Update II (6/8): The amnesty bill is off the table for now. Why did Republicans support a bill so unpopular with constituents? Some thoughts. Michelle Malkin commends three Republicans who held out.
Update (6/7 @ 5:29 p.m.): Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill has stalled in the Senate. For now. The Senate needed 60 votes to end debate and vote on the bill, but fell 27 votes short. Some senators held out for the right reasons, others for the wrong reasons. Who cares? Just stop that bill from becoming law.
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Lynwood, California, has gone through a few demographic changes. It was once predominantly white, then predominantly black, and now it’s predominantly hispanic. And dare I guess that a fair number of its hispanic inhabitants are illegal aliens? (Source)
Speaking of which, Michelle Malkin and others are live-blogging the “immigration” bill debate in the Senate this week. Click over and follow her reports and links, because I won’t be covering it. It’s too painful to watch a bunch of suicidal white men hasten the destruction of America and turn it into a two-language, Third World cesspool.
But I digress. I’ve blogged numerous times about the tension to come between blacks and hispanics. See here and here. It’s been simmering in California for a long time, and it’s going to get much worse.
Lynwood is the place to watch to understand how America’s future will unfold. The city is over 80 percent hispanic, and 40 percent of its residents are “foreign-born.” That means they’re illegal aliens. (How do I know?)
Because illegal aliens can’t legally vote in this country, blacks in Lynwood have a slight advantage. They still have the numbers to put their people in office. But as the children of illegal aliens come of age (who also should be considered illegal aliens; get rid of birthright citizenship for children of criminal aliens!), that will change. And if the amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill passes the Senate, Lynwood’s hispanic voting bloc will emerge from the shadows.
You know what that means, right? Bye-bye, black politicos. From the story:
The tensions are playing out in cities such as Carson, Compton and Inglewood, where traditional black political muscle concentrated largely among older working- and middle-class homeowners is showing signs of weakening as a generation of Latinos reaches voting age. Tensions are also playing out in the race to succeed Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, where the competition between two well-positioned African American candidates may result in their canceling each other out, paving the way for a Latina to capture a seat blacks have held for decades.The black-Latino friction in a city such as Lynwood is exacerbated by a lack of resources and decent jobs and by poverty all problems common to both groups, said Harry Pachon, a USC professor and head of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, which released a report in April titled “Beyond the Racial Divide: Perceptions of Minority Residents on Coalition Building in South Los Angeles.”
One conclusion, he said, was telling…”Each group is buying off on the negative stereotypes held by the majority [white culture], rather than questioning them,” Pachon said. “Blacks say that Latinos don’t take care of their housing, and Latinos felt that blacks don’t value families as much.”
Yes! It’s all whitey’s fault! What would a story about tension between blacks and hispanics be without blaming “white culture” for nasty stereotypes? What a world we live in. People never want to look in the mirror. It’s so easy (and profitable) to keep blaming whites, isn’t it? What happens when whites become a minority and lose power? Who will they blame then?
By the way, stereotypes aren’t necessarily false. Anyone who’s lived in or around certain neighborhoods knows firsthand that some of those “negative stereotypes” are true. (Northern Virginia liberals are are learning that lesson.) White people (and now blacks) didn’t leave California in droves because of false stereotypes, did they?
As for Harry Pachon, who made the “white culture” remark, he must be hispanic. Given his vocation of all “Latinos†all the time, his assessment isn’t exactly objective, is it? He, like everyone else, has an agenda to push.
According to the story, hispanics once claimed they lost jobs to blacks. Now blacks are complaining they’re losing jobs to hispanics. One thing that would help the situation is to hire people and award contracts based on merit rather than skin color. Although it’s illegal in California to use race in hiring decisions for government jobs and contracts (thanks, Ward Connerly!), I have no doubt that Lynwood does so. In a city flooded with illegal aliens, who’s around to care about obeying the law?
Anyway, I’m done editorializing. I just wanted to bring Lynwood, CA, to your attention. It’s a sign of things to come. Reconstruction is over.
