Arizona Immigration Law SB1070... That's Racism!!

As being Latina so many times I've witnessed the racism that sad to say still exists in this country. Discrimination and racism against people just because where they come from, their skin color, or in other words many times for the simple reason of not being white. The same way that I've witnessed racism, I've also witnessed the white privilege that people have. Even though for many people this happens unconsciously, personally I think that this are advantages that white people have over the rest of people. From my own experience many times I get this surprised looks at me when I tell people that I am from Mexico. Most of the time people will say to me: "Really? How come? You're white." Of course what I answer is that not all Mexicans are brown as most people think. It's really sad to see how people can judge others just because of their skin color.
An issue that's been going around these days is the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070 that was passed on April 23rd. I'm not going to talk about immigration and illegal people here, since I believe this is not really the focus in our class but I do have to say that I think the pass of this law is an act of racism. To get familiar with it what this law requires is that all immigrants need to have their documents with them to verify their status, but this law also gives police officials an authority to stop a person if is there enough suspicion that the suspect is not a legal resident. Why is this racism? Well the question that is brought up is: How are police officers going to suspect that a person is not a legal resident? How are they going to know this for sure? Well the answer goes back to the fact that the only way for a police officer to stop someone will be because of the skin color they have, or according to their physical features and characteristics the place they come from.

I found these images by going to yahoo and just typing Arizona Immigration Law and this picture here at the bottom really got my attention. Here we can see a man who painted himself as a white man and then he has "Am I reasonably suspicious?" written all over his body. In other words trying to say that if you're a white person of course you will not be a suspicious suspect and this law will not affect you.


Through all this movement and since this law was passed it seems to be that the most affected people are Hispanics. Of course the law doesn't say that this will be applied only to Hispanics, but Hispanics clearly know that this law is directed to them. I'm sure that the police will not stop a white person but for sure they will stop Hispanics and who knows probably Asians and Black people too. Even president Obama declared this new law as a misguided law. Maybe you will think that I'm saying this because I'm Mexican, but Mexican or not I do believe that this law comes from racist people that want to "go back to the good old days" as we learned in class.