Mayor of Phoenix

[Michael Tee]

Just watched Phil Gordon, Mayor of Phoenix, on CNN this morning.  His city is on track to losing $90 million over the next five years in convention and hospitality business, and he's still considering a personal lawsuit against the state government for its new, racist "immigration" law.  (City council wouldn't back the suit.)  He has some big losses already to cope with in terms of canceled reservations and conventions.  And that's just one city in the state.  Interestingly enough, he's received numerous death threats from all over the nation for his opposition to the new law.  I think, in the end, if anything defeats the racist state legislature, it'll be the power of the purse.  The boycott seems to be working, even at its current unofficial level

[sirs]

Gotta love those ignorant morons, who keep claiming something that clearly isn't, while screwing the very people they supposedly are trying to help.  Way to go

Notice also how no politician protesting the law, has gone on record acknowledging having read it yet, either.  At least those who keep claiming a racist and/or racial profiling angle

[BT]

If a law is applied to everyone equally regardless of skin color, it is not racist.

To say that certain groups should be exempt from a law based on their skin color , is by definition, racist.

[sirs]

Bingo on both accounts.

But according to some, law is merely something written on paper, that can be ignored at the whim of Government, if they so choose.  Which of course begs the question, why have laws in the 1st place then, right?

And according to the more ignorant, the law is designed to target those of a different skin color, despite the clear wording that it is not.  Their problem, is that the VAST majority this law may impact, 98+% I'd wager, HAPPEN to have a similar skin color.  So those folks WILL be most effected by the law, but not because the law is designed and aimed at a skin color, but that it is designed and aimed at crime, frequently perpetrated by those who HAPPEN to have a similar skin color.

A Difference as large as AZ's Grand Canyon.  

[Christians4LessGvt]

[Plane]

And according to the more ignorant, the law is designed to target those of a different skin color, despite the clear wording that it is not.  Their problem, is that the VAST majority this law may impact, 98+% I'd wager, HAPPEN to have a similar skin color.  

In the 1850 -1870 era Irish immagration was huge , and not universally welcome.

How did we resolve this?

[sirs]

What needed resolving?  The huge immigration or the unwelcome mat?

[kimba1]

didn`t they have a high mortality rate?

because irish are so lazy they can`t handle the workload well, I believe was the thinking then

[Plane]

What needed resolving?  The huge immigration or the unwelcome mat?

They came ,they stayed , they adapted and they changed the environment.

I don't beleive the law was ever any help.

[sirs]

Ahhh, you say they changed and adapted.  There in lies the answer to your question