Submitted by Casey Reed, Jun 13, 2007 01:13

I was pleased to read a view of the immigrants from Mexico being able to express their views and say "We Are America" and "We are People and America is the Land of Immigrants."

Then it turned ugly with the haves and the have nots perspective. You know, the Cuban mafia style owners and gangsters who drove their speed boats by hotels while their gunners raked the hotel rooms on Cuba's beaches, or organized anti Castro propaganda to regain their ill gotten gains like pirates reclaiming their booty. If we can't be dominating a slave population and making them work for nothing, then it isn't good ol' Amerikan capitalism...

Added to economic dehumanization is the cultural corruption of classism in America and supremacy mythology of the people in the U.S. who believe they are superior to other human beings combines with materialism and we have to dehumanize NON-U.S. human beings. I do not follow this superiority claim without disgust, and can not see how that current separatist supremist trend can connect to "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..."

Have we lost our way? We are a nation of immigrants and the Chinese built our railroads, African Americans built the wealth of the 1st Americans, both North and South, and today Mexicans are the life blood of our industries from hospitals, restaurants, factories, to our homes. Isn't time to end our slave culture and create real and meaningful living minimum wages for the entire world, at least in terms of who makes things we buy here in the U.S. or corporations and their owners who are American owned or are citizens.

We can either mature as citizens of the world community or flounder on in our mental distortion of supremacy culture and corporate facism that has replaced democracy in the United States and developed a race to the bottom of the wage and labor market. Our real problem is the rich and powerful through their corporations, lobbies, legislative influence, and governmental positions are running the U.S. and NOT in the people's best interest, but to enrich the rich further and make the powerful more powerful...

I would think our Mexican neighbors are the same as our German or English neighbors is a given and with fair wage minimums that workers all over the world get by making the products we buy people centered. We need a law that stipulates that a worker here in the U.S. gets the same minimum wage that any worker in the world gets, who makes the products we buy, or they are not sale-able here in the U.S. That would drive jobs back to the U.S. and Mexicans who don't like the racism and materialism based dehumanization they get here in the U.S., would go back to good paying jobs in Mexico, or China, or the Philippines...

Culturally accepted racism and material based classism is not tolerance of our equals as equals and is not protected by the Constitution.

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