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African-Americans drowning in wave of illegal immigration
Houston Chronicle ^
| February 2, 2003
| TERRY ANDERSON
Posted on 02/02/2003 8:55:55 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: kaylar
I'd rather slow it all down. We cannot practically accept everyone that wishes to come here
To: LuvMyNick
I think all those institutions are both symptoms and causative. It's complimentary relationship.
To: Dog Gone
Way back when, a friend and I were discussing politics while the Chinese were just beginning to push hard for Most Favored Nation (MFN) status; he was saying that would put a wrinkle in world trade that would affect even local neighborhoods in Los Angeles where we both worked for the F.A.A. - I told him that a far bigger problem was looming in the area, the day that Hispanics (mostly Mexicans and Central Americans) became the MFM.
"What's that," he asked?
"Most Favored Minority," I replied.
To: LuvMyNick
I will take your word for it, and not give up the fight. At first I dropped a sign language course to take spanish. If you don't know spanish in the health profession or in business you're in trouble.
You are right about Long Island though... I wonder how much of it has to do with our astronomical taxes. Parts of Long Island are really ghetto-fied, and others aren't. My sister went to school in East Meadow and that place is 97% white but it's a lot of poor whites who are as bad as a lot of the blacks in Hempstead Heights. I am considering a run for local office, but you need money to do that. I am going to think of what I can do to change things seriously (besides prayer of course).
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posted on
02/02/2003 6:04:52 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: Red Jones; Clara Lou; Dog Gone; Cacique
Well, Chicago was about 45% foreign born at the turn of the last century (1900), while New York was about 40%. Those cities were (and remain) dramatically different from "Anglo America" so the point that the US HAS NOT experienced rapid ethnic change in the past is unfounded.
This guy talks about "proud, working class" black neighborhoods being "ruined" by those of another ethnic group. Well, I can show you neighborhoods here in Brooklyn that were once safe white working-to-middle class (East New York, Flatbush, Bushwick to name a few) until Mr. Anderson's coethnics moved in during the 1950s-60s. Neighborhoods change, always have, always will, sometimes for the best, other times for the worst.
My suggestion to Mr. Anderson is to join the native-born black exodus to the south. He will find good, middle class African-American communities in Atlanta and New Orleans, among other areas.
185
posted on
02/02/2003 6:29:32 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: wardaddy
I did not know that any townships on Long Island outside of the Boroughs were suffering from this stuff
DG: It used to be worse in my opinion. Depends on who you talk to though. Hempstead "seems" to be getting better especially with the HUGE Home Depot shopping center they built not to far away. Garden City is still best to live in but if you don't have a few million to spare to buy a house there, forgetaboutit. When I first moved here it was definately worse with regards to the black population. Now that everyone has either gone to jail, gotten pregnant and moved back down south to grandma's house, or just moved, it's getting easier to take. More upwardly mobile black people are moving in which to me, is better than living next to hoodrats. I just have a big issue with the MASSIVE illegal renting problem that is making Hempstead's taxes go sky high.
I guess the situation is more complicated than whatever I can guess here.
186
posted on
02/02/2003 6:31:29 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: applemac_g4
If Asian or European immigrants had moved into your neighborhood it's likely that you wouldn't have had to write this article. So you don't mind rude store clerks and signs only in Korean, do you?
Anyway, you can't generalize. "Hispanics" encompass a variety of ethnic and racial groups. Most of the Latin Americans I worked with at my International Bank were just as pale as I am (and sometimes paler!). My main cohort, for example, was a Colombian of English ancestry.
187
posted on
02/02/2003 6:36:55 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: wardaddy
they are not so much rednecks anymore unless over 30-35 but rather seemed to have embraced the same culture as black "gangstas"....a troubling trend. I know...my office is in the thick of it and they compose a plurality of my tenants
DG: Thank Eminem for that... everyone plays rap and other hiphop. Even the spanish language stations sometimes play the really popular rap, and the rock stations play the popular rap stuff. If I hear another Enimen song, I'm going to throw up.
188
posted on
02/02/2003 6:37:06 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: Clemenza
I've always thought it reasonable for someone to move if they don't like their neighbors. The notion that anyone has a right to make sure that property they don't own does not change is rather un-American in my opinion.
