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Are black Americans being blackmailed to support illegal aliens' false
civil
rights claims?
Kevin Fobbs Kevin Fobbs
May 22, 2006
On May 1st, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens took to American
streets
to essentially blackmail America into supporting their alleged "civil
rights" which sent up at least a half dozen red flags in the black
community. I'm quite certain that thousands of black mothers and fathers -
who, by the way, are here in this country legally - who are struggling to
obtain a decent education, or affordable housing, or quality health care
or
a job to support their family just had to wonder why 12 to 20 million
illegal aliens think they should suddenly jump ahead of them in hijacking
their rights as citizens to the American Dream.
What exactly is a "civil right"? What must one have been deprived of, and
under what conditions are these civil rights to be earned or obtained?
There
is a marked difference between the blood shed, sacrifice made and the
entitlements earned by the black civil rights experience of the 19th and
20th century struggles and the current claims of millions of illegal
aliens.
The civil rights which each black family earned generation by generation,
struggling as citizens under threat of lynching, under threat of fire
bombings, under threat of murder... but as citizens is being compared to
illegal aliens who want "civil rights" that are not only not earned but
they
aren't warranted without citizenship!
Here we go again...
This isn't the first time some folks who were not brought against their
will
and without the "open and obvious" ability to group them by their skin
color
to systematically deny their rights tried to pin its "civil rights"
entitlement to the coattails of the black struggle for civil rights in the
hope that leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson and millions of black Americans
would fall for the rouse. Recently it was gay Americans who claimed
several
years ago that their struggle was the same as Americans of African decent.
It didn't work.
Even Rev. Jesse Jackson had to admit to no real connection to the
threadbare
attempt to compares the gay experience to the black struggle as if by some
miraculous transformation they or any other group who had not gone through
the same valiant struggles should somehow be awarded a "Civil Rights Badge
of Constitutional Entitlement" earned and fought for by generations of
African Americans since and even before the Civil War.
Now comes another group attempting to attach its claims to black civil
rights struggles. What is disturbing is that the illegal alien agenda is
not
a civil rights agenda. The illegal alien agenda attempts to equate evading
our border patrols to deserving a civil rights badge of martyrdom. Now 12
to
20 million illegal aliens who for 25 years have simply walked across, swam
across, or were driven under cover of darkness across our nation's border
feel they have endured the same comparable experience to the countless
harrowing "Underground Railroad" trips made by Harriett Tubman or
Sojourner
Truth through slave states to convey slaves to freedom.
Of course there is no logical comparison, but there are some black leaders
who attempt to make a connection and in their effort are failing black
people when they cheapen their worth. This open support and advocacy for
illegal alien rallies which demand more and more American resources, more
boycotts, more walkouts... at the expense of far too many black Americans
who struggle daily for jobs, decent education and housing is wrong...
wrong... wrong!
Where are the courageous black leaders of a century ago such as Booker T.
Washington and W.E.B. Dubois, who urged American industry and businesses
to
turn to black American workers? Would those same leaders today be seeking
support for illegal immigrant labor and their rights over those of black
unemployed or young black adults looking for their first job, first home,
first opportunity? Is that fair to any American whose forebears came to
this
country and worked legally to obtain a place in American society?
I have to ask Rev. Jesse Jackson about his defense of illegal aliens'
rights
being put ahead of black Americans who have suffered racism for far too
many
generations.
What about those black Chicagoans in his Operation Push's hometown, who
have
been often deprived of their right to see their child in Chicago placed
behind 12 million illegal aliens in the line to a decent education or
decent
housing? Would he or Rev. Al Sharpton or any other so-called civil rights
leader be able to find 1 million, or 100,000 or 25,000 black mothers or
fathers in Detroit, Los Angles, Cleveland, Little Rock, St. Louis,
Atlanta,
New York, Phoenix, or even Washington D.C's Southside willing to sign a
pledge to allow illegal alien children or parents the right to take away
their job, their housing, their education, their father's life struggle in
order to be politically correct?
Should the several hundred thousand who marched in Chicago on May 1st be
given Rev. Jesse Jackson's son's seat in Congress seat because they were
loud enough to be heard over the quiet cries of his constituents who have
earned the civil right seat on the Freedom Bus?
In 25 years, while illegal aliens have been stealing across the border,
black Americans have to be wondering over that same span of time just
where
are the entry level jobs for them? Black Detroiters have to be wondering,
with ten thousand students leaving the public school system each year,
should precious educational resources from Michigan or Washington be spent
on millions of illegal alien students who by law should not be here, but
because some political and black leaders' fear of breaking a political
correctness infraction, black and white American children may and will
lose
out on educational resources to help level the playing field of their own
constituent's achievement?
For 12 years I served as a board member in Wayne County, Michigan for one
of
the largest social service agencies in America. I can tell you right now
that I can not think of a single black family who received much needed
services in order to help keep their family's body, soul and spirit
together, would have or should have given up their essential financial
supports, their job training and their educational benefits which would
help
get their family to get back on the right track toward raising their
family
up from poverty so that illegal aliens could benefit from their
entitlements.
I'm sure these families on welfare have to be wondering just how much more
should they take from an America that is willing to let millions of
illegal
aliens blackmail our nation, walk out on the country for a day and demand
protections for their families, for their children that the illegal
aliens'
own government back in Mexico should provide them... but gladly shows its
legal citizens the "Yellow Brick Road" to our nation's pocketbook.
Well black America, maybe its time for you to begin a nationwide "Walk
In."
If millions of illegal aliens can demonstrate on the backs of black
Americans, push you out of line, and take the legacy of Rosa Park's
dramatic
act of civil disobedience in sitting down for earned civil rights, then
take
a page from their book.
If millions of illegal aliens can walk out on America... Black Americans
...
Let's "Walk IN" for our civil rights!
Let's give our children and our families and our communities and our jobs
and our veterans and our legacies a well-deserved "Walk In" and show all
Americans what citizens of our nation can do.
Let us embrace our true civil rights legacy, which is to walk in and stay
in
the civil rights fight that Harriet Tubman, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
my
grandfather - a civil rights preacher and teacher in northern Louisiana
for
over 75 years - and the plethora of other courageous civil rights heroes -
yes, legal Americans - citizens who did not sneak into our country in
order
to take our resources, demand their country's language be adopted and
utilized on American soil did. They did not knuckle under to threats.
It is our schools, hospitals and public services that are being shut down
and jobs and housing that are being lost perhaps permanently.
No, this is not the America that our forefathers fought for. This is not
the
nation that our forefathers died for to build a future for their children
and for their family.
No, this is not the nation that our true civil rights heroes struggled
against racism, and against racial marginalism and against economic
deprivation so that maybe, just maybe, in a generation or two their heirs
would have an opportunity to succeed and inherit the fullness and richness
of the American Dream only to be kicked off the bus and out of the line.
No, I don't think there are black Americans who should stand and wait
while
millions of illegal aliens' whose only struggle was to cross America's
border and take the birthright of black Americans and their ancestor's
civil
rights legacy without a fight, without a comment and without a struggle.
We
must say no... not this time... not this way... and not to our people.
Black America send a wake up call to the millions of illegal aliens who
want
your place in line and leave you still trying to play by the rules. You
will
stand up and walk into the line. Walk into your civil rights and walk into
your jobs, your schools, your hospitals, your child's scholarships and
into
your future. After 300 plus years of struggle, I think black America is
entitled to its civil rights. Walk In and Stay In.
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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac),
a
non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking
the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one
neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at
www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the
Detroit News.
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