The below quote was in response to a news article on CNN.com titled “Life inside a North Korean prison.” It is detailing what life could be like for jailed US reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a N. Korean prison camp.
Mark Primavera June 9th, 2009 12:59 pm ET
You play with fire you get burnt, North Korea is not like the US. You just cant sneak under a fence, or swim across a stream and cut grass for a living. You want to sneak into someone else’s country you pay the price. Too bad we don’t do the same with all the garbage from Mexico and Guatemala.
It is so tough to draw a line between ignorance, racism, and opinion. Unfortunately, decades ago, the three were tossed into a blender, pulse’d for generations, and now we all get to sip on the product - hate! Seriously, there are bad seeds in any race, religion, or creed… and to continue to label an entire group based on those bad seeds is, in my opinion, irresponsible. Before you can call someone, or some group, garbage, take a long look in the mirror and realize that the your disdain for “Mexicans and Guatemalans” or anyone for that matter who come here illegally is as shameful as the act of them getting here. So, as your taking the “garbage” out, realize your current way of thinking is merely a contribution to the pollution that is influencing the next generation. Hatred and ignorance are viral, they are contagious, and honestly I would much rather live a life with “garbage” than a virus. Garbage can always be recycled and turned into something useful, a virus destroys life.
