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Black Activists Say Immigration Shortcuts Not a Civil Right Issue
US Newswire & Project 21 ^ | 5/1/2006 | David Almasi

Posted on 05/01/2006 8:40:18 AM PDT by Darnright

WASHINGTON, May 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As proponents of amnesty for illegal aliens stage nationwide protests and work stoppages, members of the black leadership network Project 21 point out that the movement's comparison of illegal aliens' quest for preferential and expedited citizenship benefits bear no comparison to the hardships endured by African-Americans during the civil rights era.

"The amnesty issue is being distorted. This is not about the rights of people here legally or of equal rights -- it is about people who are here illegally wanting everyone to ignore the fact that they broke the law to get into this country," said Project 21 member Geoffrey Moore. "The civil rights movement was about some American citizens being treated worse than others. The rallies happening now are about lawbreaking non-citizens wanting to be given the same rights and benefits of those who came to America through the proper immigration channels."

Civil rights is a common theme of amnesty proponents. For example, at a recent rally in Atlanta, a sign mimicking the famous words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. read "We have a Dream, Too." Partha Banerjee of the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network said in an interview with OneWorld.net: "(T)his is really a new civil right movement reborn in this country... This is not just about the immigrants. It's about human and civil rights, it's about all marginalized, underprivileged people in the United States." Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who introduced legislation to grant permanent residency status to long-term illegal aliens, said on "Democracy Now" radio: "My bill attempted to craft this as a civil rights issue... I believe (amnesty) is a civil rights question."

Representative Lee, however, could only convince nine other Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members to co-sponsor her bill. Black columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson has noted: "The CBC and civil rights leaders tread lightly on the immigration rights battle... They are loath to equate their movement with the civil rights battles of the 1960s."

"If illegal immigrants want to remain in America and enjoy the benefits of liberty, proper legal processing is required," said Project 21 member Deneen Moore. "The civil rights movement was a fight for justice and equality. Illegal immigrants are fighting the rule of law."

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Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, has been a leading voice in the black community since 1992. For more information, contact David Almasi at 202-543-4110, ext. 11, email Project21@nationalcenter.org or visit Project 21's website at http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html .

http://www.usnewswire.com/


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; blacklash; deneenborelli; freedomworks; immigrantlist; immigration; project21
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To: Darnright

It isn't about Civil Rights, it's about millions of invaders over throwing the rule of law in this nation.


21 posted on 05/01/2006 9:34:13 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: MeanWestTexan
True. The traditional Mexican national dislike of blacks is amazing. They still have blackface shows in Mexico.

True. I once saw a live music act on Spanish language TV perform a song with the lyrics:
"Black man.
You think you're cool but you're ugly.
You look like a monkey."

Black people are virtually invisible on Spanish stations. The only roles they have on nightime soaps are as maids or evil drug dealers. The hosts of their talk shows are all white women. No people of color. Their TV news shows have no black news readers or reporters and these are shows produced in the USA.

22 posted on 05/01/2006 9:37:18 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: Darnright
From CNN.com:

Even some of those who supported the earlier protests have called for caution in Monday's rallies. Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last week urged parents not to let their children leave school for the demonstrations. Some immigrant groups have warned workers not to take part if it would cost them their jobs. (Watch the debate on the merits of a boycott -- 2:08)

But Christine Neumann Ortiz, who helped organize an earlier Milwaukee protest, said she has seen increased support for immigrants since the earlier demonstrations.

"Particularly, the business community and the African-American and Asian community have really, actually stepped forward this time in a way that they didn't just a couple of months ago," she said.

Looks like they're trying to spin it in spite of black protests. Why in the world would the black community be happy about this uncontrolled illegal immigration? Stupid liar.

23 posted on 05/01/2006 9:41:51 AM PDT by steel_resolve (Illegal aliens don’t take jobs Americans won’t; they take wages Americans won’t)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
No doubt true. They are competing for the jobs.

The Irish immigrants fought with the African Americans in New Orleans for jobs in the mid 1800's. From what I read..it was dirty.

24 posted on 05/01/2006 9:43:55 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Free ThinkerNY

>True. I once saw a live music act on Spanish language TV perform a song with the lyrics:<

How disgusting. Was this recently? In the US?


25 posted on 05/01/2006 9:45:12 AM PDT by Darnright (When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, May 1, 2006 Buycott!)
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To: Darnright

Heck, it's on their postage stamps.

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/06/30/is/


26 posted on 05/01/2006 9:54:02 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: BIGZ
Blacks will be the first to suffer under Hispanic political control. I fear you are correct, but that your tenses are wrong. Illegal aliens have already displaced African-Americans in many areas. "Hispanics," are also competitors, here as illegals or not, for Affirmative Action preferences.
27 posted on 05/01/2006 9:59:59 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Any legal immigrant who wants to join me as an American, is welcome.)
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To: Darnright
I love the split between the brown/black coalition.

AFAIK, "Rainbow" Jackson is missing in action.

28 posted on 05/01/2006 10:02:29 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: Darnright
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who introduced legislation to grant permanent residency status to long-term illegal aliens, said on "Democracy Now" radio: "My bill attempted to craft this as a civil rights issue... I believe (amnesty) is a civil rights question."

She also believes that hurricanes need to be given African-sounding names for equality's sake.

29 posted on 05/01/2006 10:17:10 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Sticks and stones may break their bones but names decompose spinal columns.)
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To: george wythe
"I love the split between the brown/black coalition."

It's been there all along.

Difference between now and 1850 is that the Blacks are the Irish and the Browns are the Blacks.

