I think this whole illegal alien issue has brought Blacks and Whites closer together?

DAR

I think all legal residents should be against illegal immigration, because it it bad for our society, particularly as it affects our public education and the ability for workers of whatever ethnicity to make a decent wage.

However, I am not too keen on your screen name, to tell you the truth.

*ma_riah*

i think hispanics and blacks do have alot in common; they all dealt with racism
plus hispanics do all the jobs some of us won't do, and get paid less. i don have a problem with them bein here

Dooosh

Americans are of every colour, they only have history from about 200 yrs back, there are no native americans except for those indians, its when you live somewhere which has always been white, then it is overthrown with immigrants.

Stolenallmyheadjuice

"What do you think?"

I seriously doubt a man that burns crosses on Sundays would automatically give blacks a hug because of the illegal immigration issue. Wasnâ€™t it only a year ago blacks were left to rot in New Orleans? You should ask why blacks are so desperate for White acceptation instead.

"There is a big difference between African Americans and South Americans. For one, the Africans were brought here against their will in most cases, and are thousands of mile from Africa in their way of life and geographically speaking. I think Black and White people have more in-common with each other than with Latinos, in the way of culture, dialect, and even our source of American Pride!.
South Americans and African Americans do not get along, take a close look in Compton or Lynwood, or even Los Angeles. They have nothing in common. I grew up in a latin community thats how I know!. Hispanics are very racist against blacks, I remember a black family moving into my neighborhood as kid and the Mexican residents there were talkin some big time smack about them."

Mexico isnâ€™t even on the continent of South America; so that explains why were having a difficult time securing our border. Therefore, Mexicans arenâ€™t classified as South American like Brazilians are. Speaking of South America, countries like Brazil have a high Black/Mulatto slave descendant population like the United States has, and they're considered to be second-class citizens. Sound familiar?

mean_as_hell76

I believe this has nothing to do with color. I believe it has to do with white people wanting to point fingers for allowing something to get so out of control. I mean Bush wants to stop this immigration thing, hello who do you think works on his ranch, it's not black people or white. Common sense will tell you it's about the White's being mad because they are living below poverty level because they are to lazy to do any job under 10.00 an hour. I'm tired of everything being about color. I mean a few year's ago it was about the Black's getting the better job because of their skin, now it's the Mexicans. Please people if your going to blame a color blame your own, we allowed this to happen, and now we have to accept it. Stop making this a color issue, it's about one race crying about another. Becuase one is making it further in life than another.

freebird

I think this has brought Americans closer together, including legal hispanics. 11 million uninvited guests is not an immigration, it's an invasion.

mellie

I would agree with you with this, those Latinos are cut-throats, just see how slum looking a lot of those major Latinos cities are, that's what their trying to do here in America, just wait and see, or check out the area were most a living in vast group here.I experience this because I have been to Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba and will go those countries again, but where the tourist like area are, and not those big cities.Even though my heritage is mix, I am not phony, race,ethnicity, has a lot of bearings on who or what you are in these Latino community, it's depressing...My father is what they call malluto, my mom is mestizo, they are 2ND generation Americans, to me I am an American and proud one at that, glad to have many friends of all race,GOD bless this country, my folks are well to do but my friends are from jobless to very rich to desperadoes, we are ALL just that friends.My parents told of how their parents where treated back home in Venezuela, that being of a darker hoe can sometimes be a set back,I always thought what a bunch of phony people in South America, and some other places.I am considered to most people a Latino because of my complexion, but I am proud of my black heritage, and would prefer to sign of as an American.My letter is not confusing to those who know what I am talking about, again it all about being for REAL.

