Rep. Mike Honda on Arizona’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Law

By Ernie | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

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Representative Mike Honda recently wrote an op-ed piece on the Huffington Post on why Arizona SB1070 — the country’s strictest anti-illegal immigration law in decades — is relevant to Asians and Asian Americans: “As a Japanese American who spent part of my childhood in an internment camp, I know all too well the effects of scapegoating and racial profiling. I suffered through what happens when governments pass policies based on fear and misguided attempts at law and order. [...] Congress must pass comprehensive immigration reform, and we must do it now to avoid a patchwork of state measures that do not fundamentally fix our country’s broken immigration system, and that will lead to profiling and discrimination in our communities.”

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Yitz

topofthemark2 is exactly right. Speaking as a white upper-middle-class male, I cannot stress how important it is to focus on the *real* enemy: the blacks. The Asian-American community has gotten so caught up in its "PC ideals" of non-discrimination, cross-cultural understanding, fighting stereotypes and so forth that you've lost sight of the real issue: fighting other minorities. Remember, the more rights they get, the less rights there are left for you!

Keep fighting the system, topofthemark2!

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topofthemark2

Our Asian American "leaders" remain conspicuously silent on black hate crimes committed against Asian-Americans.

Gee, why is that? Is it because as politicians, they see no percentage in the few Asian American votes? Is it that, as many younger Asians do, that this is counter to their PC ideals? That BTW is called cognitive dissonance, an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously.

In any case, the silence is deafening here on this board and elsewhere.

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