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Juan Crow rears its ugly head in North Carolina.
From Fox News Latino:
“A North Carolina sheriff and his deputies routinely discriminated against Latinos — whom he called ‘taco eaters’ — by making unwarranted arrests with the intent of maximizing deportations, according to a U.S. Department of Justice two-year investigation.
In an 11-page report issued Tuesday, the federal agency said Alamance County Sheriff Terry S. Johnson and his deputies violated the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents by illegally targeting, stopping, detaining and arresting Latinos without probable cause.”
Besides referring to Latinos as “taco eaters” and drug-dealing drunks, Sheriff Johnson is also alleged to have said that “Mexicans” — a term he interchanges with “Latinos” — are intrinsically un-American.
“Their values are a lot different — their morals — than what we have here. In Mexico, there’s nothing wrong with having sex with a 12- or 13-year-old girl.”
To optimize the number of Latinos they pulled over and arrested, the sheriff had his officers camp on the outskirts of Latino neighborhoods so that they could stop anyone who entered or left.
But North Carolinians got a whiff of something rotten in their state long before the federal report was even released.
A study conducted earlier this year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied more than 13 million traffic stops conducted between 2000 and 2011 and found that Latinos were 96 percent more likely than whites to have their cars searched during such stops, while blacks were 77 percent more likely than whites.
No matter how you slice it, the numbers are unsettling for blacks and Latinos living in the state of North Carolina — and doubly so for Afro-Latinos.
What should be the response of the average Latino on hearing that Latinos are being targeted in the South, chased down, and corralled like calves at a coleadera? The natural inclination for most people might be to get angry and grow distrustful of white faces.
But if we do that, we run the risk of becoming the very thing we despise: indiscriminate racists incapable of seeing past skin color to the person contained within that skin. White people have never been the enemy of Latinos in America. Racism is the true immortal assailant of Latinos. Racism is the common enemy among all republican, peace-loving Americans.
The best way to end racism in America is through education. The surest way to end discrimination is to know your rights.
As with Jim Crow following the abolition of slaves and Reconstruction, Juan Crow has emerged as a system to control what some Americans view as a growing Latino threat.
Yet, Latinos are only a threat to the old American traditions of racism and discrimination that systems like Juan Crow look to impose.
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This article was well-written but I found myself a bit confused and put off when I got to the line, “Racism is the common enemy among all REPUBLICAN, peace-loving Americans”
I’m not sure what the partisan statement had to do with the rest of the article. Is racism not the enemy of democrats or liberals? I am sure it was unintentional but it seems to imply that you have the peace-loving Republicans and then the “others”. Just seemed like an odd statement.
All the sell outs on BL agree with that fool. Nothing to see here.
hey tacos are good <3
We hate in others what we dislike most in ourselves.
@Gerard get a job instead of pointing fingers hippie, lol.
They forgot that we are Fat, Drunk Taco eaters!!!!!
Better than fat Burger eaters lol
Don’t get discourage guys LATINO STAND UP!!
Lol
Deport the Sheriff .
Thats the south for ya, alot of the midwest is also that way! Ignorant rednecks! lol
wow!
“The best way to end racism in America is through education.”
It also starts at home. Parents don’t teach your children to hate on others based on skin color, ethnicity, etc.
I’m a drunk taco eating guero.
Nice to see that only Conservatives are Racist, although The Republican party was the one that fought The KKK, here it is, may be next time you will not allow your Political views get the better of you. – Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away. – http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kkk-founded
Not all cops like donuts. Weird how stereotypes work
They’re just jealous – it’s rough when you’re WHITE trash
Damn. Now I want tacos.
He should’ve called him a racist donut-eating pig.
Taco Eater is offensive?? So that means if I call an Italian person a Spagetti Eater — they should be offended?? Looks like to me this Country is toooo politically correct and just needs to laugh it off! Chill Out People — Life is too short to get upset about this stuff!
The cop just needs to keep his mouth shut if u cant say anything nice
Tom, try calling an Italian person a ‘spaghetti eater’ to their face and see what happens. Please report back. Thanks.
I’ve lived in NC for five years and have never been stopped by LEOs. Also, this report gives the impression that the ACSO is all white and that only white deputies conducted themselves in violation of the law. It’s nonsensical and also gives the impression that the South is still the Old South. What a bunch of malarky!!! Here’s what I know about North Carolina law enforcement. NC LEOs deal a lot with DWI and DWI accidents and death on the roadways. All you have to do is look at the police blotters for those apprehended on DWI charges. Many of them are illegals and Hispanics. That is a fact. NC LEOs work hard to make the roadways safe, and if they happen to go after Hispanics, then so be it since many of the DWI accidents are committed by Latinos, many of whom are ILLEGALS!!!! Lastly, the Obama DOJ has been going after many, many local LE departments. They’ve gone after Joe Arpaio in AZ and throughout the nation because they don’t want strict enforcement of the law as it pertains to Latinos and Illegals in particular. But guess what? When YOU LATINOS become a victim of a DWI in which the violator is a Latino Illegal, then let us know whether you’ve changed your view on this issue.
I’ve lived in NC for five years and have never been stopped by LEOs. Also, this report gives the impression that the ACSO is all white and that only white deputies conducted themselves in violation of the law. It’s nonsensical and also gives the impression that the South is still the Old South. What a bunch of malarky!!! Here’s what I know about North Carolina law enforcement. NC LEOs deal a lot with DWI and DWI accidents and death on the roadways. All you have to do is look at the police blotters for those apprehended on DWI charges. Many of them are illegals and Hispanics. That is a fact. NC LEOs work hard to make the roadways safe, and if they happen to go after Hispanics, then so be it since many of the DWI accidents are committed by Latinos, many of whom are ILLEGALS!!!! Lastly, the Obama DOJ has been going after many, many local LE departments. They’ve gone after Joe Arpaio in AZ and throughout the nation because they don’t want strict enforcement of the law as it pertains to Latinos and Illegals in particular. But guess what? When YOU LATINOS become a victim of a DWI in which the violator is a Latino Illegal, then let us know whether you’ve changed your view on this issue.
Mmmmm Lee u do know racial profiling is illegal in north Carolina. Unless they have there own version of Arizona’s sb1070 of course.
Tacos make people happy!
Most DWI accidents are committed by latinos? That has to be the most obserd thing I have ever heard. I think those tacos you are eating are going bad my friend because they are affecting your brain.
Yeah, illegal Latinos, drunk illegal Latinos, I should say (they might partake in tacos or burritos at times) are notorious for mowing down scores of people in cases of vehicular homicide. What this cop said was crude, but he wasn’t too much off the mark. The actual statistics on drunk illegal Latinos killing other via DWI don’t lie!