Dear Rhett Smith

Thank you for such an informative and true e-mail concerning the Civil Rights Committee.  I intend to work on this issue.  Please keep me on your e-mail list.  Thanks

rhett smith <rhett.smith@yahoo.com> wrote:

                       Thank you ,...   Truer words were never spoken,....     for everyone in our community of San Antonio and everyone in Texas who cares about the legacy we create for our children and our grandchildren,.... now is the time to take a stand,.... that  21st century America will not carry forward the same burden and shame that marked our 20th century...

 

  I believe the Immigration raids presently
being conducted in more-racist parts of the country, are very much a
"civil rights" issue, which bears closer attention by this committee, or
another one like it. The "anti-immigrant" movement and sentiment, which
is particularly 99% aimed at Hispanics, is not just affecting
"undocumented migrant workers", but is also subtly fomenting 'racial
profiling' against American Citizen Hispanics, as well by other ethnic
groups. It is reviving old racist feelings within our country, which
many before us sacrificed their freedom and their blood for. In respect
to their memory - we must FIGHT. We continue to watch on TV handcuffed
minority (Blacks, Hispanic) detainees being sadistically assaulted, or
killed, by police officers.

If we do not promptly send a LOUD AND CLEAR message all the way to The
White House, The Department of "Justice" in particular, and our
legislators, we will only see this carefully orchestrated Bush
administration racially-motivated agenda continue to feed on itself.
"Those who choose to ignore history, are doomed to repeat it."

"Those who would deny freedom to others, do not deserve freedom unto
themselves, and will live to see it disappear before their own eyes,"
(or words to that effect were spoken by) - Abraham Lincoln