Posted on 05/16/2011 11:06:48 AM PDT by La Lydia
Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana, in town to be honored for a Beacon of Change award at Sundays MLB Civil Rights Game at Turner Field, called the state's new immigration law "anti-American. "Santana took his turn at the podium on the field in a pre-game ceremony before the Braves-Phillies game to criticize the immigration bill just signed into law by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Friday.
I represent the human race, the Mexican-born Carlos Santana said. The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
The Georgia immigration law, HB 87, cracks down on illegal immigration by increasing enforcement powers and requiring many employers to check the immigration status of new hires.
Supporters of the new state law have long contended it's needed because the federal government has failed to adequately enforce the nation's immigration laws. One estimate ranks Georgia seventh nationally among states with an estimated 425,000 illegal immigrants.
Shortly after the game started, Santana met with the media in an impromptu gathering in the Turner Field press box after word of his comments began to break on the Internet and through social media.
He said the law is based on racism and economic anxiety....
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Ah jeez. I even know that song. Time for the big cone hat and the chair in the corner.
That's what I'd like to know as well. What was the crowd's reaction? Article doesn't mention it. But then again, it's the Atlantic Urinal & Constipation.
****Wrong. There are, literally, a million teenagers that are better guitarists than Santana. As a muscician, he’s a one trick pony.****
You are quite right. Just go to youtube and listen to the many unknowns who can play their hearts out, many with their own music. Santana has not branched out from his basic style at all.
He also says he is guided by “spirits”. He is not someone I care to hear from.
Carlos if they did not cause trouble, leach, kill, steal, drive without a license/no insurance and kill, take off running as they did MY FRIEND...get legal, we would not have a problem. Stop having dozens of kids they cannot support, when asking why they do so, it makes them feel like men, MEN makes kids and pays to have them raised, NOT being here illegally and making us LEGAL working people pay for their liter.
Puleeez! Don't insult the rocks.
Carlos must have taken the brown acid at Woodstock.
Santana is Booed for Using Baseball’s Civil Rights Game to Speak Out for Civil Rights
Could you please copy and paste? I refuse to give The Nation my email address. Thanks.
Or David Gilmour!
Yep. I’ve played for many, many years and some of these kids can play circles around me.
Is it too late to seize his property, and his parents property and send them back to Mexico?
The proceeds could go to the families of Border Patrol Agents who lost their lives in the line of duty.
Dance and sing for us amigo, perhaps someone will throw coins...perhaps silver dollars
.perhaps with great force
La Raza has a phony premise.
The descendants of the very few Mexican citizens that were in AZ 150 years and did not choose to go over the border back into Mexico at any point in the last 150 years can claim they were here first. The ones that stayed in Mexico have NO claim. Any illegals sneaking in now have ZERO claim. The United States won it 150 years ago. Mexico had AZ for only about 25 years and there were only around 10,000 in the southwest when we won the war against Mexico.
The United States was very generous when we won against Mexico. Mexico started the war. We won and couldve taken the entire country fair and square as the spoils of war.
If LaRaza keep flapping their gums we could implement the Reconquisadoracion of Mexico.
We charge Mexico for the land that they have now. Sell all their valuable assets, as the Soviet Union did when they took over Eastern Europe, charge Mexico for ALL the social services that we have squandered on illegal aliens including hospital visits.
Charge Mexico for all the lost wages and unemployment paid to legal Americans over the decades because the illegal aliens took their jobs and made everyones pay in the US lower by having a much too large pool of labor.
Put all the illegal aliens into Belize and Guatemala, because it is a very small border to protect, and pay those countries a few billion dollars out of what we make on the sale of the assets of Mexico to send every citizen of Mexico into their country since legally ALL of Mexico should, by rights, belong to the USA.
THEY OWE US BIG TIME! Let Carlos be the first to pay up.
The problem is this: What is MLB doing having a “Civil Rights Game?” It’s more liberal crap from Bud Selig’s liberal off-topic MLB. They promote everything but the game of baseball.
Hey Carlos, Shut the F**k up and play your guitar. After you’re finished go back to Mexico. Nobody likes your crap.
1) A blast of hot air
2) A sailboat line built in So Cal by the W.D. Schock company.
3) Just another musician that mistook his God given talents for parity to God, and is instead on a par with Cindy Shehan and Michael Moore.
I wondered the same thing. I don't see anything about it in the article. I guess it is a secret the media isn't telling up.
Generally, that means the answer is "yes."
It used to be angels.
He must have bounced off the sides of that storm drain he fell down.
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