Posted on 11/23/2011 8:17:13 PM PST by Fred
Although Democratic legislators say they’re allied and united in favor of “diversity” and immigration, their supporters are deeply split, former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller.
“There is so much tension in every community… there are a lot of splits over immigration,” said Davis, who quit politics in 2010 after trying to win the Democratic nomination for governor in his home state of Alabama. For eight years, he represented the state’s 7th Congressional District, which was designed to include an African-American majority.
Some progressive African-American representatives, such as Georgia’s John Lewis, publicly ally with Hispanic ethnic advocates, such as Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez, to champion cultural “diversity” and acceptance of illegal immigrants.
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Every black woman that I’ve met in Houston opposes illegal immigration BIGTIME. I have more success with blacks than whites on this issue. IT’S A RULING-CLASS ISSUE.
The black citizens I’ve heard discuss illegal immigration aren’t at all happy that they’ve lost their largest minority group status because of Hispanic immigration, legal and illegal.
But most black ‘leaders’ seem to see many advantages in teaming up with other minorities politically.
interesting.
If we had money, we could help run immigration restrictionist Democrats, destroying the hate-whitey coalition. Sadly, the multiculturalists have the media and educations, and are funded by multinational corporations, who have no loyalty to America.
Hopefully a left-wing Mexican will beat Maxine Waters in a Dem primary and people will wake up. I just know her district is tilting more hispanic.
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