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In reply to the discussion: Poll: 1 out of 3 Americans inaccurately think most Hispanics are undocumented [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)25. That's the argument the Neocons used. They said Iraqis were guilty for having Saddam in power.
The Mexican People are NOT the ones to blame for their lot in life.
There is STILL a cast system in place split between rich land owners and a peasant class. They can't just rise up and overthrow their owners. For one thing, our own government LIKES things the way they are so there is a cheap labor pool readily available.
Look what happened in Haiti. They elected a priest who had worked with the poor and his first act was to build schools, medical centers and raise the minimum wage and in response the United States gave M16's to a bunch of thugs who left corpses in the street to rot as a warning to others. Our government snatched that president out of his country and sent him to Africa with a warning never to return to this hemisphere.
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Poll: 1 out of 3 Americans inaccurately think most Hispanics are undocumented [View all]
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
OP
We need to sit Republicans down and make them watch "The Legend of Zorro"
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#9
As long as we keep the undocumented in fear they will not come forward,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#15
That's the argument the Neocons used. They said Iraqis were guilty for having Saddam in power.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#25
If bosses in the USA haven't got an undocumented immigrant working class to abuse...
hunter
Sep 2012
#14
Law enforcement already knows agribusiness has a whole network in place to get,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#16
yeah, and about 1 out of 2 Americans say humans did not evolve from earlier beings
MariaM83
Sep 2012
#23
Thank you. We in Southern California are very aware of this and even some if not all of us
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#33
A significant fraction of the white population considers only whites to be "Real" Americans.
entanglement
Sep 2012
#36
Hey, if you 'want to take our country back', you have to be taking it back from "THEM".
pampango
Sep 2012
#38
I can picture an alien race deciding to make first contact with the most common people,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#44
funny how that works - what they consider "white" today would have been aliens a years ago nt
MariaM83
Sep 2012
#40
Two-thirds of Americans can't name the three branches of the federal government
MariaM83
Sep 2012
#42