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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The cameras honed in on the Reverend Al Sharpton as he led thousands to the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix in an old fashioned, energetic, shouting, chanting, sign and banner carrying civil rights style march. The marchers demanded repeal of Arizona’s hotly contested, controversial immigration law.

Meanwhile, on the periphery of the march, a small band of counter protestors shouted, hooted, and hectored Sharpton and the other marchers. Their action drew almost no news mention. However, their counter-protest was different. They were mostly African-American. The temptation is to laugh off their pro Arizona immigration law countermarch as a comic, sideshow, media attention grab. After all Sharpton, President Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, all major civil rights groups and nearly all local black Democratic state and local officials unequivocally champion immigration reform and oppose the Arizona law.

But many blacks don’t agree with them.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    First question 2 ZeroNews
    What “Black” Leaders….where’s Waldo??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nefertiti313/ Nefertiti313

    FACTOID: Al Sharpton — and other political pundits and celebrities — are riding the tide of Arizona’s controversial new bill to enhance their fame, glory and pocketbooks. Sharpton is always searching for a NEW spotlight and a NEW podium, where he can spew his twisted rhetoric and be the center of attention. Al Sharpton does NOT speak for me! (Surveys indicate that between 70% – 80% of African-Americans polled agree with the tough Arizona Bill).

    California’s gubernatorial race is hot and heavy, with both Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner running on political platforms that embrace aggressive deportation of illegal immigrants. Poizner was able to narrow Whitman’s lead by approximately 20% when his advertising campaign started to boldly tout the aggressive strategies that he will employ to ensure swift deportation and the tactics that he will use to secure the borders against future illegal crossings. Both of these candidates have received the memo from American Citizens (their constituencies) and have responded accordingly.

    Many politicians are allowing fear and trepidation to dictate their actions and color their thinking. They are afraid to lose the Hispanic vote, but if they don’t take heed to what the rest of American voters want, they will not be elected anyway. The vast majority of Americans are vehemently against illegal immigration. NO AMNESTY!!

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    I dig Farrakahn, the rest is P-H-O-N-E-Y…….

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    What’s ironic is that when you consider that about 70% of Whites descend from immigrants that came after the Civil War, while around 80% of Black people in the US descend from mainly slaves that have been here before the Civil War, I think the Black backlash to how immigration has effected Blacks is actually about a century too late. It’s not like there hasn’t been illegal immigration in the past and an example of this is the acronym of WOP(Without Papers) for Italians. Meaning, they were here illegally as well. So, this unfortunately isn’t anything new for Blacks in terms of immigration effecting said people.

    Then, we seem to forget that the companies and people that hire these illegal immigrants seem to be push to the side, eventhough they in essence demand such cheap labor. So, why do they get a free pass and where is the outrage towards them?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Butterboat/ Butterboat

    BLACK Folk need to stay the HELL out of this and work on the problems facing BLACK people because these FOLKS do not care about NO ONE but their own and those are the HARD COLD facts

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mikerilla/ mikerilla

    Hey i stopped you because i cant tell if you are African or african american?…… oh, you left your ID at the house? why dont you go with these nice immigration folks to their detention centre until we verify who you are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/phazex_female/ phazex_female

    ^^5@ Nefertiti313:

    “VERY well stated and I concur completely with you.”

    What is MORE troublesome are the numbers of our black folks that have FAILED to see is that even though illegal aliens have the gall to attempt to use “strong-arm” tactics, they ARE attempting to organize themselves–something OUR black people should continue to do because if our Amerikkan government REALLY wanted to stem the tide with illegal aliens running up in here and wrecking shop? “They would have long ago.” There must be an under-class to serve wealth.

    White, privledged business-owners are at the nucleus of this now long-standing problem.

    Memo just in? We don’t need or want illegal aliens and we don’t need illegal aliens to keep the machine moving in this country. This goes much deeper than the greed of white supremacy and greed, this goes to the blue-print of Amerikka’s history in continual attempts to supplant BLACK people. And for those of you that know your history, a head nod will do it.

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