Re: Arizona and it's new racist immigration "laws"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Marilyn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The part of law that made me prickly is the fact that people must keep their paperwork on them at all time. It just reminds me of when freed Negroes had to do the same back in the old south after they were emancipated. </div></div>
<span style="font-style: italic"> "Black South Africans had to carry passbooks ("dom pas", meaning dumb pass) at all times, documentation proving they were authorized to live or move in "White" South Africa. The document was similar to an internal passport, containing details on the bearer such as their fingerprints, photograph, the name of his/her employer, his/her address, how long the bearer had been employed, as well as other identification information. A pass book without a valid entry then allowed officials to arrest and imprison the bearer of the pass.
These passes often became the most despised symbols of apartheid."</span>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Marilyn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The part of law that made me prickly is the fact that people must keep their paperwork on them at all time. It just reminds me of when freed Negroes had to do the same back in the old south after they were emancipated. </div></div>
<span style="font-style: italic"> "Black South Africans had to carry passbooks ("dom pas", meaning dumb pass) at all times, documentation proving they were authorized to live or move in "White" South Africa. The document was similar to an internal passport, containing details on the bearer such as their fingerprints, photograph, the name of his/her employer, his/her address, how long the bearer had been employed, as well as other identification information. A pass book without a valid entry then allowed officials to arrest and imprison the bearer of the pass.
These passes often became the most despised symbols of apartheid."</span>
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