Racism Not A One-Way Street
The Arizona Daily Star out of Tucson recently published the most distasteful and dishonest editorialI have ever seen this week in what I can only classify as an attack against law abiding citizens and in support of criminal activity.
The unsigned opinion piece supported a DC based Hispanic organization’s boycott of CNN for allowing Lou Dobbs to be on their schedule.
The paper went further, to encourage a boycott of a local Tucson host, a direct competitor of the paper.
Far be it from me to need to support CNN, but in this case they are an inappropriate target.
The paper’s claims are false. Dobbs, Beck, O’Reilly and others, including myself, are not anti-immigrant. We are anti-illegal immigrant. Those who follow the script, follow the policies and the laws are welcome. Those who do not, regardless of their ethnicity, are not welcome.
A good friend of mine is such an immigrant. His father came here from Ecuador legally in the 60’s. He saved for years until he had the money put aside to bring the rest of the family here legally. It wasn’t cheap and it wasn’t easy. He’s now a citizen and furious. If they had been able to just waltz over the border and save the expense, it wouldn’t be right or legal!
America is a land of opportunity, but it is governed by the rule of law.
Honor it and respect it. Do the right thing and go home until you can move here legally like others have.
Speaking of the rule of law...
I was getting off a bus on Tuesday morning about 1:30 when I saw at the corner that I crossed at what appeared to be an active crime scene. Rather than walk through an active crime scene with someone splayed out on the sidewalk I crossed the street three car lengths form the corner. The officer had a conniption and threatened to arrest me. I told the officer I was just trying to avoid his crime scene. He said next time walk two blocks out of my way.
Right. Get over yourself. Next time I’ll just pull out the camera and walk through the scene taking pictures. Could be interesting.
The tomato crisis, while serious, amuses me.
The salmonella-tainted tomatoes came from "either" Florida or Mexico?
A no-brainer to me. Given the safety record of Mexican Agriculture(remember the strawberries and the tainted cheese) I would say the culprit is obvious.
Meanwhile, the huge delay deals yet another punishing blow to American Agriculture. If this keeps up, the only way to get domestic produce will be to grow your own...
I had a true blast from the past this week!
The annual meeting of the Cauliflower Alley Clubtook place at the Riviera, and I loved seeing all those people from my past. "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, Terry Funk, Paul and Luna Vachon, JJ Dillon and many more along with newer performers including Chris Masters.
It was wonderful to see these old friends getting together to remember old times. Many of the performers I was seeing in person for the first time in nearly forty years. I felt like a kid again.
Too bad many of today’s top stars won’t make it to the age of these classic performers.
Sad.
WYATT COX
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I disagree with you about Dobbs. Not because I believe he is wrong but because there is a difference between the type of show that Dobbs is on and the others. Mr Dobbs is a "news" program and he view crosses the line into his news reporting
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Actually the bulk of the programs on CNN are not news, but commentary.
Mr. Dobbs' program is just drastically divergent from the rest of the commentary heard on CNN.
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Lets just say the rest pretend, Mr Dobbs doesn't even pretend on the subject at hand. But it may be me that is pretending.
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...and in the grand scheme of things, that's why people get mad at Dobbs. He at least appears sincere, as opposed to the smarmy appearance of the others on CNN.
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