Quote from kut2k2:
Agreed, illegal immigration isn't -- or shouldn't be -- about race. Unfortunately racists make up a significant portion of the anti-illegal activists (imagine how that makes an anti-racist, pro-nationalist like me feel). Other states would be wise to follow the model of California's Prop 187, which was as race-free as an anti-illegal-alien proposal could be. Arizona has put itself in the unfortunate position of looking like racial profiling, which left it vulnerable to accusations of racism, whether justified or not. That it was written by a guy who seems to pal around with white supremacists doesn't help one bit.
The question asked in this thread was why the teabaggers didn't feel strongly enough about this issue to take to the streets before Obama became president. The timing does seem suspicious for most of these teabaggers who were oddly silent when Repubs were in charge.