Arizona's New Immigration Law

Something has to be done. Also keep in mind how the Hispanic/Latino immigrants must feel who came here legally? I have spoken with many who actually don't feel sorry for their brethren who came illegally. The individuals who came legally were probably waiting on a list for about 10 yrs to be allowed into the US. The illegals simply walked in not carring. Then the legal ones have to wait 5-10 yrs plus take a test to become citizens.

I've seen the annimosity from the Latino/Hispanic culter also. Basically it's not fair if one group of people has to follow the rules and the Gov. looks the other way at another group of people.

Who said that the constitution was an English document. A bunch of fugitives, criminals, and religious extremists from England running around trying to mimic the French Revolution. Going to California complaining about Mexicans is like going to Hawaii complaining about Hawaiians. We do have an English part of the country it's called New England. Preserving English culture is not being a patriot. England burned the freaking white house down. In Amercian culture we have incorporated lots of different types of talent to build this empire. If Amercia was all about being English why did they go all the way acroos the ocean to pick up Africans to teach them how to farm rice and cotton? (proof: where were the rice and cotton pantations in England? didn't have any it's not English culture). What made Amercia rich? Surely wasn't blood pie.

Who said that the constitution was an English document. A bunch of fugitives, criminals, and religious extremists from England running around trying to mimic the French Revolution.
I don't think many people would argue the Constitution didn't derive from the Magna Carta, and the effects of English history.
and the Going to California complaining about Mexicans is like going to Hawaii complaining about Hawaiians. We do have an English part of the country it's called New England. Preserving English culture is not being a patriot. England burned the freaking white house down. In Amercian culture we have incorporated lots of different types of talent to build this empire. If Amercia was all about being English why did they go all the way acroos the ocean to pick up Africans to teach them how to farm rice and cotton? (proof: where were the rice and cotton pantations in England? didn't have any it's not English culture). What made Amercia rich? Surely wasn't blood pie.
Did Africans from the ivory coast/liberia farm rice and cotton? I ask because I did not know that. Looking online, cotton and rice increased the slave trade due to the need for cheap labor not instructions on farming cotton per se.

Interesting reads on this topic include:

Slavery in America (http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_cotton.htm)
and

Plantation System of the South: Information from Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/plantation-system-of-the-south)
All that said, your point of incorporating a lot of cultures (melting pot) is true but we didn't succeed as a country by setting up islands of nationalities (didn't work well in Czechoslovakia either), but by the individual nationalities submitting to an identity as a United States citizen.

Who said that the constitution was an English document. A bunch of fugitives, criminals, and religious extremists from England running around trying to mimic the French Revolution. Going to California complaining about Mexicans is like going to Hawaii complaining about Hawaiians. We do have an English part of the country it's called New England. Preserving English culture is not being a patriot. England burned the freaking white house down. In Amercian culture we have incorporated lots of different types of talent to build this empire. If Amercia was all about being English why did they go all the way acroos the ocean to pick up Africans to teach them how to farm rice and cotton? (proof: where were the rice and cotton pantations in England? didn't have any it's not English culture). What made Amercia rich? Surely wasn't blood pie.

Wow, Ok, England truly is at fault here though. Unless you don't know your history? The Americans were not the first to run to Africa and pick up slaves. To be honest with you the Arabs started the African slave issue and trade. When England arrived in the Middle East and wanted to trade alcohol for something the only thing the Arabs wanted to trade was the slaves. England had to figure out what to do with a boat load of slaves. So they decided to try to bring them to the America's (all up and down the Eastern coast to include South America) and trade them for our wheat and cotton. Yes the farmers excepted this and used the slaves to help work the fields and built bigger fields due to all the hands he had working the fields.

You do realize even after Lincoln freed the southern slaves that the northern slaves were not free? Lincoln hoped by freeing the slaves it would cause the Africans to rise up and fight against the Rebs. Unfortunatly that didn't happen and many of slaves joined the south in fighting for the southern rights.

You speak of New Hamshire yet they were one of the states that banned the freed Africans. Even made a law to have them hanged.

