Mitt Romney, GOP Reach Out to Hispanics

We are not only facing a disaster with the voting rights redistricting issue, but now we are also facing the supreme court's battle with Arizona's racist law. There is also a stench of racism in current Texas Driver License renewal requirements. These requirements to verify ones identity are invasive, abusive, and are actually designed to find illegal Mexican immigrants. Nazi Germans made Jews wear a star on their chest and tatooed numbers on the inside of their arm just above the wrist. What will legal American citizens of Mexican extraction have to wear on their chest and what will their tatoos read?

There are two distinct issues associated with immigrants from Mexico.

The first issue is that of illegal Mexican immigrants. No one refutes the fact that the illegal flow of Mexican immigrants must be stopped. However, illegal immigrants must be deal with in a humane manner. Perhaps a Berlin wall should be erected between Mexico and the U.S. But before we erect an impenetrable wall, we should ask what the U.S. economic impact will be. What about the U.S./Mexico trade relations/imports/exports at the borders? What about the "maquinadoras" at the border? Texas did buy electricity from Mexico in these pasts "brown outs", right?

These illegal Mexican immigrants are running away from a Mexican government who has failed to create adequate employment for its citizens to sustain a decent living for themselves and their families. A Mexican government who has failed to create a good health care system for its citizens. A Mexican government who has failed its own people....and to date....has no shame in what it has failed to do. Our U.S. representatives are intent on deporting illegal Mexicans back to Mexico. However, if a fence is not erected between the two countries.....Mexican citizens will continue to cross illegally into the U.S. Has anyone entertained the idea that even if the U.S. works hard at doing its part to stop illegal immigration....the Mexican government is doing absolutely nothing. Perhaps it is time to hold the Mexican government's feet to the fire....AND MAKE THEM TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!!!!! Perhaps place embargoes, penalties, and cut off any aid to Mexico. The Mexican government should be forced to care for their own Mexican citizens.

The second issue is the creation of Gestapo laws allowing search and seizure of all brown skin individuals in America. Legal American citizens (born in U.S.A. or naturalized of Mexican extraction) constitutional rights must be respected and protected. While only 3% of American attorneys are of Mexican extraction, I'm sure these brown skinned attorneys would not appreciate being stopped on the street and asked to put their hands on the wall and produce documentation to show they are legal American citizens. But whether the brown-skin individual be a doctor or a laborer, if he/she is a legal American citizen, their constitutional rights must not be violated, their constitutional rights must be protected and respected.

The toll of Black-Americans tortured, hung, torched, and exterminated at the hands of White racists is staggering. While the framers of the Constitution were creative in painting freedom and liberty, somehow Blacks were captured in Africa and brought to America and made slaves. Black American slaves were not considered sanctioned beings, rather they were considered property. American Blacks have been the target of White racist groups such as the KKK and the American Nazis. Racism and discrimination continues to be practiced by select American White citizens who may or may not belong to any hate group yet remain racists.

Currently, there have been no commercial airliners crashed into buildings by illegal Mexican immigrants. Yet, the State of Arizona has passed into law SB-1070 as well as the state of Alabama. This allows Arizona and Alabama authorities to stop and demand that any brown skinned person show proof of citizenship (better known as racial profiling). The Mexican American population is estimated at 30,738,559 (or 12.5% of the U.S. population). Estimates on the number of illegal Mexicans are from a low of 8 million up to a high of 20 million. So for a grand total you're looking at roughly 50 million brown-skinned people in America. That is one big task in finding out who is legal and who is illegal.

What is bad for Black Americans is also bad for Mexican Americans (legal or illegal), from Arizona to every state in the nation. Note how the south and especially the state of Alabama shines as a "racist" state.

"The Democratic Party enacted fugitive slave laws to keep blacks from escaping from plantations;

instigated the 1856 “Dred Scott v. Standford” decision which legally classified blacks as property;

passed the Missouri Compromise to spread slavery into 50% of the new Northern states; and passed

the Kansas-Nebraska Act designed to spread slavery into all of the new states.

