...This country has long been known for the words of the Emma Lazarus
sonnet at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” That line should
bring tears to any descendant of an immigrant, which is to say most
Americans. But some Republicans apparently want to replace that motto
with: Kill the Mexicans.Cain initially sloughed off this suggestion, saying it was a joke. But then he clarified it a few days later with these words: “I don’t apologize for using a combination of a fence. And it might be electrified — I’m not walking away from that.”
More telling — and truly chilling — is the fact that the audience at the Tea-Party-sponsored Cain speech on Saturday cheered when he initially promised to electrocute Mexicans. “The fence is going to be electrified, and there is going to be a sign on the other side that says, ‘It will kill you.’”
Now, substitute Irish for Mexicans and imagine the reaction. You simply could never say such a thing. But Latinos — they can be routinely dehumanized to appease the black-hearted base of the Republican Party. It’s not hard to see how talk of killing Mexicans, for what is a misdemeanor offense, is such a dis to many of the 50 million Americans who are Latino — the largest ethnic group in the country...MORE
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