Reply #90: Mobilize...Be Silent No More...And VOTE!!!

[KharmaTrain]

I was just in Tucson and saw a very cosmopolitan city...far more homogeneous with the Hispanics and anglos as I see here in Chicago.

The hispanics, like blacks and other lower income groups have long been a supressed minority "kept in their place" by those with money and power. Mexicans aren't coming here to "invade" this country...they're doing the same thing my grandparents and others have done...trade a hard days work for a hard days pay. They're a victim of two corrupt systems on both sides of the border that has led to millions living in substandard political and economic conditions. The time has come for the hispanic voice to finally be heard...especially where Repugnicans are concerned.

Just like they tune out the blacks as "being on the plantation", Repugnicans have long tuned out Hispanics as just being "lazy bandits". Both groups were used to build up the racist Repugnican machines in the South (attracting the old segregationists) and the Southwest and West by giving the same treatment to Hispanics...specifically Mexicans.

While I long ago learned never to speak for anyone on DU but myself, let me assure you there is a lot of solidarity here with you and with the real causes of the immigration "crisis" (if such a thing exists)...and it won't be fixed with building walls and making felons out of 11 million hard working people. But let the Repugnicans keep playing with this issue...I can't see a way they win.

Peace...