Divisive Conservative Tries To Drive Wedge Between People, Attacks President As 'Obama Hussein'

Once in a while I read an article, column or whatever, and am left to shake my head in disappointment at the kinds of thoughts that swim through the heads of my fellow citizens.

This all brings me to a rather hateful piece written by a woman named Lisa Carter. Now, for the record, I do not necessarily have a problem with black conservatives or conservatives in general. Once upon a time, I was a conservative.

But, articles like the one (a rather brief one) I am going to fully quote make me question why more people do not stand up to this kind of divisive us-against-them talk.

Here is the first part I am going to excerpt:

It's disappointing enough that our elected officials in Los Angeles are putting the rights of criminal illegal aliens ahead of true American citizens. However, when the federal government decides to sue the state of Arizona for trying to protect itself from criminal illegal aliens from Mexico, something has gone wrong.

According to the Los Angeles Times (not always a reliable source), the Obama Hussein administration is expected to file a lawsuit aimed at blocking the state's bid to curb illegal immigration on its own, according to people familiar with the administration's plans.

"Obama Hussein" shows how much of a hater this woman is and it also shows as much right off the bat. So, relatively early in her piece, she panders to the bigotry that exists in too many people on the far right who hate President Obama and have tried to use his name and the fact that his father was an African against him.

Here is the second part:

To uneducated illegal Mexicans who rape American culture, values, education, and finances, this is good news. To hard-working legal citizens, many who are of Mexican descent, this is an act of treason. 2012 can't come fast enough!

She resorts to bigoted, immature and dangerous stereotypes of Mexicans to make her face. She then sort of suggests that they are not hard working by putting emphasis on people legally in the country she describes as "hard-working legal citizens." To try and deflect from her obvious bigotry, she weakly slips in a part about the "legal" Mexicans (FAIL).

This was a disturbing piece to read and I hope it is not indicative of who she is as a person.

Targeting Latinos With Arizona Law ... Conservatives Amazingly Accuse Others Of Racial Politics

Some people just make you shake your head (beginning with the puzzling decision to use President Obama's middle name for no apparent rhyme or reason). The headline of the article is "Obama values Latino votes over safety of American citizens." The depth and breadth of the ignorance of such a statement is nearly beyond comprehension.

It's appalling to make such a suggestion when President Obama is justifiably concerned about how counterproductive this law is with respect to Latinos.

Instead of working for true immigration reform, campaign-year Republicans are attempting to divide Americans on an emotional issue by pushing forward this draconian law that could lead to a legalized form of racial profiling.

Barack Hussein Obama has really given new meaning to the term "socialist." He has now put 1,200 troops on the border, but has insisted to Mexico that the troops won't be used to stop criminal illegal aliens. Apparently, it doesn't matter when criminal illegal aliens destroy the value of American education, rape the welfare system and fly Mexican flags in favor of the American flag. Our forefathers must be spinning in their graves.

It's interesting to hear the term "socialist" from this writer, who again resorts to a word similar to what was used to attack people during the Civil Rights era.

The stupidity of the excerpt (and its headline) cited above is that it assumes that those who are against the Arizona legalized harassment law are somehow in favor of open borders and crime sprees for illegal aliens. Some have demonized illegal immigrants as dangerous criminals and cast a dark cloud (no pun intended) over all Latinos to be treated as suspect - guilty unless or until proven innocent in a show-me-your-papers state.

It's ridiculous.