Why do illegal immigration advocates (Mexicans especially) use Black history to support their arguments?
Also, I have heard illegal alien supporters compare the wants and entitlements that they have to that of the entitlements that Blacks in America (supposedly) have.
Where's the history behind this claim to entitlements?
With America's torrid history of Black oppresion, weren't Blacks entitled to something (the 40 acres and a mule promise which we never got)?
Answer:
They are fishing desperately for an argument.
I am an advocate and I use the argument for the purpose of hoping people will remember.
Africans were treated look dogs and not even people. If the white slave owners had had their ways NO african would of ever been allowed freedom EVER! How inhumane to not allow africans to use certain toliets, restaurants, etc.
Back in the day whites never would of thought it possible for a slave to go free...but it HAPPENED!!! WHY?? Cuz of educated people and others willing to take a chance for what they believed in.and what a difference those people made!
As a person who has studied American history in great depth, I get upset when I see a comparison made. What the slaves went through, what the nation went through during the civil war, the messy reconstruction, the years of segregation, the horrible lynchings and the KKK's actions when they were in the forefront - are far worse than anything happening today. Anyone who tries to say its the same thing has not studied much. The illegal aliens are coming here by choice - the slaves had no say in the decision.
Heck, I don't understand at all how race plays into the illegal immigration debate. Certainly the majority are from Mexico, but there are ALL races here illegally, just as there are citizens and legal immigrants of ALL races.
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Terry, I am sorry but your never going to get your 40 acres and a mule.Just like Mexican's are never going to reclaim the southwest.Get over, its past history.
They will do and say anything, to make it look like they have a right to be here, even if its illegally.
Because the injustices of yester-years somehow has created most of what now feels to be an attempt for the younger and following generations to either want to repeat it or for the past victims to lose control altogether and really fu** up a good thing here in our great nation!
Cesar Chavez (named after his grandfather) was born near Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927 to an American family of Mexican and Basque descent. His early life was difficult: among other problems, the small adobe home where Chavez was born was swindled from his family by dishonest businessmen: Chavez's father Librado had agreed to clear 80 acres of land and add to the home in exchange for the deed to 40 acres of land, but the agreement was broken and the land was sold to a man named Justus Jackson. The elder Chavez went to a lawyer who advised him to borrow money to buy the land, but when he could not pay the interest on the loan, the lawyer bought the land and sold it back to the original owner.
Chavez did not like school as a youth. He remembered being punished with a ruler to his knuckles for speaking Spanish. Some schools were segregated, and he frequently encountered racist remarks. He and his brother Richard attended thirty-seven schools over the course of their lives.
Chavez felt that education had nothing to do with his farm worker/migrant way of life. In 1942, he graduated from the eighth grade. He could not attend high school because his father Librado had been in an accident and did not want his mother Juana to work in the fields. Instead, Cesar became a migrant farm worker. After two years he joined the Navy and served a two-year enlistment.
In 1948 Chavez married Helen Fabela. They honeymooned in California by visiting all the California Missions from Sonoma to San Diego. They settled in Delano and started their family. First Fernando, then Sylvia, then Linda, and five more children followed.
Chavez went to San Jose where he met and was influenced by Father Donald McDonnell. They talked about farm workers and strikes. Chavez read about St. Francis, Gandhi and nonviolence. After Father McDonnell came another very influential person, Fred Ross, and Chavez became an organizer for Ross's organization, the Community Service Organization (CSO). His first task was voter registration.
This whole "Race" deal in America just needs to go away. PERIOD.
If us Americans want to REALLY make a change and put an end to all cultural bias, racism, and segregation. Stop making such a big deal of what happened over 100 years ago!!!
That's the problem with America- we don't let our past stay in the past. Look at all the movies, TV shows, News, and Internet articles that constantly throw "RACE" in our faces.
If parents aren't teaching their kids about race- our society most CERTAINLY is.
(Ok, I think I'm way off topic.)
Every country has it's dark eras. What makes me angry is how everybody wants something for nothing.
I don't have a problem with History, it's part of our PAST.
Too many people want to bring back History and complain about what happened before we were EVER BORN!
Be thankful you live in a country that is trying to END RACISM.
Not just the immigrants, but the gays and lesbians, disabled, lithuaninans who love cheese, and anyone else who wants to look like a noble victim.
NONE of these people would trade places with us today, after the civil rights movement, let alone suffer what we had to suffer to get here. Their "movement" would be over and done with the first time they got bombed, lynched, or beaten by the police with something a little harder than rubber bullets. Most of them wouldn't even live in a Black neighborhood. But they sure will cheapen all of history to take the hard-won benefits.
I dunno how they think scurrying across the border in the dead of night entitles them to a civil rights movement. And there certainly isn't a crisis going on in Mexico that they could claim asylum from. They are just grasping at straws, and poorly at that.
Most don't know their own history! It's the only thing they can quote in hopes of gaining your sympathy as they steal your identity, your bank accounts and entitlements to workmen's compensation, a decent wage, unemployment compensation, social security disability, housing and anything else you are entitled to as a Legal American.
They think Blacks are or were Illegal Aleins just like them. You can thank Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH coalition for their mis-information and Globalist policies that diminish wages for African Americans and other minorities that are here legally! He sold is own out before 1992!
I dont understand why they use black history. They would have a stronger leg to stand on and analysing the history of usa immigration policy toward various parts of the globe. The 1800's to early 1900's there was lil immigration policy, it was essentally open doors for europe. This period coninsided with the great Irish potato faminane and other great calamaties in europe. The first group to face quotas while Europe had an open door policy were the asians. Next were latinos, and Finally it was meiderrtanin Europe who faced quotas or outright banned. Finally the usa established a uniform quota immigration policy.
Because they feel as if their struggle is similar to the black experience in the USA. Sorry,I beg to differ.Aside from a few police brutality incidences,I've never seen any of them lynched,tarred and feathered,not allowed to eat or drink from the same restaurant ables as whites,etc.In a way they are enslaved by the "coyotes" who now charge 7,000usd plus 10% interest,and by corporate America once they get here. We were never paid for working,they are.
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