Friday, August 31, 2007
Threads in D.C- don't go there!!!
For anyone who will listen. The lady in Threads on U-street poked me in my eye so badly it had two red spots in it for a week. And she didn't even apologize. The place is dirty, expensive and the workers are unprofessional and rude. So if you need threading done, might as well do it yourself, or you will be left with one eye to give her an evil eye with.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Innocent people are dying in ICE custody
Over the past couple of months, the media has reported four deaths among undocumented workers being held in various detention centers all over the country. The most recent was the death of a pregnant woman at the El Paso Detention Center in Texas. For more on this unfortunate story go to: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Detention_Death.html
It seems as if only White American lives are valuable. While we get to see pictures of hostages taken in Iraq or Afghanistan over and over again until we know their lives and stories and future plans and when they last pee'd, how come we do not get to hear about the lives of people in THIS country who are being held in the most inhumane conditions. While they are promised the due process of law they are being denied even basic medical treatment.
Another incident occured when a man was refused his asthma medication despite repeated appeals by his family to get through to him. He died within half an hour. ICE apologized. But his pictures were not flashed on CNN and FOX. His family wasn't shown and his dreams were not heard. Why?
The hostages that were taken by desperate people in war torn countries were adults who went there with full knowledge of the dangerous situations in those countries. This does not justify or condone any act to harm them ofcourse. But just as a comparison, on the other hand, we have people trying to escape the oppression and problems they face in their countries and are looking for a safe haven, who come here, and are imprisoned sometimes for years in awful conditions. What an irony. Americans should be treated like kings and queens wherever they go, but that same privilege does not apply to others landing on their stolen shores. America can bomb poor innocent people anywhere in the world without being condemned and called terrorists, and one act of robbery can make an entire immigrant race 'murderers', 'rapists' and 'thieves'. What great 'justice', and what more can be expected by the upholders of justice and democracy all over the world.
These immigrants don't have faces in the media. They don't have names. They are numbers. Illegal aliens. The "three million" illegal aliens in our midst that our leaders do not know what to do with. As if it is a vermin for them to erase. And that is exactly how they are being dealt with.
The Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Michael Chertoff, George Bush, everyone needs to understand that being white does not entitle anyone to special privileges. (It condemns them to a life of fake tanning and skin cancer). While the lives of American hostages are precious, the lives of immigrants in this country, whether they are brown, white or blue, are equally precious and need to be safeguarded with the same eagerness.
It seems as if only White American lives are valuable. While we get to see pictures of hostages taken in Iraq or Afghanistan over and over again until we know their lives and stories and future plans and when they last pee'd, how come we do not get to hear about the lives of people in THIS country who are being held in the most inhumane conditions. While they are promised the due process of law they are being denied even basic medical treatment.
Another incident occured when a man was refused his asthma medication despite repeated appeals by his family to get through to him. He died within half an hour. ICE apologized. But his pictures were not flashed on CNN and FOX. His family wasn't shown and his dreams were not heard. Why?
The hostages that were taken by desperate people in war torn countries were adults who went there with full knowledge of the dangerous situations in those countries. This does not justify or condone any act to harm them ofcourse. But just as a comparison, on the other hand, we have people trying to escape the oppression and problems they face in their countries and are looking for a safe haven, who come here, and are imprisoned sometimes for years in awful conditions. What an irony. Americans should be treated like kings and queens wherever they go, but that same privilege does not apply to others landing on their stolen shores. America can bomb poor innocent people anywhere in the world without being condemned and called terrorists, and one act of robbery can make an entire immigrant race 'murderers', 'rapists' and 'thieves'. What great 'justice', and what more can be expected by the upholders of justice and democracy all over the world.
These immigrants don't have faces in the media. They don't have names. They are numbers. Illegal aliens. The "three million" illegal aliens in our midst that our leaders do not know what to do with. As if it is a vermin for them to erase. And that is exactly how they are being dealt with.
The Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Michael Chertoff, George Bush, everyone needs to understand that being white does not entitle anyone to special privileges. (It condemns them to a life of fake tanning and skin cancer). While the lives of American hostages are precious, the lives of immigrants in this country, whether they are brown, white or blue, are equally precious and need to be safeguarded with the same eagerness.
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