Latinos Take No
One's Jobs: Look Elsewhere America
I have observed over the years that most Latinos
coming to this nation come to work and make a better life for themselves
and their families in Mexico and Latin America. They are busy with the
business of working, going to school and just living.
Furthermore,
they are usually some of the kindest, friendliest, and most helpful
people you will find. They are not here to take anyone's jobs or to side
with the racially divided America that wants to use Blacks as the
kicking ball, all the while denying that that is their strategy. Maybe
it is because of this that the Rush Limbaughs of America and the
dilatants who consider his (and his thousand imitators)
drivel as worthy of thought
seek to
mischaracterize them as a burden on society and that immigration is such
an urgent problem for America's safety.
Some of those dilatants found themselves in a bad way when they took it upon themselves, in Colorado, to draft their own immigration laws and outlawed renting to immigrants, prohibiting driving license to immigrants, etc., and now cannot find workers to pick their crops and to do those things that most of these noble citizens think themselves (regardless of how poor) too good to do.
America always need a kicking ball to workout its insecurities and shame on. So they often take it out on the poor, hardworking Latino community that, by and large, harms no one; hates no one; stereotypes no one, but is just here to do a hard day's work for an honest dollar and support their families. That has always seemed noble and dignified to me.
On the other hand, many immigrants from Asia and elsewhere who come to America, especially their student and educated class, immediately are acculturated by this American system and decide that everything the America media--through its films and distorted news depictions--say and have said about Blacks is correct, and any deviations they see contrary to the distorted depictions are exceptions, not the rule.
They never question whether America's systems are distorted; they can never get beyond the acculturation of their education to ask serious and profound questions about what America is really doing at home and aboard. They, like many vulgar Americans, never think anything is wrong with their perception; they just go along to get along.
Consequently, although they say that they are not here to take sides in the American race drama, they align themselves with those of the vulgar white majority in seeing Blacks in a convoluted way. And then, without a cause, they often despise Blacks, demean Blacks, look down on Blacks, even though Blacks are their natural allies. And whether they know it or not, they will need allies in this society--let China rise to its full potential; let a suicide bomber attack--they will become the footballs fit for those vulgar white Americans feet they now idolize and bow to!
So acculturated are many of these immigrants as they move to assimilation in this society that if given the facts about Blacks most of them would not believe them because they are desperately trying to be Americans in all the sense of that word, which they only understand as not making any waves, hating what Americans hate, and loving what Americans love--even though most have not really perceived this supposed hatred of Blacks by whites.
Many think being Americans is imitating the vulgar majority of white America who ignorantly stereotype and vaunt their frustration against others, but not as the most sophisticated Americans who think independently and are not swayed by the claptrap of Rush Limbaugh, et. al, and his daydreamers.
It is these immigrants who are really taking the American jobs from those Americans who have educated themselves many years only to find that H-1 visa holders have their jobs. But the conservatives love these because they buy into their claptrap shouted through media megaphones of vulgar conservative talk shows that never stop.
Simond Griote
7/9/07