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Racist comments are acceptable amongst Republicans & Tea Baggers

by on Sep. 16, 2012, under Arizona Murders, BPS & Immigration Related, DHS, Ethnic Studies, Gary Thomas Kelley, Hate Crime, Immigration, Juan Varela, My America, Racism, Radio, Republicans, Tea Party

I came across this link in my daily web travels. Your average Rethuglican or Tea Bagger will deny to the death that these comments are racist. Their racism is overt and unchecked, and the eventual casualties are those murdered in cold blood because their lives have been devalued based on their skin color, nationality or ethnic origin.

Here are some examples of the aforementioned. Juan Varela a Phoenix man of Mexican descent and fifth generation American, killed in cold blood by a racist that said “go back to Mexico wetback” before extinguishing his life in front of his brother and mother.

Brisenia Flores a nine year child from Arivaca Arizona shot twice in the face by racist minutemen as she plead for her life and said “please don’t kill me” after she had witnessed the cold blooded murder of her U.S. Citizen father of Mexican descent and the shooting of her U.S. Citizen Mother Gina, also of Mexican descent.

Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah Pennsylvania that was beat to death in a park by white Racist youth for being with his longtime white girlfriend and their child. A crime that invoked the following description of the perpetrators by Justice Department prosecutor Myesha Braden “They may not have intended to kill Ramirez, but thought him somehow worthy of being beaten like a dog in the streets.”

Let me be clear if I haven’t already been in my description of just a handful of incidents, these types of comments carry consequences and create casualties.

Are you still denying it’s racist?

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and W60 AM Radio, Los Angeles, San Diego and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana and the Tucson Citizen in Arizona. Carlos Galindo is President and founder of the Immigrant Advocacy Foundation, Inc.

http://www.carlosgalindo.com

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  • toughteri

    Get a life, bub.

  • velcro53

    What your post points out is that there does exist racism, and that there are inhuman acts committed because of racism.
    What your post does NOT and CANNOT say is that conservatives are racist or that this is proof of that. As a conservative and Republican, I agree unequivocally that each incident you cite, and the thousands more that occur daily, weekly, whatever and are never reported, are heinous, repugnant, and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
    Despite the caricature you and others portray, conservative thoughts and beliefs are anti-racist. To get to what I perceive your point to be, conservatives believe that every American citizen, be they black, white, brown, red, yellow or any other color the government has decided to label us as (to quote Gabriela Saucedo Mercer), has equal value and an equal vote, and that non-citizens ought not be given constitutional rights that are reserved for American citizens.
    That was the point of SB 1070 and the outcry against DACA. Where then came the “racism issue”? From you liberals. Where then came the outrage of conservatives? From being accused of that which conservative values abhor.
    Rant if you must about individuals, but understand that declaring conservative and/or Republican views racist makes you out to be Don Quixote.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ado-Christian/100003744992896 Ado Christian

    Inciting racism fears among the ignorant is this liberal’s desperate attempt to get a few more lib votes. Four incidents cited in these fifty(50) states with 350 million legal citizens and Carlos wants to paint all who can’t see clear to agree with his rabble rousing panic politics a racist? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be proud to be on your team my man. How about that racist La Raza bunch that you represent and are a mouthpiece for? How many innocent people have been killed because of the racist views it holds and advocates and promotes? Carlos will remain quite silent on his Maxican racists. They get the free pass.

    • Your_Uncle_Karl

      Ado throwing the peanuts again.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ado-Christian/100003744992896 Ado Christian

        Come on Unca’ Karl, tell us one more time how it is that the end justifies the means.

    • Carlos Galindo

      Actually, I suppose I could have selected one incident in each of the states, however then you would have indicated it was just one incident per state and that I was still lacking foundation for the premise I have advanced. This could go on forever. What you and I know is that I’m absolutely correct. If you choose to live in denial, then you will continue in the dark. As for your allegations regarding “La Raza”, I see that as just another straw man argument. However, I’ll bite. If you only knew how corporate National Council of La Raza is, you would laugh your arse off. I concede they may have started as a militant type of Chicano movement, nothing different than your Tea Party, however, nowadays they don’t in any way represent the views or ideals of the Immigrant community that struggles daily to pick the vegetables you stuff your face with. They are just another massive non-profit advancing the corporate cause. In the future please take a moment to do your homework prior to coming on here and posting psycho babble and typical anti-Immigrant rhetoric. I know you have a brain, you were smart enough to read my article.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ado-Christian/100003744992896 Ado Christian

