America: Country or Flammable?
I'm sure this is going to blow up into another "war on christmas/christians/the republican party" Hullabaloo, but a school in Colorado banned the american flag after "racial tensions" grew after all the immigration protests. Readers can quickly guess that we think borders are for morons and that we think the mainstream discourse against "amnesty" for immigrants is stupid. Amnesty for what? The fact that the north of Mexico was nakedly stolen or amnesty for the fact that the rest of the country is stolen land? Amnesty for the murderers of immigrants on the border? Amnesty for the numerous american industries that exploit illegal, and vulnerable, immigrant labor? Amnesty for the, what is it? fifty year maquiladora program that has subjugated the Mexican working class? Amnesty for what exactly?
Anyway, this school banned the american flag and I was on a friend's computer and AOL had a story about it. There were a few photos with the story and whoever picked the photos deserves a beer. Because the first picture was some righteous white kids outside rebelling with their proud american flag. But the very next picture told the rest of the story in a way that the rest of the corporate media's debate has somehow "missed." Two kids were driving by the protest with a confederate flag. That made me happy, because if I have to stomach all this out and out racist rhetoric, I want to cut the smiles and get to the gut. This debate is about how does the country manage the racist infrastructure. Ideologically in the minds of white insanity, geographically on the border, politically on the stump, and financially in the legislatures. If I had my druthers, my slogan for the immigrant community would be something along the lines of:
Maybe we should make a poster?
Anyway, this school banned the american flag and I was on a friend's computer and AOL had a story about it. There were a few photos with the story and whoever picked the photos deserves a beer. Because the first picture was some righteous white kids outside rebelling with their proud american flag. But the very next picture told the rest of the story in a way that the rest of the corporate media's debate has somehow "missed." Two kids were driving by the protest with a confederate flag. That made me happy, because if I have to stomach all this out and out racist rhetoric, I want to cut the smiles and get to the gut. This debate is about how does the country manage the racist infrastructure. Ideologically in the minds of white insanity, geographically on the border, politically on the stump, and financially in the legislatures. If I had my druthers, my slogan for the immigrant community would be something along the lines of:
We, Immigrants, plowed America's fields and picked America's crops.
Immigrants laid the railroads and worked your factories.
We fight in your wars and feed your culture.
Immigrants built this country and have nothing to fear.
We can always burn it down and build anew.
Maybe we should make a poster?
posted by History Is A Weapon at 4:41 PM
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