Watch and weep.
Addendum: Last week I asked for your firsthand experiences with a certain “diverse” culture. You may share your experiences on this thread.
I never cared much for Atlanta, anyway. Never understood the hype.
Related sources:
- Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans (PDF):
“In both the Mississippi and Miami cases, a system of racial hierarchy and segregation allowed both communities to flourish. In the Mississippi case, the Chinese flourished despite their status as a non-favored group, whereas with the Cubans in Miami, their success was predetermined given the conditions under which they entered the United States and the massive federal government assistance. If the patterns observed in these two historical cases are predictive, it suggests that the new Latino immigrants into the South will distance themselves from Southern blacks. Recent literature underscores the presence of this historical pattern.
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“One might think that the cause of Latinos’ negative opinions about blacks is the transmission of prejudice from Southern whites, but our data do not support this notion.”
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“In addition to holding negative stereotypical views of black Americans, Latino immigrants do indeed feel that they have more in common with whites than with blacks. Moreover, living in the same neighborhoods as blacks, contrary to our expectations, appears to reinforce the view on the part of Latino immigrants that they have more in common with whites and the least in common with blacks. Thus, while social contact in the previous hypothesis reduces negative stereotypical views, Latino immigrants living in the same neighborhoods with blacks pushes them farther away from blacks and closer to whites.” - The State of Black America, Part Two: The Nation’s Debate Over Illegal Immigration and How it Impacts Us
- Blacks losing political clout to Hispanics in Los Angeles – California politics
- Blacks, Latinos battle for California seat
- NPR — Blacks, Latinos and the Immigration Debate
- Illegal Immigration Threatens Tidal Change In Black Politics
- Blacks in Los Angeles Have Mixed Reaction to Massive Immigration Rallies
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Just saw this by Steve Sailers about stereotypes and had to laugh because I often read comments from posters about their “exceptions that prove the rule”:
“It is unfashionable to admit publicly the existence of group statistical differences. The endless campaign in American society against stereotypes has reached the point that simple acts of pattern recognition are in disrepute and demand reflexive debunking by citation of whatever contrary example is available. ‘Any exception disproves the tendency’ appears to be the rule.”
Indeed! The exception does not disprove the rule. And generalities about people generally are true.
Foreign born does not mean illegal.
Really? Without smart people like you…what an undereducated fool I am! [sarcasm/off] It’s called “reading between the lines,” honey, cutting through the euphemism. When a paper like the LA Times says that 40 percent of a predominantly hispanic CA city are foreign-born, that means “born in Mexico,” which means they’re not in that CA city legally. – Admin
How could I have been so wrong? All during my growing up years I thought I was a part of the American culture. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered I was restricted to being a member of the white culture.
Regarding #3, Harry Reid just declared that 12,000,000 foreign born illegal immigrants are real Americans. And if Harry “Land Baron” Reid says so, it must be true. [insert rolling eyes here]
“generalities about people generally are true.”
Unless one happens to be a member of the group that is being ‘gemeralized’, and then it magically becomes ‘false’…
Unpleasant, maybe. But not necessarily false.
‘gemeralized’??
People who make typos are generally dumb. Dur.
Blacks are generally criminal
Whites are generally cleverer than blacks
Jews are generally mean
Irish are generally stupid
Conservatives are generally racist
Liberals are generally atheists
Americans are generally ignorant
Brits are generally hooligans
Women who get raped are generally asking for it
etc etc etc
I hate badly executed sarcasm. If the generalization is based on statistical evidence, then generally, the generalization is true. – Admin
Just wanted to note that you can probably get statistics that “prove” many of the “generalizations” JohnD wrote about. I can think of one [racist] study “proving” that “white are generally cleverer than blacks” – ever heard of The Bell Curve?
Paraphrased, Mark Twain said that there were lies, darned lies, and statistics.
