On Oct 27, 6:00 pm, linuxgal <
linux...@cleanposts.com> wrote:
> Stanislaus Stewart wrote:
>
> > You should check out the campaigning. When Romney speaks, its to
> > 99.99% whites. When Obama speaks you have a rainbow coalition,
> > all colors. At the RNC convention I saw, on TV just two blacks.
>
> I don't look at the color of the skin of supporters, but the content of
> their character, because
> I have the same dream as that famous Republican
> Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK was Republican for a short period of time AND those days the roles
were reversed, respect to racism.
Isn't it fascinating that every time Conservatives are accused of
being racists, their instinctive reaction is to refer to history books
(the older, the better)?
-Ramon
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Alabama's immigration law: Jim Crow revisited
By Martin Luther King III and Richard Trumka, Special to CNN
updated 11:23 AM EST, Thu November 17, 2011
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
# Writers: MLK began fight for civil rights in Alabama; now state is
denying rights again
# Alabama's strict immigration law terrorizes families, they say;
conflicts with our values
# They urge Obama to end laws that use racial profiling, target
immigrant communities
# Writers: We need to focus on comprehensive immigration reform and
fixing economy
Editor's note: Martin Luther King III is president and chief executive
officer of The King Center in Atlanta. Richard Trumka is president of
the AFL-CIO.
"(CNN) -- It is one of the painful ironies of our time that in the
same season Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory is finally honored with a
memorial in our nation's capital, the state where he began to lead the
civil rights movement is once more the center of an ugly conflict over
racial injustice.
"The passage of Alabama's anti-immigrant legislation, HB 56, invokes
inhumanity reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. And the police state it
has created is equally cruel.
"If the law stands, children will be denied admission to public
schools if they can't prove their citizenship, and schools will be
turned into enforcement operations. Poor people of color will be
ripped from their families if they are caught in public without their
papers in order. Samaritans and people of conscience who employ,
harbor or help undocumented workers will be severely punished.
[...]
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/17/opinion/trumka-king-civil-rights-alabama/