(NAME-MCE) Racism and College Republicans

[Paul C.Gorski]

Subject: Workers.org article:
http://www.workers.org/2007/editorials/campus-0308/


EDITORIAL 

Stop campus racism

Published Mar 2, 2007 11:15 PM 

The more than 300 students and activists who confronted vicious
anti-immigrant organizing by the New York University (NYU) College
Republicans deserve a cheer for their act of solidarity. They turned out to
protest a white supremacist "contest" offensively named "Catch the Illegal
Immigrant."

These right-wing events are being organized on campuses across the country.
One person is secretly tagged as an "immigrant." Students are encouraged to
hunt and capture the person for a cash prize. Reactionaries like the Young
Americans for Freedom and Young Republicans have organized this "game."

Billed as "sport," this event acts out the actual fascist vigilantism of the
so-called Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border. It is historically
reminiscent of racist lynch mobs and bounty hunters chasing African peoples
under the "Fugitive Slave Act."

This "game" has been organized at a time when political pundits like Lou
Dobbs have been given endless airtime to deliver classical fascist rants and
harangues that undocumented workers are an "enemy within."

Anti-racists turned out in much greater numbers than the reactionaries at
NYU, as they have at other campuses in the U.S., including Michigan State,
the University of Michigan and Penn State. These youth and their allies have
demonstrated that it is the immigrant-bashers that are the "enemy within."

This anti-racist protest in solidarity with undocumented workers revived the
truth that many marched in support of in the 1960s: "There are no borders in
the workers' struggle." This solidarity-in word and in deed-is a model for
how to shut down these white supremacists trying to whip up vigilante
mentality.

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