Farrakhan: Mexican President Was Right to Say Immigrants Take Jobs Blacks Don't Want

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[Sub-Driver]

Farrakhan: Mexican President Was Right to Say Immigrants Take Jobs Blacks Don't Want The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Mexican President Vicente Fox was right to say that Mexican immigrants take jobs "that not even blacks want."

Although Fox was sharply criticized for his remarks by some black leaders, Farrakhan said Sunday that blacks do not want to go to farms and pick fruit because they already "picked enough cotton."

"Why are you so foolishly sensitive when somebody is telling you the truth?" he asked the crowd at Mercy Memorial Baptist Church. He said blacks and Latinos should form an alliance to correct differences and animosity between the two communities.

Civil rights leaders including Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton have called on Fox to apologize for the remark. Fox has said he was commenting on the contributions that Mexicans make to the United States, and did not mean any offense.

[Marysecretary]

S/he sure does.

[MeanWestTexan]

Terrible. The alternative:

s(i) = 6/x

[dfwgator]

When is he going to finally get charged with killing Brother Malcolm?

[Shazbot29]

ping

(how's married life Cyborg?)

[cyborg]

Not yet :-) Next year hehehe but already I've been banished to the kitchen whilst he watches football.

[Shazbot29]

I thought the deed had been done.

I get so confused so easily! ;)

[cyborg]

My confusion is catching. Watch out ;o)

[RightWinger]

...because they already "picked enough cotton."

Very few blacks living today ever picked one ball of cotton!

[BayouCoyote]

Hispanics don't want to be lumped in with this group of professional whiners, IMO

That's a safe assumption on the Hispanic community. My mother certainly does not want to be affiliated with ANY "You owe me groups!".

[Howlin]

Exactly.

The thing is that people like Louie are beginning to realize that Hispanics have actual clout because they WORK hard and don't expect things handed to them on a platter.......it must be scaring them to death.........LOL.

[Willie Green]

Well, as one white boy who has done his share of manual farm labor, I can say this is a steaming load of fecal matter. Picking fruit or harvesting cotton is honest work. Calypso Louie, if Americans are "above" honest work then don't ask me to pay for their food or clothes.

True, stoop labor IS honest work.
But it is also backbreaking work that NOBODY really wants to do,
despite the fact that you can always find somebody desperate enough to do it.
These are the jobs that really should be replaced by technological innovation and automation.
Yet the pennypinching luddites in the Bush Administration undermine such technological development because they can always find cheaper peon labor somewhere.

[oceanperch]

LOL Was he being Sarcastic?

Should have responded with sarcasm:

And My People are fed up with PC Safety Caps, you bust a cap and I'll pick the Cotton.

[swampfox98]

I am just curious why a Baptist church would have a muslim --- who, by definition, denies the diety of Christ, denies He was crucified, and denies He rose from the dead --- speak at the church.

These blacks would have Satan himself speak if spoke against white conservatives.