        Carlos, I have no problem at all with what you call an “immigrant community” provided they followed U.S. immigration procedure as my grandparents did when they immigrated to the United States, however, there is no place at all in this country for those who choose to break U.S. law the instant they cross the border. Economic desperation has never been a valid reason to seek asylum in this country and you should well know that. In these economic bad times, there are more than enough U.S. citizens and legal visitors with green cards to pick every crop that needs picking, and I’m sure you also are aware of that. Illegal alien labor, mostly Mexican, take jobs that many U.S. citizens would be more than happy to do had those jobs not gone to the lowest bidders here illegally from south of the border. I believe all labor should be paid a fair wage for a fair days work and I don’t mind paying extra for it when I stuff my face with veggies. You did get that part right, I remain a vegetarian. I supported Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers of America(Or Unión de Campesinos if you prefer). Perhaps you are just too young to remember the grape boycotts. You also seem to have a brain having read my post. Now try some comprehension. Scare tactics to win votes is what you are doing, and you well know that. Racism is wrong whatever the source. It is not a major issue today, in spite of your inflammatory rhetoric. In a population the size of this nation, there will always be a percentage who are lawbreakers. Some of the laws they break will be laws dealing with racism. Thankfully today it’s a tiny percentage. That’s a fact. It is a total lie to attempt to paint the entire Tea Party or GOP as racist, and you ought to be intelligent enough to know that by now. I admittedly could be mistaken on that one, granted.

  • Your_Uncle_Karl

    “In his diary, Richard Nixon’s
    chief-of-staff, Bob Haldeman, described how his boss spelled out the racial
    contours of a new electoral game-plan to win southern and suburban whites over
    to the Republican party in the wake of the civil rights era. “You have to
    face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks,” Nixon told
    him. “The key is to devise a system that recognises that while not
    appearing to.”
    Apparently that strategy worked very well with Republican Party members, even if no one else is fooled.

    • BajaDemocrats

      Exactly, and it’s a strategy the Republicans fall back on when they get desperate. George HW Bush was behind in the polls in 1988, so what did he do? He came out with his Willie Horton ad, prominently showing the face of a black man paroled under Massachusetts law, by his opponent. Gov. Dukakis. Out on parole he raped a white woman. The implication: the Libs/Dems let black criminals loose on the streets and they come for “your” women.

      Jesse Helms fell back on it in 1990 when he faced a tough Senate reelection. His opponent was Harvey Gantt, the black mayor of Charlotte. So Helms ran a TV ad showing a pair of white hands ripping up a rejection notice from a company, the man complaining that they gave the job to a “less qualified minority”;

      And Romney is falling back on it this year. He’s loosing the Latino vote by almost 40 points, gets less than 10% of the black vote, so he knows if he is to have any chance to win he has to run up the white vote. His thinly veiled attempt is his totally false claim that Obama is “gutting” the welfare work requirement. The implication: A black President is letting the “welfare queens” sit on their ass at home watching their color TVs and not have to work to collect their welfare. The welfare reform law signed by Pres. Clinton allows Governors to request flexibility in the work requirement and implement it in other ways, such as community service, etc. With high unemployment some states are finding it difficult to find work for welfare recipients to fulfill the law’s requirement. A couple Governors – including some Republican Governors – have requested opt-out flexibility and President Obama granted them them that flexibility to implement a program that best fits the needs of their state. And Romney tries to turn this into “gutting” the program, with thinly veiled racial implications.

    • carlos Galindo

      It’s that dogmatic mentality of the Republican that permits the handlers to successfully push any agenda, even if it’s not in the best interest of the members of the Republican party.

  • velcro53

    [From Maggiesnotebook.com]
    February 18, 1946: Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools
    July 11, 1952: Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters
    September 30, 1953: Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
    December 8, 1953: Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education
    May 17, 1954: Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education
    November 25, 1955: Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
    March 12, 1956: Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
    June 5, 1956: Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
    October 19, 1956: On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”
    November 6, 1956: African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
    *1957 (September 9): Republican President Dwight Eisenhower passes the First Civil Rights Law in 82 years…CRA 1957
    *The Democratic Party Filibuster the Bill
    *Republican Party Support: 92%
    *Democratic Party Support: 54%
    September 24, 1957: Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
    June 23, 1958: President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights
    February 4, 1959: President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats
    May 6, 1960: President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
    *The Democratic Party Filibuster the Bill
    *Republican Party Support: 93%
    *Democratic Party Support: 68%
    July 27, 1960: At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform
    May 2, 1963: Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
    June 1, 1963: Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama
    September 29, 1963: Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School…

  • velcro53

    Go ahead, print the 2nd part of my comment using information from maggiesnotebook.com…
    http://tucsonoutpost.blogspot.com

  • velcro53

    That’s 2 posts that are “awaiting moderation”, one from yesterday… Are you still denying that you’re lying?

  • velcro53

    Yeah… I thought so.

  • velcro53

    Well, another 5 days have passed and my 2 other comments haven’t “been approved by the moderator”…
    yup.

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