A friend of mine and Nashville attorney -- the grandson of German immigrants -- sent me the following comment to the AP story about the beating death of a Mexican undocumented worker walking the sister of his fiance back home for her protection.
Three white teens in Shenandoah, PA., were charged Friday with homicide.
"This is what happens when we act like it is okay to openly look down on someone because they belong to another group. Our children take us at our word. They tend to be a lot more zealous and literal about the “ideals” we espouse, but make no mistake about it – they are merely acting out our own ideals.
"When we make it clear, implicitly or explicitly, that it is okay to deride someone or to treat them as a lesser humans merely because they are from somewhere else or they are part of some other group, then the kids take it the next logical step and perform acts of violence on them.
"I blame the 'our country is being invaded by illegal immigrants' folks for this violence. These are the same people who are so quick to blame rappers for causing gang violence or blame heavy metal bands for a teen suicide. If those people are responsible for those tragedies, then the English-First(referendum petition in Nashville) proponents and their hot air talk radio champions are responsible for this one."
This grandson of German immigrants are ride. Hate begets hate. There is no question about it. And that is the inheritance we are leaving to our children in this nation.
May God forgive us and turn this nation away from hate before it is too late.
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This is as ignorant as the guys who beat the poor guy. Since when is being against illegal immigrants the cause for killing Hispanics? On the one hand he says that rap does not cause crime, yet he thinks that a connection DOES exist for being against illegals. It is RIGHT to treat those who break the law differently than those who don't which is why we have prisons. DUH!
It is ONLY the people such as Tim who conflate being Hispanic with being illegal to try and give cover to crime. As the lawyer should know, illegal entry into the US is a CRIME, not an infraction. There are plenty of illegals who are not Hispanic such as the Irish and Russians among others. Since when do you identify with those who are criminals? Of course, being a lawyer would explain that one I suppose.
Tim is also funny when he says that the Federal government should do its job and deport the illegals, and then is against using all the resources available to do so.
This lawyer must live on some other planet too. We ARE being invaded by illegal immigrants, the number is estimated at 10-12 MILLION which is a LARGE number. I guess that reality is too much for him to handle.
I am all for the English first legislation in TN. Why should TN have to be bi-lingual since there is no tradition of Hispanics being there? I am against it being done it Texas, CA, New Mexico, and other places where Spanish is a normal part of daily life and where there IS a Hispanic tradition. You also have to remember that Quebec has much more draconian laws about French being the language there, and that in an officially bi-lingual country. Is it a crime to make only English an official language? Mexico is not bi-lingual at all, yet most American have no problem with that. I guess that Tim needs to get to work and cause Mexico to use more English. How is it possible to blame those who simply want English as the official language for the death of the guy? It is hardly denigrating Spanish to use English in TN for all official business. Think that when Quebecers kill an English speaking person that the Quebec laws on language are the cause?
IT is obvious that this so called grandson of German immigrants did not have his grandparents in the US during WWI, since he would know the kind of treatment Germans got then which was FAR worse than anything that Hispanic face today. My grandfather had his home and business in Boston burned down only because he had a Geman name and he spoke NO German either. Germans were whipped in public in Texas, the legislature passed laws allowing cops to arrest and hold any Germans that they felt were a problem or a threat. This was all done with OFFICIAL sanction, and the killings of Germans was sanctioned at the time. Nobody was even charged, much less brought to trial for such things. So give me a break! This guy has a problem with logical thinking I see. I hope that I miss him if I ever need a lawyer.
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