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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/indianapolis-church-detains-jesus-mary-joseph-protest-child-separation-policy-n888596
A display outside an Indiana church has statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph held in a metal cage. Many parishioners are immigrants so the display is designed to speak for them. The display is also created to remind Christians that Jesus was an immigrant
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 07/03/2018 - 10:54pm
The Rev. Curtis is doing political conceptual art just as well as most big shot artists trying to do the same, and probably with more impact because he was targeting an Indianapolis audience but also probably suspected it would go national as it has. Which in the end is not a surprise to me, I think a lot of respect is due the Episcopal Church in that they have a tradition of doing the elite liberal protest thing in an effective way rather than a counter-productive way, in a way that crosses a lot of sub-cultures and actually changes some hearts and minds, for quite a few decades now, at least back to the Vietnam years.
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 7:12pm
this story I read yesterday feels related, though the title and lede doesn't imply it, the story sure does: clear to me that it's the church people vs. the cranky old "guys" that don't go to church who are the pro-Trumps, want to get rid of the immigrants but are ashamed to say so publicly.
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.
Agents conducted one of the biggest workplace raids since President Trump announced a crackdown on
illegal immigration, detaining 97 workers in Morristown. But for residents, these workers were their neighbors.
By Miriam Jordan @ NYTimes.com, JUNE 8, 2018
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 7:24pm
It's great that they tried to help. This reads like an article I read several months ago about a small town in Illinois. They all voted for Trump and then were shocked that a local restaurant owner was arrested and deported. Everyone in the town had nothing but praise for him and were very upset. The common line was they thought Trump wasn't going to deport the "good" Mexicans, just the "bad" Mexicans. Of course the "good" Mexicans were the ones they knew. The bad ones lived in other towns.
It's no different than the line used for decades about black people. Most blacks are lazy and shiftless but this one, the one I know, is one of the good ones. How can I be racist when I have a black friend?
by ocean-kat on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 8:08pm
I agree but I am also thinking how with that there is also the disconnect with people who don't realize the conumdrum involved with the laws involved. Many want the country to look and act like it's going to be tough towards illegal immigration for deterrant effect but they don't realize that that means getting tough on illegals that already have lives here, that there are so many undocumented who have lives here. It's tough to do one without the other, as people will keep trying it if they see others have done it well enough, a least without a general amnesty. And if moderating congress critters try anything that looks or smells anything near like amnesty they get in royal trouble with fanatic-on-issue voters as well as Breitbart Bannon types and no support from some Bernie protectionist types. So, yeah, lots of people fly with the cognitive dissonance thing of "take away those other guy's immigrants, but not mine." The problem is that's not possible without massive rewriting of the law and not enough moderate people are supportive, the fanatics on all sides do things to take down whatever is tried.
One thing that's probably good about articles like this: it may make representatives who thought they were elected on "be tough on immigration" realize they can actually bend a little on what they might sign on to? Sort of just like with health care reform. I.E., they thought the majority in their district wanted to get rid of Obamacare and then they learned it's not an issue where you can take all nuance away and demagogue it.
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 9:19pm
Maybe, but it's only the moderates and liberals that will read that article in the NYT. If anyone hears about an ICE raid in the other town when they're sitting in the local bar or diner they're likely saying, good, we got rid of the dirty illegal Mexicans, now real Americans can get those jobs. Sorry to be so cynical.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 10:09pm
Yes, I didn't meant the whole country, I meant just in that district. Even if the congresscritter doesn't read the NYT, he's got staff to tell him that the article about his constituents is there and what it says. It is a a similar effect to such a congresscritter not reading what the NYT is saying about Obamacare, but when everyone starts screaming the same thing at the town hall meeting..
Makes me think about how Trump always jumps on particulars, it's a one by one district battle that way maybe. Everyone in Harley Davidson land was probably all fine with Trump theory until he started picking on Harley and they see what is really going to happen. Etc.
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 11:43pm
and then there's this "not so sure we can take this anymore" thing I just saw:
“THE HOUSE IS TIRED OF GETTING BURNED”: AS THE BORDER CRISIS FESTERS, REPUBLICANS FEAR TRUMP WILL BETRAY THEM ON IMMIGRATION
With the proper assurances, Trump could give lawmakers cover to pass an immigration reform bill. But Republicans have no faith that he won’t betray them if they stick their necks out for him again. “No one can ever be sure what his priority is going to be the next day,” one G.O.P. adviser says—the party or his presidency?
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 11:53pm
Yes, there's that. That's why I keep hoping ICE will go into farming communities. They're mostly Trump supporters with many illegal farm laborers. Just a few more states like Georgia that lost 140 million when they passed tough immigration laws and crops rotted in the field and maybe people will change their mind.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 12:07am