Go Kids, Go!

[HippieCowgirl]

I was just treated to a parade of young people, whooping and cheering and whistling, taking to the streets of Downtown Fort Worth. They were protesting the new immigration law. They chanted, carried mexican flags, a few had signs (one said, "Your parents were immigrants too") It makes my heart just smile to see 'em go.

I saw some police escort, but they weren't interfering or roughing any kids up.

THIS is how a peaceful protest works, and it is so good to see it here.

[sui generis]

1. hey chica where are you? I just had lunch at Ciao

Chicken piccata - they make a really good one.

Saw the kids - my überrepublican coworkers looked at me like I was an alien when I said I disagreed for a hundred reasons.

1. Where you gonna put 11 million people?
2. Why do incidental employers fall under the felony act, since if I hire a "white" cleaning service I don't have to ask for papers or 1099 them.

and so on - we all know the variations on this.

[HippieCowgirl]

2. 11 million people are already here

In fact, I'll bet that a portion of the folks who cooked & cleaned up after my lunch at Tai Pan (at malfunciton junction) are either undocumented or fake-documented.

[sui generis]

3. I meant, if these yokels are trying to get rid of 11 million people

where you gonna put them.

Who's gonna round them up - we don't have that many people in our combined police, military and national guard.

[slide to the left]

4. Ask your republican friends

if they built their own house? Mow their own lawn? Never eat out? Clean their own office?

[muse]

5. same thing here in Houston

On my way to work this morning, kids from Hightower High School were marching en masse down Highway 6 on their way to downtown Houston (which is miles away). There was a police escort. They were waving Mexican flags and chanting.

Here is the Houston Chronicle story about the students from all over town doing the same today!

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3753381.html

Very cool. Very inspiring. Legislators forget the trickle down effect of their actions into the public schools - which where just about everything they do ends up wreaking havoc.