How about I build a catapult large enough to launch all of them halfway into the Atlantic?
"...Now this small Ohio river city's booming Hispanic population is cowed, the streets in their neighborhoods nearly deserted."
Sounds like it's working to me
There is no evidence that this vandalism was racially motivated. Next,
Then the house went up in flames in a suspected arson.
The morality of vigilanteism notwithstanding, again, no evidence of racism. But then,
Confrontations, name-calling and threats against Hispanics followed.
Okay, now what happened to get to that point? I don't mean to sound insensitive to racism, and it is certainly possible that there are a bunch of ignorant stupid racists using this as an opportunity to target all "Hispanics", but how did it get to this? I'm just suspicious. I would think the ENTIRE community, including the Hispanic members of the community, should have been outraged and angry over the rape of a child.
I think it is very interesting that it is assumed that the vandal and the arsonist were white, and not outraged Hispanics. Did the Hispanic community in any way try to defend the perpetrator? Hide him? Assist him in getting out of town?
At first the outrage was NOT racially motivated, as the evidence clearly shows. The vigilante acts were directed against the perpetrator, and not any particular racial group. What made the attitudes change to the point that the whole community is antagonistic towards Hispanics as a group, and not just this one perpetrator?
Rape spurs anger.....wow can you imagine that? (sarcasm)
As long as the anger is focused upon the guilty I'm not concerned.
An anti-hispanic backlash in general is dangerous. The skin head types among the population will never see us coming because they can't tell us from themselves.
I'm not hispanic but my children and family are. Like I said, those who hate won't see us coming.
No it's not, shmuck! You learn the language, get legal citizenship, swear one's allegiance to THIS country (and mean it!) and become a useful and integral part of the community at-large. THAT's only hard for people who don't want to do it!
"Ku Klux Klansmen in hoods and robes showed up"
Where was Senator Byrd on that day???
Hispanic immigrants, by the thousands in Ohio? Are we accepting that many immigrants from south of the border?
Living in California, it has gotten to the point where there is no distinction between illegal immigration and the immigration this country experienced at the turn of the 20th century. Both of my father's parents were immigrants - documented, sponsered, and assimmilatd in less than a generation. Funny how that works when you come into the country legally with the intention, no the dream, of becoming Americans.
With the census of 2002 setting the Hispanic population at just under 38 million, and estimates of 5 million or more illegal Mexican immigrants in the country, at what point do you stop being labelled a racist when you question where someone came from and begin being recognized as a realist?
Well, shame on Ohio for lagging "behind much of the nation in Hispanic population." Maybe they could rent some from California so that they can make their quota.
/sarc
"Ku Klux Klansmen in hoods and robes showed up"
I've heard they were alive and well in Ohio.
I've become very concerned with the hatred promoted by the leftist media. My thought is that since the Latinos failed to support the liberals and didn't all stay on the plantation, that the left will attempt to unite anyone they can very much in the same way that Hitler used hate.
I abhor illegals, they are criminals.
My family is not.
Therefore any attempt to promote "blanket" anti-hispanic behavior is perceivable as a threat to my family...my children.
And just in the same way I would fight the Nazis I would fight any attempt to forward anti-hispanic sentiment among the American population.
And yeah, I'd do anything to protect them. Kin is kin...
Hamilton's crime rate surges.. Serious offenses up 20% during 2001, FBI reports
What is there to add?
How about I build a catapult large enough to launch all of them halfway into the Atlantic?
any bloodletting yet?
Time to pick the KKK and deport them along with the illegals.
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Ramona Ramirez, who owns a corner deli-supermarket, in Hamilton, Ohio, talks about racial tensions, Friday, July 15, 2005. Ramirez she says business is off and her bread delivery man is now afraid to come.
For the most part, the immigrants had settled in without much controversy in Hamilton, whose mayor in the 1990s was of Cuban descent.But life here was transformed on June 19, when a 9-year-old Caucasian girl was raped, allegedly by a Hispanic man who has apparently fled the city.
And people got mad? Can't imagine why.
In English and with legal residents only.