Why That Header Image?
April 1, 2008 by naamenblog
Now the header will likely cycle and change every few months because I couldn’t find one that was just anti-oppression. They were all anti-racism, anti-sexism, etc. not a combination of them all which is what I want. Now I chose this particular header because:
#1 I’m very much in favor of rights for all immigrants, legal & illegal. I march when I can and speak out whenever I can because the arbitrary decisions that allow certain people immigrate legally to the U.S. are and always have been very racialized. Even now just look at the quotas of people enforced on some countries and the way certain countries have been disallowed from immigrating during periods in our shared history. Plus I am the child of an immigrant so it hits close to the bone.
#2 I am very anti- this diversionary tactic the current administration has used to get our mind off of Iraq by waving illegal immigration in our faces like a red cape. It’s even sadder that so many Americans feel for this smoke and mirrors gambit.
#3 After the racism that Larry Niven had the nerve to spout I felt it was important to show not only my support of immigrants but also that not all SF/F fans/writers want brown people gone/dead in the streets. If you’re unaware of his racist (that’s right I said racist, not un-PC, not inappropriate, racist as hell) comments, K. Tempest Bradford has the breakdown over at her journal.
But its ok for legal immigrants to have rights. the problem is that the ILLEGAL immigrants are here and the Shouldn’t … just like if killed a family member of yours, that would be breaking the law. if you took the same idea to me as many in the country think we should, then you should just let me go with a new gun and also a new car while your at it.
LEGAL immigrants built this country. NOT illegal immigrants. they drain resources, our capacity has to increase so fast that this country will be toppled because of the overload in our schools and generally the public facilities.
And you know what? ILLEGAL immigrants SHOULD be afraid to be arrested, because they should have come legally like everyone else did at one point who came to this country.
Sorry i ment instead of
“if you took the same idea to me as many in the country think we should,…”
it should be
“if you took the same idea to me (with repect to imigration’s policy about law breakers) as many in the country think we should,…”
Sorry for the typo
Comparing crossing arbitrary man made borders to murder is a crazy straw man argument that I’m not gonna get into. The idea that everyone here is a legal immigrant is false as well. When the Europeans rolled onto this land and SLAUGHTERED the Indigenous people was that legal? When Africans were brought in chains and forced to work the land then lynched, and basically treated like animals, was that legal immigration? When we were all enjoying that fruit and vegetables that illegal immigrants were picking for like a dollar a day there was no hullabaloo about their illegality.
The immigration laws in this country have always favored immigrants from European countries as opposed to any country filled with People of Color. The history of immigration is completely tied to the history of racism in this country and it continues with this red herring we’ve been thrown.
Co-signed with Naamen. Killing people and taking their land is illegal, is breaking the laws of the land, both the nations that were here before, as well as the laws of America- it’s illegal to possess stolen property, even if you yourself didn’t steal it.