Nope. Have you seen any in domestic affairs in our party.
Posted on 07/05/2006 6:36:51 PM PDT by AZRepublican
Nope. Have you seen any in domestic affairs in our party.
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Apparently he was quoting a NYT article (even more surprising! :).
Despite Ike's politics, he was a different breed of American. Sadly we won't find any today in this politically correct country.
My guess: Bush is beholden to people who make tons of money off of this off-the radar labor. Home builders, etc.
As always, let the middle class bear the cost of these employers' profits.
I remember reading about this many years ago. The details are gone but the essence was this. Mexicans were starting to agitate for better wages...and were beginning to take better jobs outside of agriculture - lowering wages in those fields, too. Complaints from ranchers and others led Eisenhower to do what he did.
What the article doesn't describe is what happened almost immediately after the round-ups and deportation. A new bracero program was begun which brought in new Mexican labor - legally - at much reduced wages, and under much better control.
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Deport 'em all!
Ike did it, so can Bush!
LOL! Well-played.
Where there's a will, there's a way. With the current administration and Senate, there is no will, so their is no way.
From my vantage point, I see nothing the mexican illegals have done to promote this. I do see hollywood crap, inner city ghetto crap, and liberal caucasian politicians contribute to the creeping destruction, but the contributions by the mexicans have been minimal.
I am not laying the current social atmosphere solely at the feet of illegals, but they are one piece of the puzzle. The fact that they feel entitled to enter the country in violation of our immigration laws combined with the authorities lax enforcement of those laws is part of the creeping effect I referred to. The worst part is that everyone has become so feminized that no one dares to call the illegal activity what it is for fear that they will be labeled racist and xenophobic. And that attitude doesn't just hold for illegal immigration, but most of those things we, as a country, used to hold as wrong for the good of society. We are told there is no right or wrong any more, no black or white, only shades of gray. The boundaries of society are eroding and once the boundaries are gone, anarchy will reign.
The reason the racism charge is so effective is that the US has a long long history of being racist and even today there are a lot of racist tendencies. The US is one one of the least racist countries in the world, but it is far from color blind.
Black Slavery, Chinese exclusion laws, treatment of the Indians, banning negros from baseball and banning negroes from professional golf as late as 1990, U of Alabama never had a black football player until after 1974 when Bear Bryant said "Cunningham ran all over my skinny little white boys", U. of KY never had a black basketball player until 1976, 38 states banned black white marriages until 1964.
Yes they only make it more and more likely that some kind of integration between the two nations will happen. It will be an open border relationship and not a political merger if we are lucky. Then again youd probably be just fine with that. There arent many ghetto blacks or liberal whites in mexico, just mexicans, so why is mexico so corrupt and crime ridden right down to the lowest office and law enforcement officer?
[quote]The reason the racism charge is so effective is that the US has a long long history of being racist and even today there are a lot of racist tendencies. The US is one one of the least racist countries in the world, but it is far from color blind.
Black Slavery, Chinese exclusion laws, treatment of the Indians, banning negros from baseball and banning negroes from professional golf as late as 1990, U of Alabama never had a black football player until after 1974 when Bear Bryant said "Cunningham ran all over my skinny little white boys", U. of KY never had a black basketball player until 1976, 38 states banned black white marriages until 1964.[/quote]
You are being dishonest about the Alabama-UCS game, I believe Wilbur Jackson was on the team, he was not allowed to play as Freshmen weren't in those days. Oh, Coach Bryant beat Trojans 17-10 in 1971 when he installed the "Wishbone". The team was filled with "skinny white boys" I don't know if they were that skinny, you might want ask John Hannah, be careful if you ever phrase it that way. You have a very odd line of thinking to be on a conservative site, it sounds rather liberal and race-baiting the comments you're exposing.
Ok, I got my year wrong. It was 1970, not 1974.
Interesting is this:
"Yet African-Americans who played at Alabama in the 1970s offer glowing accounts of Bryant's fairness and character. Bryant negotiated to bring Southern California's integrated team to Birmingham in 1970, resulting in an Alabama thrashing led by African-American runner Sam "Bam" Cunningham. As Bryant later said, "Cunningham did more for integration in Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King Jr."
I happen to like the truth. The truth is the US has been one of the more fair and least racist counties in the world. The truth is the US does have a racist past. The truth is things are better now than ever. The truth is some percentage, my guess is about 10% of the US are white bigots or closet racists.
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