"Juan Crow"

[underpants]

From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Alabama’s civil rights legacy


SAN FRANCISCO—Last week the Water Works — in the ironically named community of Allgood, Alabama — informed local residents that they must now present a valid driver’s license or ID. Otherwise, the notice threatened, “You may lose water service.”

The warning stems from part of Alabama’s drastic new immigration law stipulating that no one can qualify for a driver’s license or any other government service in the state unless they can prove citizenship or are otherwise authorized to be in the United States — especially those who are brown or have a Spanish accent.


Water as a racial divide

The official notice from the Allgood Alabama Water Works was not the first time the good citizens of the Cotton State have used water as a racial divide.

Today, Jim Crow has become Juan Crow.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/15419/from-jim-crow-to-juan-crow-alabamas-civil-rights-legacy

[Jim Warren]

1. Bogus

It's revisionist claptrap to associate the civil rights struggles of the post-civil war south with the current issues of illegal immigration.

And it would be Jaime not Juan but hey, they all look alike.

[EFerrari]

2. If people in multiple states are being harrassed because of their race

how is this bogus?

[underpants]

3. I thought it was an interesting phrase

and I think the huge gains as a result of the civil rights movement makes this, in today's terms, comparable.