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John W. Pope Civitas Institute hosted a group consisting of community leaders and interested parties.
The purpose of this seminar was to assist those who do not want foreigners living in their
neighborhoods. The guest speakers, John Stirrup and Michael Hethmon, spoke proudly on their
participation in a successful movement in Prince County, Virginia, which eliminated thousands of
Latinos from getting healthcare and housing. In addition these anti-immigrant advocates were able to
stop immigrant children from attending public school, which meant a decline of 22% of ESL in Prince
County. The blame game clearly was directed at the most defenseless.
For many Hispanic children, the womb represents the longest resting place to be had. It is the longest
stay in any one place. From birth on, it is one long journey to the next. With their migrant parents, they
roam from one fertile place to another in search of crops to harvest and enough wages to survive.
The very people that are being demonized are no different from most people struggling. They hope for
change, search for them, dream of it- and they humbly stand their ground, more literally, they walk it
and work it so that the rest of us can benefit from it. They should not have to stand alone. We must
stand with them!
Pure hate seems is central to the immigration issue. The problem of undocumented relocation is
talked about endlessly in this country, and the point has been made repeatedly in the writings and
words of the religious right and among others who cannot accepting "newcomers" as being equal to
themselves, lost in the rigid and non-inclusiveness classes of those who maintain a great amount of
power in this country and corporate clout with the administration.
With predictability they have created a common interest peer group, who’ve lost their minds to guilt free
human devaluation, indecencies reminiscent of those who once held slaves in this country. Simply
said it means HATE!
Its been touted so long and so often through a compromised media and unconstrained political
agendas, that we who say we stand for equality and constitutional rights cannot admit to our own
failure to ally the hopeless and ourselves by creating a movement strong enough to stand up to gross
distortions and re-educate a public that has slowly submitted to the process of brainwashing.
In the same space in time we've allowed some of the poorest to believe that there are not enough of
us who believe in justice for all.
When a person's ethnic or religious background immediately becomes measurement of morality or
criminal instinct then we have truly divested ourselves of any social or moral objectivity, and absolved
ourselves of any willingness to uphold democracy and do what is in our power to help others in need
or grant them the right to live in peace.
The Civitas Institute of the world are designed to eliminate a class of people from this country based
on race and belief: uncivilized program designed to catch the so-called “undesirables" at the
doorsteps of this country situations” and make sure that they never have the opportunity to melt into the
“melting pot” and their lives unlivable as long as they remain.
It certainly is not to inspire standards of excellence found in true democracy, which is suppose to be
our national aspiration, something carried over to the generations to come. It is our duty to work
persistently through a civil and humanitarian rights movement that to allows opportunity to the
newcomer and supports the American dream which allows the individual to move closer to their
potentials which have, for too long, been submerged in poverty by the lack of fair wages and
opportunity and our own unwillingness to accept every man and woman for who they are instead of
what they are and where they come from.
On a sunny Friday in September, 2008, I heard educated men say that the lack morals are innate in
certain groups of people due to their race. These statements, very candidly, referred to Spanish
speaking people.
These were defensive statements suggesting that a Latino child will be granted a measure of mercy,
partial pardon and even a bit of compassion, just so long as it is made absolutely clear ahead of time
that the heart of the problem is the innate lack of values in his parents. Being an Arab was
synonymous with terrorism, and together these two groups represented a threat to America and
American values
I don't think that the Arab and Latino parents lack values. I think the people, like those who spoke on
behalf of the institute, advocating the implementation of a system of cruelty and heartlessness, lack
values. As I listened, I wondered what is lies in the minds of those who willingly classify a people by
the color of there skin or by their need for survival. "The lack of values" can only be connected to the
lack of chance that results in economic deprivation, not in those who suffer from it. I think that when we
are faced with expressions of this kind, we have to ask whose values we are talking about and in the
eyes of whom? To say that Arabs, Latino and other people of color are deprived in America of rights
would be an honest statement but to say that they are characteristically immoral is clearly something
else.
It would also be honest to say that many are deprived of good education and the chances that come
along with it; they are deprived of a fair possibility, of democracy, of opportunity, and of all the things
these words are supposed to mean. But to say that they are prone to destruction and immorality
seems to me insincere, unfair and part of an agenda of discrimination.
It is essential that we as a democracy recognize the full human equality of all people-before God,
before the law, and in the assemblies of government. We ought to do this, not because it is
economically profitable, although it is; not because of the laws of God demand it, although they do; not
because people in other nations desire it. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it
is the right thing to do. For as long as we don't, shame on me, shame on you, shame on America
Khalilah Sabra
Director
MAS-Freedom, NC
*A people's movement must have continuity!
The purpose of this seminar was to assist those who do not want foreigners living in their
neighborhoods. The guest speakers, John Stirrup and Michael Hethmon, spoke proudly on their
participation in a successful movement in Prince County, Virginia, which eliminated thousands of
Latinos from getting healthcare and housing. In addition these anti-immigrant advocates were able to
stop immigrant children from attending public school, which meant a decline of 22% of ESL in Prince
County. The blame game clearly was directed at the most defenseless.
For many Hispanic children, the womb represents the longest resting place to be had. It is the longest
stay in any one place. From birth on, it is one long journey to the next. With their migrant parents, they
roam from one fertile place to another in search of crops to harvest and enough wages to survive.