Southern Democrats passed discriminatory Black Codes in 1865 to suppress, restrict, and deny

Blacks the same privileges as whites. The Codes forced blacks to serve as apprentices to their

former slave masters. Democrats also prevented blacks from getting their promised “40 acres and a

mule”.

In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was started by Democrats to lynch and terrorize Republicans, Black and

White, and the Ku Klux Klan became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. Details about the

Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan can be found in the book “A Short History of Reconstruction”

by Dr. Eric Foner.

During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought to stop Democrats from

denying civil rights to blacks. It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a

Republican as has been affirmed by his niece, Dr. Alveda C. King. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would not have joined the Democratic Party, the party of the Ku Klux Klan and segregation. Dr. King fought against Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.

Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from

patronizing his restaurant. Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the entrance of

two black students at the University of Alabama in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now,

segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. All of these racist Democrats remained Democrats until

the day they died. In fact, racist Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog”

than a Republican because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

The Dixiecrats were a group of Southern Democrats who, in the 1948 national election, formed a third

party, the State’s Rights Democratic Party with the slogan: “Segregation Forever!” Even so, they

continued to be Democrats for all local and state elections, as well as for all future national elections.

During the 1960’s, Democrats were relentless in their efforts to smear Dr. King and railroad his nonviolent

civil rights advocacy. In March of 1968, while referring to the fact that Dr. King left Memphis,

Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, former Klansman Democrat Senator

Robert Byrd called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble

is ignited, which motivated Dr. King to return to Memphis a few weeks later where he was

assassinated on April 4, 1968."

Lets not forget Alabama's George Wallace. "The Wallace administration intervened in civil rights conflicts and heightened racial tensions that led to violence and death. The governor turned the Alabama State Patrol into the State Troopers, outfitting the white-only force in uniforms with Confederate flag patches, steel helmets, and carbines. Under the command of Colonel Al Lingo, state troopers intervened in community crises such as the Birmingham demonstrations of 1963. Wallace also created the unconstitutional Sovereignty Commission to spy on Alabamians who advocated race reforms. When the federal courts ordered the desegregation of the University of Alabama in June 1963, he concocted an elaborate charade that appeared to fulfill his campaign promise to stand in the schoolhouse door. After President John F. Kennedy federalized the state troopers to force the registration of two black students, Wallace stepped aside. Yet this hollow act won him support across America. To hamper federal court orders desegregating Alabama's public schools, Wallace sent Lingo and the state troopers to harass students in Mobile and Tuskegee. The hostile racial Stand in the Schoolhouse Door climate encouraged Ku Klux Klansmen to bomb the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four black girls, after which the Wallace administration resisted efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. During the voting rights campaign in March 1965, Wallace ordered Lingo's troopers to assist Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, whose forces responded to a civil rights demonstration with brutality at the foot of the Edmond Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday." Wallace won a national following that convinced him to seek the 1964 Democratic Party nomination for President."

Present day immigration laws. You can call it politics, democrats, republicans, or legislation, but in the end its just good ol' White racism. The only difference is that the victim's faces are Brown instead of Black.

In the 2003 re-redistricting fiasco, Texas Republicans reverted to mocking Hispanics by airing radio ads featuring a "funny Hispanic accent."

Republican Bush's administration with a racist flavor in 2003. That was 8 years ago....but this is 2011 so we're OK now right? "Stepping into a case that could have widespread implications for affirmative action, the Bush administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the University of Michigan's admissions policy is unconstitutional because it favors certain racial groups. The Bush administration submitted two filings because there are actually two cases before the court -- one dealing with the university's law school and the other dealing with the undergraduate College of Literature, Science and Arts. The briefs support one white student who applied to the law school and two white students who applied to the undergraduate college. The students' admissions were denied. The administration says the law school reserves a minimum percentage of seats for preferred minorities that have been historically discriminated against -- including African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans -- a process which is "insulated from competition," according to a previous court ruling." Without some protective aid such as affirmative action, minority students have a tough road to hoe. Consider an all white admissions committe to any doctoral program, medical school, law school, engineering school, pharmacy school, or dental school. Now consider the all white admissions committe to have racial biasses. Who is more likely to be admitted - a White applicant, or a Black or Hispanic minority student?

