Looking For Racism In 287(g)

By Kleinheider Posted on March 5, 2009 at 8:27 am

Aunt B. thinks the immigration restrictionist federal program is so racist, you don’t even notice it:

It is so bold in its racism that I think people’s first reaction is to try to believe that they are not seeing what they are clearly seeing. They go through all kinds of mental leaps to make sense of it in a way that doesn’t include “I tolerate blatant injustice and evil from my city.”

But as long as Davidson County participates in the 287(g) program, we are tolerating a racist–straight up old school non-academic-definition but real true if you saw it in a movie you’d know the people doing it were the bad guys racist–system.

And if we’re not going to stand up and say, “You know what? Nobody in this county should have the power to make 1% of the city disappear in two years.” then I hope the Feds step in and put a stop to it.

SEE ALSO:
Hispanic Nashville
Greg Siskind

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Many People Would Love To Live In Culturally And Ethnically Diverse Communities

By Kleinheider Posted on December 3, 2008 at 8:48 am

But somehow don’t end up doing so:

According to the study about six-in-10 Americans say they like the idea of living in politically, racially, religiously or economically mixed communities, while about a quarter take the opposite view: They would rather live in communities made up mostly of people like themselves. The rest say they have no strong opinion on the issue .

This preference for diverse communities is greater among Democrats, liberals, college graduates, blacks, and secular Americans than it is among the population as a whole. But virtually all major groups, at least to some degree, choose diversity over homogeneity when asked where they would like to live.

Despite these pro-diversity attitudes, however, American communities appear to have grown more politically and economically homogenous in recent decades, according to analyses of election returns and U.S. Census data.

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