Psst Governor Bentley! There's a problem with your stand on the state line to refuse Syrian refugees...

You can't

Just in case there is any doubt, President Obama has explicit statutory authorization to accept foreign refugees into the United States. Under the Refugee Act of 1980, the president may admit refugees who face “persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion” into the United States, and the president’s power to do so is particularly robust if they determine that an “unforeseen emergency refugee situation” such as the Syrian refugee crisis exists.

Despite popular and uniformed opinion, Alabama is still a part of the United States of America.  Sir.

The problem for Jindal, Abbott and the other governors opposed to admitting refugees, however, is that there is no lawful means that permits a state government to dictate immigration policy to the president in this way. As the Supreme Court explained in Hines v. Davidowitz, “the supremacy of the national power in the general field of foreign affairs, including power over immigration, naturalization and deportation, is made clear by the Constitution.” States do not get to overrule the federal government on matters such as this one.

Editorial Carton for Alabama Media Group by J.D.Crowe

You can take a whole row of seats now. 

EYE Don't Think #SweetHomeAlabama is on any refugees' list of desired destinations

Go away, kids. Alabama is too scared of you.

So, here we go again.  You know the drill.  Make Alabama proud by inflaming fear and bigotry in the name of The Lord.

Charming, just charming. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has hit on a way to posture about the Paris terrorist attacks that feeds right into a whole bunch of the worst stereotypes about his state. Bentley “will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way,” which is to say he has announced he’s refusing to host Syrian refugees in his state. You know, the Syrian refugees fleeing daily violence as bad as or worse than the Paris attacks.

Yep. This is the same Governor who places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way everyday because Obama.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley used part of his State of the State Address on Tuesday to offer a full-throated defense of his decision to reject Medicaid expansion, one of the key components of President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost of expansion for the first three years and then 90 percent after that.
“But how can we believe the federal government will keep its word?” said Bentley, one of a number of governors who took advantage of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to turn down the deal. “The anything but Affordable Care Act has done nothing to gain our trust.”

EYE wonder if the Syrian Refugees could play football would they be welcome in #SweetHomeAlabama?  

So much for Christian...Conservative... Compassion in Sweet Home Alabama

EYE am just saying... there is more than a whiff of hypocrisy.

28 minutes ago

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

"Racism shouldn't be a part of college campus culture"

📷 A threat has been issued against Howard University students tonight at 10pm. Praying for my alma... https://t.co/AFBPr5G0QD

— Melech E. M. Thomas (@MelechT) November 12, 2015

OK, it's official.  Recent events have shown us they hate us for our freedom, but the question is why? What could we have possibly done to deserve such...hatred?  There was a time EYE believed the old, die heart racist would well....die, but they aren't dying, they are multiplying, breeding a new generation of Haters.

Please read this article and take about 4 minutes to watch the video produced by University of Alabama Students about racism and being called the N-word on campus.  At last count there were 1823 comments posted, most of them by white conservatives.  Read them too.




Then read a letter from a Virginia teen as he details daily racial abuse he faces in middle school.

RedEye tip toeing away from the computer to go pray.

"What happened at #Mizzou was not a matter of mere insensitivity. "

@deray Fuck you deray, YOU & Nettaa & the rest of your terrorist started this, now you're there to finish what you started, scumbags @FBI

— Penthousesidebar2 (@lexiechey) November 11, 2015

These were terrorist acts, meant to silence and intimidate

Over the past several years black students at Mizzou were repeatedly called racist names to their faces, the grounds of the school's Black Culture Center were covered with cotton balls, the center was the target of arson threats, a black professor was spat at and called names by a white man flying a confederate flag from his truck, and a dormitory wall was decorated with feces in the shape of a swastika.

What it feels like to be black at Mizzou

“If we aren’t scoring touchdowns, the university does not care about us,” said Jorden Giger, a first-year graduate student at Mizzou who stayed home from classes Wednesday. “We are either despised or tokenized and treated as property.” 

Whites love black folk on campus if they're scoring TDs/3-pointers. But if they insist #blacklivesmatter on more than gameday all bets r off

— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) November 10, 2015

B-But Obama

Our technology has improved and our haircuts have changed, but racism is as ugly as ever in modern America. While our black president nears the end of his second term, we’re wrong to think his election was even a small hint at racial progress. More than 65 million people voted for President Obama in 2012, but we’re fooling ourselves if we think casual racists or white supremacists were in that number. 

It's the white, male dominated media. 

In many communities that historically have been marginalized and unfairly portrayed by the media, there’s good reason why people do not trust journalists. There’s a tendency in news media to criminalize black people’s pain and resistance to racial oppression. We saw it in coverage of Ferguson and Baltimore, when news stations provided more coverage of broken windows in their communities than of black pain.
The unfair portrayal of black people in the news media is well documented. In one study analyzing news coverage by 26 local television stations, black people were rarely portrayed unless they had committed a crime. A 2015 University of Houstonstudy found that this imbalanced coverage may lead viewers to develop racial bias against black people because it often over-represents them in crime rates.

Judge revokes bond for Hunter Park. He will remain jailed in Boone County. https://t.co/fEbShbXdE5 pic.twitter.com/zfwCTPJ1CN

— KSDK NewsChannel 5 (@ksdknews) November 11, 2015

#VeteransDay2015 in the "Land of the Free, and the home of the Brave"#Mizzou

#Mizzou is this enough proof ? pic.twitter.com/wPJRXZzFf5

— blackHAZE (@Zaaaym_SheBLACK) November 11, 2015

Black University of Missouri (Mizzou) are evacuating campus after a night of death threats and white terror.

I damn sure ain't going to class' Black students terrified by racist black lash on Missouri campus

University of Missouri students report threats of violence, police quell"rumors"

Online threats heighten tensions at University of Missouri

Police arrest "suspect" over death threats that spread fear on racially roiled (?) campus

Before protest, U. of Missouri's main campus saw decades of racial tensions

A Real Missouri "Concerned Student 1950", speaks at age 89

Justice Department Cites "Insuffient Evidence" in case of unarmed mentally ill man shot 14 times by  Cop

Alabama boy, 8, charged with murder of in death of baby as child's mother went clubbing 

Mizzou protesters are talking to the press again

The corporate media is never your friend.

No one should fear for their lives because they chose to speak up about injustice. https://t.co/2wg8qzbQTu

— ColorOfChange.org (@ColorOfChange) November 11, 2015