Thread: Are some human beings illegal?

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Are some human beings illegal?
By Bruce Dixon
-Guest Columnist-
Updated Apr 25, 2006, 01:00 pm



In one of our recent cover stories, we singled a particularly contemptible maneuver by Kasim Reed, a Black Georgia state legislator from Atlanta, who tried to outdo Republican viciousness when it came to proposing punitive measures against immigrants. He authored a bill that would imprison anyone convicted of using a false ID to get a job for five years. Predictably, his proposal was embraced by leading White Georgia Democrats. This is how Georgia’s New Democrats hope to win White votes on the immigration issue.

Mr. Reed, who intends to run for mayor of Atlanta in 2009, is certainly not stupid enough to imagine that he is protecting Black jobs. All the measures to strip foreigners of civil and human rights, to marginalize them and make them fear jail or deportation at a moment’s notice only make them more desirable employees. When given a choice, employers always prefer a fearful, compliant workforce with few or no rights to an aware one with enforceable rights. Just having them around, even if an employer chooses not to hire them, effectively lowers everyone’s wages.

As Black people, we ought to understand better than anybody how White supremacy works and how language, which frames the way we all think, is a potent tool of oppression or liberation. To start with, we need to purge the phrase “illegal aliens” from our vocabulary. Anybody who uses it within earshot ought to be challenged promptly and publicly, just like you would in a case of the unauthorized use of the n-word.

Aliens are from Jupiter. White America defines people as “aliens” in order to justify treatment unfit for a member of the human family, just as our ancestors were once labeled “property,” allowing “owners” to buy and sell us like cattle. For those so unable to free their minds from the box of White racist legalism that they cannot part with the adjective “illegal,” we should insist that they follow it with the correct noun that says what these folks really are. Illegal persons. Illegal people. Illegal humans.

And if “illegal human” sounds ridiculous and evil, as it ought to in any civilized ear, it’s only because White America’s law on this score is evil and ridiculous.

The idea that Black unemployment in the U.S. is “historically unequaled” and the notion that immigrants choose to come here and cause labor market problems for Blacks betray a breathtaking ignorance of human motivation and of the way the global economy works. In recent decades, we have seen the U.S. government openly aid and encourage manufacturing and service industry to shut down facilities and factories here and move them first to Mexico, then to the lowest wage overseas hellhole available. At the same time, billions of our tax dollars are paid in agricultural subsidies to agribusiness companies that dump their goods into Haiti, Mexico, Central America, Africa and Asia, killing the market for locally grown stuff and driving farmers off the land and into the cities where there are no jobs, health care or futures. Unemployment rates in Kingston, Jamaica or Dakar, Senegal are much higher than any experienced in Black America. A few of their daughters find work in the sweatshops. The rest stand around, hustle or starve, or emigrate.

Tens of thousands walk half the length of Africa every month trying to get to Europe. Can you imagine crossing the Sahara on foot? Chinese pay a couple years’ wages in advance to be packed into shipping crates that might or might not arrive here. Others walk from Guatemala and Chiapas, from Oaxaca and Michoacan.

Blacks have been on the bottom as long as there has been an America. Now, the globalized labor market is forcing us to share that bottom with other unfortunate folks. Should we rail against the Mexicans? Should we gripe about the Jamaicans, organize against the Filipinos and Arabs? Employers would like that and Republicans, too, even some Democrats. But we cannot escape the bottom by making common cause with the folks who put us down here.

(Bruce Dixon is the editor of the Black Commentator. He may reached via email at bruce.dixon@blackcommentator.com. Visit the website at www.blackcommentator.com.)

Well I am black, and I do not agree with his views at all.

And after clicking on the link and seeing a picture of the ppl who he associates himself with... well it speaks for itself

Webster's dictionary...

alien
3 entries found for alien.
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alien[1,adjective]alien[2,noun]alien[3,transitive verb]

Main Entry: 1alien
Pronunciation: 'A-lE-&n, 'Al-y&n
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin alienus, from alius
1 a : belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing : STRANGE b : relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government : FOREIGN
2 : differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility

Maybe Mr. Dixion needs to check before he writes such drivel! You don't have to be from Jupiter to be an alien.

All the measures to strip foreigners of civil and human rights, to marginalize them

Poor Mr. Dixon. He doesn't understand "illegal." He's got illegal aliens all mixed up with American citizens thinking thay have civil rights. Too bad he see's himself as an African or black rather than American. He'll have to leave the continent with the rest of us if he gets his way.

Illegal Alien is the correct legal term used in America's immigration laws. Political correctness has no place in a discussion on national security.

this man is an idiot! I'm glad our FELLOW COUNTRYMEN that are black don't have to depend on him ... I can't wait to get a response from some local blacks on this

personally, I think the "bill that would imprison anyone convicted of using a false ID to get a job for five years" is a WONDERFUL idea, it is already federal law, but unfortunately, the feds don't enforce it

Yes I heard that crap from a woman from some pro-amnesty group on Lou Dobbs show tonite she stated they are not from Jupiter, they are not aliens and Lou said no but they are here in this country illegally, so they are illegal aliens in the US.

Heck, if "Whitey" wanted to keep the Black folks "in their place" Whitey would encourage MILLIONS of Hispanics to flood into the country.

A HUGE underclass.

Drive wages for the working poor down down down.

Of course, the majority of the working poor are white but.....

They're "white trash" and deserve nothing!!!!!

Flood the country with uneducated laborers.

Look at countries with a two-tier society. By golly, look at Mexico. Mucho wealth concentrated into a very few hands with scraps for the masses.

Oh my, looking at economic statistics I see the beginnings of that in the USA!!!!!!!

Whiteys of the elite class. Make that underclass grow. Many blacks and poor whites and our wonderful undocumented immigrants will alter American society into a country/society much like Mexico.

Our small elite class will grow richer and more powerful!!!!!!!!

Let's fill the country to the brim with the new underclass. Our wealth and power will become akin to passing power as the kings and queens of old did.

Won't those Founders be amazed at what we were able to do while those we stepped on demanded we do the deeds that led to a new elite-owned society!!!!!!

Well, except for those pesky ALI-PAC folks and others of their ilk. But, we have convinced many of them that our "system" will work for them.

Bwa hah hah hah hah hah!!!!!!!

Let them write their letters, send their e-mails and make their phone calls. They will be swallowed up by the new underclass and will have to obey their masters.

Silly fools.