Question:
Is documentation is racism ?
chupa_minor
2006-07-07 21:04:46 UTC
Do you need documetation if you are
gay ? white ? black ? jewish ?
stright ? fat ? bisexual ? handicap ? have blue eyes ?
the answer is no

do you need documentation if you are hispanic ?
yes.

Why dothe Americans insist on discriminating a certain cross section of humanity ?
23 answers:
anonymous
2006-07-07 21:08:02 UTC
All immigrants have to have documents. My parents are immigrants, and they have documentation. Is this racist? Absolutely not. No one is singling out hispanic immigrants for documentation, this is something required of all immigrants. I also have documentation of sorts. It is called a social security card. I also have photo id. Your question lacks knowledge of common sense.
anonymous
2006-07-07 21:12:28 UTC
You don't need documentation if you are Hispanic - you need documentation if you are not a citizen of the United States and would like to be here either for a visit or to live here. You are a criminal if you make the choice to come to the United States illegally. Why won't you just get in line, do things the legal way?



A nation without borders is not a nation at all. Should the US take anyone at all that can manage to make it to our shores? Everyone in Africa, Asia, Europe, where? Where would it stop or do you think it should just be a free for all? Chaos would reign and the middle class would disappear completely.
caesar x
2006-07-07 21:41:29 UTC
The government has a right to know exactly who is in the country, where they are and what they're up to. Most Americans are documented be they balck, white, jew or gay. They have passports, drivers licenses, SS#'s, green cards and other forms of ID. What the hell is so special about hispanics that they should not be documented as well, particularly those among them that have entered the country illegally?
Sean L
2006-07-07 21:24:55 UTC
No it is not. Census takes everyone in to account, white black, hispanic, asian etc. Half of the applications for jobs, schools, etc, take that info as well. It is for statistic reasons only. It is spread accross the board with all races in America. We all fill out the same forms, the same documents, and check that little box of our color, our sex, our age, etc. Educate yourself before you pose a question. Why do people insist on discriminating a certain cross section of humanity? YOU HAVE JUST STEROTYPED BY SAYING AMERICANS INSIST ON DISCRIMINATING as if america is the only country that does? Therefore you fall into a racist category by that statement.
DAR
2006-07-07 21:10:55 UTC
Actually, we all need documentation for all sorts of things.



It isn't the documents, it is whether there was space in our education and service programs allotted for you, and whether you were one we chose to receive those subsidies we pay for.



Many hispanics need the same documentation I have. That is to say, they are American. Others are legally here.



Illegal immigrants from other countries are in the same position as illegal hispanic immigrants.



When there were fewer, we didn't make a fuss. But paying for 12 to 20 million to be educated and have health care when our own can't get adequate education and health care is insane.



Mexico doesn't give these things to their own people, so why on earth should we be expected to do that?
Ark
2006-07-07 21:10:39 UTC
Don't feel special, everyone needs some form of documentation to prove that they are indeed a citizen.



And you need special documentation if you are an immigrant, whether gay or white or black or jewish or straight (you spelled it wrong up there, bud) or fat or bisexual or handicap or blue-eyed OR hispanic.



Y'see? Good.
anonymous
2006-07-07 21:10:14 UTC
Discrimination is not an American tradition. It is a tradition that plagues the world's societies.



You do not need documentation to prove that you are a minority. Additionally, the term minority is becoming meaningless (especially in California). We have more Hispanics than what you refer to as whites. We have more Asians in the South Bay that what you might call white.



