A Milwaukee businessman uttered a racial slur to describe President Barack Obama during a news conference Wednesday in Waukesha City Hall that was organized by Wisconsin business leaders as part of a national call for immigration reform.
“I’m not seeing anybody doing anything,” said Dagoberto Ibarra, who ran for alderman in Milwaukee’s 8th District in 2004. “This is the most useless Congress in the last eight years, because a (N-word) is in charge.”
The remark came at the end of an impassioned speech in which Ibarra criticized the failure of both political parties to produce comprehensive immigration reform, a failure he attributed to discrimination against Latinos.
“If you’re white you’re OK,” he said. “If you’re not white, you’re selling drugs, you’re smuggling, you’re no good.”
It’s worth noting Dagberto Ibarra was asked to help assist with the press conference by Orville Seymer of the conservative group Citizens for Responsible Government, and also in attendance was Vincent Synowicz, a Republican candidate for Assembly in the 8th district.
This is what Wisconsin has become. One group attacks another group because they feel the other group is impeding their success. This is what “divide and conquer” does it pits people against people rather than people standing united for a solution that benefits the common good. When “divide and conquer” is working the elites at the top of our society profit while the rest of us gain nothing and actually slide backwards. Margret Meade said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”