Ah jj I find people like you comforting. Your lack of ability to make a coherent argument, or really sentence for that matter, just highlights how little thought you actually put into these issues and why it is ok to simply ignore you completly when trying to have a rational disscusion on this, or any other topic. As for your last comment, I hope to see as many "mixed race" babies as possible. not because I care about race but because I would just love to see it make you and everyone like you squirm you racist piece of cr@$p. Oh and just to really make you mad, I am white, and living in sin with a black/Asian women.

What did JJ say that was wrong? I have yet to to hear one proper response about why this law is wrong. The other thing I'll question is asking for documentation to guys hanging on the street. But if you're pulled over drunk, the police can't ask him for docs. Please. People funneling cash to outside countries is not good for the US. If AZ really needs the help of undocumented workers, that will be figured out over the next few years. If you want to talk about racism - the Latino response is racist towards whites. People in Europe and even in the Middle East have a much tougher time trying to come here legally. And they produce much more and are much smarter. Tell me how that process makes any sense. Why is it right for a Mexican to be able to come over her illegally? Because they can jump a fence? It's unfortunate that I have to end my stellar comments with this tone but hopefully you and Dan are both savagely beaten one day. Good day.

I constantly notice that while we each have the same eyes to see, the same lips to speak, the same hands to feel, some of us will fight for one another and some of us will fight for ourselves. We all fight for the future; we all feel that there can never be a victory without a battle.

Will we be able to unite and still fight for our own personal ideals? Do we understand what we feel, and what that means? Or will we be simplified, united by statistics and lofty goals shouted at us from above?

If we are united as people, how can such a divisive measure ever lead us to victory? How can this produce anything but a losing effort - or is that just it? Have we officially resorted to keep on dividing until there is only spaces between the spaces between us?

We seek justice, fairness, and truth. And of course, yes, those concepts can change - when we change them. We who struggle. Sports fans know perhaps better than most that the truth of our actions lies in the reality of what we do, out there on the field, in our offices, in our homes. We rally. No words can change us; no measures can separate us. We will fight.

The question is not for what, but rather for whom, do we fight?

So much for that, "This is the last article I will write on the Diamondbacks in the foreseeable future," eh?

Kudos are in order if the sports protests generate a comprehensive immigration bill. To me the protests are democracy in action,however this debate is not helped by name-calling on either side. There are good people on both sides. BTW whoever talks to me last is the side I'm on.

Sometimes, white people (of which I am one) need to realize there is no middle ground on this issue. Yes, you support this bill, you are racist. Period. A disgusting piece of Fascist bullshit. What? does that make you uncomfortable? You want to band together with your white brothers and fight anti-white racism? Go right ahead. I hear theres a sale on white sheets at Wal-Mart. There is a reason people of color have had to fight the dominant white culture and society. BECAUSE the plight of the oppressed ends with the oppressor. White people still control the government and economy, and are more than willing to use racism as a tool to divide the great mass of working people in this country and insure their continued dominance. And all of you white racist boneheads are the textbook example of why this strategy works so well. They got you by the balls, and instead of banding together with our black, brown, latino etc., brothers and sisters, you support white supremacist legislation out of fear and ignorance. A hard working Mexican immigrant busts his ass doing the jobs you dont want, so he can live with a little dignity and send a little money back to his family. At the same time, rich white financiers rob us blind for trillions and send our sons and daughters to die in wars for power. And you, in your utter disregard for all that is human, kick dirt in the face of our freinds to the south, and do the work of those that would see you die in the gutter without a word. What a sad, sad state our this country is in. White America, the Lloyd Blankfeins of the world salute you!!

There is already immigration laws on the books. The trouble with the existing laws is that our Federal Gov't refuses to enforce them. These laws exist to prevent our country, our resources, and our own people from being overwhelmed by an influx of immigrants. Arizona is already overwhelmed, and the MAJORITY of people that have to live in those circumstances support this law. And I support them.
The law changes nothing that didn't already exist. People who are screaming about this being a pre-cursor to NAZISM are sensationalists. If you scream enough negative words loud enough, the Silent Majority will go back to be silent, or so you think. CA, NM, & TX will take the illegal immigrants that are no longer welcome in AZ. That is, until those states are overwhelmed, and their resouces can no longer deal with the coming tide.
I also say, Don't stop with the illegal immigrants themselves. Charge the employers that take advantage of them to increase their profits by paying low wages. Charge the landlords who allow 20-30 people to live in a single family dwelling so they can make more money. And don't try telling me these conditions don't exist. I've seen them with my own eyes in states far away from our southern border.
I support the AZ Governor, and I've sent messages to my own State Representatives encouraging them to show support, and to draft similar legislation in my own state, before we're put in the position that AZ is in now.

1) Now that Kendrick has spoken out against the law, how does this change the boycott against the Arizona Diamondbacks?

2) If the support of the bill is connected to electing republicans, is there disdain and outrage for every person who voted for Republican leadership in the state of Arizona? It appears that Kendrick is guilty of supporting a party (for whatever his reasons are) and his money went to aid the election. I do not know how this person is more/less guilty than anyone else that voted for these Republicans.

So now that Kendrick says he agrees with the ridiculousness of the law, how does that change the protests?

Maybe if the illegal aliens had protested as vehemently in Mexico as they are here, Mexico wouldn't be the A-hole of the Northern hemisphere it is today. Instead of changing Mexico, they violate OUR laws by coming here, and then get uppity when Americans get teed off about them sucking up our social services, filling up our prisons, killing and kidnapping our citizens, and bankrupting our states. Its an upside down world in which we live. Zirin is a typical liberal. Can't win an argument on its merits....play the race card.

Foolish me! I now know that I have to bond with my black,brown,latino,etc.,brothers just because they are black,brown,latino,or etc.(I choose etc.) I am not going to pay attention to what they say only how they look. I'll leave my mind shut off. What a great country?

We all come here from someplace else. The only indigenous people are the Native Americans that we have enacted genocide on and relocated to reservations.

What country can you think of that has stark, enforced borders? Switzerland, maybe, because of the Alps? Most countries have borders that allow labor and culture to pass back and forth, in fact if not by law. The only exception I can think of is 1990s Rwanda, but that's because mobs were cutting the heads and arms off of people who were different.

Is that our ultimate goal here in Arizona?

The shrinking majority plays this game where they trumpet the 4th of July, the Statue of Liberty, and the Founding Fathers, because that stuff sounds good and sentimental when mashed up all together in an unquestioned fashion.

But when it comes time to actually live by those espoused ideas, to live by democratic values and not arrest or harrass people because their skin isn't pale, they speak something other than English, or worship a god that doesn't look like Jim Cavizel or Willam Defoe, when it is time to be good citizens, to be a country with good relations with our neighbors, then those same "patriots" gleefully cast aside the Constituition and want to turn into an ugly mob and go hunt people.

Do people in Arizona and the rest of the southwest really feel so desperate and outnumbered like the whites in South Africa and the Jews in Israel, that they too want to turn their states and cities into racist militarized zones?

justin--the word "uppity" tells us everything we need to know about its author.

jjdynomite:

Loved your artwork on that old TV show you starred on, bro. But about caucuses. The white folk already got a caucus--two, in fact--the House of Representatives & the Senate.