Archive for March 19th, 2006
Gang Crackdown = Racial Profiling?
3:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · children|Georgia|Justice · 1 Comment
19 Mar 2006
There has been a nationwide crackdown and round up of alleged gang members in ecent weeks. Specific targets include alleged members of the Salvadorian rooted Mara Salvatrucha. But when does a gang crackdown become discrimination? That is what community members of Cobb County of Metro Atlanta are asking. Latino parents feel that their children are being unfairly targeted because of where they come from. Since the 2000-2001 school year the number of Latino students in the Cobb County school system has just about doubled.
links for 2006-03-19
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19 Mar 2006-
Cojones is a Spanish word that means, literally, testicles. In the U.S., however, it’s a sort of catch-all term for daring. That’s approximately what Volkswagen was going for in a blunt black-and-white billboard featuring its GTI 2006 model accompanied by
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Samuel Huntington argued in his book “Who Are We?” that Hispanic immigrants were a threat to the national identity of the U.S. because, unlike other ethnic groups, they were not assimilating into the host nation.
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The hundreds of thousands of Hispanics who have settled in Central Florida are contributing more to the area than just raw population growth
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