Xenophobia abounds at American Trucking Network
Jun 1, 2007 Talk Radio
I was riding along last night listening to these fools as I normally do. They keep my blood pressure up and my eyes open, when little Stevie Sommers reads this email purportedly from a listener who has received an unsolicited phone call. A female hispanic voice (recorded) asking the listener to contact their Senators and Representatives and urge them to pass the Immigration Reform Bill as written.
The write of this email is incensed that a hispanic, (illegal of course in her mind) would dare to call her, would dare to use the same tools as the opponents of the plan are using and listening between the lines, the writer of the email was incensed that this Mexican is breathing the same air as herself.
And of course Stevie goes off on a rant, immediately indicating that this must be an illegal and faulting them for learning to use the system.
My question is. why is it, that in the minds of the mexenophobes, and the rest, that anything with a hispanic accent must be Mexican and therefore must be illegal? Something to think about.
And while we’re on the subject of the ATN, how about Stormy last night, of course having to throw in a story that at this moment can not be verified or substantiated. A truck carrying a 100 pounds of drugs under the sleeper apprehended somewhere out west and of course, the two drivers were…..HISPANIC! If it happened, and I have my doubts, the drivers were more than likely Mexican American. More spin and hysteria from the masters!
Landlinenow, the mouthpiece of OOIDA has an article about the Nuevo Foto Munoz operation in Chicago being a front for organized crime based in Mexico. Funny thing is I am reading the story in the Chicago Sun-Times and nowhere is it mentioned that the operation was associated with anything in Mexico. Only that Senor Munoz, is the father of a Chicago city Alderman. How about that! More anti hispanic spin!
And to close, listening to Dale Sommers yesterday afternoon as he was looking for something around him made in America, and picked up and item and said, “Nope, made in CHINKLAND”! And later, making comments about “ragheads in an airport”. I think it is time to take this dinosaur off the air in the same manner as they took Don Imus…And Imus’s comments pale in compare to the comments of the “Trucking Idiot”!
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August 30th, 2007 at 5:00
It is difficult for many people to take the time and effort to differentiate between ideas.
There are many brilliant and deep thinkers that are concerned with everything EXCEPT race/racism, as it supposedly applies to your argument.
It may or may not in many cases, yet persons that argue this particular argument cannot/will not understand (evidently) that so many other factors are present in Americans not wanting Mexican trucks in America.
I submit race is the LEAST problematic aspect of this dilemma
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August 30th, 2007 at 7:01
Good comment Fred. However, listening to the sarcasm in the hosts voice when anyone dares to disagree with him on this subject. The manner in which he throw an aside having to do with a Mexican into a conversation when none is needed, leads me to believe there is a little racism involved. Especially the condescending manner in which he talks to anyone with a hispanic background on the rare occasions they call the show.
Let’s face it. There is an anti hispanic hysteria sweeping this country, fueled in part I believe by some parties desires to cover up failures in public policy and the picadillos of public officials.
In the 50’s and 60’s, the blacks were the subject of this treatment, now, it’s the Mexicans.
We seem to forget these are human beings and as such, without regard to their legal status, they all have most of the same rights under the U.S. Constitution as the rest of us.
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November 12th, 2007 at 6:48
Dear ATN……….I just wanted to compliment your show (Steve Sommers). I’m not a trucker but enjoy it immensely, very few ads and I have trouble sleeping sometimes.
………I’ve learned a lot….thanks and keep up the good work and “keep on truckin’”
listening in Flint, MI
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November 13th, 2007 at 3:54
Uh Will, Wrong site. You need to post your adoration of those morons over on their on site. But thanks for the comment.
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