New Americans?

I've asked this question before, never received a good answer.

Eliseo Morales, who brought his whole family to the rally said, “We are legal residents. My children were born here and we have no problems with immigration...We are brothers by origin. We come from the same land and share the problems of our race, and so here we are.”

This quote is from a Socialist Worker newspaper.

Of course he neglected that leetle word...see here, Mj has the hookup.

The problems of our..."race"?

What race?

The American race?

No, I don't think that's what he means.

If Muslim can be a race, why can't American be one also?

My problem is simple, this guy is putting citizens of other countries before his fellow countrymen, sort of the definition of not assimilating. So as America is dragged down into third world squalor, we'll have asshats like these blathering on about their race.

But, I'm an American and I could give a rat's ass about his..."race"

Now, don't get me wrong. I want every person in this country, irrespective of race or national origin, to do well. I want us all to pull together to make a great country, but the way to acomplish that is not through great teeming floods of ILLEGAL immigration and overwhelming numbers of legal immigrants.

I can almost hear the shocked gasps, but, but, but..Jake, Immigration is nothing but good, they always say.

Actually, if you'd been paying attention to something other than Dan Rather's enormous melon (or Pam Anderson's for that matter) for the last ten years you'd know that the tide of opinion has turned. Historians and academics who previously supported unlimited immigration have done a one-eighty.

It is now generally agreed that the reason the Great wave turned out as well as it did (leaving aside the horrible suffering and turmoil it engendered, especially among blacks) is that it ended.

The turning off of the spigot in the twenties allowed the newer immigrants an opportunity to move up the economic and social ladder and reach the middle class much, much faster than had the immigration continued unabated.

And in a spectacular irony, it was only after the immigrants began to move into the middle class that blacks finally got their chance to do the same. Seventy percent of black Americans entered the middle class between 1925-1965. The gates of immigration broke open in 1965 and black Americans began inexorably mving back down the economic ladder.

But now we've come full circle again, Blacks, earlier Hispanic immigrants and those who don't get higher education are being hammered in the marketlace.

So here's my question...Is the guy in the quote above truly a 'New American"?

I say no,

What say you?

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