Are The Dems Betraying Blacks?

One issue holding up immigration legislation is the insistence, including by notable Dems like Kennedy, on the need for a large guest worker program. If you click on the second link below, you'll hear economist Julianne Malveaux talking about Black unemployment, stating it is approaching Depression-era levels, particularly for young and unskilled workers. It is running approximately 11%, or double the national average.

With Kennedy citing immigration as the new civil rights and his being intent on legitimizing an influx of underpaid workers into our system, isn't it fair to suggest it is a betrayal of the Black population which has almost in lock step supported the Dems for so long?

Without illegal immigrants, wages in entry-level jobs would likely rise. Jobs in construction and other non-farm areas would become available. You would think that if the Dems were genuinely interested in representing their existing constituents, as opposed to simply cultivating more of the same, too many destined to be trapped in poverty by low wages, their natural position should be to remove illegal workers from the work force and initiate a jobs program targeted at inner city blacks.

One can't help but wonder about their true motivations, given that their actions run counter to the needs of their own constituency.

via Breitbart: But with Democrats adamantly refusing to allow votes on politically charged amendments, Majority Leader Bill Frist sounded a pessimistic note hours later on the Senate floor. Barring a dramatic change, said the Tennessee Republican, "The course we're on is to leave here in a few days having accomplished nothing for the American people."

Malveaux at NPR: The unemployment rate for African Americans hovers at just under 11 percent -- more than double that of whites. Economist Julianne Malveaux talks about the causes and effects of high unemployment in the black community. Malveaux partly blames Bush for high Black unemployment at NPR

Comments

[brownalmostblackman]

Yeah! Anyone remember the Immigration Reform Act in 1965, when The Kennedys favored the influx of workers to do jobs that Americans, specifically Black Americans, wouldn't do? Well, there goes that crop of jobs, might as put them on welfare. 41 years later, what was supposed to be the answer to a cry for necessary help, turns out to be a way of life, perpetuated by an economic society known as entitlements. A basic law of Physics, the subject, is that water will always seek its' own level. Rid the US population of illegals, close the borders, weed out the ones who don't belong here, get rid of welfare and that simple law of Physics will adapt itself to a better way of life in America. Senator Mc Cain: "it can't be done". This is an American who wants to be President saying it can't be done???? We need leaders, not wussies. Didn't Lee Iacocca turn Chrysler around? What about Guliani halting crime in NY. It can't be done, my ass!!! Politicians are afraid of losing their positions, ie: screwing the government, that is, we the people who elect these assholes to represent us, the will of the peeps, and then do what they damn well please with your money taken at gunpoint. Yeah, it's called taxes. Keep it up faries, no guts , no glory, no America soon to follow.

[Pragmatist]

Brownalmostconfusedman, your idiotic nonsense just amazes me. First of all, all this constant whining by conservatives over entitlements is just passive agressive racism. The burden of entitlements on our GDP is PEANUTS! Less than 1 penny for every $ you pay in taxes. If you hate paying taxes you should rather b*tch about the $$$Millions that go to Iraq EVERY DAY! So you believe that getting rid of all illegals will turn this country into your Utopia? A capitalistic society will always know poverty, that's inevitable. Since it's the best system we have right know, you make it work by helping the poor until they can stand on their own (welfare to work by Clinton) and maintain some sort of societal order and minimal crime. By the way I live 20 miles outside the greatest city in the world and Guliani could not win another election in NY. His competence got way overhyped after 9/11, but us who know the city know better. Why do you think he really dropped out of the senate race? Hope you learned something, just open that mind of yours a little.

[tk]

Please, please, please understand one think about the immigration issue. It is not about low wages. There are hired because they do quality work and are highly productive. If you live in the east and want to make 20-40 dollars and hour come to Arizona and work next to these people and keep up. The money is here, the work is here but you need to bring a work ethic.

[brownalmostblackman]

Yeah! Everybody's right!!!