8:37 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|race|youth · 2 Comments
10 Apr 2008
I’ve been accused of teaching my children radical positions but someone should be asking what the parents of 13 year old Melanie Bowers, of Athens, Texas, are teaching her. Well actually what is society teaching her? After all, after hearing of the alleged attack on the girl that 21 Latino students were involved in after seeing a class assigned sign that read: “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration” the internet and right wing pundits were all up in arms. Sending all citizen Latinos back to Mexico (as if that’s where we all come from). Most recommended putting all the 21 children on suspension and or jail immediately and the deporting of many of them although all were citizens.
Compare this to the reaction when a person of color is attacked.
Let’s wait and see what the investigation shows is the most common response.
No double standard here, move it along. Except…..
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