Posted on 08/13/2005 4:14:06 PM PDT by SC33
Save Our State, the in-your-face anti-illegal immigration group, was thrilled. Its long-held desire to forge ties to the black community was at last to be realized.
Invited to speak to a black community forum in Leimert Park this month, SOS founder Joseph Turner was sure that by the time he finished expressing his outrage about the impact of illegal immigration on jobs, schools and neighborhoods, Save Our State would have new, equally outraged allies.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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Turner's invitation to speak to the Urban Policy Roundtable, a forum run by the political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson, was rescinded shortly after it became public...
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Pro-immigration groups were outraged that Turner might gain such a well-known platform, and they were determined to stop him. They vowed to protest. Hutchinson was bombarded with angry e-mail.
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Hutchinson invited immigration advocates to present their side at the meeting, but none would share the podium with Turner.
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"Sometimes I think I have a better pulse on what's going on in the black community than the Al Sharptons of the world," Turner said... On that point, Hutchinson said, Turner is not far off the mark. "It all comes back to jobs. If Turner came, I believe he would have a huge constituency, a huge wellspring of sympathy and support. He would be met with thunderous applause."
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"...For Turner, the chance to speak at the Urban Policy Roundtable, a forum run by the political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson, would have been a coup on several fronts..."
"...Hutchinson's group has become an influential forum in South Los Angeles. Politicians and school officials make it a first stop when reaching out to blacks. Pro-immigration groups were outraged that Turner might gain such a well-known platform, and they were determined to stop him."
"They vowed to protest. Hutchinson was bombarded with angry e-mail. A liberal advocacy group sent him a five-page letter of "concerns" outlining what it called Save Our State's "violent, hateful, racist actions..."
"...It all comes back to jobs. If Turner came, I believe he would have a huge constituency, a huge wellspring of sympathy and support," Hutchinson said. "He would be met with thunderous applause."
"Hutchinson says he has seen firsthand the frustration among blacks at illegal immigration. At his meetings, the subject keeps coming up. The topic of the discussion could be autism or homelessness or relations between the community and the police. "About a year ago, I started noticing that no matter what the subject is, illegal immigration comes up," he said..."
Thanks for the excerpts!
Hutchinson invited illegal-immigration advocates...
There we go, fixed it. Turner's group is correctly listed as anti-illegal-immigration; their opposition should be identified correctly as well.
Hutchinson invited illegal-immigration advocates...
There we go, fixed it.
Good catch. Maybe I'll feign ignorance and write to the reporter of this fine news article asking her why the immigrant advocates were so upset over people wanting immigration laws to be enforced.
Contact Governor Perry here:
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact
Now is not the time to play politics. We need a strong bipartisan coalition.
I wish we could get hundreds of people to make calls to his office. Maybe then we could get his attention.
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