{"id":24761,"date":"2011-10-08T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/midwestmountainmama-blackamazon\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:22:04","slug":"midwestmountainmama-blackamazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/midwestmountainmama-blackamazon\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24761 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/midwestmountainmama-blackamazon\/attachment\/24762\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lspzsewpmY1qzr73ro1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midwestmountainmama.tumblr.com\/post\/11184599124\">midwestmountainmama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackamazon.tumblr.com\/post\/11178939236\">blackamazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hermanaresist.tumblr.com\/post\/11171659041\">hermanaresist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strugglingtobeheard.tumblr.com\/post\/11165754994\">strugglingtobeheard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vikkiage.tumblr.com\/post\/11161404193\">vikkiage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stfuconservatives.net\/post\/11158791520\">stfuconservatives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pantslessprogressive.com\/post\/11158717902\">pantslessprogressive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are people calling this a form of ethnic cleansing and I can\u2019t figure out a reason why it isn\u2019t. Sure, not every Hispanic in the state is undocumented, but you could certainly forgive them for feeling that measures\u00a0<em>this punitive<\/em>\u00a0mean they aren\u2019t welcome. If the state is willing to deny someone\u00a0<em>water\u00a0<\/em>because they don\u2019t have proper ID, they really, really don\u2019t want you around.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/suffer-little-children.html\">digby<\/a>, on Alabama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/10\/06\/337764\/sen-sessions-its-not-sad-immigrant-children-too-scared-to-go-to-school-its-sad-theyre-here-in-the-first-place\/\">strict immigration law<\/a>, which went into effect last week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Ethnic cleansing by municipal pettiness. A new low.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>THIS IS SO FUCKED UPPP<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is some really scary stuff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>this makes me cry. It feels like we\u2019re heading to a climax of something in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATER!!<\/p>\n<p>WATER.<\/p>\n<p>If they are paying the bill ( which to have\u00a0 a bill for water makes me angry but whatever right now) what business is it of yours,<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait you can immigrant blame until they are all gone and by that time people are so poor and downtrodden by the government not doing their jobs tehy have lost any fight to notice what\u2019s happpened<\/p>\n<p>except terrorizing and alienating INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>if ever there was better proof that white supremacist heteropatriarchy\/nationalism is about resource distribution and the normalization of unequal distribution. and frankly, I\u2019m SO tired of hearing, \u201cstupid individual state who is making things sucky\u201d crap. the entire US needs to take responsibility for this. Citizens need to ask themselves what their values are. is denying people *water* based on their ability to pay or their citizenship status ok??? is denying people water based on ANY reason ever ok? Because once we agree it\u2019s ok based on people\u2019s ability to pay\u2014then it becomes ok to deny based on citizenship status, on the needs of corporations, etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>this is not just about a state fucking everything to hell but ALSO about the normalization of restriction of resources to an ever increasing amount of people and the control of access to a *life source* by corporations\/government rather than communities\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>midwestmountainmama: blackamazon: hermanaresist: strugglingtobeheard: vikkiage: stfuconservatives: pantslessprogressive: \u201cThere are people calling this a form of ethnic cleansing and I can\u2019t figure out a reason why it isn\u2019t. Sure, not every Hispanic in the state is undocumented, but you could certainly forgive them for feeling that measures\u00a0this punitive\u00a0mean they aren\u2019t welcome. If the state is willing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[802,804,805,803],"class_list":["post-24761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","tag-alabama","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-water","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6rn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24763,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761\/revisions\/24763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}