It’s too easy to call a thing “racist” and be done with it, which is why I rarely allow the word to be used on this blog. Whatever people think of the Bell Curve, Murray measured something. If people believe that “something” is irrelevant, unimportant or the measurement of it flawed, that’s one thing. But to dismiss it as “racist” because it’s unpopular? Too easy. Is it true or false? That should be the focus. Facing facts is hard. – Admin
Bleary eyed me watched almost all of the Senate session yesterday, till midnight CST. I watched our country, the country of the citizens of the U.S., slowly being “sold down the river”. Where did that phrase come from, slavery? I really just thought about what that phrase means for the first time as I write this comment.
The great majority (not all) of Democrats support giving not only amnesty, but also benefits to illegal aliens even before they get a green card (while they hold the Z visa). This also holds true for some Republicans, but not the majority. If it had not been for Jeff Sessions from Alabama, we citizens would have no country left at all. This is not to say that Republicans are better than Democrats (inasmuch as I have renounced my Republican affiliation because of this bill), but I think it’s pretty clear that those whom we elect to represent us really don’t care about us. They’re all rich, every last one of them. They don’t have to compete for a good middle class paying job in construction. They don’t have to worry about health insurance. They don’t send their kids to public schools. They don’t mow their own yards or clean their own houses.
I’d say it’s time for a revolution, but I’m afraid it’s too late. We’ve been asleep too long.
Slightly off topic I wanted to add also that from my personal knowledge of Latin American culture, whatever racism/colorism Hispanics bring over against blacks is a function of white colonialism in Latin America, not the United States. Those prejudices were handed down for generations from the white colonizers that landed down in Latin America, and just like every other group that came here brought their prejudices over, so do Hispanics. It so happens that whites have dominated the world for so long, and have spread the mythology that whites are superior so wide, you can find it in far more places than just the American South.
From personal experience, I know that there’s a lot of colorism and racism in latin america that is not acknowledged. Most of my mom’s side of the family is fair skinned or very light tan, my brother and I are among the darkest members. And believe me I have felt the exclusion. They refer to us as “darkies”. Very few of these people have set foot in the American South. So, prejudice is everywhere. That’s not news.
I think legal Hispanics (and there are millions of us) should work together with blacks AND whites, instead of pitting against each other and propagating hatred, resentment and stereotypes. Frankly, I think both sides are shooting themselves in the foot by pitting against the other side. We could all make this country even greater with our respective contributions.
The comment isn’t off-topic. The study I linked to under “Related sources” briefly discusses color prejudice in Latin America. Make sure you read or at least skim through “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans.”
As a Hispanic who is non-Mexican living in Texas, I can attest to the racism brought forth by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. If you’re not a mestizo, or brown-skinned, you are viewed with immediate suspicion. Never mind that you can run circles around them with your Spanish and can actually read the language. Lashawn is on to something. It is a ticking time bomb, especially where it concerns other minority groups.
Thank-you, Lucy, for posting that part about Latin American racism within Latin America. It’s mystifying that some people believe the rest of the world is in some racial Eden until they come into contact with American snakes who “teach” them how to be racist. As if!
Anyone watching a Spanish soap (the bulk of which are made outside the US) can see that when black people are portrayed at all, it’s as servants—until the American commercials come on.
I believe part of their problem is their colonial history, as you said. I noticed that when the Spanish took over, they weren’t even interested in equality for themselves. They set up a hierarchy where even being white wasn’t even an advantage if you weren’t from Spain. You could only go so far if you were white but born in the colonies instead of Spain. In a culture where equality is not a given even for those who “run things,†why should anyone be surprised by their bigotry? There’s no cognitive dissonance creating the friction and impetus for change if you never say that all men are created equal, but instead insist the opposite is true.
What’s worse, those of us here who want the rule of law to be observed and our rights as citizens respected get tarred as bigots. Irony, don’t you love it?
Commenters discussing the racism in Latin cultures are spot on. There IS rampant racisim in Latin cultures (I’ve lived there), and Central American immigrants view light-skinned hispanics with disdain.