No one insists on discrimination. That is an trait of some individuals. It is usually because they are afraid or ignorant of their own limitations and feel the need to blame others.
Sashie
2006-07-07 21:15:20 UTC
I really do think you're posting your inane questions (about 3 or 4 tonight I think) just to get a rection ... you can't seriously mean that you think that "Hispanics" are the only ones who are required to have what you refer to as "documentation"? All legal immigrants have their green card ... all American citizens that I know of have photo ID of one description or another ... we all have social security numbers ... if you are an ILLEGAL person, Hispanic or otherwise, you don't have what is required by law ... which is a valid entry permit, and if you are immigrating, proper documentation or proof that you have applied for immigration or citizenship ... that really isn't all that difficult to understand, is it? And it has absolutely nothing to do with racism, if that's what you're implying ....
Julie
2006-07-07 21:33:15 UTC
LEGAL entry into a country and proper documentation and following the laws is required in just about every country, and many of them, Mexico for example, have stiff penalties for violating these and being in a country illegally. That is what laws are for. Anyone violating the laws is illegal and as such is a criminal. Yes America requires documentation on ALL immigrants and so do lots of other countries.



DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS



ENGLISH ONLY IN AMERICA
anonymous
2006-07-07 21:07:03 UTC
If you want a handicap parking spot you gotta be documented, sooooo, and its not just hispanics, if you immigrate from any other place you have to be documented, including white and black and indian.
aenease5974
2006-07-07 21:15:30 UTC
Americans have the right to be here Hispanics don't unless they have their papers. We can't help it they weren't born here but the Us has to keep up with who comes and goes. When should they be allowed to come here and not pay taxes but get the money. Getting your papers are important then you have the right to complain you will have a ss# so you will have to pay taxes these people who come over here work but don't pay their way. so why should we cry discrimination because they don't want to do right. We have to have a passport when we leave the country so they should have their papers when they enter the US PERIOD.
question guy
2006-07-07 21:17:53 UTC
Any country, including the US, has the right and duty to control its borders. There is no right for foreigners to live and work in the US. Foreigners who do live and work here need to follow US laws. One of those laws requires foreign workers to have and present to employers certain types of documentation. Documentation is not racist. Declaring legal documentation racist demeans and diminishes true racist acts.
Argon
2006-07-07 21:07:26 UTC
Everyone needs documentation in the form of photo-identification. If you are not a citizen of this coutnry, that documentation is a bit more complicated, but that's just how the cookie crumbles.
de rak
2006-07-08 00:09:54 UTC
I am a pure bred white boy. I have documentation. My documentation is my California state identification card, my US passport, and my Social Security Card.



This is a stupid and ignorant question.

I am so sick of people turning this into a racist issue.
yars232c
2006-07-07 22:39:57 UTC
I think you should consider having a labotomy - but you must insist on having it done by an undocumented surgeon.



Please take that argument to any other country and see how far you get. America won't put up with it either.
leopard
2016-12-08 22:03:32 UTC
by ability of specific "human beings" you ought to intend Democrats. i did not like Bush, yet calling a dumb Texan "Whitey" isn't racist for a white boy. Calling Obama "Coon" may be. Unfair, yet actual. some persons are gentle and its demanding telling what can set some cultural communities off. boost Iran and the Holocaust and additionally you get a team of annoyed Jews. you do not even ought to recent an opinion, its already there.
hexa
2006-07-07 21:40:18 UTC
You stupid ***, everybody has document's, even you, you want to try to go to another country without documents, and see how far you get. and if your an American citizen you have document's, your even born with document's, birth certificate,
anonymous
2006-07-07 21:22:36 UTC
EVERYONE needs to be documented. Americans have social security numbers. Ring any bells?
Kent S
2006-07-07 21:12:18 UTC
Actually, I have documentation that says that I have blue eyes, it's called a driver's license.
TROLLIN'
2006-07-14 11:13:50 UTC
Stop with your "americans are total racists to the hispanics" ****. Also, stop asking stupid questions before checking the facts. Cuz it looks to me like you got them ALL WRONG.
ssgtusmc3013
2006-07-07 22:57:35 UTC
you are a real winner,it is the law, you need to know who is here and why. also try using a brain to ask the next question, and stop trying togoaround the law.
anonymous
2006-07-07 21:10:13 UTC
No. You only need documentation if you weren't born here you stupid son of a *****!
Chris
2006-07-07 21:51:21 UTC
You need documentation if you're not a citizen. Duh.


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