Black-Brown Alliance? What's In It for Us?

Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 6:41 am
By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com

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Day laborers from Mexico sit outside a store Wednesday in Phoenix. (AP)

When Terry Anderson died earlier this month, it caused not a ripple in black America. But it should have.

Anderson was the brother who called himself “The Prisoner of South Central.” He was an auto mechanic who lived in what was a predominantly black South Central section of Los Angeles, before wave after wave of illegal immigrants turned it into a Latino one.

He died from pancreatic cancer, but not before he became one of the leading – and, unfortunately, few – black voices speaking out about the adverse effect illegal immigration is having on black Americans.

Folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center dismissed Anderson as a tool of white racists. After his death, writers at one website expressed the wish that he “burn in hell.” Anti-black brown racism is better in their view, you see, than anti-black white racism.

That’s why we now have this pathetic situation in black America: Black folks more upset about some white guy toting an unarguably racist sign at a Tea Party movement rally, while saying not one word about Latinos killing blacks in Los Angeles. And those murders have been done for racial motives.

Some of the violence is in the streets, and some in jails and prisons. Last year, there was a black vs. brown riot at California’s Chino penitentiary. A spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told CBS13.com that “it appears we had some southern Hispanic gang members targeting African-Americans.”

Way too many black Americans buy into the “Latinos are our buddies” notion. Anderson wasn’t one of them, mainly because he lived in the real world. And this is what’s happening in the real world of South Central Los Angeles these days.

“They won’t tell you of how skilled black workers in Los Angeles can no longer ply their trade,” Anderson testified before Congress about America’s open borders bunch. “Body and fenders, roofers, framers, drywallers, gardeners and now even truck drivers. They don’t dare tell you about all of the race riots in our schools where the blacks are told to 'take their black a****s back to Africa.' Even the news media (have) refused to tell of this while we know they are aware of it ... The illegals won’t hire us and won’t buy from us. And still our black elected officials won’t help us.”

That was Anderson, giving testimony before Congress about how some of our Latino “brothers and sisters” feel about us. Here’s another Anderson quote. It appeared in an earlier BAW column of mine, but it bears repeating.

“Today, teenagers can’t get after-school or entry-level jobs – something to put on a resume. When I was 16 or 17, I had jobs at McDonald’s, Burger King, Jack in the Box. Now these jobs in L.A. are held by 30- or 40-year-old immigrants – 100 percent Spanish-speaking and probably 90 percent from Mexico.

“We have schools here that used to be 80 percent to 90 percent black and now ... are 80 percent to 90 percent Latino. As this trend spreads, blacks either can move to other neighborhoods or watch their children stuck in schools listening to Spanish all day. Yet nobody speaks up for our children the way pro-immigrant organizations do for immigrant children. As a result, our children are getting the equivalent of half a day of school. Why should our children be deprived?”

In South Central, black students are being deprived because their leaders have sold them out. Their leaders hope for some massive black-brown alliance to help us fight the dreaded white folks. Those leaders forget that the great Marcus Garvey didn’t just establish chapters of his Universal Negro Improvement Association .....


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Get real, Latino's have not been agressive in working with or supporting Blacks on any issues that are Black Issues. Their primary interest is to seek support for their own Issues.


by   
Leart2
August 17, 2010, 8:48 am
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These so call black leaders need to wake up and smell the coffee. They lead their people into the lion's den. Then they wonder why their followers are few and far between. I am going to my public library and see if Jet magazine at least did an article noting Terry Anderson's passing.


by   
Navi12
August 6, 2010, 2:46 pm
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don't attempt to influence my perspective
I'M DSONE with this ONE
tutaonana/ salaam alekum


by   
Nubia4ever
August 2, 2010, 1:26 pm
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spanish speakers (mexicans,PR, etcetera) think of themselves as CASTILLIANS~~~white. ( Brown Latinos ,they surely didn't commit atrocities against us correct?
Think before you speak) I KNOW what I express through living~~60YEARS of it;
simon&HOTEP


by   
Nubia4ever
August 2, 2010, 1:24 pm
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Who is worse ? Whites who tortured ,raped and enslaved us or Brown Latinos ,they surely didn't commit atrocities against us correct?
Think before you speak


by   
Valdjoe
August 2, 2010, 12:42 pm
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