Arizona’s new anti-brown law
That’s right, Arizona’s come out of the closet: they now admit to considering it a problem to be brown. But how can that be true? According to CNN:
The law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they’re in the United States illegally.
The problem with the law isn’t immediately apparent. While on the surface it doesn’t appear to have anything about race…there’s something not being stated. Just like the original U.S. Constitution’s sly mention of freepersons, Indians, and “all other persons” (i.e., slaves), the new Arizona law doesn’t mention that the only people suspected of being in the United States legally are going to be those who are Mexican or appear to be Mexican. Someone I spoke to put it in an interesting light her half-Indonesian son, who looks Mexican, would be suspect in Arizona and harassed. After all, what does a Mexican look like? Nevermind that there are Mexicans whose families have lived in the area longer than whites have (it’s entirely irrelevant that the U.S. took the land, isn’t it?), Mexicans happen to be a group who Americans can see as any other racial group. Spanish? Looks Mexican to us. Romanian? Looks Mexican to us. Indian? Looks Mexican to us. Anyone who looks even vaguely brown-skinned is the target of this law.
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