Also why was it that 10 to 20 yrs after America freed their slaves America was still shipping slaves to South America? Then when America banned the practice of shipping slaves, England continued to pick up and ship for another 10 to 20 yrs? England is not innocent in their cause and effect. Neither is the Northern States. I'm so amazed at how people get up in arms about the Southern flag but the American flag was the one flying when slavery started. The American flag was flying when only the southern slaves were freed, not all slaves. It was the American flag that flew on American ships who continued to ship Africans. Plus it was the American flag that allowed segrigation and racism. Seperate bathrooms, schools, stores, restaruants...etc. all under the American flag.

Instead of hating the Rebel flag, how about hating the bigots? Like the KKK who, guess what, also fly the American flag. :)

Wow, Ok, England truly is at fault here though. Unless you don't know your history? The Americans were not the first to run to Africa and pick up slaves. To be honest with you the Arabs started the African slave issue and trade. When England arrived in the Middle East and wanted to trade alcohol for something the only thing the Arabs wanted to trade was the slaves. England had to figure out what to do with a boat load of slaves. So they decided to try to bring them to the America's (all up and down the Eastern coast to include South America) and trade them for our wheat and cotton. Yes the farmers excepted this and used the slaves to help work the fields and built bigger fields due to all the hands he had working the fields.

You do realize even after Lincoln freed the southern slaves that the northern slaves were not free? Lincoln hoped by freeing the slaves it would cause the Africans to rise up and fight against the Rebs. Unfortunatly that didn't happen and many of slaves joined the south in fighting for the southern rights.

You speak of New Hamshire yet they were one of the states that banned the freed Africans. Even made a law to have them hanged.

Also why was it that 10 to 20 yrs after America freed their slaves America was still shipping slaves to South America? Then when America banned the practice of shipping slaves, England continued to pick up and ship for another 10 to 20 yrs? England is not innocent in their cause and effect. Neither is the Northern States. I'm so amazed at how people get up in arms about the Southern flag but the American flag was the one flying when slavery started. The American flag was flying when only the southern slaves were freed, not all slaves. It was the American flag that flew on American ships who continued to ship Africans. Plus it was the American flag that allowed segrigation and racism. Seperate bathrooms, schools, stores, restaruants...etc. all under the American flag.

Instead of hating the Rebel flag, how about hating the bigots? Like the KKK who, guess what, also fly the American flag. :)



Your history of the slave trade is way off.

I know I kinda went on a diatribe. sorry. But looking at the facts only about 1% of farmers had slaves. They were the Riches 1% cause not all farmers could afford slaves. Out of those 1% of farmers only a fraction had more then 5 slaves. If my memory serves me correctly only one farmer had 20 to 30 slaves. Thats it.

Also the whole "Farmers mistreating their slaves" was proven to be false and that it was a Northern propaganda scheme to get the US on board. I know someone will argue the issue so I'll retort now... why did so many Africans return to their plantations after they were freed and found that the Northern states were not so friendly? Why did the farmers who were so brutal give them land and allow them to stay on the land if they helped farm the land and even in most cases gave them part of the earnings in order to pay for food for their families?

Wow, Ok, England truly is at fault here though. Unless you don't know your history? The Americans were not the first to run to Africa and pick up slaves. To be honest with you the Arabs started the African slave issue and trade. When England arrived in the Middle East and wanted to trade alcohol for something the only thing the Arabs wanted to trade was the slaves. England had to figure out what to do with a boat load of slaves. So they decided to try to bring them to the America's (all up and down the Eastern coast to include South America) and trade them for our wheat and cotton. Yes the farmers excepted this and used the slaves to help work the fields and built bigger fields due to all the hands he had working the fields.

You do realize even after Lincoln freed the southern slaves that the northern slaves were not free? Lincoln hoped by freeing the slaves it would cause the Africans to rise up and fight against the Rebs. Unfortunatly that didn't happen and many of slaves joined the south in fighting for the southern rights.

You speak of New Hamshire yet they were one of the states that banned the freed Africans. Even made a law to have them hanged.

