{"id":14099,"date":"2009-09-03T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2009-09-03T06:28:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:28:43","slug":"potok-if-you-believe-in-the-law-youre-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14099","title":{"rendered":"Potok; If you believe in the law, you’re a racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TSO sent me an email from the Southern Poverty Law Center which linked to this little beauty of an “Intelligence Report” from the Director of Intelligence – obviously not the kind of intelligence we’d like the SPLC to have more of – Mark Potok. See if you can tell which group is currently worthy of Potok’s alarm;<\/p>\n

[They] are regularly harassed, taunted, and pelted with objects hurled from cars. They are frequently run off the road while riding bicycles, and many report being beaten with baseball bats and other objects. Others have been shot with BB guns or pepper-sprayed. Most will not walk alone after dark; parents often refuse to let their children play outside. A few have been the targets of arson attacks and worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know, every single one of those thinks, except the BB gun thing and the arson thing, happened to me when I lived in Northeast DC. But Potok isn’t interested in white folks living in Black neighborhoods. No, the SOUTHERN Poverty Law Center Intelligence Director (ironic title isn’t it?) is writing about illegal immigrants in Suffolk County, NY<\/a>. The email was a total joke, by the way – it had to be. I asked TSO if it didn’t come from the Onion.<\/p>\n

The truly frightening thing about the Lucero case is that it could have happened anywhere. The high school students…weren’t members of hate groups. Instead, they were average kids who had been inundated with dehumanizing, poisonous messages about “illegal” immigrants from pundits and politicians. You know the kind of rhetoric I’m talking about. You hear it on the radio and television all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m probably a racist just for criticizing the SPLC for trying to protect criminals in this country. Even though my wife is a legal Latin American immigrant and my four children, of course, are of Latin heritage. But none of us have any sympathy for illegal immigrants. If someone steals your getaway car while you’re robbing a bank, do you expect the police to drop what they’re doing to find it for you? <\/p>\n

Did you know that 10% of the entire population of El Salvador live in the DC Metro area according to the Salvadoran Embassy? Did you know that most of the violent crimes committed against them are by other Salvadorans?<\/p>\n

Do I condone violence against illegal immigrants? Nope, not at all. What I don’t condone is the fact that Potok and his minions put the word “illegal” in parenthesis when talking about criminals who cross our borders contrary to the law – and accuse average Americans who believe in the rule of law of being racist and nativists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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