Mass immigration has displaced millions of native-born black and Latino workers. That was the point of it all. It was engineered by corporations to displace native-born labor to drive down wages. I have watched over the course of my lifetime (62 years) black workers in agriculture, cafeteria work, custodial services, food production, groundskeeping, housecleaning, and labor-intensive construction and manufacturing replaced by cheap foreign labor. The number of idled black and Latino workers in the projects has swelled over the last several decades while foreign-born labor has progressively replaced them. This development has resulted in family disintegration and extreme child poverty, especially in the black population.
The attitude of progressives tells me that I’m confronting a privileged standpoint that treats black Americans as lazy bodies who don’t want to work. This is the progressive attitude in a nutshell. Rather than having blacks work, progressives have engineered mass dependency in the southern projects and the northeastern and midwestern ghettos to get blacks as far away from white populations as they can get them. It’s no accident that what came on the heels of Civil Rights Act was the Great Society and globalization projects of offshoring and open borders. The legislation passed during that period functioned to relegate primarily black families to disorganized inner-city enclaves while cheap foreign labor replaced them across America. This is no accident.
This rhetoric about how there are no Americans who would do these jobs is designed to obscure the reality that progressive Democrats are behind the oppression and impoverishment of black Americans—first the slavocracy, then Jim Crow segregation, and now ghettoization. It is very wrong that black Americans should have to continue to suffer so that privileged white Americans can have cheap consumer goods. This is the result of Democratic Party law and policies. We won’t turn this around until we get these actors out of power.
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