RACISM
02/23/2010 Their Venom Is No Longer Hidden
In the old days, when bigots wrote me anonymous letters, it was hard to believe that people could be so ignorant and vicious. The way they described new immigrants as welfare leaches and criminal invaders was a painful lesson in the reality of racism ...
05/12/2009 Southern Hostility
Remember the days when people, especially in the South, felt they had a perfect right to discriminate? Remember the time when skin color determined whether you would be treated like a human being? Well, that litmus test has changed! Now humane ...
12/09/2008 Obama's Election Didn't Cure Racism
Remember when, just a few weeks ago, we thought the election of Barack Obama had dealt a major blow against racism in this country, when we temporarily were swept by a tidal wave of interracial harmony? Remember how some people were actually naive ...
10/09/2007 Bordering on Racism
For years, xenophobic immigrant bashers have used national security as an excuse to go after the Mexican border and Latino immigrants who cross it without proper documents. They kept telling us that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, we ...
03/27/2007 Vigilante Radio Stoops to New Low
Just when we thought American xenophobes couldn't stoop any lower, when their mean-spirited behavior couldn't be any more repulsive, two New Jersey radio shock jocks are seeking to reach a new low. The two jocks, knows as "The Jersey Guys,&...
02/20/2007 Immigrant Bigots Cause Indigestion
When your mail is filled with hatred and vicious remarks from xenophobic native-born Americans who are inexplicably offended by your calls for compassion for illegal immigrants, somehow you get used to it. You accept the fact that intolerance is ...
07/31/2007 Same Question, New Word
"What part of the word 'illegal' don't you understand?" That is by far the most frequently asked question I get from readers who disagree with my columns on illegal immigration. They are so fixated on that word that somehow they think ...
06/12/2007 Grave Dancing is Permissible
The immigrant bashers are dancing on the grave of the immigration reform bill, and they write me sarcastic letters because they expect me to be in mourning. "All the Americans united to kill that stupid amnesty bill," one xenophobe ...
05/08/2007 Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Leads to Violence
When Los Angles police launched an attack on thousands of peaceful immigrant-rights protesters and many members of the news media last week, the violent nature of the U.S. anti-immigrant movement was finally exposed. The immigrant-bashing ...
04/24/2007 Bad News? Cringe and Pray!
You hear the news of a mass murder or some other horrible crime, and if you are a white American you probably wonder about the criminal's motivation or the way he executed his plan. But if you are a minority American, immediately the first ...
04/17/2007 A Lesson in Latino vs. Black Power
For weeks before Don Imus was fired for making racist and sexist remarks on the radio, two other shock jocks were already targeted for protests and boycotts for making insensitive remarks on New Jersey's 101.5 FM. The two jocks, known as "...
04/10/2007 A Platform Based on Fear and Hatred
We know they have a constituency, but is it bigger than the voting bloc they are alienating? Can conservative Republicans continue to offend Latinos and not pay a price on Election Day? Apparently, some of them still think so. They believe ....
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