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Headlines : Human RightsThe Ghost of George Wallace
The corporate media, informed time and again of Nazi, white nationalist and militia connections to the anti-migrant movement, has continued to paint the anti-migrants as part of a mainstream.
And even though the mass protests of recent days have deeply shaken them, they still might win.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from InfoShop News
When the late Alabama Governor George Wallace – surrounded by armed guards – stood on the steps of the University of Alabama to prevent a young Black woman from entering the University of Alabama, he declared, “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
He also inspired a man who would later stand at the US / Mexican border, armed to the teeth, to prevent other brown skinned people from entering someplace he didn’t want to them to enter – the United States.
A year ago Jim Gilchrist brought the mainstream media to a frenzy as they reported on his Minuteman Project, a group of racist vigilantes who’d traveled to the border – guns in hand – to stop the immigrant “invasion” and the “re-conquest,” they said, of the US Southwest by Mexicans.
Later, Gilchrist ran for the US House of Representatives as a member of American Independent Party – the party founded by Wallace, the arch-segregationist.
Like Wallace with the Dixiecrats of his day, Gilchrist has plenty of allies in Congress – chief among them Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo, best known for advocating that the US “take out” the Muslim holy city of Mecca with a nuclear weapon. Tancredo is also known as the…
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Posted by ShiftShapers on Wednesday, March 29th 2006
SHIFT, U THE MAN ONCE AGAIN, THE FACT THAT DEMOCRAPS PASSED THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION, AND THE THAN STRONGLY DEM-SOUTHERN STATES, STARTED VOTING REPIGLICAN EVER SINCE, DESPITE THE FACT THE REPIGLICAN POLICIES ARE HURTING THEM AS WELL, IS FACT THIS COUNTRY IS STILL STAUNCHLY RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC. DONT BELIVE ME???? KING BUSH WON 04 ON GAY MARRIAGE, BUT NEVER HEARD OF THAT AGAIN, MAYBE IN 08?
it hurts my eyes.
It would be simpler and less expensive to lock up business owners who employ illegal’s… No matter what race. One year for each caught illegally employed.
now were getting somewhere kcoztips