Also why was it that 10 to 20 yrs after America freed their slaves America was still shipping slaves to South America? Then when America banned the practice of shipping slaves, England continued to pick up and ship for another 10 to 20 yrs? England is not innocent in their cause and effect. Neither is the Northern States. I'm so amazed at how people get up in arms about the Southern flag but the American flag was the one flying when slavery started. The American flag was flying when only the southern slaves were freed, not all slaves. It was the American flag that flew on American ships who continued to ship Africans. Plus it was the American flag that allowed segrigation and racism. Seperate bathrooms, schools, stores, restaruants...etc. all under the American flag.

Instead of hating the Rebel flag, how about hating the bigots? Like the KKK who, guess what, also fly the American flag. :)


I feel a sense of deja vu about this post for some reason. People now of days most likely hate on the Rebel flag because so many hate groups have adopted that flag as their own.

Wow, Ok, England truly is at fault here though. Unless you don't know your history? The Americans were not the first to run to Africa and pick up slaves. To be honest with you the Arabs started the African slave issue and trade. When England arrived in the Middle East and wanted to trade alcohol for something the only thing the Arabs wanted to trade was the slaves. England had to figure out what to do with a boat load of slaves. So they decided to try to bring them to the America's (all up and down the Eastern coast to include South America) and trade them for our wheat and cotton. Yes the farmers excepted this and used the slaves to help work the fields and built bigger fields due to all the hands he had working the fields.

You do realize even after Lincoln freed the southern slaves that the northern slaves were not free? Lincoln hoped by freeing the slaves it would cause the Africans to rise up and fight against the Rebs. Unfortunatly that didn't happen and many of slaves joined the south in fighting for the southern rights.

You speak of New Hamshire yet they were one of the states that banned the freed Africans. Even made a law to have them hanged.

Also why was it that 10 to 20 yrs after America freed their slaves America was still shipping slaves to South America? Then when America banned the practice of shipping slaves, England continued to pick up and ship for another 10 to 20 yrs? England is not innocent in their cause and effect. Neither is the Northern States. I'm so amazed at how people get up in arms about the Southern flag but the American flag was the one flying when slavery started. The American flag was flying when only the southern slaves were freed, not all slaves. It was the American flag that flew on American ships who continued to ship Africans. Plus it was the American flag that allowed segrigation and racism. Seperate bathrooms, schools, stores, restaruants...etc. all under the American flag.

Instead of hating the Rebel flag, how about hating the bigots? Like the KKK who, guess what, also fly the American flag. :)

Why the hell would Arabs have to trade for alcohol when alcohol was brought back to Europe from the crusades. Alcohol is an Arabic word, WOW!

Your history of the slave trade is way off.

Your right. Kinda. The slave trade started when other African tribes didn't want to be slaves to the Arabs so they kidnapped opposing tribes and turned them over to the Arabs so they would leave them alone. Then Britan and the Arabs started trading. Somewhere in there the Brits decided to cut out the middle man and started taking Africans on their own.

Your right. Kinda. The slave trade started when other African tribes didn't want to be slaves to the Arabs so they kidnapped opposing tribes and turned them over to the Arabs so they would leave them alone. Then Britan and the Arabs started trading. Somewhere in there the Brits decided to cut out the middle man and started taking Africans on their own.

Umm wrong again.

I know you Can't believe everything from Wiki but....

Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade)

Slavery was practiced in Africa before the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade.[12] Slavery and the slave trade were an integral part of African societies and states which supplied the Arab world with enslaved people for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans.[13] The African slave trade provided a large number of slaves to Europeans and their African agents

The first side of the triangle was the export of goods from Europe to Africa. A number of African kings and merchants took part in the trading of enslaved people from 1440 to about 1833. For each captive, the African rulers would receive a variety of goods from Europe. These included guns, ammunition and other factory made goods. The second leg of the triangle exported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and the Caribbean Islands. The third and final part of the triangle was the return of goods to Europe from the Americas. The goods were the products of slave-labour plantations and included cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses and rum.

Although I didn't call it a triangle, I pretty much said the same thing.