It’s always awful to hear stories like this out of the world of politics:

One week ago, the Kansas House Federal and State Committee held a hearing about in-state tuition being granted to the children of undocumented immigrants, which has been the policy in the state since 2004.

Speaking in favor of repealing the law, Rep. Connie O’Brien (R-KS) began telling an anecdote at the hearing about how her son had difficulty in getting financial assistance to attend college. She explained that she took her son to a financial aid office, and as she was waiting in line, she believed there was a girl waiting in line with them who was “not originally from this country.” Fellow committee member Rep. Sean Gatewood (D-KS) asked O’Brien how she knew this student was “illegal.” O’Brien replied that she knew because the student “wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian, and she had the olive complexion”:

The blind, idiot hate on display here is breathtaking, and has clearly clouded O’Brien’s mind. Why does she assume that Zombies are automatically immigrants of any sort, let alone undocumented? Most American Zombies were, in fact, already Americans before they died, and so should retain their citizenship when that death proves a temporary inconvenience.* Why can’t a Zombie go to your schools, Rep. O’Brien?

Isn’t the real issue here that you think Zombies aren’t real Americans, aren’t real *people*, Ms. O’Brien? Is that why you reach for tenuous and quite frankly unsupportable conspiracy theories about how all Zombies are somehow not Real Americans, and don’t deserve a higher education at in-state rates like their Living cohorts?

Let’s remind everyone just who Rep. O’Brien means when she rants against young people with an ‘olive complexion’ trying to go to school. She means Zombies, Zombies like our own Spokeszombie Tim:

Why should Zombie kids from Kansas, kids much like Tim, have to pay more for the same education? Why does their treatment by the state of Kansas have to be separate but thoroughly unequal?

I’ll tell you why, and bluntly too: because Rep. O’Brien and people like her are Living Supremacist bigots.

Period.

*The 14th Amendment governs U.S. Citizenship, and reads in the relevant portion:

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Notice that there is no exception for Undeath, not even for regular death, though since regular corpses don’t object I think we can let that one slide. Zombies aren’t just People Too, they’re Americans Too.

One might even take the expansive view that rising in Undeath is a second sort of ‘birth’, and thus that Zombies who didn’t have American citizenship pre-mortem should have a claim on it afterward, but we can leave that argument for another day.

Tags: Social Justice

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