Civil rights activists join fight against immigration bills

Civil rights activists join fight against immigration bills
By Jeremy Redmon

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2011

Seeing some parallels to their own struggle, veterans of the civil rights movement from the 1960s have joined the fight against Arizona-style legislation targeting illegal immigration.

In Georgia, state lawmakers are poised to vote on two bills that would empower police to investigate the immigration status of certain suspects and punish people caught transporting and harboring illegal immigrants.

Such legislation, civil rights activists warn, could bring about the same kind of discrimination and racial profiling African-Americans struggled against decades ago. They have been delivering fiery speeches against House Bill 87 and Senate Bill 40 and marching alongside Hispanic activists in Georgia and in other states in recent months.

There is a sharp division among blacks on this issue, however, with some arguing illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from African-American U.S. citizens and burdening public schools and hospitals in black communities.

Both immigration bills could come up for votes in the final days of this year’s legislative session in Georgia next week.

Critics of these bills -- including farmers, landscape companies and restaurant owners -- have largely focused on the harm they say the legislation would inflict on the state’s economy, which relies heavily on migrant labor. But racial profiling and discrimination also have emerged as central themes in the debate, especially during recent marches and rallies in Atlanta.

Last month, civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, an Atlanta Democrat, joined thousands of people protesting the legislation outside the state Capitol. Quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis expressed solidarity with Hispanic activists and said he was willing to go to jail with them in the fight against the state’s proposed immigration enforcement measures.

“We are all brothers and sisters. It doesn’t matter whether we are black, white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American. We are one people. We are one family,â€

Why are the Civil Rights Activists joining the fight ??? Very simple...Follow The Money !! :wink:

It sure isn't to benefit "their people" as African Americans compete for jobs directly with illegals.

Yep, Follow the Money. Its pretty dirty money at that...We are talking, through cartel hands as part of the chain that left wing money travels through...

My Letter to John Lewis:

Your comments were recorded as:

Comments: Dear Congressman Lewis: I live in Illinois and therefore am not a constituent in your district. However, after reading the story of you giving support to the criminal element of illegal immigration known as "DREAMies" and the rest of the illegal alien murderers, child molesters. drug cartels, rapist, and identity thieves and comparing their plight to those of us who lived through the civil rights movement, I literally became ill. I am sure that you are aware that the majority of illegal alien "latinos" hate our people BLACK AMERICANS. If you aren't all you have to do is google how many blacks have been killed in LA by latino gang members who wanted to displace them in various neighborhoods. While I understand that corporate America wants our government to assist them in destroying the middle class, I doubt that Dr. King would approve of your participation in desecrating his legacy. You of all people are aware that the Civil Rights Movement was about fighting for the rights of AMERICAN CITIZENS who happened to be Black. Illegal aliens are here of their own volition and if they had any COURAGE they would go home and fight for rights in their own countries. I sincerely hope that you will read some of the information that the links that I provided will give you. Hopefully, after doing so you will realize that these people are not worthy of being handed citizenship and their ethnocentric racist agenda (being sponsored by American tax dollars) has nothing in common with anything that Dr. King died for.

http://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=20935
http://www.city-data.com/forum/illegal-immigration/

"I like that letter WMM!" and your absolutely right! Damn! illegals will steal anything identities, jobs, welfare, and now a civil rights movement!

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Such legislation, civil rights activists warn, could bring about the same kind of discrimination and racial profiling African-Americans struggled against decades ago. They have been delivering fiery speeches against House Bill 87 and Senate Bill 40 and marching alongside Hispanic activists in Georgia and in other states in recent months.

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I hope those people protesting have jobs and are not homeless. You know some people are brainwashed to perform certain acts and paid to protest something they do not fully understand. Some American citizens have to be educated about illegal aliens.

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http://www.alipac.us/article-6216--0-0.html

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE BUT, "THEY DON'T SPEAK FOR ME" :!: THESE MEXICANS AND THOSE THAT ARE OTM DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND, AS A MATTER OF FACT, THEY HAVE KILLED MANY A AFRICAN-AMERICANS JUST BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. THER IS NO WAY THAT I'M GOING TO TAKE THE SIDE OF THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO BUSINESS TO EVEN BE IN THE COUNTRY. I AM AN AMERICAN AND PROUD TO BE ONE JUST AS I'M PROUD TO BE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN. THIS IS MY COUNTRY AND I SAY ITS HIGH TIME SOMETHING MEANINGFUL IS DONE TO RID THIS COUNTRY OF THESE ILLEGALS. AND IF JOHN LEWIS AND OTHERS DON'T LIKE IT THEN THEY ARE FREE TO FOLLOW THE ILLEGALS TO THEIR HOME COUNTRY. THIS REALLY MAKES ME ANGRY :!: THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA IS OUR LEGACY AND NOW SOME OF OUR FELLOW AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO GIVE IT AWAY. THIS IS REALLY SAD.

let me see here. civil rights were to give rights to black americans who were born here and lived here.
and they seem to compare that to illegal aliens!?!?!

you have got to be kidding me.
mr. lewis, as congressman if you get arrested, you need to be fired.

