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Nebraska is a Volleyball school
This got long-winded. If you want, just skip the next few paragraphs and read the quoted article about the shenanigans going on in my hometown.
I was born in Fremont, NE - population 25,000. Not my fault - mom lived there, so I was kinda stuck with it. It's a small town with small goals and equally small minds. So small, in fact, that for decades that have worked hard to keep industry out of town - don't want a solid economy or anything silly like that, you know.
Fremont already has a major industry - Hormel meat packing plant. When I was a kid, Hormel was the town's largest employer, with about 600 workers. Kid's guesstimate says prolly about 90-95% of them were White, mostly because Fremont was all White. There was one Black kid in my high school (about 1,000 total kids), and maybe about two dozen Vietnamese. The rest were pasty White, just like me.
About the time I left, two decades ago, the meat-packing industry began to hire a LOT of Hispanics from down south. They relocated, and suddenly Fremont has a burgeoning Hispanic population.
Unfortunately, a burgeoning conscious didn't come with these folks. So some idiot from my (now-embarrassing) hometown promulgates a law that has drawn national attention for its attempt to rescue Fremont from the scourge of illegal immigrants - nevermind the fact that the total Hispanic population of Fremont is about 1,000 people (2010 census), and if even half of them are illegal I'll eat my hat. The law states, basically, that you cannot hire or rent or sell property to illegal immigrants, thus forcing employers and landlords/real estate agencies to check the legal status of all - that's right, all - persons who want to gain employment or find a place to live in lovely, lovely Fremont.
But that's not even the stupidest part of this dumb law. As I pointed out to my pops (who voted in favor of this law), the major target of it is Hormel, and Hormel sits outside the city limits - meaning the law doesn't even apply to them. Brilliant.
Here's an article that was just on the front page of Yahoo news. I'm so proud....
I was born in Fremont, NE - population 25,000. Not my fault - mom lived there, so I was kinda stuck with it. It's a small town with small goals and equally small minds. So small, in fact, that for decades that have worked hard to keep industry out of town - don't want a solid economy or anything silly like that, you know.
Fremont already has a major industry - Hormel meat packing plant. When I was a kid, Hormel was the town's largest employer, with about 600 workers. Kid's guesstimate says prolly about 90-95% of them were White, mostly because Fremont was all White. There was one Black kid in my high school (about 1,000 total kids), and maybe about two dozen Vietnamese. The rest were pasty White, just like me.
About the time I left, two decades ago, the meat-packing industry began to hire a LOT of Hispanics from down south. They relocated, and suddenly Fremont has a burgeoning Hispanic population.
Unfortunately, a burgeoning conscious didn't come with these folks. So some idiot from my (now-embarrassing) hometown promulgates a law that has drawn national attention for its attempt to rescue Fremont from the scourge of illegal immigrants - nevermind the fact that the total Hispanic population of Fremont is about 1,000 people (2010 census), and if even half of them are illegal I'll eat my hat. The law states, basically, that you cannot hire or rent or sell property to illegal immigrants, thus forcing employers and landlords/real estate agencies to check the legal status of all - that's right, all - persons who want to gain employment or find a place to live in lovely, lovely Fremont.
But that's not even the stupidest part of this dumb law. As I pointed out to my pops (who voted in favor of this law), the major target of it is Hormel, and Hormel sits outside the city limits - meaning the law doesn't even apply to them. Brilliant.
Here's an article that was just on the front page of Yahoo news. I'm so proud....