Folks, why do you think that so many illegals flooding into this country are dark? Most Latin American countries do not have a middle class to speak of – you are poor or rich. They encourage illegal immigration into the US of the “lower” (and darker) classes, because it serves in part as a pressure valve. They get rid of the people who would rebel and bring about actual political and social change.
And, once again, I will mention that being hispanic is not being a member of another race. It is an ethnic group, historically white. I can’t tell you how tired I am of people telling me I don’t “look” hispanic. Yes, I do. I don’t look Mexican. Don’t allow the left to structure this argument and turn it into a NEW race issue, when it is not. Cameron Diaz, Christina Aguilera, Rita Hayworth – all hispanics, folks.
Kim, I’ve been there. I’m still there. Being light-skinned, you don’t know how many times I’ve been given the once over once they hear my last name. I invariably get asked, “what are you?”, meaning what kind of Hispanic are you? I’ve lived in Texas 20 years!
Since my kids are light-skinned too, will they be subject to the same prejudice? Especially if this disastrous immigration bill passes and we start looking like Mexico and Central America?
I also agree that the light-skinned leaders of these Central American countries and Mexico want to get rid of their mestizos and foist them upon us. You need look no further than Miami to see where this train wreck is headed. The Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Guatemalans, Peruvians, Salvadorans and Mexicans all bring an enormous resentment of the Cuban-American (light-skinned) population.
I agree, Ed. Most of the illeal immigrants come from countries which are living testaments to failed socialist and communist experiments. Race and class hatred, preferably toward Americans, is actively encouraged. The indoctrination continues in schools here, particularly charter schools in the LA area.
A friend of mine worked for a multinational corporation, and her job required her to travel frequently to South America. She was astonished at the attitudes she encountered – whenever we elected a new President, she was always asked what HE would do for THEM. The sense of entitlement was mind boggling.
Kim, it doesn’t get better when they get to the second and third generations. Too many of them know how to “game” the system to receive our hard-earned dollars. I’ve seen it up close and personal here.
But hey, our fearless leaders who advocate this illegal immigration all live behind gated walls and have little to no contact with these attitudes you’re talking about. No wonder they embrace this “diversity”!
Amnesty for illegals — sparked by a sitting “christian conservative republican” president. This is one for the history books.
The conservative republicans’ dream president, George W. Bush, hastens this 3rd world two language cesspool.
Took us to war based on a series of half truths and outright lies, continues to lie about it. All of his closest aides lie about it and REFUSES to be held accountable. Now he wants to give instant citizenship to people here illegally!
I look back a few years and find that “christian conservative republican” President Reagan also did an amnesty thingy didnt he? And he’s the Gold Standard that all “christian conservative republicans” look to.
Now, I have no problem with people working here, legal or not, but I don’t believe in giving them citizenship rights with just a snap of the finger.
Your “christian conservative” presidents hastening america’s 3rd world demise…
Who’da thunk it? Wow!
The Black-Hispanic divide is not new in Northern California, either. There are two middle schools in the Richmond (CA) and San Pablo area and parents can (and do) request intradistrict transfers between the two schools. Apparently, the parents are “self-segregating”: one school is becoming predominantly Hispanic; the other predominantly Black, although the Census data for those two cities doesn’t reflect the same ethnic distributions.
The Asians are more evenly distributed between the two schools, as they are in the general population.
This is very interesting. I knew about the colorism within the Hispanic community (which is common in Black culture and Indian culture as well) but I always thought it was light vs dark as opposed to vice versa.
Because illegal aliens can’t legally vote in this country
This is factually correct. But ACORN, Rock the Vote, MoveOn.org, and similar “get out the vote” organizations don’t ask for proof of citizenship before registering people and signing them up for an absentee ballot (and these groups are all at the “Day With No Immigrants” rallies, signing ‘em up). If the paperwork has real addresses and plausible names, no one’s going to question it. Especially if it’s an ethnic name or neighborhood.
