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08/02/2003 Archived Entry: "Republican Follies, Part 1"
Republican Follies, Part 1
Do these guys just think they can do whatever the fuck they want now?
A racist, anti-immigrant poem that led to the resignation of a top state official in Arkansas surfaced recently on the official Web site of the Republican Party of Winnebago County. The poem, titled "Illegal Poem," uses broken English to suggest that white Americans are "crazy" to pay for public assistance to illegal Mexican immigrants.
Winnebago County Republican Party officials said Friday that the poem had been placed on the site by a volunteer Webmaster, and they promised to remove it immediately.
"The sentiments and characterizations it makes are certainly not those of the Winnebago County Republican Party," said Ron Montgomery, a member of the county party's board of directors.
Note the shifting of blame to a 'volunteer webmaster.' This is the Part of Personal Responsibility we're talking about here. Right?
Replies: 2 people speak up
America's schizophrenia over Mexicans:
Many years ago, when I visited my sister in Houston, I noticed small armies of Mexicans doing lawn work throughout her neighborhood during the brutal month of August. (No "Northerner" knows what heat and humidity are until they've experienced summer in Houston.) My sister explained to me that Houston couldn't exist without cheap Mexican labor.
In Manhattan, you can't renovate a Class C commercial building without Mexicans. I've been to Italian, Chinese, Thai, and Malaysian restaurants in which most of the help (bus "boys" and kitchen help) are Mexicans. They can be found in many Korean green grocers, dry cleaners, delis, etc.
Mexicans, the quiet, hard-working, religious, family-oriented illegal Americans: can't live with them, can't live without them.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 08/03/2003 12:27 PM NY
i must say that after moving to chicago ive developed quite an appreciation for mexicans. my neighborhood is mostly mexican, the food is unbelievable, the diversity is nice for a change (im from ohio originally) and i love mexican women.... that said, isnt it funny how republicans are the ones always shifting the blame onto their underlings, when it is the conservative pundits who are always bitching about the way that liberals have destroyed the idea of personal responsibility with all of our "social programs" and the fact that we can actually see that a persons background affects the way they act as an adult.
Posted by justin @ 08/05/2003 03:39 PM NY
