The Monkey Made Me Do It
My English Teacher Asked Me To Describe One Law I Would Be Willing To Break

      In the state of Alabama, a new law has been passed. One like the controversial immigration law of Arizona, but much stricter, and much more potent. This law requires, that anyone who knows an illegal immigrant must report such persons to the state, and that if they do not, they can go to jail.

   Let me elaborate on this. If you give an illegal immigrant a car ride, knowingly or unknowingly, you can go to jail. Let one stay in your home, knowingly or unknowingly, you can go to jail. Give one food of any kind for any reason, you can go to jail. In a survey I did in one college classroom, near half of the students admitted to committing a crime punishable by jail time-

In the state of Alabama.

   If I were in the state of Alabama, I would be breaking state law. But considering that by following the law I would be putting 3 children in state run care and sending a woman to foreign country who has been here since the age of 13, a woman who went to college and pays her taxes, I think it’s just a risk I would have to take.

Even in the state of Alabama

 -Herschel

Hate and Fear Still Present

   The hate and fear of Mexicans and those south of the border is not only unfounded but outdated. According to a Pew Hispanic Center, the number of Mexicans coming into the country is now roughly equal to the number going back over the border. This brings the number of illegal immigrants in the country to a stagnate number.-NPR But they are still in the news, people are still being targeted for having brown skin, this while the number of Chinese entering the country reaches record numbers.

   Today I saw a clip of the president of the NAACP Benjamin Jealous, as he and the NAACP as a whole came out in favor of gay rights, declaring that gay rights is indeed civil rights.

   What was so moving for me was not so much seeing the NAACP come out in favor 62 to 2 in a vote of the board, but rather the emotion which propelled Benjamin Jealous, and how he became choked up as he spoke of his parents in a time when in order for a white person and a black person to get married, they have to go often hundreds of miles. People seeing the wedding party coming back thought that it was a funeral procession, because of all the people heading back all that way just so they could have a party in their own home after the marriage.

   All I can say is that it is this kind of unity that really makes big changes in this world.

More power to you Benjamin Jealous- HerscheL

I’m so doing that next time we o to Wendy’s

I’m so doing that next time we o to Wendy’s

My hair… is that awesome

My hair… is that awesome

Freakin OSTRICH!

Freakin OSTRICH!

Ahhhhh, romance…

Ahhhhh, romance…

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