01/11/2024
On Tuesday in Valiant Black Academic Sacrifices Career To Protest Turpitude Of Black Congressional Caucus About Immigration’s Damage To Blacks, I applauded Emerson Professor Roger House for his savage denunciation of the Black Congressional Caucus:
To date, the body of 60 members — three Senate Democrats, 55 voting House Democrats and two non-voting — has been missing in action. The skirting of duty is largely the result of being beholden to campaign money, business support, and Hispanic and progressive factions of the party. Now is the time for the dereliction to stop.
(VDARE.com emphasis)
But in this essay Roger House displays the moral stature, very unusual in the Blogosphere, to cite someone else:
…a fine 2022 editorial in the Black newspaper The Philadelphia Tribune by T. Willard Fair, President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Miami: Immigration comes at a devastating cost to Black Americans [March 11, 2022].
I am hugely annoyed that this tremendously effective piece did not surface on my various Google news feeds.
Congress continues to relentlessly push immigration policies that’ll make Black Americans poorer…how can any Black politician in good conscience advocate for a more expansive immigration policy that would continue to do us harm?
…The Congressional Black Caucus has endorsed amnesty and an increase in annual immigration. Why? The CBC has put forward no reasonable explanation. Its members haven’t made a case for how increasing immigration will benefit Black Americans.
Why?
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Or as a stray from the Plantation said: 'All About The Benjamins': Ilhan Omar’s Tweet Criticized By Republicans, Dems As Anti-Semitic, CBS, February 11, 2019.
Fair points to the benefit of the immigration pause between the much-reviled 1924 restriction Act and the 1965 Kennedy betrayal.
Consider the years 1940 to 1980 — a period of comparatively lower immigration that generally led to tight labor markets. As immigration policy expert Roy Beck points out in his new book “Back of the Hiring Line,” Black men saw their real incomes increase four-fold during those decades. Black men’s earnings actually rose faster than white men’s.
[VDARE.com link]
During that same time period, the share of Black Americans who were considered “middle class” exploded, growing from 22% to 71% … But progress among Black workers leveled off starting around 1970, five years after Congress passed laws that significantly increased rates of immigration.
(Black Americans in particular should remember that despite the many lies in 1965, the evil men who ran Kennedy knew what they were doing.)
Fair concludes:
It’s undeniable that mass immigration has come at a substantial cost to Black Americans…if we want to create a fairer economy, we can no longer ignore immigration’s unique contribution to racial inequality.
T. Willard Fair no doubt annoyed the spoils-collecting Black Congressional Caucus with this essay. He reminds me of the late Terry Anderson, another Black immigration Patriot.
There are not enough of them. Sadly, no Philadelphia Tribune reader felt motivated to comment.
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