As we approach another Martin Luther King Day, I think we should also recall Mrs. King, author, activist, and civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1991, the late Coretta Scott King, the NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus, came together arguing against a proposed repeal of sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens because of “the devastating impact the repeal would have on the economic condition of un- and semi-skilled workers — a disproportionate number of whom are African American and Hispanic.”
[pullquote align=”full” cite=”Barbara Jordan” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”[/pullquote]
No such wisdom exists today and Blacks have been left to rot and fend for themselves. The 35% who are unemployed, supposedly won’t do the jobs that these immigrants will do smilingly. (Don’t believe it)
Today, the NAACP, the Black Congressional Caucus has been de-balled, castrated and pimped by the administration and the likes of Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the firebrand Congressmen from Chicago, who doesn’t believe there should be any immigration laws at all.
Gutierrez, a maniac, who hates this country, hates African Americans and really thinks that the US should throw the gates open. In his twisted, demented world, Americans who are barely hanging on should provide food, medical, housing and social security benefits to Guatemalans, Hondurans, El Salvadorans simply because they showed up.
We should ask Mr. Gutierrez and his flunkies in the Black Congressional Caucus, who will they sucker in to writing the check for these accommodations. Will it be the low wage, Obama-job workers who, under our current tax system, pay little or nothing in actual income tax, but are net beneficiaries of the IRS with child and earned income tax credits?
Where have thinking people crawled away to? In American today, nearly 20% of all jobs are held by immigrants, in NYC, they boast that 43% of their jobs are held by immigrants. 43%!!
Ian Smith, National Review crafted a brilliant piece on this subject in 2014. He began with:
In another year of chronically high unemployment among America’s black communities, it’s important we remember the tireless work of the late civil-rights champion and former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Ms. Jordan was picked by President Clinton to lead the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform that 20 years ago this month published a major report calling for stiff penalties against employers that hire illegal aliens, an expansion of the grounds for deportations, and a complete end to future mass amnesties. In the face of tough opposition from La Raza and other open-borders lobbyists, the introduction of Ms. Jordan’s report declared, “It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.” That the Commission’s recommendations were mostly ignored by Congress was in large part due to Ms. Jordan’s tragic death from leukemia soon after the report’s release.
Read the entire article here.
[pullquote align=”full” cite=”Barbara Jordan” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”[/pullquote]
More from the National Review:
Then there’s affirmative action. Although originally designed by President Kennedy as a jobs booster for blacks, the various preference programs also catch Hispanic immigrants the moment they step into the country. CUNY sociologist Stephen Steinberg, in an essay about mass immigration’s effects on black America, says Hispanics “derailed” affirmative action by “crowding under [its] meagre umbrella.” With the Hispanic population (including illegals) to soon double that of blacks and the slots in set-aside programs, colleges, and public employment shrinking, true black leadership on immigration is ever more necessary.
We live in an era when African Americans are expected to work, vote, and conspire against their own interests. Illegal immigrants are eating their collective lunch, dinner and tomorrows leftovers. And Democrats, Facebook, Apple’s Tim Cook and Al Sharpton say more, more, more.
[pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South . . . I say . . . Cast down your bucket where you are.”[/pullquote]
Immigration isn’t a new threat and in fact can be traced as far back as the late 1890’s during a huge wave of European immigration. African Americans saw how that went and now they’re seeing it again.
Imagine, slavery, fighting in every war, Jim Crow laws, civil rights victories and then the great roll back under a Black president.
An essay on New Deal, described it best:
The North was able to satisfy its insatiable need for cheap labor through the immigration of some 25 million Europeans between 1880 and 1924. Blacks, on the other hand, were categorically excluded from the entire industrial sector, except for a few menial, dangerous, or backbreaking jobs that immigrants spurned.
Despite these travesties, suffering from slavery, fighting in every war, enduring Jim Crow laws, civil rights struggles and victories African Americans managed to hold on. European immigration was devastating to blacks and modern day amnesty will cause the further erosion of the black family and whats left of it.
But who, who would have thought that the doorman for the new wave would be a Black president.
[pullquote align=”full” cite=”
” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]”Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.”[/pullquote]