The very people that are being demonized are no different from most people struggling. They hope for
change, search for them, dream of it- and they humbly stand their ground, more literally, they walk it
and work it so that the rest of us can benefit from it. They should not have to stand alone. We must
stand with them!
Pure hate seems is central to the immigration issue. The problem of undocumented relocation is
talked about endlessly in this country, and the point has been made repeatedly in the writings and
words of the religious right and among others who cannot accepting "newcomers" as being equal to
themselves, lost in the rigid and non-inclusiveness classes of those who maintain a great amount of
power in this country and corporate clout with the administration.
With predictability they have created a common interest peer group, who’ve lost their minds to guilt free
human devaluation, indecencies reminiscent of those who once held slaves in this country. Simply
said it means HATE!
Its been touted so long and so often through a compromised media and unconstrained political
agendas, that we who say we stand for equality and constitutional rights cannot admit to our own
failure to ally the hopeless and ourselves by creating a movement strong enough to stand up to gross
distortions and re-educate a public that has slowly submitted to the process of brainwashing.
In the same space in time we've allowed some of the poorest to believe that there are not enough of
us who believe in justice for all.
When a person's ethnic or religious background immediately becomes measurement of morality or
criminal instinct then we have truly divested ourselves of any social or moral objectivity, and absolved
ourselves of any willingness to uphold democracy and do what is in our power to help others in need
or grant them the right to live in peace.
The Civitas Institute of the world are designed to eliminate a class of people from this country based
on race and belief: uncivilized program designed to catch the so-called “undesirables" at the
doorsteps of this country situations” and make sure that they never have the opportunity to melt into the
“melting pot” and their lives unlivable as long as they remain.
It certainly is not to inspire standards of excellence found in true democracy, which is suppose to be
our national aspiration, something carried over to the generations to come. It is our duty to work
persistently through a civil and humanitarian rights movement that to allows opportunity to the
newcomer and supports the American dream which allows the individual to move closer to their
potentials which have, for too long, been submerged in poverty by the lack of fair wages and
opportunity and our own unwillingness to accept every man and woman for who they are instead of
what they are and where they come from.
On a sunny Friday in September, 2008, I heard educated men say that the lack morals are innate in
certain groups of people due to their race. These statements, very candidly, referred to Spanish
speaking people.
These were defensive statements suggesting that a Latino child will be granted a measure of mercy,
partial pardon and even a bit of compassion, just so long as it is made absolutely clear ahead of time
that the heart of the problem is the innate lack of values in his parents. Being an Arab was
synonymous with terrorism, and together these two groups represented a threat to America and
American values
I don't think that the Arab and Latino parents lack values. I think the people, like those who spoke on
behalf of the institute, advocating the implementation of a system of cruelty and heartlessness, lack
values. As I listened, I wondered what is lies in the minds of those who willingly classify a people by
the color of there skin or by their need for survival. "The lack of values" can only be connected to the
lack of chance that results in economic deprivation, not in those who suffer from it. I think that when we
are faced with expressions of this kind, we have to ask whose values we are talking about and in the
eyes of whom? To say that Arabs, Latino and other people of color are deprived in America of rights
would be an honest statement but to say that they are characteristically immoral is clearly something
else.
It would also be honest to say that many are deprived of good education and the chances that come
along with it; they are deprived of a fair possibility, of democracy, of opportunity, and of all the things
these words are supposed to mean. But to say that they are prone to destruction and immorality
seems to me insincere, unfair and part of an agenda of discrimination.
It is essential that we as a democracy recognize the full human equality of all people-before God,
before the law, and in the assemblies of government. We ought to do this, not because it is
economically profitable, although it is; not because of the laws of God demand it, although they do; not
because people in other nations desire it. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it
is the right thing to do. For as long as we don't, shame on me, shame on you, shame on America
Khalilah Sabra
Director
MAS-Freedom, NC
*A people's movement must have continuity!
Let's be honest or at least
humane. Should the poor and
hopeless really bear
responsibility for the immigrant
crisis in America? Don't we all
share some blame for the lack of
a solution? With observations as
biased and racist in the words
contained in the attached
recording, surely it shows a lack
of humanitarian motivation for
finding any real solution befitting
the ideological foundation of this
country. And then, being sane
people, we must factor in the
desires of those who have
administered law in America for
the last eight years.
Any real and reasonable solution
would predictably find obstacles
in America today, especially when
such tainted half truths are so
readily spouted everywhere. The
American mental diet is so
consummately filled with cruelty
and worthlessness- not worth the
while of real Americans to hear;
less worth the while of real
Americans to say.
humane. Should the poor and
hopeless really bear
responsibility for the immigrant
crisis in America? Don't we all
share some blame for the lack of
a solution? With observations as
biased and racist in the words
contained in the attached
recording, surely it shows a lack
of humanitarian motivation for
finding any real solution befitting
the ideological foundation of this
country. And then, being sane
people, we must factor in the
desires of those who have
administered law in America for
the last eight years.
Any real and reasonable solution
would predictably find obstacles
in America today, especially when
such tainted half truths are so
readily spouted everywhere. The
American mental diet is so
consummately filled with cruelty
and worthlessness- not worth the
while of real Americans to hear;
less worth the while of real
Americans to say.