Growing Anger Among blacks as Latinos 'take over'

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 4/7/06

[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.

[MadeInAmerica]

hahahahaha.......

[DBrow]

Time for a remake of West Side Story.

[MadeInAmerica]

''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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Very telling statement. Taking over WHAT exactly?

[Red Badger]

They gettin' uppity........

[areafiftyone]

Taking over Jobs I guess.

[subterfuge]

Blacks and Latinos are often united on social and political issues. But they often differ when it comes to immigration

Meaning that they are "united" in their belief that the American taxpayers owe them some sort of handout and that the Democrats are the party that will take them to that Promised Land!

[areafiftyone]

LOL Well its about time they spoke out. They are affected as well as any other American!

[ClearCase_guy]

Democrats want blacks to stay on the plantation.
Democrats do not appoint blacks to positions of real power.
Democrats expect black votes, but do nothing to earn those votes.

In recent years, there have been some signs that more blacks were getting a clue that the Republicans were a better political choice for them.

If the Republicans were doing the right thing on Immigration, a lot of blacks would consider a political switch. But that's a big If.

[Unmarked Package]

Democrats are faced with a huge conflict between these two groups in their traditional base on the issue of illegal immigration. I am hearing the responses of African-Americans, of all political persuasions, who are deeply offended and angered by immigrant activists who compare and equate immigration reform and street protests to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. The protesters are having the opposite effect from the one intended among black Americans.

[Red Badger]

They don't like it because the Latinos (I hate the word Hispanics) are gettin' mo' uppity than they are.......

[llevrok]

There is some news this week of blacks turning to the GOP finally realizing they have been kept on the Plantation by the DIMs while the farm was subdivided by other ethnic groups.

[softwarecreator]

If the Republicans were doing the right thing on Immigration, a lot of blacks would consider a political switch. But that's a big If.

And lose the Latino vote?  No chance!  I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in the Detroit area, there is a FAR greater chance that the latinos will actually get off there butts and vote than the African Americans.  

[softwarecreator]

Something tells me we are heading for one heck of a "racial conflict" real soon.

[ClearCase_guy]

From what I hear, the Latino citizens of the US, the ones who are allowed to vote, the ones who did the right thing, followed the laws and came to this country in the authorized manner, do not like the willy-nilly illegal immigration any more than you or I do.

I don't know if it's the truth, but that's what I hear.

[Mordacious]

It's sad. If the GOP would just stop this illegal immigration madness, they could easily hold the base and build on their efforts to bring more blacks into the party. What a flustercuck.

[SkyPilot]

I'm the Minority!!!

"Noo! I AM the MINORITY!!!

"The HELL you are!! I AM THE MINORITY!!!!!!"

[tkathy]

Opportunity for republicans?

[NCC-1701]

The coming unrest between blacks and Latinos will be interesting to watch. They won't be able to blame whitey this time. Which side will all the race pimps come down on? Let the show begin.