[ale] Off topic - And now, Arizona

[Larry Johnson]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Larry Johnson
<larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Yes, I am talking about something different.  I'm talking about the next
> crazy bill pushed into the pipe, which states that Arizona doesn't recognize
> the citizenship of a child born in Arizona unless the parents are citizens.
> Pearce introduced this bill (big surprise).  I grew up in Georgia in the
> 1950s. and have a finely honed sense of racist gibberish, and as far as I'm
> concerned the phrase "anchor baby" is an overtly racist term.
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I should explain for the benefit of you who haven't been keeping up with
this issue that in the southwest the people who are alarmed at the
increasing numbers of Latinos describe the children of undocumented workers
as "anchor babies".  Not children, not babies, but "anchor babies".  Every
time I hear that freakin' phrase the Woody Guthrie song "Deportees" runs
through my head ("and all they will call you will be deportees").

Larry

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