Lewis is denigrating his reputation as a civil rights fighter. He chooses to conflate the situation of illegal immigration with slavery of the past. In so doing he turns against his own constituents. Atlanta has a 10.3% unemployment rate. He is trying too hard to restore the glory of his fight for equal rights by trying to give them to those who stole into our country. They have stolen the job opportunities for our Atlanta youth who are mostly black like Lewis.


John Lewis--step back--remind yourself of who you have taken an oath to support and protect. What you do now is criminal and unfair to fellow Americans. Be the man you once were, be an American.

The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP and the Rev. Joseph Lowery’s Coalition for the People’s Agenda also have been outspoken against these bills.

NAACP, AL Sharpton, Jesse Jackson are trader's and sale out to black's they don't speak for me and many more blacks are mad as hell...MLK is turning in hes grave... my Daughter had an hard time trying to get a job in California everywhere she went for jobs interviews she was turn down...I encourage her to go to Arizona to get a job and the day she went to visit one of her friend in Arizona the next day she was higher.. the hell with NAACP, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and I pity a fool who follow them B/S trader's

Jhip

Glad to hear you're daughter found a job and also glad to have you here with us. Take care.

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Originally Posted by jamesw62

let me see here. civil rights were to give rights to black americans who were born here and lived here.
and they seem to compare that to illegal aliens!?!?!

you have got to be kidding me.
mr. lewis, as congressman if you get arrested, you need to be fired.

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:x :x This is a pretty dumb thing to do right :?: I don't understand why some people like this man John Lewis would stoop so low as to align himself and the civil rights movement with "ILLEGAL ALIENS" FROM MEXICO WHO DON'T GIVE TWO CENTS ABOUT HIM OR BLACKS IN GENERAL. WHEN THEY FINISH USING HIS DUMB @$$ HE WILL SEE AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL SEE THAT HE WAS JUST A TOOL FOR THEM TO USE IN GAINING WHAT EVER DEMANDS THAT THEY HAVE ON THE TABLE AT THE PRESENT TIME. THE RIGHTS THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING, ARE IN NO WAY WHAT DR.KING FOUGHT AND DIED FOR :!: SO, I AND I'M SURE A LOT OF OTHER AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF HE WOULD NOT USE DR.KINGS NAME FOR THEIR AGENDA. ONE THING I CAN SAY FOR THEM THOUGH, THEY SURE DO KNOW A TOOL WHEN THEY FIND ONE. AND THEY HAVE GOT ONE IN JOHN (JUDAS) LEWIS :!:

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The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP and the Rev. Joseph Lowery’s Coalition for the People’s Agenda also have been outspoken against these bills.

NAACP, AL Sharpton, Jesse Jackson are trader's and sale out to black's they don't speak for me and many more blacks are mad as hell...MLK is turning in hes grave... my Daughter had an hard time trying to get a job in California everywhere she went for jobs interviews she was turn down...I encourage her to go to Arizona to get a job and the day she went to visit one of her friend in Arizona the next day she was higher.. the hell with NAACP, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and I pity a fool who follow them B/S trader's

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WELCOME TO ALIPAC AND, THEY SURE AS HELL DON'T SPEAK FOR ME EITHER. ITS REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THESE FOOLS ARE DOING THIS FOR. I DO KNOW THAT ALL OF THEM ARE JUST OUT FOR MAKING A NAME AND MONEY FOR THEMSELVES. BUT, THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY BECAUSE, THEY ARE HELPING THESE ILLEGALS IN THEIR QUEST TO KEEP BLACKS AS WELL AS WHITES FROM GETTING JOBS. I'VE NEVER CARED FOR JESSE JACKSON OR AL SHARPTON BECAUSE THEY ARE ALWAYS INSERTING THEMSELVES IN SITUATIONS THAT THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE WORSE. AND ITS ALL FOR ATTENTION FOR THEMSELVES. DON'T CARE FOR THE NAACP EITHER BECAUSE, I DON'T SEE WHAT GOOD THEY ARE TO ANYBODY BUT THEMSELVES. TO SUM IT ALL UP, THESE PEOPLE NEED TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP WHEN IT COMES TO THESE ILLEGAL ALIIENS FROM MEXICO. REMEMBER THE POSTAGE STAMPS THAT MEXICO PRINTED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO MAKING FUN OF BLACK PEOPLE :?: WELL OLE JESSE WENT DOWN THERE THINKING HE WAS GOING TO GET FOX TO APOLOGIZE BUT HE NEVER DID. AND NOW THE FOOL IS MARCHING WITH THE MEXICANS.

Doesn't this Lewis person realize how totally racist mexico is against African Americans? They have a "sambo - like" character down there. I think it's name is Pepin or something like that. They use him to mock black people. Maybe someone should send a picture of it to Lewis. Not that it would do much good. Once "do gooders" like this get it in their head to "help" someone, it's like talking to a brick wall....

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Doesn't this Lewis person realize how totally racist mexico is against African Americans? They have a "sambo - like" character down there. I think it's name is Pepin or something like that. They use him to mock black people. Maybe someone should send a picture of it to Lewis. Not that it would do much good. Once "do gooders" like this get it in their head to "help" someone, it's like talking to a brick wall....

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let us not forget the killings of innocent black americans at the hands of gangbangers who jsut so happen to also be latinos.

like jamiel shaw, the three kids in newark, the black man dumping trash behind a bowling alley in LA. and hawaiian gardens, also in the LA Area