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Another attempt to portray illegals and Latinos as the "the man" and White and Black Americans as the oppressed?
For most, illegal immigrants are an annoyance. Anger and frustration? So much that its frightening? A little melodramatic. The streets aren't hot or anything. If everyone in the country had the same mentality as the people on this board, THEN I'd be scared.
If everyone in the country had that same mentality as some of the people on this board, I don't think I'd like it here very much. Thank God its not like that.
That question was directed to Benicar: we are close in age and both of us have personal experience with life in the Wash DC area.
I remember those race riots and things could have gotten very ugly had the rioters been allowed to run amok.
I'm far from a rich person, and I'm not exactly from a great area, AND I'm also a "tax paying citizen", but I can't understand this misery you people are going through.
And a lynching being a prelude? If this is a prelude to some kind of widespread violence against illegals, you can bet that it not will be a common mentality among all Americans.
It's won't be Americans against illegals.
It would end up being a bunch of nutjob Americans against illegals.
Just like MeCha doesn't speak for all of us Mexican-Americans, you guys don't speak for all of us Americans.
You guys are getting too comfortable assuming you speak for Americans. Those of us who regularly battle with you guys are just as American.
Its "your taxes" or "your country", its OURS.
What lynching? Unless I'm posting on the wrong thread, this thread is not remotely related to a lynching. What are you smoking?
What lynching? Unless I'm posting on the wrong thread, this thread is not remotely related to a lynching. What are you smoking?
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lynching noun putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
This is the right thread.
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Originally Posted by Benicar
As a taxpaying U.S. citizen, I’m tired of being used by people who have such a total disdain for our country. The very least they could do is not harm us. It’s bad enough our schools are in shambles and our hospitals are closing. I keep hearing that it’s only approximately 10% of illegals who are committing crimes; well 10% of the estimated 12-20 millions is a HUGE number of violent criminals that we definitely don’t need in our country.
I certainly don’t condone the murder of this man, but illegals and their supporters need to realize that this is simply a prelude. I have never in my life witnessed such anger and frustration as what I am now seeing. Actually, it’s frightening.
Where did I mention anything about a lynching? I see you're up to your old tricks again, and I won't play your game. Is this, or is this not, a thread discussing the man who was killed by the kids in PA? If he was lynched, I certainly didn't hear it.
This thread is about a group of teens that murdered an illegal alien.
You basically stated that the death was bad, but it may be a prelude to future violence. Because the anger and frustration is so heavy right now.
And I responded to that post referring to the murder as a lynching.
What kind of tricks are those? My old tricks? What tricks? You won't play my game? I dont even know what game it is!
I did not read your "lynching" comment. Therefore, I was not making reference to it. The only place I saw the word lynching, was in the post I bolded. Stick to the actual details of the crime, and there won't be any confusion.
I did not read your "lynching" comment. Therefore, I was not making reference to it. The only place I saw the word lynching, was in the post I bolded. Stick to the actual details of the crime, and there won't be any confusion.
Obviously, our definitions of "lynching" differ. When I think of a lynching, I envision someone hanging by a noose from a tree. I have seen enough pictures of black men who were lynched. This was no lynching.
Obviously, our definitions of "lynching" differ. When I think of a lynching, I envision someone hanging by a noose from a tree. I have seen enough pictures of black men who were lynched. This was no lynching.
Definition of lynching is a mob killing someone, usually done by lynching.
As much as you refuse to believe it, this aint that different.
Lest we forget,
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It is estimated that at least 597 Mexicans and Mexican Americans were lynched between 1848 and 1928 in the Southwest. Mexican Americans were lynched at a rate of 27.4 per 100,000 of population between 1880 and 1930. This statistic is second only to that of the African American community during that period, which suffered an average of 37.1 per 100,000 of population. Between 1848 to 1879, Mexicans were lynched at an unprecedented rate of 473 per 100,000 of population. More problematic still is the fact that, despite the recent flourishing of academic literature on lynching, scholars also persistently overlook anti-Mexican violence.
Not to say Mexicans have experienced as much discrimination in America as Blacks, but history like that is too often ignored.
It doesn't have to be a Black person to be a lynching. Just like it doesnt have to be a Black victim to make it a hate crime.
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