July 14, 2007
Saturday Forum
An Illinois Black
Conservative Wants His Leaders To Tell The Truth About
Immigration; etc.
From:
[Name Withheld]
Re: Joe
Guzzardi’s Column:
Blacks Join The Immigration Reform Fray---At Last!
I was once a card-carrying liberal—until the
Democrats decided to grant amnesty to millions of
illegal aliens. Now I am a
staunch conservative.
I want all illegal aliens out of my country.
Samuel P. Huntington is right. Aliens will not
assimilate. Instead they will become a permanent
underclass in the United States.
It’s awful how
black elites argue that amnesty would not affect us.
Who are they kidding? Black kids in
Chicago are routinely denied jobs because
they do not speak Spanish. I find it unbelievable
that we must adapt to these illegal immigrants. Why on
earth would we insist on granting
legal rights to
low-skilled workers and
criminals?
I do not know why black
elites have not come out against amnesty. Secretly,
they must realize that this is the greatest threat to us
since slavery.
Yet, they remain silent. I
say shame on the
Congressional Black Caucus, Tavis Smiley,
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. If you really want to
empower American blacks, tell them the truth.
Immigration is a threat to black prosperity.
I am no racist or bigot. I
would be against granting legal status to millions of
Nigerians, for example, if they were living in the
US illegally.
The writer lives in
Chicago and is a Navy veteran pursuing a graduate degree
in public administration
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An
AZ Reader Says Old Labels Need to Go
From:
Ken Gareau (e-mail
him)
Guzzardi wrote a great article on the changing
perceptions and attitudes of the black population.
I hope both
black leaders and their followers will become aware
of other painfully
oppressive issues which many of us non-black folks
have been speaking on for decades.
Stop beating up the "bigoted white
folks" in general and deal with racism on an
individual basis. Enough laws are on the books to
eradicate racism and bigotry without resorting to
generalizations about certain ethnic groups.
When something is wrong---like
black job displacement by illegal aliens---we need
to deal with that directly without using old labels that
stand in the way of making meaningful progress.
Gareau, a financial services
professional, is a transplanted
New Yorker living in
the Tucson area.
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A Maryland Reader Says
Congress Apparently Dislikes Black Americans
From:
[Name Withheld]
I have been emailing my Democratic Senators Ben
Cardin and
Barbara Mikulski as well my black House
Representative, Elijah Cummings, also a Democrat.
I have told them repeatedly that the Bush amnesty
bill is bad for
black citizens. When they vote for Bush’s amnesty
bill, they demonstrate that they dislike black citizens
but
like illegal immigrants.
In the Baltimore metropolitan area, it is obvious
that many jobs once held by blacks are now given to
illegal immigrants. Baltimore has an
unemployment rate that hovers just under 8 percent.
Many out of the work force are black.
Maryland has
over 100,000 illegal aliens. But employers like
illegals because they are afraid to complain and work
for low wages.
I sometimes wonder if
business interests haven't bought off black
legislators with campaign donations so with the tacit
understanding that they will support Bush's amnesty.
Joe Guzzardi
comments: The
NAACP is in complete accord with our correspondent. Read
the Boston Globe
about the applause
Congressman and
presidential candidate
Tom Tancredo received from the NAACP
when, in his speech at its annual convention, he
stressed the impact illegal immigration had on black
employment. The story
is
here.
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An Idaho Reader Hopes
Blacks Join The Immigration Reform Bandwagon… But He Has
His Doubts
From:
Pete
Brittian (e-mail
him)
I read Guzzardi’s column with relief...if that's the
proper word… that the blacks are finally awakening as to
the threat illegal immigration poses to them.
I’m of the
Bill Cosby school of thought regarding blacks.
Although incidents of white racism have certainly not
helped their cause, blacks have brought
some of their plight on themselves by not showing
enough personal accountability.
During Lyndon Johnson’s
Great Society, blacks demonstrated little or no
responsibility because of government pandering. Some of
that attitude is still visible today. In New Orleans,
too few
showed initiative after
Katrina even when it became apparent that the
government,
to its discredit, was going to be slow in aiding the
displaced.
Here’s a personal anecdote that may interest your
readers. I delivered mail in Harlem while I was in
college in the early '60s. During
that era in New York, the welfare mentality was
endemic. On one occasion when I put mail in the slots in
a state housing project, I looked around and a crowd
gathered behind me, all demanding their
welfare checks.
Since I was a temporary Christmastime employee, I
wasn't allowed to carry checks. I told them that the
regular mailman was coming in a few minutes.
Maybe blacks that aren't followers of
race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
have gotten message that illegal immigration is
retarding their progress. But it may not go too far. The
dole mentality among many blacks is still too
prevalent.
Ultimately, our illustrious politicians and we
ourselves are responsible for the mess we’re in. The
Great Society made the blacks the favored minority,
gave generously to them and asked little in return. Ten
years later, looking the other way completely, the
government let the
illegal alien invasion run amok.
As a result, we now have an alien culture that
won’t assimilate and a black subculture that too
often is indolent and apathetic.
As the prophetic comic strip character
Pogo said: “We
have met the enemy and he is us.”
Brittain’s previous
letters to VDARE.COM are
here.
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A Texas Reader Says Tavis Smiley Has No Facts To Support
His Pro-Alien Agenda
From:
[Name Withheld]
I am so pleased that Guzzardi
included in his column the e-mail written by an
irate black teacher to talkshow host immigration
enthusiast
Tavis Smiley [email
him] who is also black.
I sat through one of Smiley’s
mindless programs that defended illegal immigration
in the most uninformed way. Smiley had offered no facts
to support his opinion. [VDARE.COM
note: listen to Smiley talk about immigration
here.]
I thought about writing Smiley but I knew there was
no way he would listen to a
white middle-class housewife. I thank the anonymous
teacher who did it for me.
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