Blackfirefly

whites dont really give a damn about black people, if they did the welfare sytem would be done away with. They give some of us section 8 to keep us in the jungle, give a little welfare money and tell you in so many words that you can not make a certian amount of money or you will be cut off,. If they cared (the kkk in the house and senate) they would get rid of that.

fartman

why doesn't everyone go to church and talk later

Ophelia

I had some thoughts about your screen name. I thought it was in reference to being Aryan, which is really racist.
Now I see you are just into astrology. Immigration shouldn't be an issue of color, it should be an issue of laws and justice for the American people. There is racism everywhere, not just with whites and hispanics
Skin color is just that-skin color. There isn't anything more to it. Illegals are all colors and I think we should deport them all and make them come the right way.

joeandhisguitar

You are absolutely right...and even more than that. Like another person has stated, It has brought together all legal Americans.

bilskine

I do not think this has brought blacks/whites closer. I think this issue is making whites feel whiter and blacks feeling lef tout again.

notfreeloader

STupid latino ..if white lazy this country never great like this time, if our country collaps because illegals leeches , all of u will be suffer like ethopia .
latino u lucky close with north american because u soo poor and we are so rich.... if close with dubai...u come illegals they must be put u in cave like MY DOG

jnrockwall@sbcglobal.net

Well that would be sad. The fact is earth is a very small place. And whether some like it or not, we are all teamates. The problem is some are focused on individual goals and others are focused on not participating. We will always have problems until everyone can jump in and do their part to win the game! However, that would be Bliss and the world would have to end. So I guess having a few sticklers isn't always bad... :)

Sashie

Here we go again ... race, color or creed has nothing to do with illegal immigrants ... but the fact that they are ILLEGALLY here!!

Well if you watch Mexican TV you see that Mexicans are more racist towards blacks and native peoples than americans ever have. Blacks are losing jobs in there communities to illegals and so are whites

enlightenment

MYTH
Undocumented immigrants â€œstealâ€ jobs from U.S.-born workers--particularly from low-income and Black workers.
â€œ[T]here are between 7 and 15 million working illegal immigrants diluting our labor pool. If illegal immigrants could no longer work, unions would flourish, the minimum wage would rise, and oligarchic nations to our south would have to confront and fix their corrupt ways.â€
--Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, March 29, 2006

FACT
Wages are kept low not by undocumented immigrants, but by corporations that have carried out a one-side war on U.S. workers since the 1970s.

Liberals like Hartmann who accept the idea that undocumented immigrants are the cause of low wages are doing a disservice to the fight for better jobs. They are setting undocumented immigrants against other groups of workers--and in pursuit of an argument that is simply not true.

According to an analysis of data from the 2000 Census by the American Immigration Law Foundation, employment in about one-third of all U.S. job categories would have contracted anyway during the 1990s without recently arrived, noncitizen immigrant workers--even if all unemployed U.S.-born workers with recent job experience in those categories had been reemployed.

According to a November report in USA Today, job and wage growth in 10 U.S. inner cities with high immigrant populations outpaced job and wage growth in their broader metropolitan statistical areas.

Mr ME

sure it has bought blacks and whites together.

now each side, has a new common victim to persecute!

cluelesskat maria

can we do away with this color complex black white and brown, we are the people of ths world, cannot we live with out looking at colour and judge people .colour is only skin deep, just because your comfortably, the poor are asking for more if we have it why not share it,if immigrants are willing to work, why not give them a chance in life, this is a great wide beautiful wonderful world , can we let it remain like that cause hatred is not only ruining our selves but the rest of the world, dont you know united we stand as one world divided we shall fall,

gokart121

Hmm. There's continental america, north central and south america, and there's 'the United States Of America', which isn't the same, because it's a country separate from the other countries in the same hemisphere. The United States is comprised of the 50 states, and its' population has a wide varied demographic mix. 'Blacks and whites' is racial terminology,
and questionable in terms of where you're going with that.

Mexico, a separate country from the United States, lies to the south, and has a lot of socio-economic problems, as do many of the central and south american countries. Crime, drugs, and god knows what else are huge hurdles for the rest of the americas, as they are for the United States, but at least in the United States there's some efforts to curb all of that, where in the other countries the perpetrators openly rival the government for control of their countries.

