Three Cheers for Carlos Santana

Santana blasts Georgia immigration bill before Braves game
http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/santana-blasts-georgia-immigration-946782.html?cxtype=rss_news
By Carroll Rogers

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Santana took his turn at the podium on the field in a pre-game ceremony before the Braves-Phillies game to criticize the immigration bill just signed into law by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Friday.

“I represent the human race,” the Mexican-born Carlos Santana said. “The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.”

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Shortly after the game started, Santana met with the media in an impromptu gathering in the Turner Field press box after word of his comments began to break on the Internet and through social media.

He said the law is based on racism and economic anxiety. “This is about fear, that people are going to steal my job,” Santana said of the law. “No we ain’t. You don’t clean toilets and clean sheets, stop shucking and jiving.”

Santana referenced his 1960s rock-n-roll background and said he is an artist unafraid to speak out. "It’s an anti-American law. It’s a cruel law, actually," Santana said. "If you all remember what it was like here with Martin Luther King and the dogs and the hoses, it’s the same thing, only it’s high tech. So let’s change it.”

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Not a question but a credit, Carlos.

I am going to go buy some Santana music just to show appreciation for his bravery in standing up to the people writing and forcing the passage of these hideous, anti-American laws!

Live coverage of the exposure is crucial, because once it's "out there" it cannot be edited out:)

MLB's deleted clip (booo, hisssss)
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=14844955

with the vile, racist AZ SB 1070, I'm still ashamed of my state.

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Of course you have, bless your heart...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:illegal

To quote from the above site:

Why would you, as a member of Democratic Underground, condone that kind of dehumanizing characterization of a fellow human being?

I have the same problem with the kids and dogs thing, but it's the white guy down the street that sits around drinking beer all day while his kids run the neighborhood. Is there a chance I can get him deported?:shrug:

:eyes:

What the hell does any of that have to do with the law(s)?

And how the hell do you know they are "illegals?"

start lovin' you..."
:yourock:

(What happened to the two chocolate bunnies? Always got a chuckle out of me).

Thanks for the thread, SoCalDem.

For not giving props to Cachao for the killer hook in Oy Como Va.

This gives Carlos a bump, but he has a long way to go

in context!)

:rofl:

Who knew any of those guys spoke Yiddish?

:rofl:

K & R

Be nice if a few of our famous "whites" spoke the same truth in the same manner.

This one just gets added to the list.

It's kinda ironic that a civil rights game was played in this state, just two days after the law was signed into effect.

Could you imagine if a white person was stopped and asked to show their papers to a police officer. This country would be in a real tizzy then. But of course I forgot that there are no white people here illegally.

Bet he is the first many in the crowd had heard speak on the issue.

Is that another name for Charlie Sheen?

"You don’t clean toilets and clean sheets..."

Actually, Carlos, plenty of American citizens do clean toilets and clean sheets. However, I'm certain that Carlos Santana has not cleaned any toilets or sheets in the last 40+ years, so he can go fuck himself.

Santana bitched at the fans at a baseball game in Georgia about laws addressing illegal immigrants in Georgia and Arizona. Trying to compare the plight of African Americans citizens for their civil rights with the struggle by illegal aliens to not be kicked out of the country they invaded illegally is specious at best.

Not this week. :7