All we need is immigration reform

[sabvre42]

SamuelRSmith said:

sabvre42 said:

I kinda feel like that guy was a troll. You rarely find that overt of a racist that isn't a straight up hill billy.

Having grown up in the UK, and now living in Hong Kong, I have never met a "straight up hill billy" (except one guy in Florida who had a pet gator in the back of his truck, and he seemd like call guy), however, I have met MANY people in both those aforementioned countries who are exceptionally racist.

Suburban white Britain is just... wow. Well, at least the part I was from.

 

Most, but not all,  racism is subvert these days in the US.

I'm white,  but I'm married to an immigrant Peruvian (Hispanic). Our kids are mixed,  and yes we experience racism.  Almost always its stares... or someone in public assuming she is my/the kids' nanny. The only overt racism we've recieved were: some random guy yelling at her to go back home; and some snarky employee at the Target eye clinic making the comment to her coworker "its not like she's paying for it anyways".

More common than racism these days is classism. Both my wife and I will admit to being classist. She gets more mad at the illegals that perpetuate the stereotypes she encounters, than those assigning them to her based on her race. 

In regards to immigration reform,  she gets furious about what we went through and how i had to sign away all rights to government assistance for 7 years; but current reform plans just reward illegals (we were pretty poor ourselves back when i signed the form).