Group memorializes MLK Day ad blaming black unemployment on immigration reform

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On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, we must ask, how would he feel about 20 percent of African Americans unemployed or underemployed, about giving amnesty and jobs to 11 million illegal aliens with so many jobless Americans, about admitting 30 million more immigrant workers when 17 percent of Hispanic Americans are having trouble finding work, about Americans of all races not seeing a wage increase in 40 years? Was that Dr. King’s dream?

One immigration restrictionist group wants “unemployed minority audiences” who watch “daytime programming” to memorialize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as it was truly intended — to remember that undocumented immigrants are responsible for high unemployment rates among minorities. Such is the talking point of the anti-immigration group Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), released a new ad on Tuesday to provoke division among vulnerable populations.

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This is not the first time that immigration restrictionists have tried to drive a wedge between African Americans and immigrants. Just last week, 16 House Republicanscondemned immigration reform because it wouuld affect minority communities “enduring chronically high unemployment.” NumbersUSA similarly launched a television ad during the 2012 election cycle to portray immigrants as job takers.

Many studies have already debunked the dubious arguments high unemployment with increased immigration. Evidence suggests that African Americans have different skills than immigrants, an asset that helps them transition into higher-skilled jobs. Civil rights leader Wade Henderson noted that African-American unemployment rates have been high for decades, generally double that of the white population. At the same time, America’s Voice found that Republicans who acted as “defenders of minority workers” actually have terrible voting records on worker rights.

What makes the ad particularly disingenuous is that CAPS is funded by the white nationalist John Tanton Network, according to theSouthern Poverty Law Center. And what of CAPS media spokesman Joe Guzzardi, who is leading the outrage on behalf of “hardworkingAfrican-American and Hispanic American workers [who] can’t find jobs?” According toRight Wing Watch, Guzzardi has written dozens of blog posts for the white nationalist website VDARE.
 

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Well to clarify, I blame black unemployment on black people, becuase of lack of education and culture of not emphasizing education and of course there is discrimination which I blame on whites

But I don't blame illegal immigration for black unemployment I just think illegal immigration just makes things worse and it's stupid for black people to support it
 

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Well to clarify, I blame black unemployment on black people, because of lack of education and culture of not emphasizing education and of course there is discrimination which I blame on whites

But I don't blame illegal immigration for black unemployment I just think illegal immigration just makes things worse and it's stupid for black people to support it

Man you can blame it on black people themselves solely if you want but that is intellectually lazy because if you review events that have occurred from 1965, it has not been a smooth ride. From drugs being flooded into communities, the government targeting our organizations for things you mentioned and the leaders that had the ability to bring us forward being attacked or assassinated. In addition to the media and events past, we've been condition to be this way today. I'm not attacking you just giving my opinion.
 
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Man you can blame it on black people themselves if you want but that is intellectually lazy because if you review events that have occurred from 1965, it has not been a smooth ride. From drugs being flooded into communities, the government targeting our organizations for things you mentioned and the leaders that had the ability to bring us forward being attacked or assassinated. In addition to the media and events past, we've been condition to be this way today. I'm not attacking you just giving my opinion.
How about a little bit of both? Things are bad AND people have made poor choices. Either way the situation is only going to change when the people decide to change it.
 

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Man you can blame it on black people themselves solely if you want but that is intellectually lazy because if you review events that have occurred from 1965, it has not been a smooth ride. From drugs being flooded into communities, the government targeting our organizations for things you mentioned and the leaders that had the ability to bring us forward being attacked or assassinated. In addition to the media and events past, we've been condition to be this way today. I'm not attacking you just giving my opinion.

Yeah those things did and do happen but ultimately its black people's fault for allowing those things to happen

I m not subscribing to any ideology or school of thought that puts the fate of black people in other people's hands
 

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Yeah those things did and do happen but ultimately its black people's fault for allowing those things to happen

I m not subscribing to any ideology or school of thought that puts the fate of black people in other people's hands

I agree with you 100% on that. But we have to look at the reality too, a lot of our young black men and women are not training themselves to be available for the careers of the future so they will not be considered for those jobs. I worked a LOT of job fairs in the automobile industry before the fall of GM and the main question I would get is, "Will you take someone who just has a high school education?" It is the fear of rejection that stops most people but at the time we were looking for anyone who could read and write, but today, industry is making it so a lot of jobs are going to be computerized. Where do the people go if there job can be more efficiently done by a robot?
 

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I agree with you 100% on that. But we have to look at the reality too, a lot of our young black men and women are not training themselves to be available for the careers of the future so they will not be considered for those jobs. I worked a LOT of job fairs in the automobile industry before the fall of GM and the main question I would get is, "Will you take someone who just has a high school education?" It is the fear of rejection that stops most people but at the time we were looking for anyone who could read and write, but today, industry is making it so a lot of jobs are going to be computerized. Where do the people go if there job can be more efficiently done by a robot?

the onus to fix those types of problems is on black people and one thing for sure having an influx of cheap labor in the form of illegal immigration is not a step toward fixing that problem
 

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the onus to fix those types of problems is on black people and one thing for sure having an influx of cheap labor in the form of illegal immigration is not a step toward fixing that problem

Heck if cheap labor gets here they will only be doing jobs Americans don't want to do. The real problem is that big business is not expanding fast enough to create the jobs that people need.
 

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Heck if cheap labor gets here they will only be doing jobs Americans don't want to do. The real problem is that big business is not expanding fast enough to create the jobs that people need.

business is expanding, corporate america is doing fine last time i checked, jobs are expanding depending on what your field is

the problem for black people is that black people lack the education needed for corporate america and the low level of capitalism in the black community

unless im missing something, if cheap labor is doing jobs that americans wont do and there are americas out of work, then the onus is on americans to solve that issue

i think the whole notion that illegals are doing things american wont do is BS tho
 

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business is expanding, corporate america is doing fine last time i checked, jobs are expanding depending on what your field is

the problem for black people is that black people lack the education needed for corporate america and the low level of capitalism in the black community

unless im missing something, if cheap labor is doing jobs that americans wont do and there are americas out of work, then the onus is on americans to solve that issue

i think the whole notion that illegals are doing things american wont do is BS tho

Go check out those fruit fields in Alabama. I think maybe three years ago, Alabama was talking about putting a law on the books to round up the illegals at the fruit fields...now they were just talking about it and people started fleeing to MS and GA. Alabama lost millions on the crops that sat out in the sun that year. No American wants to work in those hot ass fields for those what they are getting paid. The pay is crap compared to the heat. It's real.
 
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