I think the immigration debate has brought together ALL americans and brought them to the debate table, and caused a lot of people to really stop and look at what's been going on, over the years, and where we're headed as a country. I fully believe that choking back drastically on the illegal immigration AND the legal immigration is a Wise Move, in terms of strongly encouraging some out there to abandon their 'free ride' mentality(black, white, asian, hispanic, or otherwise), and get out there and get a JOB, or at least a function in life of some kind.
There's 6.5 billion people in the world, that's 6.2 billion that lie OUTSIDE the US border. They can't all come move in, it's not gonna work out. I don't care what your ethnicity is, if you can't see that, you don't see the Big Picture...countries like Mexico need to call their people home and start fixing their own problems. Pretty simple, there...as far as Los Angeles and California are concerned, I think people are leaving that state with good reason...California's got an ugly side to it that they should put more prominently on the front page of their newspapers and just deal with it openly. Reform doesn't have to hurt, but you do have to get people started on it at some point. When you've got little 'hoods and stuff where people think they've got territory and stuff, then you need to get in there and have more people from different backgrounds. Communities need to get more involved in policing, too, and put a stop to the drugs and violence that are hallmarks of Los Angeles and other cities where they've let this stuff go on unabated. In some cases, the INS needs to be invoked, and in others, more jails need to be built, prominently, right downtown, and stuff. Beat cops(not rappers, but the guys walking the street with the night-stick, and stuff) need to be out patrolling the neighborhoods too. I think California's major problem is that due to the proximity of Mexico, they have a lot of poor people and also criminals moving north. The poor aren't the problem but the criminals are, and while you don't want to turn an american city into one big giant prison, something DOES have to be done to get people to start being american citizens again and not part of some little sub-klan with pistols and hate and bad attitudes. This is the 21st century, time for some folks out there to buy a clue. I think the border wall will serve part of this purpose, by preventing people from feeling they have the escape of just running back and forth to do whatever. The whole drug business is really bad, and I think if you put it to a national vote today, there'd be like 30 more prisons in California in the next 4 years, put a quick stop to all of this mess.

recordproducer

What part of "ILLEGAL alien" don't you understand?

walter27282000

Actually I believe this issue has brought ALL americans,and Legal Immigrants closer together......Just my opinion.....

Hadenough

I have a neighbor who is black married to a Mexican women and they are good people. Sometimes I show them posts and they laugh. It has brought Legal citizens together. They too see the drain on system and feel it. And the 3 of us all different agree as Americans that we can not afford the flood coming in. His wife came the legal way and she has family in Mexico and she is for policy enforcement. She is a good Honorable person with high standards and does not like to see what she sees happening and how many have no morals or respect. Not that we are all perfect-just some behaviors on this issue are out of line. And She Asked the Question on Moral Behavior From Mexico on the post earlier--even though I got the slack--funny how that worked out. She sees very well indeed. And yes you are right-it has brought many together.

ireos1926

I completely agree with you ! I despise criminals of any
race ! I admit, though that I have a soft place in my heart for the African/American....They were in the past dragged
in USA and today Government give the illegal Mexicans more benefit than the Black ever got ! True, the young Blacks are sometimes rebellious to the laws...but after what they went through i can't blame them . I have many African/American friends, they are compassionate, loving and are true friends. Mexican friends ? None, zero, nix

celine8388

you think blacks and whites are closer now? Really? Tell me how you really come to that conclusion...Have you not seen white policemen BEAT a black person who has been pulled over for suspicion of "whatever"they thought of at the time? Just because your neighbors are racists...doesn't mean all Mexicans or any other Hispanic person is..too........You base yoUr question on ur neighbors? The area where you live is considered a "red zone' area in California...Gangs everywhere....If Blacks and Whites are getting closer....that's great...lets ALL get closer...you sound racist itself

seventhundersuttered

i just dont see the connection. but i know that blacks generally dont like mexicans

ezzuddine68

" no difference between black & white , red & yellow , eastern & western . all is the same . allah has created us with no difference except in being bad or good, " muslim or kafer ", to paradise or to hell .

carmen

well, you have lived in this black/white/hispanic situation. im not claiming i ever have. i do, however, want to say that if it is true that the immigration issue has brought blacks and whites closer together, its a sad way to get things done, at another culture's expense. i seriously doubt it could be a positive thing. to me you are almost saying that the blacks and whites will now be "teaming up" with each other against the hispanics. now what is good about that? and as far as where everyone came from and why they are here in the united states........that's old news. point is we are all here now. so what do we do to get along? deal with the present.

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