Heck, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that throwing out registrations where the “I am a citizen” box was unchecked was illegal voter suppression. *scoff* Can’t even refuse to give a ballot the ones who tell the truth about their status.
Ugh.
I think it’s pretty clear that those whom we elect to represent us really don’t care about us. They’re all rich, every last one of them.
Worse than that, they have set themselves up with a pretty sweet retirement plan that bears no resemblence to Social Security, and I’m sure that (if? when?) we go to socialized medicine, they’ll get to avoid the same hassle that us peons will have to work thru, and get better care to boot.
Best aside written about the immigration bill: “It’s too painful to watch a bunch of suicidal white men hasten the destruction of America and turn it into a two-language, Third World cesspool.”
Beautifully written.
By the way, the New York Court of Appeals recently ruled that illegal aliens are not entitled to drivers licenses. So the laws are definitely shaping up.
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/ctapps/decisions/jun07/74opn07.pdf
Oh please please please please please…
Immigration bill fails key test-vote
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_go_co/immigration_congress
Commentator # 11 wrote of hispanic prejudice against darker skinned hispanics even in families.
Reminds me of what happened to 2 cousins I went to college with. One was dark and one had hazel eyes, fair skin and dark brown hair. They spent 2 months in Mexico visiting relatives on both sides of the family and travelled all over.
The fair skinned one was treated extremely well by everyone they encountered from Grandma to total strangers. The dark skinned cousin was treated badly, even by dark skinned relatives.
My friend Belle has been refused service in Mexican restaurants and hotels because she looks like the Indian she is.
She was born in California. She always laughs when hispanic activists talk about the “prejudice and discrimination” of Americans against Mexicans.
This is very interesting. I knew about the colorism within the Hispanic community (which is common in Black culture and Indian culture as well) but I always thought it was light vs dark as opposed to vice versa.
That’s what I thought. Maybe things are different outside of our neck of the woods Tiffany but I’ve noticed the fairer skinned Hispanics being viewed as more appealing by other Hispanics.
Lashawn, you said:
“If the generalization is based on statistical evidence, then generally, the generalization is true.”
With due respect, that in itself is simply not true.
Statistics can be skewed, poorly presented, faulty, mistaken, careless, misrepresented, subjective or specious. That very different statistics are used by plitical rhetoricians to ‘prove the other side wrong’ is a case in point. It’s the message, not the worth of the evidence, that becomes important there.
I did not know “foreign born” was a euphemism. I’ve heard it used in census and other survey data. I’m guessing that is where the article got the number from. There it most certainly is not a euphemism. It means just that: foreign born. Just like me, henry kissinger, and gov. schwartznegger. But to you, i suppose you know what it means when a hispanic person is foreign born. To you its “reading between the lines.”
By Jove, I think you’ve got it! In the context of a story about illegal aliens, yes, that’s exactly what I think it means. – Admin
Interesting comment from #11.
My father is a black hispanic from panama and he echoed those same sentiments about black folks in those latin countries.
The black people in panama are for the most part value educate and are high achieving, yet few hold public office and they are looked down upon by the rest of population.
Even today, there still are many policies in place to keep them from going into certain establishments and such (like jim crow).
Just heard on Fox News that the amnesty bill is dead. It failed in a second vote.
On the reply to #9
The bell curve is indeed a useful tool for spotting data that fits a curve and even more for spotting things that don’t fit with others. My problem with the studies involved is one that I simply do not have the time or talent to develop. Students from Shortridge high in Indy (a long time ago) are among a few of the many reasons I agree more with mr Sowell’s concepts on IQ and race than with more recent studies.
Anyone who thinks George Bush was EVER “The conservative republicans’ dream president” lives in la-la land. George Bush has NEVER been a ‘conservative’ republican! Just because the mainstream media and democrats (oh wait..that’s the same thing, isn’t it?) labeled him so does not make it so.
