Last year we had a rally on May Day at the Oregon State Capital in which Governor Kitzhaber signed a bill granting all Oregon residents a drivers card. Racist Oregon residents circulated a petition immediately after effectively revoking the privilege of driving from people they consider should not have this privilege. It is amazing what fear and ignorance can do to poor uneducated folks.
How ignorant can people get? This drivers card has NOTHING to do with immigration laws, immigration rights or immigration privileges. It has to do with people actually being held accountable for what they do while driving. Do these racist folks really believe that if not given a drivers license people will simply not drive?
The economy is being hurt by keeping all Oregon residents from a drivers card. The drivers card would increase funding for everyone from government agencies to private businesses. People are always bitching about the economy, Governor Kitzhaber comes up with a way of increasing revenues and pumping money into the economy while not changing any immigration laws or affecting anyone negatively and people go crazy. This card would generate funds in processing the card itself. It would also allow Oregon residents to venture out and spend money in places they can't typically reach with out flawed transportation systems.
Racism is an UGLY thing, and this is the perfect example of how a racist person can get screwed with their own ideology. I still wonder what reasons people have for not wanting other drivers to be as accountable/identifiable as they are? I wonder if they actually believe that this affords brown people some kind of new immigration gain? The quality of life for the group affected by not having this card would not change much with the gain of this card. It would be business owners who would be affected positively. I hope come November people vote the right way for all Oregonians.
We are rallying/marching again this year! The May Day event will again be at the state capital building in Salem. We will be there 11:00 - 1:00. Come out and join us.
What's more ironic is that the bigotry around here is always crying for limited government, but in this case they want more overreach by DMV.....
ReplyDeleteJust like Marriage equality, which they claim is based on their religous beliefs yet you don't see them stoning adulterers.