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Growing Anger Among blacks as Latinos 'take over'
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 4/7/06

Posted on 04/07/2006 9:28:30 AM PDT by areafiftyone

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.


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KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; blacks; illegalimmigration; immigration; latinos
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To: MadeInAmerica
Very telling statement. Taking over WHAT exactly?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a black activist and writer here in Los Angeles. He does have his ear to the ground in the black community here. What he's talking about is formerly black neighborhoods are becoming Latino. Like many other ethnic groups in the past, blacks are moving out of what they had come to see as their traditional neighborhoods as Latinos flood in.

Small businesses are now mostly Latino operated, and jobs in once black neighborhoods are now going to Latinos. Schools that were once nearly all black, or black and whites in the lower economic strata, are now mostly Latino.

Black politicians like Maxine Waters, who had represented central and south central L.A., find themselves almost strangers in increasingly Latino districts. Our Marxist legislature gerrymandered a larger district for Maxine, bringing the district lines much further south and west to follow the movement of blacks out of central and south central L.A. It's likely to be only a temporary reprieve as inner city L.A. becomes all Latino.

Tensions between black and Latino highschool and middle school students often runs high and turns violent every once in awhile.

Latino gangs are pushing on black gangs.

In the not too distant future, with the exception of a few enclaves, the population of the City of Los Angeles will be almost all Latino.

101 posted on 04/07/2006 5:04:35 PM PDT by Wolfstar (You can't tell me it all ends in a slow ride in a hearse...No, this can't be all there is...)
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To: SkyPilot

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


102 posted on 04/07/2006 5:07:04 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: areafiftyone

They are finally getting the message. Entry-level jobs are becoming less available to blacks and to lower class whites.


103 posted on 04/07/2006 5:11:32 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: areafiftyone

this one was a no brainer

if the hood thought Laotians and Koreans were "takin over"


104 posted on 04/07/2006 5:15:06 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Acts 2:38
Cubans get along with everyone.
We just know we are superior.

I will respectfully disagree with your first comment, as I was talking about the Latino branch of the racial grievance industry. The Americans of Cuban ancestry I know despise the people who claim to be victims because they are Hispanic.

Mrs. Reb will support you on the second point. Her mother's parents were both Cuban, although they moved to Puerto Rico before my mother in law was born.

105 posted on 04/07/2006 8:05:59 PM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: areafiftyone

So, where is the black community leaders, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and all those other attention whores...


106 posted on 04/07/2006 8:07:28 PM PDT by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: RebelBanker

I didn't say we didn't "despise" them.

One can be a bit "tribal" and still get along with others.

Racial tensions between white and black Cubans were never as bad as they were here

(And let my qualify my statements by saing the LEAST racist people on earth are white westerners)


107 posted on 04/07/2006 8:11:24 PM PDT by Sometimes A River (America can do nothing for the Muslim world)
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To: Acts 2:38

I am sorry, amigo, I was not very clear in my post. Let me try this again: The Americans of Cuban ancestry I know are proud to be who they are and have no respect for other Hispanics (regardless of skin tone) who claim "victim" status because of being Hispanic. I was responding to another post regarding relationships between different Hispanic groups in the US. I can not comment on race relations in Cuba, I have no knowledge there.


108 posted on 04/07/2006 8:21:16 PM PDT by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: areafiftyone
It took a while for many women to understand affirmative action is wrong. One of the turning points - qualified women are overlooked in the college admission process in order to accept less qualified males.

Hispanic leader: New Orleans will rise from the ashes and it will be milk chocolate, not chocolate.

How would a black respond to that idiotic statement? Now they know how we felt when Mayor Nagin opened his mouth and made a fool of himself.

109 posted on 04/07/2006 9:16:51 PM PDT by Robertsll
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To: SkyPilot

LOL!


110 posted on 04/07/2006 9:22:59 PM PDT by Robertsll
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To: NCC-1701
They won't be able to blame whitey this time.

Oh, sure they will. The story will be that "rich white businessmen" and their Republican allies deliberately let all the illegals in to take over the "black jobs", because the whites are so racist that they decided even illegals are more trustworthy than blacks.

111 posted on 04/07/2006 9:28:35 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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