“Most policy makers who favor the legalization of nearly 11 million aliens fail to acknowledge that decades of high immigration levels has caused unemployment to rise significantly, most particularly among black Americans. They further fail to consider how current plans to add 33 million more legal workers within ten years will have an enormously disastrous effect on our nation’s jobs outlook.”
I don't know if they're racists. Nothing they said indicates that they are.
As far as what they actually said, they have a point. Many immigrants end up being competition for black Americans in jobs. More than that, immigrants often get benefits to start businesses that blacks do not. Therefore, it's easy to understand why some black Americans would have problems with increased immigration and amnesty for illegal immigrants. That said, I think the people in the article are approaching the problem from the wrong way. They should oppose unequal treatment of blacks by government and businesses rather than opposing immigration and amnesty.
I got this from the linked article. There was a lot in there that was worthy of comment but this really jumped out at me.
Seriously?
We're decades in to this problem, we've seen it coming, seen it developing, we alreadly know that it's bad even without an amnesty program.
And you're still at a point where you need to compete with foreigners, many of whom don't even speak our language, for employment?
Ummm... too bad, so sad, go fvck yourself.
Or I should say, feel free to b!tch, moan, and complain about it, by all means, just don't expect me to care.
And this isn't just a "black thang".
I don't care what color you are, or which direction your roots run.
If you're an American and you're in a position where you need to compete with an illegal Mexican for a bean-picking job...that bed you made? Go ahead and sleep in it.
"Thayer taken our jooobs!!" Wonder how it'd be perceived if that skit was swapped out from the stereotypical redneck to a stereotypical gangsta! :mrgreen:
This is indeed the typical result that is to be expected when one side, the liberal Dems mostly, threatens the other side, the House Repubs, with a racist perspective: http://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/162524-just-say-no-racist-motivation-immigration-bill.html.
Who gives a **** what black leaders think? Really, who gives a **** what these race baiters now have to say? I sure as hell don't, and immigrants aren't what put blacks in the positions they're in. Listening to these self-serving black charlatans (e.g., Jackson, Sharpton) is what did that. Playing the race card for 50 years did it, everyone has grown tired of it. Probably why employers are hiring Mexicans, they're tired of the endless whining and racial lawsuits. Blacks voted for all these liberals who want amnesty, now let them live with the results. I see there are a few rightwingers in there, but that doesn't sway me a bit. Black people need to look for examples of successful people (and mimic them), and I don't mean the NBA.
I got this from the linked article. There was a lot in there that was worthy of comment but this really jumped out at me.
Seriously?
We're decades in to this problem, we've seen it coming, seen it developing, we alreadly know that it's bad even without an amnesty program.
And you're still at a point where you need to compete with foreigners, many of whom don't even speak our language, for employment?
Ummm... too bad, so sad, go fvck yourself.
Or I should say, feel free to b!tch, moan, and complain about it, by all means, just don't expect me to care.
And this isn't just a "black thang".
I don't care what color you are, or which direction your roots run.
If you're an American and you're in a position where you need to compete with an illegal Mexican for a bean-picking job...that bed you made? Go ahead and sleep in it.
If white people made the same complaint, the Libbos would coming out of the woodwork screaming, "racist", and, "xenophobe".
Who gives a **** what black leaders think? Really, who gives a **** what these race baiters now have to say? I sure as hell don't, and immigrants aren't what put blacks in the positions they're in. Listening to these self-serving black charlatans (e.g., Jackson, Sharpton) is what did that. Playing the race card for 50 years did it, everyone has grown tired of it. Probably why employers are hiring Mexicans, they're tired of the endless whining and racial lawsuits. Blacks voted for all these liberals who want amnesty, now let them live with the results. I see there are a few rightwingers in there, but that doesn't sway me a bit. Black people need to look for examples of successful people (and mimic them), and I don't mean the NBA.
I bet if we started flooding the labor market with 30 million people with college degree and more specialized jobs then pro-illegal scum would start to care.
I'm not pro-illegal scum. More like ambivalent scum.
You're faced with a situation where you see clearly that your job can be done by an illiterate Mexican, or a trained monkey, or likely a dumb machine. Not uncommon, lots of Americans are in the same boat.
You don't say to yourself, "Shoot! I need to get my butt in gear and build some skills that are marketable at a premium in this new technology/information economy we find ourselves in".
No.
Instead, you screech, "Fvck the Mexicans, fvck the machines, fvck the educated, fvck folks who have taken heed of the writting on the wall and developed the skills necessary to move America forward in this new century".
And cry for bullsh!t protectionisim that will ONLY stand to drive up the cost of American manufacture/production and make us that much less competitive on the global market.
What a libtarded position to take.
You really should consider joining a union.
This is one thing that irks me about pro-illellegal scum.Their job and livelyhood is not on the line so **** everyone else whose job and livelyhood is on the line due to an unnatural increase of labor. I bet if we started flooding the labor market with 30 million people with college degree and more specialized jobs then pro-illegal scum would start to care.How much do you think your job would be worth if we imported several million people who can do the job you?