Comments on: Bad Apples in a Decaying Orchard

By: nezua

nezua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:41:27 +0000

For a mentor in this path, or one possible means of connection, at least, I suggest a good friend of mine who is also Blatina, her name is Liza, she publishes Culturekitchen.com, tell her I sent you. She is busy, so don’t make her or any one person your salvation. But she would understand your feelings in many cases, I’m betting. She is on twitter, her username is “blogdiva.”

By: nezua

nezua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:40:05 +0000

Thank you so much. You are on a hard path, I understand. I am multi-racial as well. Find support, that is all I can tell you. Find others who understand, because when people do not, they mostly offer you confusion, if not outright hurt and trauma. Some people who visit and comment here are very good friends in this way. Search online, check my blog roll, join in the conversations. I wish you well, and anything I can do in my limited time managing this blog or otherwise, I will. Peace.

By: lA FRIJOLERA MORENA

lA FRIJOLERA MORENA — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:50:50 +0000

This website IS AMAZING I LOVE IT SO MUCH AS A LATINO I CAN COME AND READ YOUR ARTICLES FOR COMFORT…but i am not only mexican but i am half black as a half and half im constantly suffering from the racsism and torment from both sides of my people…HELP PLEEASSSE…WHAT DO I DO

sincerely,
La frijolera morena

By: nezua

nezua — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:17:33 +0000

Yes, they used to be able to hide it a bit more, but they are losing their subtlety. It’s embarrassing, not to mention disgusting.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:09:14 +0000

Interesting. An ALIPAC’r comes calling. It is kind of like proverbial “rats on a sinking ship”. Now that one of the leaders of their movement kills a 9 yr old child, they want nothing to do with ‘em. The white supremecy, racism and hatred of Latinos that infests the people who belong to these anti-immigrant groups is more than ever very evident.

By: nezua

nezua — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:58:55 +0000

Ah yes, ALIPAC, another site that foments hate. It was just today I dropped by and saw the members on the discussion board laughing about what a great idea it would be to create a “Dishwashing Superhighway,” at which one member remarks “Very cute, and it will save our water usage a lot, but will probably drive up the cost of meals so restaurants can pay insurances for food-borne (or plate-borne) illnesses.”

This sentiment is ubiquitious at ALIPAC, as is the swarming and drooling over every crime, especially sexual assault, that involves an immigrant in any way (ala Bill O’Reilly’s fascination with perversity and conflation and projection, even.) ALIPAC spends much energy presenting immigrants from Latin America much as Pat Buchanan and the haters of old do: as vermin, as a danger, as a pollutant, as a drain. At the same time belittling Mexicans with jokes like the one quoted above. It’s an odd mix of fear and derision. But this is classic methodology of racists and eugenicists alike, who dehumanize by association and outright lies and repetition.

ALIPAC is another group that inarguably contributes to the cesspool that is our non-dialogue on immigration, another hand tossing volatile ingredients into the mix, another group that must own some blame for the killings and assaults against the Latin@ community that are growing every day.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:10:00 +0000

One of the big anti-illegal immigration groups, ALIPAC, was warning people about Shawna starting back in January. Just because someone claims to be a leader in a grassroots movement doesn’t mean that everybody they claim to be working with them actually is. Shawna’s organization was actually very small, and she’d been kicked out of others so she formed her own. Jim Gilchrist deserves a lot of the blame for enhancing the credibiity of this unstable woman when others were saying, ‘wait a minute.’ The vast majority of Minutemen and other immigration activists are ordinary people who pose no threat to anyone.

By: sweetleaf

sweetleaf — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:48:26 +0000

oh yeah, and get rid of ice

By: sweetleaf

sweetleaf — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:46:44 +0000

hi i’m back. my first thought is the one bad apple that ruins the bunch. i don’t know why, but another thought came to me given to me by — Eugene Deb, “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.   As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it.   As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

i agree there is a collective need to counter what is seen as isolated efforts of these individuals. the toxins from these people/groups do puddle up to make a pool of poison creating a typhoid that destroys all of us.

this is bigger than just about the hate of a group of people towards another group, but it is about all of us and what we all do, think, and feel, (and gratitude) to exist with each other and the world given us… at all times. what a hurtful waste and a personal shame hate is, (no matter it’s orgins), for all of us in this time given to us in this place.

peace, one love, connect it and pass it on.

By: sweetleaf

sweetleaf — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:33:33 +0000

“ICE projects 400,000 more arrests this year. And these ain’t hotels they are sticking people in.

And why is this business so untouchable? Why is this business kept out of the spotlight? Because the US Prison Industrial Complex needs it’s cashola.”

GET RID OF ICE!

i’ll be back to finish this read. i have been out for awhile, and i gotta go now, but…. the above caught my eye, as the story of LUIS RAMIREZ catches my heart and so just want you to know that i am still around with the others of like mind and heart to facilitate the needed change to raise the bar of humanitarian standards in this country. again nez…thank you for your perseverance.

peace, one love, connect it and pass it on.