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(11,112 posts)~PEACE~
Rockyj
(538 posts)Best message ever!
And as my Native American mother says, "They're ALL BOAT PEOPLE!"
malaise
(269,219 posts)Rec
napkinz
(17,199 posts)sheshe2
(83,964 posts)So well done napkinz, I thank you.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)MUST SEE VIDEO: Anti-Immigration Radicals Shut Up By Native American
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=484353218279017&set=vb.100001130307255&type=2&theater
randys1
(16,286 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)It's about time someone got up in their faces and spoke the truth.
And who better than Native Americans to confront these Tea Party Hatriots spouting anti-immigration rhetoric?
unionthug777
(740 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)K&R
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)by Mark NC
July 6, 2014
The border wars continue on Fox News as the network repeatedly portrays the immigration issue in partisan terms and likens the influx of immigrants to an invasion or a conspiracy by President Obama to mint new Democratic voters.
In another new escalation of their radical rhetoric, Fox News is now heralding the participation of right-wing militia organizations who say that they will take it upon themselves to patrol the southern borders (funny that they are never concerned with any other border), an activity for which they have no legal authority.
The Fox Nation website is currently featuring an article that promotes a positive impression of violent and racist extra-legal militias that they describe as defenders of the U.S. border saying that
read more: http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=19143
napkinz
(17,199 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)Only a bunch of sorry ass rednecks would sit around and and come up with the idea ...
"Hey! Let's roadblock a bus and scare the shit out of some little kids!"
And BTW, your tribal map is pre-Trail of Tears, as it should be.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Historic NY
(37,454 posts)you can bet most who came here after 1783 weren't at all legal.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)To be frank, many of the Chicanos these xenophobes & other bigots vent their anger on, probably have more claims to this land than any of us "white" folks do, going by that particular line of reasoning.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Phlem
(6,323 posts)and totally agree.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)My version:
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They believe they can murder, rape and steal and still get into their heaven if they say some magic words.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Thank you for sharing these.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)You put some serious work into this photo spread, and it is deeply appreciated.
We ALL came from immigrants, fer crying out loud, and we're doomed if we can't realize every living, breathing soul on this earth is part of the family of man.
K&R
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Fred M
(64 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Who's lining up to give his or home back to the First Nations?
Which groups, besides some African Americans, are demanding reparations for slavery and Jim Crow?
So, is the immigration battle really about them?
Or is about money and re-election votes, as per usual?
If it's not about First Nations and slaves, then we shouldn't be exploiting those things.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Are these anti-immigration fools decrying the increase in eastern European immigrants? NO. They are whining about Mexicans, and immigrants from central and south america. It is about racism, which has everything to do with black people and first nations. Of course these fools are dupes for the 1%...but there is nothing wrong with pointing out their obvious racism and hypocrisy. As for reparations, I will bet you that a majority of black Americans support it, just as a majority of white Americans do not. As to why that is, I suggest you peruse the OP again.
merrily
(45,251 posts)But, I am not sure where.
As for reparations, I will bet you that a majority of black Americans support it, just as a majority of white Americans do not.
That was one of my points. Only a group of African Americans support it. Not anyone who is not African American, and, perhaps more relevantly, not a majority of Democrats in Congress.
As for the RW, yes, I agree they are racist, but I was not defending them. They were not even part of the point that I was trying to make.
If we were saying that we did these people wrong, so let's make amends, I would have much less of a problem invoking the wrongs we did them in an immigration debate. But, we're not saying that. We're just invoking them. And that seems to me to be exploitative of them.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)i enjoy your insights, merrily. but i guess i missed this one...please elaborate.
merrily
(45,251 posts)SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)More than one thing can be exploitative.
I don't think the immigration issue about anyone doing anything for First Nations or African Americans. I think it's convenient to use them in it as though it were somehow about them, though. And that seems exploitative to me.
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)But I understand what you're saying and I have to agree.
merrily
(45,251 posts)was a hard post to understand. I understand that because it was a gut reaction I had. Thanks for trying so hard to get it.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)They are being cited to put the lie to the RW statement that "we were here first" and to show what hypocrites the RW are for claiming immigrants should not be able to come in without papers and "steal" land, when that is exactly what American colonists did in relation to Native Americans.
merrily
(45,251 posts)betsuni
(25,690 posts)kwolf68
(7,365 posts)I stole a few too. Love it.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Thank you!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)rec.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)Thank you for this. I've copied a few to my computer because one of these days, I might get mad enough and post it on facebook. Thanks again.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)That crowd sure dispersed quickly. Like most sociopaths, they run away and hide as soon as someone calls them on their shit.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Kinda hard to argue with anyone who thinks that an imaginary man in the sky has decided that this land should belong to them.
littlemissmartypants
(22,839 posts)VA_Jill
(10,016 posts)but the thing that gets me--every time--is just how utterly white-trashy the people protesting the immigrants look. Like if these are "proud white Americans", I DON'T WANNA BE ONE!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)If you are going to judge them, let it be for their actions.
VA_Jill
(10,016 posts)that they LOOK every bit as trashy as they ACT. My mama taught me many years ago that pretty is as pretty does. By the same token, Ugly is as Ugly does.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)k/r
napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt