the USA as a "White, clean country" exists only within the diseased minds of "Victor Gerhard" and his ilk. :grr: