How to confuse the uneducated masses.
I found this on the Ebony/Jet website:
What’s That Smell?
Supremacist Cooking Up Trouble
According to a study by the Anti-Defamation League, extremists groups like the Neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan have started recruiting and rallying around the issue of immigration, illegal and otherwise. In the late 1990s, membership in these groups dwindled considerably as leaders were jailed and those remaining struggled to organize. Recent numbers indicate that between 2000 and 2005, hate groups grew by 33 percent, the Klan by 63 percent, fueled primarily by the Mexican immigration issue.
Given the history of the African-American community with the KKK, is it our responsibility to lend support to the ethnic groups currently targeted? (source)
While I will always admire Ebony and Jet magazines as good examples of successful publications with great information, this blurb is by far over the top for them (in a bad way).
Shall we talk about how illegal immigration has had adverse affects on Black employment and public school education? Naaaaaah, let’s just make it into a (you guessed it) a race issue and forget about all those “little” details. My question for Ebony/Jet is “Do you abandon your views on a particular issue just because someone you do not agree with shares your opinion–regardless for their motives?” What Ebony/Jet is suggesting here is that as Black people, we should have some kind of sworn allegiance to other people with darker skin without looking at the issues (something they regularly encourage their readers to do on a variety of other issues).
If the Klan agrees with my stance against illegal immigration, SO WHAT? This does not make me a charter member of the Klan no more than it places them at the top of my list of invites at my next barbecue.
Related
“A 2006 study done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform – a non-profit organization that is pushing for immigration reform on a national level – showed that illegal immigrants have been costing New York State school district taxpayers a total of “at least $1.5 billion per year.” However, that number increases when US-born children of illegal immigrants are taken into account. Those children carry an additional expense of $2.8 billion annually, according to the report, and bring the overall figure up to $4.3 billion.” (source)
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February 22nd, 2007 at 8:41 am
Ebony, Jet and Essences for that matter should not be where we turn for political agendas. Far to often so called civil rights leaders abandon black folks at the starting point. We want to be cohesive with other people of color without seeing what there agenda is all about. The latino community should not get our support in any way shape or form when the subject at hand is illegal immigration.