Daniel Short – 3/30/06

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African-Americans must unite; Daniel Short; Beaver County Times; March 30, 2006

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The immigration laws as we now know them will change as a result of the unity and intensity displayed by the Mexican-Americans across the United States.”

[RWC] I believe it’s safe to say most of the people to whom Mr. Short refers are not legal U.S. citizens. As a result, they can’t be “Mexican-Americans.” I could be wrong, but I suspect the vast majority of protesters we saw on TV were illegal aliens, U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, illegal aliens who became legal due to amnesty in 1986, and American accessories to illegal aliens.

“The politicians understand numbers and the outcry from this population on the status of illegal immigrants will bring about a positive change for their people.

“African-Americans need to re-adopt this grassroots approach to bring about change in our communities. Stop settling for Black History Month to set our forum for change and not hear from the politicians again for 12 months.

“Our inability to come together for the common good of our people is one of many reasons why our communities are at a dysfunctional state.”

[RWC] As long as Mr. Short looks at himself as a hyphenated American, he’ll never get anywhere. Can Mr. Short explain why some blacks – and Orientals and whites and et cetera – are successful and others are not?

Does Mr. Short really want to use criminals as his example? If you’re an illegal alien, you are a criminal.

I guess Mr. Short either forgot or didn’t learn about the race riots of the late 1960s. What good things did that “unity and intensity” provide black Americans?

Let’s also take a quick look at the illegal alien protests. First, the vast majority of flags were Mexican. Do these people want to become Americans or do they want to stay Mexicans?

Second, did you notice most of the signs and slogan chanting was done in Spanish? Again, do these people want to become Americans or do they want to stay Mexicans?

Third, did you notice a lot of the t-shirts worn had pictures of Castro, Hugo Chavez, Che Guevara, and Daniel Ortega? Do we really want a lot of immigrants who believe these communists are good examples?