Black Activists Say Immigration Shortcuts Not a Civil Right Issue

US Newswire & Project 21 ^ | 5/1/2006 | David Almasi

[Earthdweller]

"have your own business."

..bahahaha..try again. I worked my way up through the ranks from the bottom along with my some of my hard working minority colleagues.

My children are now the "business owners" who I might add, happen to employ only "legal" workers. They do just fine. They don't have to take any blame for this mess the "slave owners" have gotten themselves into.

[Darnright]

>My children are now the "business owners" who I might add, happen to employ only "legal" workers. They do just fine. They don't have to take any blame for this mess the "slave owners" have gotten themselves into.<

You made the snappy comment that *I* go after some job that I don't have time for.

I have enough to do with the family business in which I am involved. Like your children, our business has no room for those here illegally. That is why, I've done shopping today online, so far, but at 5:00, I will load up the teenager into the car, and she and I will do our part to keep this "boycott of America" from having an effect. We will then have dinner at a favorite Italian (recent LEGAL immigrant owned and run) restaurant.

[Earthdweller]

"You made the snappy comment that *I* go after some job that I don't have time for."

If you have a job that's great. I took you for a person who was defending the jobless whiners who don't like the Mexican's taking their benefits..my bad.

[Darnright]

>I took you for a person who was defending the jobless whiners who don't like the Mexican's taking their benefits..my bad.<

No, I'm not in the habit of defending the Jesse Jacksons of the world, if that's what you thought. I have a lot of respect for Project 21, as it's a conservative organization. There are a number of Freepers involved in Project 21 as a matter of fact.

[hershey]

Thank you for that breath of sanity.

[Darnright]

For anyone not familiar with Project 21:

http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html

Project 21 is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment.

Project 21 participants have been interviewed by hundreds of media outlets, including the O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, the CNN Morning News, Black Entertainment Television's Lead Story, America's Black Forum, the McLaughlin Group, C-SPAN's Morning Journal and the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Larry King shows, as well as in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and many others.

Project 21 participants live all over the U.S. and have a variety of careers. What they have in common is a desire to make America a better place for African-Americans, and all Americans, to live and work. Project 21 members do this in a variety of ways in their own communities, and, through Project 21, by writing opinion editorials for newspapers, participating in public policy discussions on radio and television, by participating in policy panels, by giving speeches before student, business and community groups, and by advising policymakers at the national, state and local levels.

[JustPiper]

Thank you very much to the ping for this!

[Free ThinkerNY]

The show was taped in a South American country. It was shown on Spanish language TV in the U.S. The song was an upbeat, happy song. The huge live audience was jumping for joy. Think about the racism on Univision and Telemundo the next time you hear a Hispanic American complain about how racist out society is.

[LAMBERT LATHAM]

See here too.

http://www.alamo-coalition.org

[LAMBERT LATHAM]

From the site http://www.alamo-coalition.org/OUTREACH.HTM

CALL TO ACTION - ALAMO-COALITION ALERT

The pro-criminal, anti-sovereignty, open borders cabal, is calling the fight to give amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens in this country a civil rights movement and trying to make it the moral equivalent of African-Americans’ struggle. Sen. Ted Kennedy kicked it off, and now others are jumping on the bandwagon.

There is no comparison, either in substance or morally! African-Americans didn’t sneak into this country. We were dragged here in chains.

We didn’t come here and demand the government educate our children in Kiswahili, Cilubà, Lingála, or Kikongo. We didn’t demand free medical care or demand the citizens here celebrate our holidays.

Our civil rights struggle was to get OUR government to treat us equally to every other citizen. We didn’t sneak into another country and demand things. We stood up to our own government and demanded equal treatment.

Shame on Ted Kennedy, and everyone else who tries to tarnish our struggle by trying to make the demands of illegal aliens morally equal to the civil rights movement.



What You Can Do:



Call Sen. Kennedy and tell him he should be ashamed of calling amnesty for illegal aliens a civil rights struggle.

317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

202/224-4543



Call Sen. Barack Obama and tell him that as the only African-American in the Senate he should be standing up to Kennedy and demanding Kennedy apologize to African-Americans. Tell him he should be ashamed for not doing it already.

713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2854
(202) 228-4260 fax



Toll Free Number to Capital Switchboard (ask the operator for the Senator you want.)

(888) 355-3588

If you can’t call write. Also get 5 friends to call and ask them to get 5 friends to call.



Call your local talk radio show and tell them Kennedy should be ashamed. Tell them there is no civil right to sneak into America or to stay here illegally.



Write a letter to your local newspaper.



We need to get thousands of phone calls to the Senators and hundreds of calls to talk radio and hundreds of letters to newspapers. These people are making a mockery of Dr. King’s work and the work of the other great men and women who gave their blood, efforts and lives for us.

WE CAN’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!!