And just how do you know the intent? To really find out the intent, we have to read the minds of the lawmakers, an impossible task.
LW...Thank You.Arizona racist? Mafia ain't clean-cut all-American WASP....
Which is why, of course, that you keep asserting that the intent is racist.
Which is why, of course, that you keep asserting that the intent is racist. You can know the intent, but for anyone else, it's an 'impossible task'.
Re post #80.
If a person who is white, blond (or any other horrible racist attributes you can think of) is suspected of committing a crime, he/she will be asked to provide an ID. Yes, I seriously believe that.
If the law were designed to harass brown people, then all the Arizona Legislative Assembly members who are brown, are traitors to their race. Of course, that is and has been said about blacks and refuse to toe the racist line.
Illegal immigration has been a drain on Arizona. Hospitals are closing because Illegal Immigrants get free health care whenever they chose. The crime rate because of the illegal drug trade by illegal immigrants is rampant.
So they HAVE to simply say it's racist to deflect for the real reasons this law was passed.
I was listening to an opponent of the law speak at the rally to which she said...
"We will break this state. We will turn our shovels and axes upon them."
That is what they are dealing with down there. It is easy for a NIMBY racist to point fingers as he sits in a home provided by another.
SirJosephPorter you declared:
"Intent is something we can never determine with absolute certainty."
That belies the absolute certainty you claim that the intent of the law is harass only brown skinned people.
"A brown skinned person won't be asked just for driver's license, but he will have to prove that he is in USA legally (green card, passport, birth certificate etc.). If he cannot do that, he will be thrown in to jail. That is a huge difference."
If that brown-skinned person can prove that he/she is in Arizona LEGALLY, he/she will suffer no more than a blond and blue eyed person.
If he/she is there ILLEGALLY, the law was broken and the offender should be in jail and promptly deported.
There is absolutely NOTHING racist or discrimanatory about that.
There most certainly is. A brown person will have to prove that he is in USA legally, If he cannot, he forgot to carry his citizenship papers, or left home in a hurry etc., he will be thrown into jail. That will not happen to a white man. It is both racist and discriminatory.
Only a brown person has to carry his citizenship papers with him (and he is in big trouble if he forgets), a white person doesn't have to do that.
"There most certainly is. A brown person will have to prove that he is in USA legally, If he cannot, he forgot to carry his citizenship papers, or left home in a hurry etc., he will be thrown into jail. That will not happen to a white man. It is both racist and discriminatory."
Please quote the appropriate passages from the law that says that white ILLEGAL immigrants be given a spacial status.
Legal is legal and illegal is illegal. No matter how you try to spin it, the law does not differentiate by skin colour.
"Only a brown person has to carry his citizenship papers with him (and he is in big trouble if he forgets), a white person doesn't have to do that."
A green card, or a passport, or any other piece of paper weighs what? half an ounce? 10 grams?
Great physical hardship to carry it! If you have it to begin with, of course!