I'm confused as to why anybody would think Fox's statements, which are intuitively based upon a racial condition, would than make a derogatory statement against racism.
People of a different race, migrate here for jobs. OK. That intuitively speaks about a racial condition. Racist?,..so what,...that's the idea,...it's a racial situation being discussed.
Secondly, they are taking jobs that even blacks don't want!
Jesse Jackson then complains.
Well, which way does Jesse want to frame his worldview? Jesse Jackson has always argued that the 'black man' has been kept back because of his race.
So now another politician, speaking of conditions effecting people of his race, with respect to people of another race, in a foreign country described as a melting pot of races, yet which politically promotes an everlasting diversity of race, and is not criticised as being a 'racist'!
So what! The whole issue is based upon race. The issue is another race coming into this country and performing the least desirable work.
FWIW, I firmly believe Hispanics are exposed to far more racial prejudice than blacks with unjust consequence. Where's the outrage at Jesse calling other races, 'racist'?
"Racist" and "racial" are not synonymous. Fox made a racist remark because he made a disparaging assumption based on race - namely, that if you're black, you have such low self-respect that you'll take any stinky old job that someone will wave in front of you.