Thread: Carlos Santana scold's Georgia for new immigration law

Singer Carlos Santana uses baseball game to scold Georgia for new immigration law

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ATLANTA (AP) — Carlos Santana (FSY) on Sunday used baseball's annual Civil Rights Game as a platform to admonish Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws

Santana received the Beacon of Change Award before the Braves-Phillies game.

The Grammy-winning musician said he was representing immigrants before adding: "The people of Arizona, and the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves."

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Friday signed a bill that cracks down on illegal immigration in the state. The bill requires many employers to check the immigration status of new hires and authorizes law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of some suspects.
Georgia's new law shares some similarities to one enacted last year in Arizona.

"This law is not correct. It's a cruel law, actually," Santana said in an impromptu news conference after the ceremony. "This is about fear. Stop shucking and jiving. People are afraid we're going to steal your job. No we aren't. You're not going to change sheets and clean toilets."
Added Santana: "This is the United States. This is the land of the free. If people want the immigration laws to keep passing, then everybody should get out and leave the American Indians here."

Rev. Jesse Jackson presented the Beacon of Life Award to Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks.

"I haven't done anything to earn it, but I appreciate it," Banks said.
Former Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe presented the Beacon of Hope Award to actor Morgan Freeman, who wore a Braves jacket and a Negro Leagues Atlanta Black Crackers cap.

Al Roker, co-host of NBC's The Today Show, was the moderator for the ceremony and introduced a video tribute to Braves Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, who received a standing ovation from his hometown fans.
The Braves and Phillies wore throwback uniforms from the 1974 season, the year Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.

Two leaders of the civil rights movement in Atlanta, former Mayor Andrew Young and the Rev. Joseph Lowery, went to the mound for the ceremonial first pitches, thrown to two African-American stars — Phillies slugger Ryan Howard and Atlanta's Jason Heyward (FSY).

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig attended the ceremony.
This is baseball's fifth Civil Rights Game. The first event was in Memphis in 2007.

"Anytime you can honor the people that changed the game, it's a good thing," said Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro (FSY).
The game also will return to Atlanta in 2012.

"I think it's the perfect city to host this," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said.


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You can leave America anytime you like Carlos Santana! I've never liked your music and who he hell are you to scold any state full of people?

We are proud and supportive of the brave people of Arizona, Indiana, and Georgia that have stood up to the invasion of our homeland.

And to hell with traitors against America like Carlos Santana.

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Santana should be ashamed of himself for injecting his ethnic politics into a public event having nothing to do with him.

"This law is not correct. It's a cruel law, actually," Santana said in an impromptu news conference after the ceremony. "This is about fear. Stop shucking and jiving. People are afraid we're going to steal your job. No we aren't. You're not going to change sheets and clean toilets."

Shut up Santana, I don't see YOU cleaning toilets or changing your own sheets! I do my own. GA and AZ should be proud of themselves, standing up to racist ethnocentric thugs like you. WE don't want ungrateful, whining, thieving law-breakers here, no matter where they come from.

His music sucks!
His opinion means nothing!

and.........

"This law is not correct. It's a cruel law, actually," Santana said in an impromptu news conference after the ceremony. "This is about fear. Stop shucking and jiving. People are afraid we're going to steal your job. No we aren't. You're not going to change sheets and clean toilets."
Added Santana: "This is the United States. This is the land of the free. If people want the immigration laws to keep passing, then everybody should get out and leave the American Indians here."

What a silly old fool this has been is. As a matter of fact I HAVE changed sheets and cleaned toilets when I was a housekeeper at a local hotel in my younger years. You can bet I'd do it again if I needed a job!

The Grammy-winning musician said he was representing immigrants before adding: "The people of Arizona, and the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves."

here we go again with the word "immigrants" we are not talking about immigrants. We are talking about illegal alien invaders

The Grammy-winning musician said he was representing immigrants before adding: "The people of Arizona, and the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves."

The only one who should be ashamed of themselves is Santana! How dare he scold the American people for merely asking that the rule of law be followed, in order to protect ourselves from a southern invasion! Do the pro-illegal factions in this country really believe that being reprimanded by an ethnocentric musician is going to weaken their resolves to save our country! Hardly!

Santana received the Beacon of Change Award before the Braves-Phillies game.

Beacon of Change Award? I guess it's safe to assume what kind of change this award represents!

The Morgan Freeman who had a sexual relationship with his step-granddaughter?

While we are on baseball
http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_pro ... riers.html

Despite all the hardships that Hispanic major leaguers have experienced, baseball must now change to meet their needs. The changing demographics of America and, in particular, baseball fans demands that the franchises of Major League Baseball embrace Spanish as an essential language in its communications, marketing, and team relations. They must now learn to speak the language of béisbol

You would think for the money these guys can make and the ease at which they get a visa for playing sports in the USA they would have more initiative to learn the English language. It may not be easy but some effort is nice.