To: wardaddy
I had a next door neighbor on Sorolla off of Granada ave in the Gables who had been there since the 40s and still called it My-Am-Uh....lol.....she felt isolated...sadly. I NEVER met a Florida Cracker in either Miami (where I lived from 99-02) or Boca Raton (90-94). It seems that everyone in South Florida (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach) either has a Latin accent, a Noo Yawk accent or a West Indian accent.
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posted on
02/02/2003 6:53:33 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: wardaddy
We also have a decidedly Moose-Limb contingent which is displacing middle-middle white neighborhoods and borders the barrios area. You have described the neighborhood in Brooklyn where I currently live. The Arab Muslims (largely from Egypt and Yemen) have poured into Bay Ridge in droves over the past ten years. They have displaced many middle-class whites in much of the neighborhood, although the people in the million dollar mansions and co-ops near the Narrows seem to be holding out.
Although I enjoy the pastries and waterpipes, it is kind of discomfiting to see women dressed from head to toe in the latest 15th Century fashions pushing baby carriages all over the neighborhood.
191
posted on
02/02/2003 7:03:49 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: LuvMyNick
192
posted on
02/02/2003 7:09:28 PM PST
by
rdb3
(So now I'm lookin' dead at you. What are you gonna do?)
To: kaylar; frontdeboeuf
I agree with you. I'd rather have 1000 Mexicans than 1 Muslim, for precisely the reasons you've outlined. People who complain about Mexicans should check out "Little Arabia" (which didn't exist ten years ago) on Fifth Avenue in my neighborhood.
Never lived in a Mexican neighborhood (although we have a few here as well, including a guy who flys the Mexican flag from his fire escape. I have lived in an area filled with lower-middle class COLOMBIAN immigrants however and couldn't have asked for better neighbors. Then again, hablo y entiendo español (their kids preferred "street" English, however).
193
posted on
02/02/2003 7:11:45 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
194
posted on
02/02/2003 7:12:14 PM PST
by
rdb3
(So now I'm lookin' dead at you. What are you gonna do?)
To: LO_IQ; rdb3; Poohbah; Howlin; mhking
Racism can come from any quarter.
It could be possible for a black person to hold racist opinions about Asians and Hispanics, or for a Hispanic person to be anti-white. Or some white person could be having any person who is not white. It can come from any quarter.
No matter where it comes from, it's wrong and dumb.
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posted on
02/02/2003 7:18:50 PM PST
by
hchutch
("Last suckers crossed, Syndicate shot'em up" - Ice-T, "I'm Your Pusher")
To: Clara Lou
I teach it. Well I'm glad you at least have a job.
The best way to deal with illegal immigration is to stop it. Also, the best way to ensure that legal immigrants have a successful future in this country is to demand that they learn English before they arrive.
To: Dog Gone
197
posted on
02/02/2003 7:23:08 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
To: uncbob; LuvMyNick
Actually is was mainly their offspring who did that. A lot of the original immigrants stayed with their culture as much as they were able You are correct. My great-grandmother to the day she died rarely ventured outside of her Polish enclave and rarely used English. Being that her husband was a businessman (contractor) he learned to speak good (albeit heavily accented) English so that his Italian/Irish/black employees/clients/political bosses could understand him. It was my grandparents who broke away from many of the old ways, although the continued to speak Polish (and Italian in the case of my mother's family) when speaking with their parents.
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posted on
02/02/2003 7:32:22 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: SwordofTruth
Also, the best way to ensure that legal immigrants have a successful future in this country is to demand that they learn English before they arrive. You are right, although see my post #198. None of my great-grandparents learned English before arriving and they prospered relatively well. Same goes for many Cuban, Indian and Korean immigrants I have met. It would be great if every school in the world taught English as a second language, but it aint gonna happen anytime soon. How many Americans, btw, can speak a language OTHER THAN ENGLISH very well.
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posted on
02/02/2003 7:36:34 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: Dog Gone
The bad news is that in some regions we black folks are so overwhelmed by the huge numbers of immigrants that we are being displaced in our schools, jobs and neighborhoods.
Really? You don't say.. No kidding.
Would you believe that I, a black man, have been called a racist many times for speaking up against this invasion?
Join the club..
You didn't honestly think your skin color would exempt you from cries of "racist" for opposing this illegal immigration now did you?
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posted on
02/02/2003 7:40:47 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
("Are ALL men from the future loud mouthed braggards?" "Nope, just me baby..")
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