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Intern Jasmine’s Links Of The Daysian
“Kristen Stewart” reacts to stuff. [YouTube]
Where was China at the World Cup this year? [NYT - Room For Debate]
Australian humorist David Thorne makes the funniest (if not most effective) missing pet posters. [27b/6™]
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender has just a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes–that’s 10% lower than even Sex And The City 2, and the film doesn’t even mention menopause. [Rotten Tomatoes]
Filed under: 27b/6, Arizona Immigration Bill SB 1070, Barry Wong you are not a nice man, China needs to step up their soccer game if they want to get to Brazil in 2014, David Thorne, Kristen Stewart needs to get over herself, M. Night Shyamalan, Racebending, SB 1070 is some BS, The Last Airbender, World Cup
Why I Won’t Be Spending My Summer Vacation In Arizona: Governor Claims Most Illegals Are ‘Drug Mules’
Arizona governor Jan Brewer doesn’t know what an illegal immigrant looks like, but she knows what “the majority” of them are up to–why, they’re all drug mules, of course! According to CNN, Governor Brewer made this claim earlier this month during a debate of Republican gubernatorial candidates, and then she reiterated it again last Friday:
“Well, we all know that the majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules,” Brewer said. “They’re coming across our borders in huge numbers. The drug cartels have taken control of the immigration.
“So they are criminals. They’re breaking the law when they are trespassing and they’re criminals when they pack the marijuana and the drugs on their backs.”
In other words, they’re weedbacks!
But here’s the thing: what Governor Brewer’s claiming isn’t true. (Shocking, I know.) It’s just another lie coming out of what is quickly becoming the most fascist and racist place in America. A representative for the National Border Patrol Council, the labor union for almost 20,000 border patrol agents and staff, which actually supports SB 1070, disputed Brewer’s claim as soon as she made it, saying that drugs smuggled across the border by Continue reading Why I Won’t Be Spending My Summer Vacation In Arizona: Governor Claims Most Illegals Are ‘Drug Mules’
Filed under: Anti-Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona Immigration Bill SB 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Arizona SB 1070, Blaming Brown People For Your Problems, Boycott Arizona, Drug Mules, Governor Brewer, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Immigration Reform, Is Arizona The Most Fucked Place In America?, Jan Brewer, Lies, Racist Laws
AMAZIAN OF THE WEEK! The Asian Pacific American Legal Center And The Asian American Justice Center
Name: The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC)
Location: Los Angeles and D.C., respectively
Purpose: Civil rights groups
Known for: Joining the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in filing a lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070 Monday. The suit contends that the law will lead to racial profiling and is in violation of the 1st, 4th, and 14th Amendments. One of the plaintiffs this coalition is representing is 70 year-old Jim Shee, a U.S.-born citizen of Spanish and Chinese descent, who has already been stopped twice by Arizona law enforcement officials and asked to produce his papers, even before the law’s taken effect.
In light of AZ Governor Brewer accusing President Obama of “(dividing) people along racial lines for his personal political convenience” by opposing SB 1070, it’s telling that the exact opposite is happening. Because this law isn’t just a threat to a certain race, it’s a threat to the Constitution, our civil liberties, and the things that actually hold our society together. ACLU attorney Lucas Guttentag put it best when he described SB 1070 this way:
“This is the most extreme and dangerous of all the state and local laws purporting to deal with immigration issues. This law is shameful, un-American.“
[LA Times: Civil rights groups sue to stop Arizona's immigration law]
[The Asian Pacific American Legal Center]
[The Asian American Justice Center]
Filed under: Anti-Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Immigration Bill SB 1070, Arizona SB 1070, Asian American Justice Center, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Boycott Arizona, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Governor Jan Brewer, Governor Jan Brewer Is a Fucking Idiot, Hispanics, Illegal Immigration, Latinos, Racist Laws, SB 1070, Solidarity
SPORTS ILLUSTRASIAN: Viva Los Suns
You know there’s something seriously fucked going on in Arizona when people who dribble a ball for a living demonstrate a better understanding of the law there than the people who came up with the law in the first place.
Grant Hill *swoon*
As you may know, the Phoenix Suns wore their “Los Suns” jerseys Wednesday during Game 2 of their playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs–who also tried to wear “Los Spurs” jerseys but could not get them in time–to not only celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but to protest Arizona’s anti-immigration law SB 1070 and show solidarity for Latinos in their community. Before the game, Suns point guard Steve Nash, who is Canadian, spoke out against the law on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption:
I’m against it. I think this is a bill that really damages our civil liberties, I think it opens up potential for racial profiling and racism. I think that it’s a bad precedent to set for young people. I think it represents our state poorly in the eyes of the nation and the world.
BANG. That’s like a classic late-in-the-game Steve Nash shot from behind the arc that Continue reading SPORTS ILLUSTRASIAN: Viva Los Suns
Filed under: Alabama, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Immigration Law, Arizona Immigration Bill SB 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Arizona SB 1070, Basketball, Canadians Are Nice, Charles Barkley, Cinco de Mayo, Governor Jan Brewer, Grant Hill, Immigrant Haters, Latinos, Los Suns, NBA, Phoenix Suns, Racial Profiling, Racism, Racist Laws, SB 1070, Steve Nash
This Is America, Speak English (Unless You’re FOX News)
For a nation of immigrants, America’s fast becoming a country of self-haters.
You see this not only in an anti-immigration law like Arizona’s recently-passed SB 1070, but also in the “This is America, speak English” movement that’s been rearing its ugly head all over the country lately.
Teabaggers everywhere are saying you better learn it if you want to live here.
Alabama GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim James is saying you better learn it if you want to drive here (see below).
And the Arizona Department of Education is saying you not only better learn it if you want to teach here, you better speak it without a foreign accent, comprende?
But look. Is it such a terrible idea to get rid of people in this country who can’t speak, read, or write in our unofficial official language? I know, I know, it sounds crazy. And racist. And fascist. And, um, racist? But what would you say if I proposed we start here:
Continue reading This Is America, Speak English (Unless You’re FOX News)
Filed under: Alabama, Alabama Gubernatorial Candidate Tim James, Arizona, Arizona Bans English Teachers with Accents, Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies, Arizona Immigration Bill SB 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Arizona SB 1070, Fox News, FOX News is a Joke, Racism, Speak English, Tea Party Conventions, Teabaggers, This Is Alabama We Speak English, This Is America Speak English
