Immigration activists plan to picket the NBA Western Division title game at Staples Center Monday evening, because Lakers coach Phil Jackson said he has no problem with Arizona’s controversial new illegal immigration law.The Lakers issued this response to the planned protest:
Jackson criticized the Phoenix Suns players for unanimously voting to wear jerseys that said “Los Suns” to indicate their opposition to the Arizona law, ESPN.com basketball columnist J.A. Adande wrote earlier this month.
When Adande told Jackson that some feel the Arizona Legislature had usurped federal law, Jackson countered Arizona is “not usurping, it’s just copying it is what they said they did, and then they give it some teeth to be able to enforce it.”
Those comments have prompted the Mexican-American Political Association and Southern California Immigration Coalition to plan to picket Monday’s Lakers game. “We are not happy with the position that Phil Jackson took,” said the group’s leader, Nativo Lopez.
“We want to call on Jackson and the Lakers to put on their ‘Los Lakers’ jerseys, especially considering the tremendous support that the Lakers have enjoyed from the communities specifically targeted by the misguided and racist Arizona law,” Lopez said.
“We want to welcome `Los Suns’ of Arizona and thank them for the symbolic support,” he said.
The groups plan informational picketing at 5 p.m. outside the ESPN Zone restaurant and TV studios during pregame telecasts on the sports network, and then plan to march one block to protest in front of Staples Center.
Jackson’s team will take on the Phoenix Suns in a best-of-seven game series that begins at 6 p.m. Monday to determine which team will represent the Western Conference during the NBA Finals.
In his interview with the ESPN.com writer, Jackson posed the question “Am I crazy, or am I the only one that heard [the Arizona Legislature] say `We just took the United States immigration law an adapted it to our state.”
Jackson also criticized the Suns players for taking the issue from the political arena into sports arena by wearing the “Los Suns” jerseys. “Where we stand as basketball teams, we should let that kind of play out and let the political end of that go where it’s going to go.”
"We will not be getting involved in choosing sides among our many different support groups in any debate, nor will we be getting involved in political issues of this nature."Good.
This whole thing reminds me of the inquisition carried out against Proposition 8 supporters in 2008. Those who opposed gay marriage, which had been deemed politically correct by the media and activists they promoted, were in some cases shunned, driven out of their jobs, or otherwise economically punished. The same thing is happening now.
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And I'm not at all happy with the "Mexican Political Association and Southern California Immigration Coalition" plan to picket the Monday night Laker's game!!! I purposely left out the name American because they are not worthy of using it, just obey the law's of the U.S. and Arizona and they will have no problems, otherwise if they are illegaly in the U.S. they should be arrested and have their rear thrown out of our country.
Where is the media? where are the cry's that this type of protest could lead to violence? Where is the media calling these people Racist. Oh! that's right those out cry's are reserved for conservitive white AMERICANS!!!!
The media today is anti American, and this type of silence proves it.
Los DUMMIES, Well they got something right.
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