As a consevative, I certainly never considered George Bush particularly conservative at all. One need only look at his proposed policies from the time he first entered the national limelight to know that. Every one I know of who voted for him in his first run for pres. did so because he was MORE consevative than the alternative – Al Gore – and that’s not a difficult position to attain.
(Those states most likely to choose a true conservative in the republican primaries tend to be so late in the process that it doesn’t matter…the candidates have dropped out before it ever gets to them)
Austin is a sanctuary city. Lest you think that the sanctuary only extends to illegals, that would not be correct.
Austin will now give $250 grants to low income people to construct outdoor enclosures for their pets as they will no longer be allowed to keep their beloved pets tethered to a leash.
Why are folks on welfare paying for pets?
And, if they love their pet so much that taxpayers are forced to subsidize that “love,” why are they treating the pets in a way that the city feels is so inhumane that it is now against the law?
The absurdity of this grant program revealed today rivals the other idiocy voted on today in which the city handed $750,000 to the Perez sisters to move their restaurant three doors down into one of the five properties that the sisters own (when their lease ran out and the evil property owners decided to lease their properties to an evil corporation that picks on the little guys who are far more well often than most of the taxpayers who are paying for the Perez sister’s lifestyle.
When I want to engage in charity with the hard earned fruits of my labor, the LAST thing on my radar screen would be the Perez sisters or building pet enclosures. To me, forcing taxpayers to subsidize either is an obscenity.
Fom where I sit,Austin is most definitely NOT a sanctuary city.
Jan:
I lived in the Peoples Republic of Austin from 1984 to 1989. You have my sympathies.
Comment #14: Oh, I was just thinking about the telenovas. It’s shocking to see what’s depicted on Mexican Telenovas—all kinds of class systems, polarized and stratified by skin color. And we are talking a very hostile type of racism…not the American kind all couched in genteel polite facades.
Even if you don’t know Spanish, watch the shows anyway. You’ll see just the kind of brazen racism depicted on Mexican TV with casual ease– that would never fly on American network television, at least not that blatent.
#1: “Just saw this by Steve Sailers about stereotypes and had to laugh”
When rferencing Steve Sailer, I sonder do you research his validity, or just agree with his racially-absorbed agenda?
I trust many here wouldn’t agree with Sailer’s anti-creationist and anti-ID stance, so one can only suppose it’s his ‘Nationalist’ credentials that get support…
But what about the truth…
Mwalimu Daudi;
Thanks for the empathy.
“But as the children of illegal aliens come of age (who also should be considered illegal aliens; get rid of birthright citizenship for children of criminal aliens!), that will change.” (LB)
Absolutely 100% right!
The “anchor-baby” idea is one of the most corrosive and abused bad ideas in all of recorded human history.
Get rid of the “anchor baby” and “family reunification,” and heavily FINE those who employ ILLEGALS and the jobs here will dry up…once those illicit jobs dry up, the overwhelming majority of those here illegally will self-deport.
I see that Bush’ poll numbers are as low as they have ever been; 32% approval rating tied with last Jan.
Does anybody wonder why they’re not lower? Who is this 32%?
My guess is that the majority of the 32 are loyal evangelical Christians like myself and they’re loyal to a fault.
Anybody see it differently?
Some of it may well be that Ross, but even the Evangelicals have some disagreements with GW and this immigration issue has to be one.
I think some of the 32% are people who (A) look around and see the economy humming along and no attacks on America in over six years and figure, “OK, decent job,” and (B) those who just refuse to give the pollsters what they’re looking for.
Now that the abominable Teddy, John and George Amnesty Bill has been waylaid, it’s time to strike back with demands that the House fix this mess. Obviously the Senate is incapable.
Demand that they enforce existing laws (for a change), build the new fence, stop the illegal border crossings, deport the felons, and then and only then, work out a disposition for the illegals already here.
Don’t let the politicians get comfortable again. Feet to the fire, and throw more wood on it.
