Friday, July 30, 2010

Pro-American Demonstration in Louisville

If you weren't in downtown Louisville yesterday, you missed the best street theater of the summer.

From the Courier:

Dozens of protesters denounced Arizona's pending immigration law outside federal offices in Louisville Thursday, then marched to the 4th Street Live district for "street theater" in which they confronted white passers-by with demands to see their citizenship papers.

"Sorry to disturb your walk, but you look like you're running across the border," demonstrator Shelton McElroy said to one woman on a brisk exercise walk through the restaurant district. "You have glasses on — are you hiding something?" he said to another woman wearing sunglasses.

The protesters said they were trying to give white, non-Hispanic passers-by — those they said would be least likely to be affected by racial or ethnic profiling — a taste of how things might be in Arizona if its law takes effect.

Read the whole thing.

Somebody rent a bus and get these people to Fancy Farm next weekend.

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