HR-4337, What a Joke (That's right I agree with Ted Kennedy...shhh)
So HR-4337 the bill that's causing alot of national controversy was protested by immigrants from boundary to boundary of this country yesterday. Undocumented workers, legal citizens, and plain ordinary folks came together as one to show their disgust for this bill. We can learn alot from that statement. They came together as one.
We are all part of the same race ideally, the human race. It's all about the freedom and what this country was founded on. You call them border-jumpers, I call them citizens. Yes, that's not very conservative of me, thanks for noticing, this is where I disagree with the right wing for the most part. I have, in fact, become more liberal lately, moving me closer to the center of the spectrum. Bipartisanship should be set aside and politicians should stand up for knocking this bill down.
The hispanic immigrants that have come here to work may be doing so illegally by the governments standards but realize this: The immigrants take roles in their community, they work hard to provide for their families, they constantly search for what would be better opporunities for them and their communities, they contribute to the American society and the way of life. They aren't taking jobs from anyone, they apply and interview like everyone else, and it wasn't too long ago that we as a country realized that those pesky African Americans weren't taking our jobs at all, and WE even brought them here. Amazing no? EVERYONE IS EQUAL, and these ordinary folks are being criminalized because they didn't take a citizenship test most of you probably couldn't even pass. Where's the justice in THAT? Easily said, there is none.
A personal friend of mine L.H., a hispanic cook at Pizza Hut that I had the privilage of working with, took part in the protests yesterday only to be written up for missing work. Standing up for what you believe in may incur the wrath of the "higher man" but the scars you may show only prove that you have a heart, and this my friends, is not such a bad thing. Stand up for what's right, no matter what punishment you may face. I did, and I was terminated for it. I became a threat to the companie's favorite manager, so I was taken out but I stand by what I did, and even though she did not even get punished for manipulating hours, I believe that I sent a powerful message to everyone that I worked with, under, and even over...that I CARED. Show that you care, and accept immigrants into the family that IS America. If there were immigration constraints this tight year back when our ancestors came over to the 'new world' we'd be illegal, and hiding from the Native American immigration enforcement agency.
Live as one, groove as one, die as one, and serve as one. No one is better, no one is worse. Accept it. The only arguments I heard from anti-protestors was "We don't know how many of them are duckin' the border with the intent to kill us, or how many of them are carryin' new diseases." No, these rednecks were out in full force, and apparently their KKK outfits were at the cleaners, that's right, they had the audacity to show their faces and basically condemn their fellow humans to a hell that they were even unworthy of. It makes me sick to think of people truly believing that. Shrug it of, and remember the chants "WE ARE AMERICA"
We are all part of the same race ideally, the human race. It's all about the freedom and what this country was founded on. You call them border-jumpers, I call them citizens. Yes, that's not very conservative of me, thanks for noticing, this is where I disagree with the right wing for the most part. I have, in fact, become more liberal lately, moving me closer to the center of the spectrum. Bipartisanship should be set aside and politicians should stand up for knocking this bill down.
The hispanic immigrants that have come here to work may be doing so illegally by the governments standards but realize this: The immigrants take roles in their community, they work hard to provide for their families, they constantly search for what would be better opporunities for them and their communities, they contribute to the American society and the way of life. They aren't taking jobs from anyone, they apply and interview like everyone else, and it wasn't too long ago that we as a country realized that those pesky African Americans weren't taking our jobs at all, and WE even brought them here. Amazing no? EVERYONE IS EQUAL, and these ordinary folks are being criminalized because they didn't take a citizenship test most of you probably couldn't even pass. Where's the justice in THAT? Easily said, there is none.
A personal friend of mine L.H., a hispanic cook at Pizza Hut that I had the privilage of working with, took part in the protests yesterday only to be written up for missing work. Standing up for what you believe in may incur the wrath of the "higher man" but the scars you may show only prove that you have a heart, and this my friends, is not such a bad thing. Stand up for what's right, no matter what punishment you may face. I did, and I was terminated for it. I became a threat to the companie's favorite manager, so I was taken out but I stand by what I did, and even though she did not even get punished for manipulating hours, I believe that I sent a powerful message to everyone that I worked with, under, and even over...that I CARED. Show that you care, and accept immigrants into the family that IS America. If there were immigration constraints this tight year back when our ancestors came over to the 'new world' we'd be illegal, and hiding from the Native American immigration enforcement agency.
Live as one, groove as one, die as one, and serve as one. No one is better, no one is worse. Accept it. The only arguments I heard from anti-protestors was "We don't know how many of them are duckin' the border with the intent to kill us, or how many of them are carryin' new diseases." No, these rednecks were out in full force, and apparently their KKK outfits were at the cleaners, that's right, they had the audacity to show their faces and basically condemn their fellow humans to a hell that they were even unworthy of. It makes me sick to think of people truly believing that. Shrug it of, and remember the chants "WE ARE AMERICA"