LukeNC–
What “conservative Christian Republican” president? We haven’t had anyone like that since Ronald Reagan. Neither Bush ever pretended to be conservative–that’s merely the way the left describes them to scare the liberal voters away from them.
Only an imbecile would make such an assumption. The last time I checked, I wasn’t an imbecile. But thanks for playing! – Admin
And if the amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill passes the Senate, Lynwood’s hispanic voting bloc will emerge from the shadows.
And if the amnesty for illegal aliens bill does not pass the Senate, Lynwood’s hispanic voting bloc will (in a few years) still emerge from the shadows.
I think the problem is the question of how do you actually craft legislation that can change the status quo. The bill thus shelved for now, what is the next step? Are all the Dems gonna drop dead between now and the election, enabling conservatives to sweep Congress and pass tough legislation?
And if Democrats are needed to pass a bill, but each side is offering changes to said bill that the other cannot abide, then what?
Same old?
In my mind this bill was flawed in two areas: namely the fines on businesses not being punitive enough (the jobs being the magnet that draws the people) and all the schemes for temporary workers (Y visas). To the extent we are not hitting businesses hard (for importing workers at both ends of the pay spectrum), then we have mere thumbs in a wall thundering with leaks.
But given how the country is split down the center, I don’t know that anything will change if everyone insists on having everything they want. And if nothing changes even a little, then everything gets worse.
What, indeed, is the next step to actually fixing the problem? I wonder.
As far as I’m concerned, build the fence and then we can talk.
Reagan’s mistake was to declare amnesty but then it was business as usual, allowing more illegals to cross the border over time, and put us eventually in a worse mess than we were in the 80’s.
Stop the streaming masses and then we can talk about what to do next. But until such time that actually occurs, our immigration policy is being determined by those who are breaking our laws. We can talk all day about what should or should not be done, but until someone puts their finger in the dike, all we’re doing is yammering while the illegal aliens are the only ones actually taking action.
Lashawn, I love your blog but I have to disagree with you when you say there will be a conflict between blacks and hispanics in california.
I live in Los Angeles and I can tell you there won’t be. There are so few blacks 5 percent and so many hispanics 50 percent or who knows in california, especially s. california that the blacks will be just overwhelmed by the hispanics.
Almost all the black politicians like Willie Brown, Tom Bradley, Yvonne Burkewaithwaite etc are over the age of 60. There are no younger black activists except for marginal characters like black muslims whose only interest is harassing the few, very few white police officers left after 40 years of affirmative action when they arrest a black.
I work with a lot of blacks who live in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles like Lynwood, Inglewood and S. Los Angeles. Their neighborhoods are going hispanic. But at least the blacks I know don’t feel threatened at all.
“The neighborhood’s mostly hispanic so what” is how they seem to feel. Neighborhoods change about every 2 generations anyway.
The press goes beserk whenever there is conflict. But remember the conflicts usually arise between 2 sets of thugs and hoodlums. So a hispanic gangster shoots a black gangster. It doesn’t mean that normal working people are killing each other.
According to a black lawyer I know, virtually all housing projects and section 8 have been allocated to immigrants for the last 25 years.
That may be why the homeless of Los Angeles are about half black and half white Americans.
California’s gone. Americans should leave.
According to a black lawyer I know, virtually all housing projects and section 8 have been allocated to immigrants for the last 25 years.-Margaret
Now that I think about it, I have NEVER seen an Hispanic homeless person. Easily 90% of the homeless folks I see are white.
The area in which I live has rather more than the national average for ill eagles. Sorry about that.
The beginning of what I dislike about this and many other “laws” being passed is the implied “disrepect” for the law. Basicly – Do not pass any law unless you are going to enforce it. This goes back a long way and is a big part of the perils of todays society.
As for the individuals we argue about. I did not know any hispanics when I lived in Indianapolis decades ago. Yet a few years ago when I was visiting there I met several whom I am glad to have met. I have no problems with most of them as individuals but taken together we have an actual national crises. One of several such.
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