Sen. Kennedy Slammed for Civil Rights Comparison to Illegal Aliens (Go Jessie Lee Peterson Go!)

A black conservative minister and staunch immigration reform advocate Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Tuesday denounced Sen. Ted Kennedy for comparing pro-illegal immigration rallies to civil rights marches for blacks half a century ago.

The Massachusetts Democrat, who is a proponent of a Senate plan that would open the way to citizenship for illegals, said recent illegal immigration rallies are "reminiscent of the civil rights movement.”

Rev. Peterson said, "Ted Kennedy should be ashamed for comparing the civil rights struggles of blacks to that of illegal aliens. Black Americans are being driven out of their jobs and schools by the influx of illegals — while politicians like Kennedy sell them out for Hispanic votes.”

Thirty years ago, the Los Angeles Unified School District student population was 24% black and 32% Hispanic. Today, one in 10 students is black, and seven in 10 are Hispanic.

"These figures should be alarming to anyone who cares about black Americans," Peterson said. "Unfortunately for blacks, politicians like Kennedy are more interested in the next election — and blacks are a small slice of the voting pie, while Hispanic numbers are exploding."

"Blacks must finally claim their birthright as Americans, and say ‘no’ to the further devastation of their workforce and communities by illegal aliens and their political accomplices,” said Rev. Peterson.

John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are exploiting this and are going to lose the black votes for the Dems! I say let them!

I hate to say this, but history is a b**ch sometimes...the "black vote", en masse, will go to whoever offers the most return for the least effort...Republican party, Democrat party, Tea party. It doesn't matter.

Wasn't it Lyndon Johnson (or some other prominent Democrat) who said in the 60s, "If we sign this bill (Civil Rights or something), the Negroes will vote for us for the next 100 years?"

I found the following case study on the Net, trying to find the above quote...

http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC7d_CivilRightsBill.htm

And I am a black conservative saying it. Of course, I'm not part of the "en masse". I hate to sound so jaded, but Booker T. Washington was right...there was in his time, and will always be, apparently, those who want to remain victims, with a perpetual gimme hand extended...and there will be politicians who will want to offer the carrot on a string.

If Congress and the President are ultimately only willing to offer a "virtual wall" to prevent unauthorized entry of foreign aliens into this country over our southern border with Mexico, why should the "estimated 11 million" "undocumented' aliens currently living in the US be offered anything more than "virtual amnesty"in return?

"Amnesty": an act by authority by which a pardon is granted to a large number of persons for past transgressions. Interstingly derived from the same root as amnesia.

"Virtual Amnesty". You can stay as long as and only as long as,

a) you have a job no american wants -- if an American shows up at your place of employment and asks for your job at any rate of pay up to 200% of your current wage and such person is ready able and capable of assuming your duties, you can move aside and leave. You have 60 days to find new employment or leave the country;

b) all your pay is reported as income to governmental authority and social security and income tax is properly withheld and paid (aliens are not eligible to receive social security benefits, the money would fund the inadequate SS reserve);

c) you pay all your own expenses and do not receive any public assistance for housing, medical care, food stamsp, aid to dependant children, or public education;

d) if you do receive public assistance, such as for emergency medical care, you will reimburse the full costs of any assistance received; if you are here with a spouse, family or 'domestic partner' de jure, your offspring are not U.S citizens, you waive that right on their behalf by remaining here.;

e) if you have children of school age, public authority will provide you with books, software and programs authorized for home schooling families. Statiistics indicate this is a much effective and valuable educational assistance than participating in public education;

f) you will not engage while in the United States in any political activity;

g) in particular you will not vote or attempt to vote;

h) membership, participation, active support or conspiracy with any organized criminal gang shall be the equivalent of a "third strke" felony. Conviction of same shall mean immediate and permanent deportation or incarceration for life at the option of the government. A criminal history prior to US entry shall be grounds for immediate deportation with a permanent bar to reentry;

i) If you commit any "malum per se" or "specific intent" crimes while present in the U.S, you shall serve your sentence and then be deported with a permanent bar to reentry;

j) At all times, any and all covered persons shall carry upon their person, sufficient and accurate identifying information as to the covered persons, identity, place of residence in the US., country of national citizenship, date of birth, place of birth, names of parents, and dates of entry into the United States; and,

k) At no time shall a covered person occupy, hold, or be compensated for performing any public sector job or position.

Conditions of limited license to remain in the US:

By electing to remain within US territory on or after 30 days after the enactment of this legislation, a covered individual voluntarily waives any protections of law, including any application of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and consents at any reasonable time and upon any reasonable circumstance, such as but not limited to in any public place at any time, to being detained for a reasonable time without suspicion or other cause by law enforcement in order for governmental authority to verify the persons identity and compliance with these "tempory worker" statutes.

"Jail Tax" All covered persons and only such persons shall be subject to a 10% tax on income earned over and above all other taxes and assessments on income, to fund reimbursement of state and federal penal incarceration of undocumented aliens

Citizenship: If and when an applicant can affirmatively demonstrate 10 continuous years of compliance with the foregoing, or alternatively upon completion of a full term of service with any branch of the Armed Services of the United States resulting in an honorable discharge; and,
If and when the applciant can demonstrate fluency in the English language; and,

If and when the applicant can demonstrate a 12th grade equivalency of knowledge of American history and American literature and American Laws

Said applicant may then apply for American citizenship.

Notwithstanding any of the above, not more than 750,000 complying alien persons shall in any year become citizens of the United States.

In re Ted and the illegals:

Ted's first big "topic," after Chappaquiddick, was Civil Rights. His brothers put him out front on this, as they hung back a bit, which everyone forgets. Also forgotten is the fact that JFK, now revered as a liberator second only to Lincoln, was adamantly opposed to Cilvil Rights legislation throughout his congressional career. For 20 years he sided wholeheartedly with the segregationists. The Kennedys were were smart enough to jump on a moving train, though. Becoming loudmouthed Civil Rightists when the time was right and they could read the handwriting on the wall.

In fact,one might say "Civil Rights" was Ted's only personal issue, as he led the charge for JFK for busing in South Boston, against some of his most fervent supporters, coincidentally wrecking education in Boston forever. Ted also put his name on the Immigration Reform Bill 0f 1965, which upset the applecart of 50 years of successful immigration policies, to begin Third-Worlding us.

Now, Ted sees illegals as his last crusade. Instead of screwing up just South Boston, now it's going to be the whole country. And for once the famous NYT headline will be correct:

American Minorities Suffer Most

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