This morning's Houston Chronicle City & State page headline tells us in big letters: "Study links immigration, evacuee fears" -- It doesn't take a PhD to figure out what the author of this headline is saying - that evacuees (all of them?) during hurricane evacuations are fearful of immigrants hanging around their homes after they leave?
On the HC's webpage the article is no longer the main headline on the City/State page, instead it is on their main page, and further down, in small letters, and less inflammatory "Study: Some resented evacuees like they did immigrants" - the key word here is "some" -
While the HC has come around the past few years, in some ways much more reasonable and sensitive to the demographic realities of the Houston area, the headlines often continue to be troublesome.
Like the one about Sotomayor's Senate confirmation. It told us that the really hard work for her is just beginning. I admit, I'm sensitive about this, but the tone of the article made it sound like working on the Supreme Court would be really hard for her and she had to adjust - true the article mentions how others said it was so hard. But all along, there have been snide remarks questioning her competency (which I think are ridiculous, since she is the most qualified judge to have joined the Supreme Court in ages). This woman is used to working hard. She is extremely intelligent and focused. The "really hard work" for her was when she entered her Ivy League undergraduate program and she had to work like crazy to catch up with her boarding school colleagues. Once she did that she was on a roll...
Anyway, like Souter implied as he was leaving --- being on the court meant having to be kind of brain dead... that might be the biggest challenge for Sotomayor. I am not sure she can do the "brain dead" thing. As the NYT's said "Washington is only where Justice Souter goes for his “annual intellectual lobotomy.” At home, he reads history." (NYT May 3, 2009). The HC needed to read this NYT article before it posted it's headline that Sotomayor had such a hard job ahead of her.
By MIKE SNYDERHOUSTON CHRONICLEAug. 7, 2009, 9:51PMIn spring 2006, six months after an estimated 150,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees arrived in the Houston area, a survey showed increasing local anxiety about the impact of illegal immigrants on crime and public services... link to complete article--
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