Articles tagged with: Civil rights movement
The Issue of Immigration: Interview with Lecia Brooks, SPLC
HB56 empowers law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of individuals, which subject residents of Alabama – including countless U.S. citizens and non-citizens with permission to be in the United States – to racial profiling as well as unlawful interrogations, searches, seizures and arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.
This law has devastated the immigrant community in Alabama. Under the provisions that are currently in effect, undocumented persons are unable to interact with the government—in any way and for any purpose. It has turned a significant class of people, effectively, into legal non-persons, subjecting them to a kind of legal exile. It has destroyed lives, ripped apart families, devastated communities, and left our economy in shatters.
Citizen Cain? Herman Revealed
Let us forget for a moment that I believe Herman Cain is a womanizer who has been accused of sexual harassment. Let us forget for a moment that Herman Cain wants to protect our southern border with an electric fence in his comprehensive immigration reform, which is a total disregard of human life. Today let us contemplate whether Herman Cain …
I Have Been Glenn Beck-etized! Well, Not So Much…
The messages from Beck were duplicitous, given his statements on TV night after night. Perhaps he is wrestling with his own spiritual demons. I do that that he is a man to be watched. Charisma is great for ratings, but when one man can make heinous statements and then tell people to “…look to God and to love”, well, I cannot help but be alarmed…
