Thread: Talk of stolen continent and white racists offensive to hear

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Sept. 16, 2006, 8:56PM
Talk of 'stolen continent' and white racists offensive to hear


By BRIDGET JOHNSON


The city of Maywood — a 1.2-square-mile town with an official population of just over 28,000 about eight miles south of downtown Los Angeles — is a pocket for illegal immigrants, lauded by immigrant advocates and decried by detractors. In this 96 percent Hispanic town, signs advising pedestrians to use crosswalks are printed in Spanish and English, and many storefronts' signs are in Spanish as well. The last census says 55 percent of residents are foreign-born, and 92 percent speak a language other than English at home.

Earlier this year, the Maywood City Council passed a resolution opposing the Sensenbrenner immigration bill after it passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the town was designated the first " not to net illegal immigrants without driver's licenses, and disbanded its traffic division for the same reason.

One recent Saturday, members of the anti-immigration group Save Our State showed up to protest that policy in front of Maywood City Hall. They numbered several dozen, with "Don't tread on me" and American flags. "Not anti-Hispanic, anti-illegal alien," read one sign; "Maywood is part of the U.S. and its elected officials need to act accordingly," read another.

One man held a small sign that read "traitors," and the group was fronted by a banner championing Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo for president. ("Tancredo? Who's that?" a confused counter-demonstrator asked me.)

Police in riot gear manned a buffer zone on a blocked-off major thoroughfare, surrounding the anti-illegal-immigration demonstrators who were being faced down by a few hundred counter-protesters and neighboring residents who pulled out Mexican flags and joined the event. I had gotten wind of a socialist organization calling people out for the demonstration. I found the counter-protest to be an eclectic mix of white guys in Che T-shirts and Latinos — wearing shirts ordering people to not call them Latino or Hispanic (too European), but Mexican — and denouncing white people.

Immigration proponents have been trying to pass off reconquista claims — the belief that immigrants want to take back "Aztlan" — as paranoid, but these protesters weren't helping. One sign proclaimed "Stolen continent" — yet displayed two continents, North and South America. "White racists this is our continent" read one sign. Another said, "We will never live in peace until we get the European squatters off our lands."

I squatted in the middle of the counter-protesters for a couple of hours, reading their literature, listening to them talk, trotting next to protesters trying to circumvent police lines and confronting a fleet of motorcycle cops on the next side street over.

What I witnessed was nothing less than vicious and hate-filled. This is where intelligent discourse flies out the window, and people start drawing territorial lines within communities.

A couple of times, unwelcome people came into the counter-protesting crowd to take photos or video, and were quickly surrounded by an angry crowd and pelted with water bottles and debris. Shouts of "you little white b--" were directed at a blond woman; a man yelled, "Get out of here, this is our town" through a bullhorn to others.

Some wearing lucha libre masks and some with bandannas obscuring their faces, counter-protesters tried to get close to the SOS demonstrators by cutting down side streets and were angry when the cops were already there. Others manned the front lines with signs depicting California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Nazi, chanting, "Minutemen! Resist! They're the real terrorists."

Toward the end of the counter-demonstration, those protesters raised the Mexican flag on the pole in front of the U.S. Post Office. Don Silva of SOS said one woman with his group was assaulted while trying to move through the opposition crowd, and some of their cars had tires slashed and were vandalized.

Maywood, regardless of its demographics, is still within the United States of America, and still falls under the laws of this country. Lobby against those laws if you feel they're unfair; that's the beauty of our system.

But when you have virulent protests that include a pre-teen boy yelling "f-- that white b--" at a passing fair-skinned woman — me — something is seriously wrong. Especially when it comes from the side holding a banner that proclaimed "Say NO to racism."

Bridget Johnson writes for the Los Angeles Daily News. She can be e-mailed at bridget.johnson@dailynews.com.

Emailed her a big thank you for this article. Hope it reaches many people. That day at Maywood was as ugly as it can get and helped to show how many in that city feel about our laws, our people and our culture.

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This occured when G. W. Bush was Governor of Texas!!!!!!

Texas Town Adopts Spanish As Official Language
EL CENIZO, Texas (Reuters) - The border town of El Cenizo, whose population is heavily Hispanic, has adopted Spanish as its official language and declared the community a safe haven for illegal immigrants, officials said Friday.

http://www.englishfirst.org/elcenezo/el ... s81699.htm

The city of El Paso recently passed a sancturay ordinance and endorces amnesty for all illegal aliens. Only one city councilman opposed the referendum. See articles in the Focus Campaign.

Dixie

But when you have virulent protests that include a pre-teen boy yelling "f-- that white b--" at a passing fair-skinned woman — me — something is seriously wrong. Especially when it comes from the side holding a banner that proclaimed "Say NO to racism."

Just of sign of what's to come once these "hard working people who are just here doing jobs Americans won't do" reach critical mass.

Thank's a whole lot, George. There's no doubt in my mind that even with two years to go, you've already got a lock as the Worst President of all Time.