By Glen Ford
Executive Editor
Black Agenda Report
When as many as two million immigrants and their supporters, most of them Latino, turned out for demonstrations against draconian undocumented worker legislation in cities across the nation this spring, everywhere the question was raised: Is this the new civil rights movement? By all appearances, some kind of great awakening had indeed occurred which, if sustained, would transform the participants and, eventually, the society at-large.
However, Black opinion was decidedly mixed. Traditional and progressive African American organizations generally supported the explosion of Latino activism, and marveled at the coordination and sheer size of the rallies in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Dallas, Houston, Seattle – at least two dozen cities, nationwide. Luminaries such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, NAACP chairman Julian Bond, the SCLC’s Rev. Joseph Lowrey, and numerous Black congresspersons were quick to make a positive connection to the struggles of the Sixties.
“Among some Black circles, the mass Latino political actions were met with a sullenness often deeply tinged with envy, and even outright hostility drenched in vicious vitriol and willful ignorance.”
Yet among other Black circles, the mass Latino political actions were met with a sullenness often deeply tinged with envy, and even outright hostility drenched in vicious vitriol and willful ignorance. Black one-man bands like Claud Anderson’s Washington-based Harvest Institute lashed out at mobilized Latinos, blurring the distinction between undocumented and legal immigrants (just as do white racist-led groups), and blaming the entirety of African American economic slippage over almost two generations on immigrant influx. Mary Mitchell, an incredibly shallow Black columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, expressed her “disgust” with undocumented Mexican immigrant Elvira Arellano, who along with her young U.S. citizen son sought sanctuary in a Chicago church. Arellano, said Mitchell, “is pimping the system” and should “return to Mexico,” “brush up on black history” and then thank African Americans “for [their] sacrifices" over the centuries in North America.
Anderson’s and Mitchell’s rants are deliberately insulting to their mainly Latino targets, and range from intellectual dishonesty (Anderson) to just plain stupid-mean (Mitchell). Unfortunately, these shrill and wrong-headed voices find echoes in the perceptions of a highly ambivalent African American citizenry whose sense of social space has been thrown into turmoil by the largest migration on U.S. soil since the “Great Migration” of Blacks to northern and western cities – a trek that slowed and began to reverse itself about the same time as the Latino (non-Puerto Rican) migration began rolling in earnest, around 1970.
This column, the first of many BAR articles that will address the extremely complex and history-shaping subject of African American-Latino relations, deals with the “meanness” factor in Black discourse around (mainly Latino) immigration – the invective from the African American side of the argument that threatens to poison the prospects of unified action among Black and Latino progressives against white supremacy and corporate rule in the United States.
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Posted by: asdad | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 11:18 AM
we must not buy into those forces that would pit us against each other. Black and Brown must work together. we have much in common as far as interests and historical wrongs. i don't know about anyone else, but i stand—on a regular basis—with my african american brothers and sisters.
—a proud mexican american
Posted by: nezua | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 10:13 AM
A famous Afrimerican once said Afrimericans have been the subject of centuries of experimentation and conditioning which has resulted in the race embracing the enemy as a freind, and treating their freinds like enemies.
In this instance, what the writer has espoused is a wordy over generalization that does not ring true in any observable manner, in fact the exact opposite is blatantly obvious.
The facts are, any and everytime America has had this level of immigration, it has been for the intentional purpose of displacing Afrimericans in the work place. The only difference now is with the globalization of corporate enterprises, it is having the same effect on the white classes that previously were protected by their whiteness.
Secondly, I live in Los Angeles, and see immigrants from Mexico arriving by the thousands weekly, and any time a person can go get welfare, full benefits, get credit cards, apply for a home loan, and get it just for the asking, and Afrimericans born here can't, there is a great gulf, and Latinos know they have such preference and engage the same racist exclusion by reason they are aware that is part of why they have the allowances they have.
Afrimericans need to wake up and stop riding the fence of appeasement in some feeble attempt to not upset "Massa".
The truth is it's own defense, and not to tell it has thrown Afrimericans in a subservient position Dr. King and others fought and died to end.
Vote for your self, your own.
Posted by: AFRIMERICAN | Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 02:46 PM
I read this article when originally published. I disagreed with it then, as I do now.
I just think it's too 'pie in the sky', because I'm not seeing this alliance that the author is talking about.
Hispanics have no interest in having a true alliance or coalition with Black people in America. Show me one instance where it's been a TWO-WAY STREET , where Black people have BENEFITED from this alliance.
All I see is Hispanics pimping Black folk, using us for THEIR agenda, and leaving us in the dust.
I see absolutely no tit-for-tat exchange on our issues. I see so-called Black Leadership silent on issues that they should be screaming over with regards to illegal immigration and how it NEGATIVELY impacts the Black community.
Posted by: rikyrah | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 03:16 PM
"Unfortunately, these shrill and wrong-headed voices find echoes in the perceptions of a highly ambivalent African American citizenry whose sense of social space has been thrown into turmoil by the largest migration on U.S. soil since the “Great Migration” of Blacks to northern and western cities..."
What do you make of the African dispossession era under the guise of European immigration from the 1880's through 1920's. In those five decades, the US introduced 5.2m, 3.7m, 8.2m, 6.3m and 4.3m new competitors at precisely the same time Black Codes were entrenched?
In other words, will you be addressing the economic aspects of immigration (legal and otherwise) with respect to a population whose numbers were originally "capped" in 1808?
Posted by: Temple3 | Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 02:54 PM
"most of them Latino"
weren't most of "them" 'Hispanic' - and isn't there a significant difference?
Posted by: Temple3 | Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 02:48 PM