Daniel Donnelly   Jackson Heights, NY

Posted: 05:28 am [PST] on October 11 2007

Mainstream media feels that it has to advocate the polarized positions because that it was sells most. The median alternatives are less sensational.

gregchat3@yahoo.com   inglewood

Posted: 02:15 pm [PST] on September 16 2007

tax's & interest or high because politistion & media ignore the truth were under attack.from rackiteering on jobs,to money longering with are banks to mexico. just unequal justise for americans!

tex   south texas

Posted: 05:40 am [PST] on August 25 2007

racism is still around because blacks and mexicans still need it so when they want something all they have to do is scream racism and every body with something too lose will walk a way from it and not argue with them racism works for the people who cry about it I have black and mexican friends and they see things the way i do some people just have to much free time. people who use something that happen 200 or 300 hundred years ago for there own benfit are lossers every body suffers get over it life goes on i dont say i fought in world war but blacks say that some of them need money from the gov for what there forefathers had to face and its not whites who want aliens out of us its the hard workers of the us blacks whites mexicans asian and everyone else

Lisa Acuna   san antonio,texas

Posted: 10:29 am [PST] on June 30 2007

i will answer your 3rd question with a rhetorical one ;
why is it that the media will not write/speak about the radical islamists as murderers and hate mongers that they are and show all of their be-headings and hangings going on all over the entire world!
FEAR AND IGNORANCE...
example ;if one listens to the rhetoric from these so called indigenous groups...one would see the complete lack of knowledge of facts..! they scream...1848!..they scream 500 years ago.(they were conquered by spain..oops)...they say all of the U.S.belongs to "us".....(spaniards(not aztecs) claimed..not conquered)...(southwest US)...they say go back to europe....they say nothing about central america...how mexico brought in guatemalens for labour....they say nothing about wanting phillipines, costa rica, carribean..etc..it is really funny what teachers and professors are teaching..hate speech...they have even taken cesar chavez and molded him to their purpose...."si se puede!" was used for Mexican americans..he was against illegal immigrants because they pulled their wages down!!! with slurs like "they want to deport your babies".....WOW!!the leaders spew so much disinformation that the followers swallow like the vulnerable babies that they are!!
if we look at mexicos history we see that not much has changed! it is as corrupt and disabled as it ever was !!
oh, and one last thing...all of us who have spanish blood...should go back to spain!!ha...and only "indigenous" can have whatever!
the rest of us conquered and slaughtered.....oops.yikes...that would include me, darn!

NoBody   Any

Posted: 01:55 pm [PST] on June 28 2007

As the GI's in Europe after the second world war, who loved to stay would not had support from Billions of people anywhere from France, Germany, Swiss, Belgium, Italy, Spain etc.
Europe has more multicultural that any place in the world. When the American was station there many where of there people who loved to make a better living in European countries,
Companies or corporations paid a lot of money to get any US guy in his company.
Without betraying.
Here is gender bigotry, racial bigotry and religious bigotry. Those forces are very real and they first time have a fanatical bent to in this country. That it is an easy target for exploitation by unscrupulous persons as a sport, who take advantage of the aspirations of foreigners to immigrate to the United States. How many Builders, subcontractors, etc, Banks without ethics do it and did it. Scruples Billions of Dollars lost in the US because of it. It is a shame. Why no one is writing about that?

There is gender bigotry, racial bigotry and religious bigotry
Those forces are very real and they first time have a fanatical bent to
in this Country that it is an easy target for exploitation by unscrupulous persons who
take advantage of the aspirations of foreigners to immigrate to the United
States.

Ruthiness   Norristown, PA

Posted: 08:21 am [PST] on May 02 2007

What is behind these protests is much deeper than racism.. the socialists and communists are using the illegal immigration issue and the millions of easily manipulated hordes for their own purpose and that purpose is to destroy America as we know it. With each passing day I become more and more saddened by what I see the hate and insurgency being tolerated in this country. I see a bloody Civil War as the result of our government's total inaction on this issue.

Connie Sjoberg   Carlsbad, CA

Posted: 09:59 am [PST] on May 01 2007

I believe the racism is on the part of the illegal immigrants, esp. the Mexicans because I've heard my jr. high students express their allegiance to Mexico and that this is THEIR land (the U.S.) I've heard this year after year in the classroom. Current laws will help, but we need to change the citizenship by birth law that allows illegals' U.S. orn children to be automatic citizens. The media advocates only polarized positions because the most of the media is owned by left wing democrats/and or by large corporations that want the cheap labor to protect their profits. The Dems and Repubs.pander to illegals for the hispanic vote.
Consequently, we're doomed, unless the everyday American citizen becomes informed of the critical nature of this issue. Most of America is sleeping or too tuned in to Anna Nicole Smith or American Idol, to be bothered to get involved. What a pity.

Nancy Hubbard   Rancho Mirage

Posted: 10:01 am [PST] on May 01 2007

Both political parties want illegal aliens here.
We need to find another party or a candidate
independent enough to actually represent American citizens. Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter are always marginalized by press and most Republicans.

Gordon Gala   Sacramento, Cal.

Posted: 01:13 am [PST] on April 30 2007

This was an eye-openning show, thank you, Leslie.

Wm Bell   Georgia

Posted: 04:14 am [PST] on April 25 2007

The first question is very confusing. Some of the people who boycott will be motivated because they truly believe that the have been or will be discriminated against. For most though it is just a "smoke screen" to deflect attention from the radical beliefs they have and their ultimate goals.
The media thrives on polarization because it causes "fights". For them, it is much better to cover a "fight" than to cover a civil debate based on reasoning.