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Friday, April 28, 2006

Immigration: Illegality, Security or Race

Roldy, the Kansas City-based English documentary film maker, throws in his tuppence worth on the current immigration debate in the US.

As a fairly recent immigrant himself, Roldy calls the debate being declared as one of legality or security as spurious, because ultimately it's really about race. And he's not wrong, because the pseudo-debate about violence at the Kansas City St Patrick's Day Parade was similarly really a racial issue.

Read an Englishman's illustration of how race can be a 'social contruct'.
Any talk of keeping America 'American' is just utter rubbish, especially coming from people living in places called Los Angeles, El Paso or San Diego
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1 Comments:

At 4:32 PM, Roldy said...

What a load of tired old bollocks!

Oh hang on - that's one of mine. It's brilliant.

 

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