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Alabama's immigration law: Jim Crow revisited
CNN ^ | November 17, 2011 | Martin Luther King III and Richard Trumka, Special to CNN

Posted on 11/17/2011 11:49:11 AM PST by mdittmar

Editor's note: Martin Luther King III is president and chief executive officer of The King Center in Atlanta. Richard Trumka is president of the AFL-CIO.

(CNN) -- It is one of the painful ironies of our time that in the same season Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory is finally honored with a memorial in our nation's capital, the state where he began to lead the civil rights movement is once more the center of an ugly conflict over racial injustice.

The passage of Alabama's anti-immigrant legislation, HB 56, invokes inhumanity reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. And the police state it has created is equally cruel.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: aflcio; alabama; aliens; crimialiens; crow; democrats; illegals; racecard; racist; trumka
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1 posted on 11/17/2011 11:49:15 AM PST by mdittmar
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Does it really need to be said: Anti-Illegal Immigration. Sheesh, this is so predictably boring. Oh yea FURT,and MLKIII. I feel better now.
2 posted on 11/17/2011 11:54:28 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
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To: mdittmar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5ob9B9yD4


3 posted on 11/17/2011 11:55:18 AM PST by tumblindice
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Which is the Real ‘Racist’ Party: Fifteen Questions for Democrats
http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/02/08/which-is-the-real-racist-party-fifteen-questions-for-democrats/
Great Moments in Democrat Racist History - FDR
http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-moments-in-democrat-racist.html

take it from Dems, they’re the experts.


4 posted on 11/17/2011 11:56:42 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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Richard Trumka? Seriously?! Hahahahahaha!


5 posted on 11/17/2011 11:59:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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“ugly conflict over racial injustice”

I thought it was about being in the country legally or illegally - what does race have to do with it.


6 posted on 11/17/2011 12:04:33 PM PST by edcoil (I grew up in a country that was honest, I am growing old in a country that is not. I am sorry.)
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So it is ok to be in the U.S. illegally because that is what MLK would have wanted?


7 posted on 11/17/2011 12:08:10 PM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: edcoil

What does race have to do with it?

Well for one thing cxalling it a racial problem automatically places 17% of the people in this country on the side of the illegals. Obama’s people.

There is no way we can grant amnesty until we stop illegals from walking in over our borders.

Amnesty has been granted before and if we do not close our borders to illegals it will have to be granted again and again.

Do we need fruits pickers? Perhaps we do but, we need them to go home when the picking is done.

Todays idea of farmers paying them under the table when they are working and government funding them when they aren’t isn’t working. Leave the kids home and come to work.
We cannot afford to educate every illegal kid who comes into the country while their parents come to work.

It all sounds good and a nice thing to do, but it is breaking us.


9 posted on 11/17/2011 12:14:31 PM PST by Venturer
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I thought it was about being in the country legally or illegally - what does race have to do with it.

I have no idea,but I'm not as smart as Martin Luther King III and Richard Trumka.

10 posted on 11/17/2011 12:24:48 PM PST by mdittmar (i)
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Crock of bs, the courts have already said these laws are legal. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=424&invol=351


11 posted on 11/17/2011 12:25:26 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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No es Jaime Cuervo!


12 posted on 11/17/2011 12:30:51 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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13 posted on 11/17/2011 12:31:57 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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If it is now racist to expect equal enforcement of the law, then I want to stop paying my taxes.

Either illegal stuff is OK for everybody, or we have racist law enforcement.

14 posted on 11/17/2011 12:37:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.<sup>®</sup>)
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Got Hyperbole?


15 posted on 11/17/2011 12:57:06 PM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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Wow! You can sure tell that he’s writing that opinion piece to appeal to the “least common denominator.” Or, were blacks “illegal aliens” too?


16 posted on 11/17/2011 1:03:14 PM PST by RavenATB ("Destroy the family and you destroy the country!" ~Vladimir Lenin)
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Wow! You can sure tell that he’s writing that opinion piece to appeal to the “least common denominator.” Or, were blacks “illegal aliens” too?


17 posted on 11/17/2011 1:03:25 PM PST by RavenATB ("Destroy the family and you destroy the country!" ~Vladimir Lenin)
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“Martin Luther King III and Richard Trumka”

That’s where I stopped.


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