As historian Roger Wilkins pointed out, "Blacks have a 375-year history on this continent: 245 involving slavery, 100 involving legalized discrimination, and only 30 involving anything else." Black American history is a wake up call for all Mexican Americans (legal or illegal), from Arizona to every state in the nation.

The Arizona racist law SB-1070 as well as Alabama's racist law is just the wake up call. Where the congressional arena becomes stagnant and ineffective against tyranny and racism we must pray that God will provide the necessary strength to the oppressed to tilt the scales of justice and let truth prevail.

What is freedom but the will of humanity not to live as slaves. Freedom is peace without racism. Slavery is racism. The threat of slavery, including actual slavery, will always exist. Centuries before the birth of Christ, Egypt made slaves of the Hebrews. Two hundred and thirty five years ago America made slaves of Black Africans.

Let us not forget the Black experience in America...first as Black African slaves, then up to the 1960's nothing more than "2nd class Negro citizens". During the 1950’s America let us not forget the words "Colored section in rear of the bus" in public buses. Let us not forget two drinking water fountains in public places side by side. One water fountain had a sign reading "Whites only". The other water fountain had a sign reading "Coloreds only". Let us not forget the words "Whites only" and "Colored dining entrance in back". Let us not forget the experience of Japanese Americans as they were incarcerated in internment camps during WWII. Let us not forget that even after 9/11, President Bush's first words were, "We are not going to racially profile Arab Muslims in America". We must ask why racially profile Mexican-Americans today but not Arab Muslims after 9/11?

Let us not forget the issue of "Segregation versus Integration" in America. Consider the Native American Indians who were exterminated, driven up to Canada, or at best allowed to live in Indian reservations. Consider the oriental Americans who live in segregated slums. Consider American Blacks who live in inner city ghettos. Consider the Mexican-Americans who live in barrios. Consider the racism against American Puerto Ricans in New York. Consider the racism against American Cubans in Florida. All separate but equal. Consider the lack of parity of minorities in education, housing, and jobs. Consider the creation of a welfare state where minorities receive food stamps, housing, and health care. Minorities then breed in this system and perpetuate this lifestyle from generation to generation.

American culture is a mere baby at 235 years old and the United States Declaration of Independence makes a profound statement of individual human rights: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Obviously these beautiful words written by the very wise Constitutional framers did not apply to all non-White people.

During WWII Adolph Hitler sanctioned the "T- 4 Nazi Euthanasia Program" Hitler's intent was to rid Germany of all unwanted humans: the mentally retarded, the sick, the elderly, the handicapped, the Jews, and all non-white individuals. The idea was to create a master race. A perfect race will never exist, for even if humans are cloned, all imperfections will be cloned as well. Hitler’s place in history is a warning for American legislators who make the laws, and law enforcement agencies who enforce the laws, to replace their anger and bigotry with human compassion.

We don't call White Americans of Germanic extraction "German-Americans". We don't call White Americans of Irish extraction "Irish-Americans". We don't call White Americans of French extraction "French-Americans". We simply refer to them as Americans. So why call Americans of African extraction "African-Americans"? Why call Americans of Hispanic or Latin extraction "Mexican-Americans" or Latinos"? Why call Americans of Asian extraction "Asian Americans"? These distinctions are made on the basis of skin color. When White Americans can see beyond the color of an individual’s skin......that day will truly be America the free........but not until then.

We can impose laws in our attempt to abolish racism in America, we can even vote a Black individual as president, however we cannot change what is inside a person's heart.

Legal American citizens of Mexican extraction must not have their constitutional rights violated by being stopped on the street, told to put their hands on the wall, spread their legs, then told to provide their identification. If their American constitutional rights are not respected, and protected.....they may end up in the streets of America marching and boycotting, doing whatever they must in order to assure that justice is served. I'm not sure why white Americans voted a Black as president when prejudice and racism is very much alive in America. However, I can assure you that legal American citizens of Mexican extraction are not going to be the new "whipping boys" for the enjoyment of white racists.

Manoflamancha of TX 8:27AM January 17, 2012