[Leica] Fourth of July Sunset

Wed Jul 12 05:26:26 PDT 2017

One positive thing about Pence is that he is not a racist. The US is now
basically an equal-opportunity place for gays too, since gay marriage is
now legal everywhere here, and Pence is not happy about it.

Regarding Trump’s border wall, the media is not entirely truthful about
it. To begin, most of the border between the US and Mexico already has a
fence or wall. Second, no one has a right to move to another country
without that country’s permission. Every nation on Earth has and enforces
immigration laws, but for some reason the US is evil for doing what every
other nation has always done.

I’m not against Mexican immigrants. I’m Hispanic. Some of my family came
to the US from Spain in the 1890s. The media won’t tell you this, but most
American-born Hispanics and a good portion of Mexican immigrants who came
legally want to see illegal immigration curtailed. When I lived in New
Mexico, I lived with my people, the Spanish people who founded Santa Fe in
1610. The Anglos there tended to not socialize with us. The Hispanos
(that’s what New Mexico’s old Spanish families call themselves. They claim
to have invented the word “Hispanic” though I am not sure that’s 100%
true) were the most racist people I have ever met regarding Mexicans. They
HATED Mexicans. The old colonial racial system (whites rule, browns do the
work) was still in force there and the concept of Limpieza de Sangre
(blood purity) so strong that most of the old Spanish families were all
closely related do to 400 years of inbreeding to avoid marrying non-white
Hispanics!

The woman I dated out there was from one of Santa Fe’s founding families.
One day, we were at the grocery store when a Mexican guy, talking to his
friend, said in Spanish about my girlfriend: “Look at the fat ass on that
bitch!” She is white, so he probably didn’t think she could understand
him. Oh, she did! She WAS a big woman. Six feet tall and 330lb. I love big
girls, she was hotter than Hell to me. She turned around, grabbed that guy
by the throat and slammed him against the wall and advised him in Spanish
that if he wanted to live a long life, he should get HIS ass back to
Mexico ASAP. He looked like he was going to shit his pants!

Now, most women would be pissed if someone made a rude comment about them
like that, but I am sure her response to it was so violent because she
disliked Mexicans anyway.

A Spanish friend out there, Francisco. had a cellphone ringtone that was
the sound of Mexicans running from the border patrol! He and another
friend of ours, a Pueblo Indian, were laughing hysterically when Francisco
pulled out his phone to play it for me.

My sister’s husband was born in California to Mexican immigrants. He told
me that his father enthusiastically voted for Trump and can’t wait for the
President to build that wall! Crazy, isn’t it?

The media will NEVER tell you what I just told you.

Here in Indiana, on the other hand, there is little racism against
Mexicans. There are small towns here where black people are NOT welcome
that have large numbers of Mexicans who are fully accepted by the white
residents. Indiana is historically one of the most racist places toward
blacks. When I was a little kid, the part of Fort Wayne where I live
(Waynedale) had its own Ku Klux Klan chapter. When I was a teenager, the
biggest KKK group in the country was headquartered in a small town 20
miles north of here! That was 25 yrs ago, not ancient history.

Things are changing for the better, though. Waynedale is now very diverse,
with a lot of black people living here today.

My view on Immigration is that it should be based on the economic needs of
our country. In times of high unemployment, immigration should be slowed,
and in times of labor shortage, the gates should be opened wide.
Ultimately, our government’s responsibility is to its own citizens needs
first. That’s true in any country.

-- 
Chris Crawford
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
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On 7/12/17, 7:45 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
imra at iol.ie> wrote:

>Thanks for your insights, Chris. I shouldn't be attributing political
>overtones based on email subjects.
>
>Over here, we are minnows compared to the large sharks in world
>politics, so tend to have an avid interest in shark movements as the
>flick of a tail can do great damage to a minnow. Ironically, Mike Pence
>has stronger Irish connections than most as his Irish grandad arrived at
>Ellis Island on the 11th April 1923, and Pence himself spent holidays
>here cutting turf and saving hay. It would appear his anti immigration
>stance is more muted than the other fellow. Still, it will be interest
>to see Pence's reaction to our gay Taoiseach, as we are definitely an
>equal opportunity country over here.
>
>Douglas
>
>On 10/07/2017 13:25, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>> These photos had nothing to do with politics, but here’s my take on
>>Trump:
>> Honestly, the damage he can do is limited by the system of government we
>> have. The congress and the federal courts serve to check the president’s
>> power, and they’ve done so with several things Trump has tried to do.
>>
>> Most of what he is trying to do is standard-issue Republican Party
>> ideology. Half the country identifies as conservative Republicans, so it
>> was just a matter of time before they elected a Republican president who
>> would try to implement that ideology. If it wasn’t Trump, it would be
>> someone else doing it. A lot of people here are hoping Trump will be
>> impeached and removed from office. What they forget it that Trump’s
>> removal won’t put Hillary Clinton into the Oval Office. The
>>Vice-President
>> gets the job.
>>
>> Mike Pence is a FAR bigger son of a bitch than Trump, but he is an
>> experienced politician so he knows how to look like a responsible
>> statesman. Don’t judge a book by its cover; looks can be deceiving.
>>Pence
>> was my state’s governor before he became Vice-President, and before he
>>was
>> governor, he was a congressman from Indiana. We Hoosiers know all about
>> him, and trust me on this: He’s worse than Trump. Trump is just a clown;
>> Pence is a religious nutcase and a lapdog of big business, and unlike
>> Trump he has a well-planned and thought-out ideology that he will work
>> hard to implement if he becomes President.
>>
>> If Pence had his way, Homosexuals would be executed, the poor would be
>> left to starve in the streets, the working class would be reduced to
>> slavery, and fundamentalist Christianity would be the official and only
>> permitted religion.
>>
>> I don’t like Trump, but this is a free country and he won the election
>>in
>> accordance with our constitution. In a few years, we can throw him out.
>>As
>> a photographer, Trump is kind of a gift from God. I wish I could have
>>had
>> the money to go photograph some of the big protests against him. The
>> election campaign itself was a gold mine for a documentary photographer
>> like me!
>>
>> The decline of the USA began with Reagan’s election nearly 40 yrs ago.
>> Every president since then, republican AND  democrat, has followed the
>> script.
>>
>
>
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