Racism: July 2008 Archives
The AP carried this article
over the weekend about what appears to be the racially-motivated
killing of a Latino migrant by a group of teenagers in rural
Pennsylvania:
MICHAEL RUBINKAM —
SHENANDOAH, Pa. (AP) —Luis Ramirez came to the U.S. from Mexico six years ago to look for work, landing in this town in Pennsylvania's coal region. Here, he found steady employment, fathered two children and, his fiancee said, occasionally endured harassment by white residents.
Now he is headed back to Mexico in a coffin.
The 25-year-old illegal immigrant was beaten over the weekend after an argument with a group of youths, including at least some players on the town's beloved high school football team, police said. Despite witness reports that the attackers yelled ethnic slurs, authorities say the beating wasn't racially motivated.
[Continued over at the DMI blog.]
