Redneck Wisdom on Immigration
I was just reading an enlightening article in the New Yorker on the return of the untenable anti-immigrant platform among Republicans when I came across a thought-provoking quote from a South Carolina man. Its clarity and sophistication speaks volumes.
“Some of these people may be coming in here to get jobs washing dishes, but some of them are coming in here to hijack airplanes,” he explained. “If you’re down there trying to look at the people coming across the border, maybe a lot of them are just motivated by economics, and they want a job washing dishes or cutting grass. But I can’t tell Jose Cuervo from the Al Qaeda operatives by looking at them, because they cut their beard off. It’s like trying to get fly manure out of pepper without your glasses on, you know? I mean, not a racist thing, but they’re all brown with black hair and they don’t speak English and I don’t speak Arabic or Spanish, so if they don’t belong here and they don’t come here legally, I want to know who’s here.”
Let’s just hope this ape hasn’t evolved enough to handle electronic voting.
