Friday, May 25, 2007

Anti-immigrant and Pro-Black

This is an interesting, though not unique situation. I recently came across this article written in the Black Commentator by Bill Fletcher Jr. regarding the recent twist in the anti-immigrant campaign by the "Coalition for the future American worker." The ad features a prominent civil rights veteran by the name of T. Willard Fair, decrying amnesty for illegal immigrant labor. What makes this interesting is Fair's rationale: that amnesty means less jobs for African Americans. You can find the article here. Although the editorial doesn't necessarily take on the subject as well as I'd hoped, the theme of the article remained intriguing.

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