Now the Blacks are Complaining Ping!
Posted on 04/16/2006 3:26:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
LYNN -- James Banks thinks he knows how the controversy over immigration in this country is going to end: ......
''The whole United States is going to change," the African-American store manager said as he got his hair cut at a Union Street barbershop on a recent morning. ''They'll let you go, and get one of these happy immigrants in your spot. They won't be late, they won't get sick, and they won't complain. They will work every unhappy American citizen out of their grass-cutting, trash-hauling, floor-sweeping jobs."
But he doesn't blame the immigrants: They're just feeding their families. Banks, 36, says the fault lies with a generation of young African-American men who would rather ''walk their sneakers up and down the street" than step up on a stage to collect high school diplomas.
''Immigration is going to set the black community back 25 years," he said. ''Because they'll let it."
.....''As a community we are beginning to grapple with the plight of the African-American male, which is in a crisis state," said the Rev. Hurmon Hamilton, senior pastor at Roxbury Presbyterian Church. ...
......Virginia Barton, a black activist and community historian who has lived in Lynn for all of her 77 years, said African-Americans once found plenty of work in the city: When she was growing up, they worked as maids, cleaners, and in the shoe factories for which the city was famous.
European immigrants worked beside them in lower-level jobs for a time, mostly sweeping the factory floors. Then the immigrants moved into more skilled jobs, Barton said.
''Things got better for them and stayed the same for the Afro-Americans," Barton said. ''It was racism, simple as that. The immigrants that came had a language problem, but they could work around that. The Afro-Americans had a color problem."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I don't care what the color of your skin is; any group of people in a working competitive society that has a group 70% illegitimacy birthrate, is doomed economically. - tom
Wow, the liberals are trading in the blacks for the illegals.
Good article.It highlights a problem that is only going to become more critical as more illegals invade our nation.Jessee Jackson was in New Orleans last week to complain that black construction workers were told they were no longer needed in NO because the Mexicans had arrived.To add insult to injury,the construction workers had been residents of NO and been displaced by Katrina.It's about time blacks awaken to the fact that they as a group are especially vulnerable to this invasion.
Very likely.
People make choices. Choices have consequences.
Why bother having children if the elites and the government are intent on populating the country with illegals, anyway?
Maybe the liberals will do for the illegals what they have done for blacks: keep them poor, uneducated, dependent, and given a free ride to the voting booth every November.
That's why I can't understand why some of the black leaders are joining the pro-illegal alien bandwagon. The illegals are taking jobs away from their constituents, too.
Corporate America does not do this primarily out of racial bigotry; rather, they are seeking what they consider to be a better class of underclass.
It has been a never-ending source of fascination to me that American blacks do not only not appear to see this, they have become actively complicit in their own displacement. It is self-destructive in the extreme.
Most importantly, it is now destroying the fabric of the country. To turn this tide of illegal aliens back around is going to require everyone's cooperation. And that includes uneducated black males with bad attitudes and an inadequate work ethic.
Otherwise, there really is no point.
"If the elected Republicans weren't so cowardly, they'd see the strategic opportunity to cut into the heart of the Democrat voting bloc and go after African-American votes on the immigration issue."
Not only that, but I might even vote GOP again, as I have done all my life.
I am absolutely disgusted with our GOP "leaders".
They don't give a damn about us.
"In my teens and college years, myself and most of my pals did everything from dishwashing to paper routes to housepainting to summer construction jobs."
Every year I was in college I did concrete and asphalt work in the summers to help pay for tuition. Hard, hot, dirty work.
That wasn't a job Americans wouldn't do...at least not back then.
" If we point out that their adoption of a street culture is killing them"
The truth hurts, but it's still the truth.
But don't you dare say it!
I agree that there are no grounds for impeaching Bush.
Bush is pursuing policies that would destroy the United States not out of an actual intention of destroying the United States but because he has adopted the credo of an extremist cult known as open borders globalism.
Impeachment is not the solution, but it is imperative that we see to it that his agenda is stopped, so that America can have a future.
The current Hip-Hop culture is another problem. Some consider Hip-Hop a form of Black self-hatred. I know Blacks who despise Hip-Hop. I notice Blacks from Africa and Caribbean do well.
Yep. I spent at least one month manning a jackhammer. Fun.
The worst was with a concrete foundation company, setting up the aluminum forms they use to pour residential single-family basements, and tearing them down a few days later after the concrete had set.
Thing was, the forms were sprayed top-to-bottom with oil before the setup, so you (and maybe one other sucker) were lugging and heaving these 8x3 foot slabs of greasy aluminum, usually in a big hole (the not-yet-a-basement) full of water and muck and mosquitos.
That job was so hard it makes me laugh now.
Sort of illuminates JJ's little meeting with Hugo a few months back.
Well Jabba, as my salty old immigrant Grandmama was wont to say:
WE know this, yet our politicians continue to push it....hmmmmm....makes one think...
I hope more and more Americans WAKE UP up and realize what these politicians are doing to our once-proud sovereign nation.
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