Edit~Sweet Home Alabama is a good place to be FROM

Especially if you are black, brown, poor, female, a public school teacher/administrator, liberal democrat or belong to a union, thanks to the red, TeaPublican take over of the State in black, I mean backlash to President Obama's election as President of the United States of America. Sweet Home Alabama. Where the skies are blue and the Government is Red.

Civil rights violations, violence, emerging from Alabama

October 21st, 2011
As Alabama continues to enforce the harshest immigration law in the land, faith, civil rights, and Hispanic group leaders came to Capitol Hill today to ask lawmakers to put an end to the “man-made humanitarian crisis” unfolding in the state.

Telling stories of racial profiling, harassment, violent thefts, assault, threat of murder, and worse, the panel of leaders explained how Alabama has made it so clear that undocumented immigrants are unwelcome, that the state has become a sponsor of hate against all immigrants and Hispanics.

…Mary Bauer, Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center…and other panelists spoke of undocumented immigrants in Alabama who have been refused all state services, and so could not obtain birth certificates for their American-born children; the husband of a nine-month pregnant woman who saw no choice but to drive her to Florida to give birth; a court judge who told a domestic abuse victim that he would report her to ICE; another court judge who said that anyone who asked for an interpreter would be suspected of being undocumented and reported; an American citizen from Ohio who was barred from making a purchase simply because he did not have an Alabama state ID; an immigrant outside his workplace who was threatened by armed white men in a pickup truck who told him they would kill him if he was still there tomorrow…..

Leaders Call of Washington Help in Ending Civil Rights and Humanitarian Crisis in Alabama

There is no doubt that people will die as a result of this law. This law has released the racist vigilante in many folks.

Can you hear him now?

I heard if the Republicans win the election, their first act of business was going to be sending this monkey back to his cage …” These words were posted on a web site (ala.com) in response to a robo ad I sent. There is a mean spirit on the loose.

Yes, it is.

More than one speaker noted that Alabama’s extremism is hardly new, and that this immigration law is only the latest “stand in the schoolhouse door” in a dark history of racial turmoil. Scott Douglas, Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries in Alabama, went even further back in history than the civil rights movement:
HB 56 combines some of the most heinous, vicious, inhumane Jim Crow legislation of the 1950s, but it's worse than that. It's reminiscent of the Trail of Tears of the 19th century, when Native American families were forced to flee their native lands.
The Trail of Tears is not just figurative, it's literal. There is a Trail of Tears in Alabama at this very moment…
With near-secessionary zeal, our state leaders are governing under the influence of rabid racism, extreme xenophobia, and much ignorance. The main thing is they're causing much pain in Alabama.

Bring your business/company/family/money to Sweet Home Alabama? I don't think so.