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10/03/2007: "Hispanic growth impoverishing African-Americans"
In America, the nation's largest minority group carries significant weight. It's sort of like being the daddy at the dinner table -- you get the biggest piece of chicken or the largest slice of cake.
Political power means jobs and resources. And the one group with the most power wants to benefit their own, and sacrifice everyone else.
Today, we see that spilling over into every area, even business. African-American ad agencies, and media outlets, complain that the dollars set aside for blacks has been savagely reduced and shifted to Hispanic media.
[ Multiculturalism isn't about fairness to darker people. It's about using them and us to enrich oligarchs in the new global economy. ]
I heard plenty of racist comments -- and most of them came from self-identified black callers and were aimed at Latinos. It's not that Latinos can't be racist toward blacks. They can be. But, with Latinos under siege in the immigration debate, maybe they were too busy defending themselves to take shots at African-Americans.
In 2001, while I was writing for the Dallas Morning News, a videotape surfaced showing African-American City Council candidate Dwayne Caraway delivering a warning to black business leaders: "You better wake up and look at your next-door neighbor," Caraway told the audience. "Because now, your next-door neighbor is Hispanic. And they're moving in. And they're taking over. And they're pushing us out."
African-Americans are frustrated because they think they're losing jobs to illegal immigrants. Latinos are frustrated that African-Americans -- of all people -- can't detect the racism that poisons this debate.
[ It's not racism, you are lowering the pay scale, forcing them into other jobs, and obliterating their culture. Multiculturalism is bad for everyone, white black brown yellow or other! ]
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/roland.martin/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&eref=yahoo
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/navarrette/index.html