Thread: Bill Based on Hate Letter by Mexican American Comission NE

I have read this letter in The Lexington Clipper Herald, The Kearney Hub and The Tri City Tribune and just found it online at the Lincoln Journal Star. I am almost positive that this letter was sent to every newspaper in NE.


Bill based on hate

The Mexican American Commission deplores that the possibility of introducing in Nebraska a legislative bill similar to Arizona's SB1071 has been made public.

We consider this legislation ill-advised. If introduced and passed, it will bring considerable expense and aggravation to Nebraska in a time of budgetary constraints.

Residents of Nebraska should focus on how we can rebuild and recover. Let's not be fooled; there is no way such a law can be implemented without racial profiling.

An elected official's primary goal should be the benefit of the constituents, not populist trends of opinion inflamed by extremist groups. This legislation ostracizes and alienates the second-largest ethnic group in Nebraska.

The concern is not about undocumented immigrants; the issue is aimed at the Latino community. And the message is clear: Latinos are unwanted and unwelcome and will always be second- class citizens in this state.

It has the potential to create a gap between the two largest ethnic groups in Nebraska, and we don't know if that gap can be bridged in the future. Is this in the best interests of Nebraska's constituents?

Even worse, our children are being exposed to the anger, frustration, fear and hate generated by this discussion.

We are raising a generation based on racial hate, and it's hard to fathom what will happen 20 to 25 years from now. Will our children be alienated or will they live the lives Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once dreamed of? What kind of future can we foresee as the best for our state?

Lazaro Arturo Spindola,

executive director,

Mexican American Commission

http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/mai ... 002e0.html

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COLUMBUS — A Nebraska state senator’s contemplation of introducing an Arizona-style illegal immigration bill prompted a scathing letter from the executive director of the Nebraska Mexican American Commission.

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Interesting what? That LA RAZA and MEChA folks are constantly accusing everyone else of racial hatred... I believe in psychology it is called Psychological projection or projection bias (including Freudian Projection). That is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.

Example is they are a hate mongering, racist group, therefore they feel everyone else must be racist as well.

Originally Posted by Mayday

I have read this letter in The Lexington Clipper Herald, The Kearney Hub and The Tri City Tribune and just found it online at the Lincoln Journal Star. I am almost positive that this letter was sent to every newspaper in NE.


Bill based on hate


Residents of Nebraska should focus on how we can rebuild and recover. Let's not be fooled; there is no way such a law can be implemented without racial profiling.



The concern is not about undocumented immigrants; the issue is aimed at the Latino community. And the message is clear: Latinos are unwanted and unwelcome and will always be second- class citizens in this state.


Lazaro Arturo Spindola,

executive director,

Mexican American Commission

http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/mai ... 002e0.html

I'm so sick and tired of hearing this!! Are we going to continue to have our hands tied because "there is no way such a law can be implemented without racial profiling."

SO WHAT!!! There is truth to that, how can there not be? But again I say SO WHAT!!! That's the way it is.
If you look Hispanic, Chinese, Japanese, Cuban, or get pulled over and have an accent of any other origin (whether you "look" white or not) you should be asked.
When someone driving a beat up car gets pulled over and they appear to be of a certain criminal "profile" ie. skin head, have numerous tatoos, wearing gang related clothing -WHATEVER RACE THEY ARE- they are automatically asked certain questions; the first question is asking them to PRODUCE THEIR I.D.
Then they are asked an array of questions such as:
DO YOU HAVE ANY WEAPONS?
ARE YOU IN POSESSION OF AN ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE? ETC......!!!!!!!

These questions don't get asked of the man in a business suit, driving a Benz for a reason....... there is profiling, that is how the police do their job for goodness sake!!!!
There are certain profiles that "generally" fit certain groups of people. NO that doesn't mean that everyone covered in tatoos is a criminal by any means or that just because your a "biker" you're a drug dealer etc......
But the best means that law enforcement has is basically this:
IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND QUACKS LIKE A DUCK....IT'S PROBABLY A DUCK!!!
So, as far as illegal immagrants go, why should it be any different? And why should they make it a race issue, when in reality that's how it's done, and how it's been done in seeking out persons that participate in certain illegal activities, whether it be drugs, guns, child molesters or serial killers -

THERE ARE STANDARD PROFILES FOR ALL FACETS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY- AND IF ONE OF THEM CAN ONLY BE SOUGHT OUT BY ASKING A PERSON TO PROOVE THEY ARE HERE LEGALY BECAUSE THEY LOOK AND FIT WHATEVER THE FLIPPIN PROFILE IS... THEN SO BE IT!!!!!!

As for this all being aimed at the Latino community...... GET OVER IT!!!
My children are of Spanish (Espania) descent on their fathers side of the family so I guess that makes them Latino ( which by the way I'm now quite confused, which is it Latino, Hispanic, Mexican, Spanish-Native American) Yes, I believe they are Latino for the following reason:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

The idea was later taken up by Latin American intellectuals and political leaders of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, who no longer looked to Spain or Portugal as cultural models, but rather to France.[7] The term was first used in Paris in an 1856 conference by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao[8] and the same year by the Colombian writer José MarÃ*a Torres Caicedo in his poem "Two Americas.[9] The term Latin America was supported by the French Empire of Napoleon III during the French invasion of Mexico, as a way to include France among countries with influence in America and to exclude Anglophone countries, and played a role in his campaign to imply cultural kinship of the region with France, transform France into a cultural and political leader of the area, and install Maximilian as emperor of Mexico.[10] In contemporary usage:

In one sense, Latin America refers to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, and (in the Caribbean) Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico — in summary, Spanish America and Brazil. Latin America is, therefore, defined as all those parts of the Americas that were once part of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires.[11]
Also, particularly in the United States, the term more broadly refers to all of the Americas south of the United States, thus including: English-speaking countries such as Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Bahamas; French-speaking Haiti and Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana; and the Dutch-speaking Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Suriname. (In the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, Papiamento – a predominantly Iberian-derived creole language – is spoken by the majority of the population.) This definition emphasizes a similar socioeconomic history of the region, which was characterized by formal or informal colonialism, rather than cultural aspects. (See, for example, dependency theory.)[12] As such, some sources avoid this oversimplification by using the phrase "Latin America and the Caribbean" instead, as in the United Nations geoscheme for the Americas

First of all Mexican is a nationality, Hispanic, AAH HAA! Maybe they are hispanic according to the descrption as follows:
Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that originally denoted a relationship to the ancient Hispania (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula).[note 1] During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the contemporary nation of Spain.

Still more recently, primarily in the United States, the term has also (or alternatively) been used to denote the culture and people of countries formerly ruled by Spain, usually with a majority of the population speaking the Spanish language. These include Mexico, the majority of the Central and South American countries, and most of the Greater Antilles. The nations formerly pertaining to the Spanish East Indies are sometimes loosely included in this definition, as their culture has some Spanish or Latin American elements.

That's a pretty broad base to be calling it racial profiling against Mexicans, Latinos, or Hispanics which as you can see BY ALL OF THE COUNTRIES THAT ARE IN BOLD ABOVE, is the definition of MANY ORIGINS!!! So as I said "GET OVER IT", NO ONE OWNS THE RACE CARD BEING PLAYED HERE!! UNLESS EVERYONE OWNS IT!!!

I'M AN AMERICAN..... I AM HUMAN TOO!!!!

see what nebraskans are saying in regard to this

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