The pubbies put an end to the slave trade in 1865. Hispanics are the new "slaves".

30 posted on 05/01/2006 10:17:45 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That is the grim truth and thank God for Project 21. It's funny how liberals love to call conservatives racist this-and-that, blah blah blah... yet they would just LOVE to allow a bunch of illegal racists into the country while sapping at a civil rights movement that helped empower LEGAL citizens.

F*ck these Mexicans, their racist blackface stamps, their trying to raise their shitty Mexican flag above our great Stars & Stripes, and their dilapidated culture. All racists should be treated the same... swim back home, jagoffs.


31 posted on 05/01/2006 10:25:36 AM PDT by AmericanRepublican (There are fools on both sides. Only the true Americans will prevail.)
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To: AmericanRepublican

Goodness..that rant will surely solve everything./s


32 posted on 05/01/2006 10:27:50 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Earthdweller

There is a big difference between slavery and illegal immigration. Illegals break laws to come here; slaves were brought here against God's Law.


33 posted on 05/01/2006 10:33:25 AM PDT by HumanitysEdge (http://humanitysedge.homeip.net/)
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To: HumanitysEdge
"There is a big difference between slavery and illegal immigration. Illegals break laws to come here; slaves were brought here against God's Law."

No matter who was morally wrong in there being here, the slave or the slave owner, it's still a mute point..they are still the new "slaves" of the elite classes.

IMHO..the slave owners got smarter..now they can blame the slaves for the "wedding".

34 posted on 05/01/2006 10:40:20 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Darnright

lol, that distortion is thanks to the same liberal press.


35 posted on 05/01/2006 10:41:36 AM PDT by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Darnright

Blacks have been worried for some time about losing their MFM status (most favored minority); what with women being a larger group than the total blacks, never mind that over half of the blacks are also women, add in the burgeoning hispanic population from immigration and high birth rate and soon there won't be enough benefits to go around.

They should be complaining.


36 posted on 05/01/2006 10:48:03 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
When I first tried the link to LaShawn's site, it was down. I almost wish I hadn't gotten in:

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Yesterday a reader sent a link to a story about Mexico’s newly issued postal stamps, which for some inexplicable reason depict black caricatures reminiscent of a bygone era in the United States.

Dark-skinned people of African descent are subjected to this in Mexico? They have a big Negro problem down there, do they?

I wasn’t going to blog about this because it nauseates me, then I changed my mind. Michelle Malkin beat me to the punch anyway. Whenever I see racist caricatures of blacks from back in the day, I cringe. To think there was a time in the U.S. when whites openly mocked and ridiculed blacks with these exaggerated stereotypes, and blackface comedy was all the rage.

Ironically (and sadly), blacks also performed in blackface. To see it in 2005 coming from any country or anyone raises my blood pressure.

I don’t need more reasons to dislike Vicente Fox. The reasons I have are more than enough. His desire to dictate how we enforce our immigration laws, his disregard for the poorer, darker-skinned citizens of his own country (If you’re white, you’re alright!), and the self-interested, unethical, and open encouragement he gives them to invade our country (with George Bush’s complicity) fills me with so much disgust that I hope to meet him one day so I can tell him exactly what I think of him.

I don’t want illegal aliens removed from this land because Mexico is racist; I want them gone because they’re here illegally, have no regard for our laws and culture, seeking only America’s rich blessings and none of the responsibilities, and most of all, because they’re wreaking havoc on our health care and government school infrastructures, costing law-abiding American citizens millions.

But the people in power don’t care. They can afford private schools for their kids and doctors of their choice. Yet, some of these same people want socialized medicine, government doctors, so that we’ll have to wait six months for that life-saving surgery while they can afford the doctors of their choice. And I don’t say this often enough, so listen carefully: if you can’t afford private schools, homeschool your children! But I digress. From CNN:

The series of five stamps released for general use Wednesday depicts a child character from a comic book started in the 1940s that is still published in Mexico.

The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. His appearance, speech and mannerisms are the subject of kidding by white characters in the comic book….Activists said the stamp was offensive, though officials denied it.

“One would hope the Mexican government would be a little more careful and avoid continually opening wounds,” said Sergio Penalosa, an activist in Mexico’s small black community on the southern Pacific coast. Hapless but lovable? Who wrote this garbage? Probably some white, American, liberal journalist. Before my whole day is ruined, I need to stop writing.
Posted by La Shawn @ 8:18 am

37 posted on 05/01/2006 11:20:16 AM PDT by Darnright (When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, May 1, 2006 Buycott!)
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To: Darnright
You must be hurting with all that "shopping" you are doing today (see your tagline).

My suggestion if you got it so "bad"..go apply for one of those jobs today that the Mexicans boycotted.

38 posted on 05/01/2006 11:26:30 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: Earthdweller

>You must be hurting with all that "shopping" you are doing today
My suggestion if you got it so "bad"..go apply for one of those jobs today that the Mexicans boycotted.<

Aren't you sweet for worrying about moi? Isn't the internet amazing? You can spend money and never leave your job, that job you have because you have your own business.


39 posted on 05/01/2006 11:35:29 AM PDT by Darnright (When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, May 1, 2006 Buycott!)
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To: Earthdweller

Oh, and did you know, the most amazing thing? American stores are open after 5:00pm! I've heard that restaurants are open then, also!

Will wonders never cease?


40 posted on 05/01/2006 11:38:59 AM PDT by Darnright (When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping, May 1, 2006 Buycott!)
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