Guest Column
Our Weekly Editorial 4/27/06
There’s an understandable disconnect with blacks and the immigration issue.
We did not immigrate to this country, legally or illegally. We were stolen and kidnapped to build America with free labor and no rights. Malcolm X reminded us that we didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, it landed on us.
The faces of Katrina are a stark reminder of “our place” in the United States. Lest we forget, America abandoned black tax-paying citizens.
Although we are certainly empathetic, it’s hard to get fully behind another’s
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