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Title: Growing anger among blacks as Latinos 'take over'
Source:
suntimes.com
URL Source: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-immiblack07.html
Published: Apr 8, 2006
Author: ERIN TEXEIRA AP
Post Date: 2006-04-08 08:38:01 by Grumble Jones
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Views: 3299
Comments: 92
NEWARK, N.J. -- The men both stood in a busy hardware store parking lot, but their lives were far apart. On one end, Oscar Bautista of El Salvador said he had been waiting more than three hours for a job. Across the lot, Art Jackson loaded potting soil into his Dodge Durango. He complained that immigrants are making it harder for Americans to keep good jobs, especially blacks. ''You need to take care of home first,'' said Jackson, an African-American phone salesman from northern New Jersey. Blacks and Latinos are often united on social and political issues. But they often differ when it comes to immigration. Newcomers make black progress harder, said Wesley Crawford, who works at Source of Knowledge, a bookstore in Newark. ''It's a misconception that they're taking jobs we don't want. If you give people a good job, they will work.'' While Hispanic immigrants have protested a proposed crackdown on illegal immigration, the nation's most prominent black leaders have all been to New Orleans to try to stop the upcoming local election. Shortly after the storm, Jesse Jackson and others complained that Latino workers seemed to have more access than blacks to rebuilding jobs. Bruce S. Gordon, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said that African-American and Latino bonds are strong and that his ''spirit was there'' at the immigration marches. Most of the immigration protests have focused on a bill passed by the U.S. House that would make illegal immigration a felony, and all but one black voting member of Congress, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, was against it, according to the Congressional Black Caucus. Still, many blacks feel threatened, said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a black writer in Los Angeles. ''The civil rights leaders say we're all united, but the average person on the street is taking great offense at this group coming in and essentially taking over,'' he said. AP
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#22. To: Grumble Jones (#0)
The people who have been most screwed by this invasion have been the blacks. Not only are they losing out on jobs, but the neighborhoods that have been traditionally black are now filled with illegals crowding them out. Their kids are fighting them in the schools. I see it in my own neighborhood. The black "leadership" has abandoned its own people just as surely as the white leadership has. I think black and white Americans have to unite and recognize the common threat of this invasion. We have far more in common with each other than either of us has with the Latinos.
I'd much rather live in the average Mexican neighborhood than the average Black one. For starters, their music of choice sounds an awful lot like polka. Secondly, they have a good work ethic and are generally conservative. Third, the home cooking is better. Fourth, while they're living 10-to-a-trailer situations right now, they have their sights solidly set on becoming middle class, without expecting anyone to just "gift" that position to them. Reparations, anyone? Fifth, they seem genuinely friendly and open if you have a chance to get to know them.
I have to agree with you about Mexican food though - they should make that illegal instead of drugs and every Mexican in the world would be a millionaire! It's the greatest.
TexMex food bump.
Yup, it's the best....it's my Achilles heel. Maybe they put drugs IN the burritos to make them so addictive???? At any rate, I'm willing to let all the Mexican restauranteurs stay. :)
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#27. To: mehitable, Grumble Jones (#22)
I think black and white Americans have to unite and recognize the common threat of this invasion. We have far more in common with each other than either of us has with the Latinos.
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#36. To: lodwick (#35)
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