Xenophobia is strong stuff. The fear of "others" apparently can really motivate voters in the Dallas Suburb of Farmers Branch. Saturday voters approved a measure to make renting to illegal aliens a crime. This means landlords are now effectively arms of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, without pay.
I am not surprised that this happened. After all suburbs like Farmers Branch and Plano and Richardson really got booming right after Brown vs Board of Education, in other words "White Flight". White Dallasites moved by the thousands to the homogeneous suburbs so their kids would be spared any diversity in the schools system. Now there is the "Brown Threat"!
Heaven forbid we should have to live in a city with people whose skin is even slightly darker than ours. Heck for that matter why not ban tanning beds, cause they really make it all so confusing?
This is racism plain and simple and though it is wrapped in the guise of solving the immigration "problem" it's really about bigotry. So let's call a spade a spade and just post a nice sign outside Farmers Branch like they used to have in Greenville Texas back in the 1930's "The Blackest Land, the Whitest People!"
Meanwhile, I am going down to the local Mercado and get some really authentic Pan de Dulce for my breakfast. Might even indulge in a good dinner of Sushi tonight. Let the folks in Farmers Branch eat white bread and mayonase sandwiches, I'll take diversity any day.
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