Unemployment numbers for November were released and unemployment among black Americans rose to a glaring 11%.  And while having more than one out of every ten black Americans unemployed and fast becoming unemployable may seem bad, it only get worse from here.  The Atlanta Journal/Constitution ran a front-page article on December 6, 2002 “Colleges seek Black Men – Regents’ study targets obstacles that deter enrollment in Georgia Universities.”  The problem; black men account for fewer than 2% of the student body in Georgia Universities.

With unemployment soaring to 11% for black Americans and college enrollment dropping below 2%, black American’s are being committed to a life of unskilled labor or to perpetual existence on public support.  As desperate as this may seem, it is not a true indicator of the hopelessness.   The depth and breadth of betrayal that is the deliberate undercutting of any economic pathways to a growing black middle class in America as perpetrated by the Democrats, Republicans, and Civil Rights leaders alike, indicates a bleak future.

Good jobs, not minimum wage burger flippers, but good paying, hard working, esteem building jobs are being given away as “jobs American’s do not want to do.”  A massive influx of low skill or no skill workers is being flooded across U.S. borders because $5 an hour looks like a Prince’s wage when compared to a high-end $5 per week that was being earned in the immigrants third world country.

The open borders lobby and its mass immigration invasion is creating a permanent underclass in the United States.  Believing apparently that black America is not worth saving, the open borders crowd has set its sights on a new labor supply.  

The U.S. southern border has now become a revolving door for the influx of cheap unskilled labor and the outflow of U.S. dollars.  Americans are having our pockets picked, but no one is suffering from the immigration whirlwind like the black community.

While unemployment rates of 11% are disturbing, the reported unemployment rate of 7.8% for Hispanic workers is reprehensible.  First and foremost the 7.8% unemployment rate for Hispanics is based by necessity on “documented” workers.  This ignores, or at best only partially counts the massive numbers of undocumented “workers” living in the United States.  Yes the very same undocumented “guest” workers that the President wishes to grant amnesty.

For America’s black community the outrage over importing even more unskilled labor in the face of 11% unemployment should be palpable.  That this mass immigration continues in the face of a nearly 8% unemployment number for Hispanic workers should be sounding alarm bells in NAACP offices coast to coast. 

Clearly open-border advocates, Democrats and Republicans alike, are willing to endure a considerable number of new “wards” of the state, as attested to by the nearly 8% unemployment rate among documented Hispanics, in order to do an end run around the black community.  It stands to reason that if we can import millions of unskilled workers from south of the border and support an unemployment rate of nearly 8% among those workers, there were surely jobs enough to help support the black community.

The catch of course is that black Americans expect to be paid an American wage.  Apparently not the wage the open-borders crowd has in mind.  In 1980 janitors in Los Angeles, a primarily black workforce, earned wages averaging about $13 an hour.  Today that hourly wage is $7 to $8 an hour, and the janitorial workforce is primarily Hispanic. 

While America’s Black “leaders” go chasing after Senator Trent Lott, generation on top of generation of black Americans are having the American Dream stolen or set forever out of their reach.  When the “leadership” finally does catch up to Senator Lott don’t be surprised if they pin a medal on his chest.

Once again some poor dumb white guy has provided a distraction from the real race problem in America.

Glenn R. Jackson is Chairman of the American Reformation Project, former State Chairman for Buchanan Reform and former state Chairman of the Georgia Freedom Party.  Glenn also served on the Executive Committee of the Reform Party USA.   He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

Glenn R. Jackson can be reached at: grjackson@mindspring.com

Published in the December 18, 2002 issue of  Ether Zone.
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