Police Response in Texas Shooting was Piss-Poor

A lot of Hispanics that I know (I live in North Texas) vote conservative because they don't want anyone to associate them with "the illegals". They are usually very quick to tell a white person how they were born here, or that their families go back so many generations, etc. They will do almost anything to not be viewed as illegitimate, and more than a few of them hate undocumented workers for putting them in that situation. I would imagine that the closer you get to the southern border, the more common this is.

I see it as a type of Stockholm syndrome, really, and I didn't understand the depth of it until I talked to Hispanics who were voting for Trump despite his calling them rapists and such. This stuff goes DEEP. I always cringe when liberals refer to Texas Hispanics as "LatinX" - which they hate with a passion. Even if they might agree with Democrats on a lot of working-people and social issues, this one thing keeps them supporting conservative candidates -- the hope that they will be accepted by the powers that be (i.e., white and moneyed people) as belonging, as opposed to "the other".

@Abider Spot on. Internalized racism. I don’t understand why they’d want to be disassociated with some a hard-working group of people. The USA is fucked without Mexican and South American labor. The whole mentality of dismissing the skilled labor involved in agriculture underpins the whole debacle. We act as if this isn’t crucial. We treat important humans as if they aren’t important. We act as if our food happens as if by magic. We allow horrific conditions for migrant workers. All of this makes huge bank for very, very rich Americans. It only works because racism works so effectively. I wish people understood how much racism within “umbrella groups” also plays into all of this. One of the most racist people I ever knew in my life was from Peru. She was hired to interpret for me. Not until I was interviewing a Mexican family did I find out how much she hated Mexicans. I simply couldn’t believe what I heard. I was so shocked. This same thing was described to me by black friends with very very dark skin color. Said their whole lives they’d been treated differently by lighter friends and family. Also found that shocking to hear. Humans are just fucking weird, gross and tribal. I don’t know what else to say about us except we are disappointing and could be so much more than what we are.

@DeathofRats-BadgeHoorMaroon : My son worked in roofing installation in Arizona for a short time. Said he'd never seen such hardworking people as the Mexicans who worked alongside him. He was sure at least some of them were undocumented workers, and he didn't have a problem with that. Who else is gonna do that work? My son lived there in the early spring, and left not long after when the temps hit 109° in, like, April.

That’s an Army combat motto, too. Or was. When it was cool to slaughter civilians in the streets of Baghdad.

The fact that they made it illegal to study gun incidents just shows how abjectly corrupt they are.