Comments on: ‘Black’ Nativist Group Taken Seriously http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/ Hatewatch is a blog of the Southern Poverty Law Center Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sean http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-12250 Sean Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:19:26 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/#comment-12250 None of the pro-Hayes comments address the points made in the article. This guy took his marching orders from FAIR, a “white-dominated and mainly white-led organization” that “has accepted more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that funds writers seeking to prove that black people aren’t as smart as whites.” You can’t be in bed with right wingers and white supremacists and have the best interests of Black people at heart.

]]> By: marc http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-1615 marc Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:40:26 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/#comment-1615 The phrase “he doesn’t represent black people”… is about as racist as the people who asked the question “is obama black enough”.

When will americans ever understand that blacks are no more monolithic than any other race or that the common dialogue from liberals, liberal blacks, liberal black academics regarding the black race is not the only diologue or final word out there ?

The tensions between blacks and latinos in places like los angeles have largely been ignored… but the huge influx of cheap labor and millions of people living on the margins of a different culture and race has impacted many black areas– and not always in a positive way.

Ted Hays has been on the front lines of fighting poverty in black community in los angeles for years in ways which have not put money in his pocket. A constructive diologue with this man and his concerns would probably be better than villifying and marginalizing him.

]]> By: eh http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-673 eh Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:52:55 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/#comment-673 Few things are better established than the fact that mass immigration of the un- and low-skilled is badly hurting American Blacks economically. Therefore it is only reasonable that Blacks oppose this immigration, especially when it is illegal (‘undocumented’) — why does it matter who instigates this opposition? BTW, perhaps you’ve heard that in LA, vicious Hispanic gangs are deliberately targeting Blacks with murderous violence. Since the SPLC is interested in ‘hate’, why not blog about that?

]]> By: David Tyler http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/comment-page-1/#comment-500 David Tyler Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:29:16 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/30/%e2%80%98black%e2%80%99-nativist-group-taken-seriously/#comment-500 Whites weren’t particularly interested in black problems until it occurs to them they can use them to combat an even more loathed group of human beings.If whites affiliated with these truly want to worry about the problems of black people,they should get behind the effort to help Katrina survivors.Or,they can get behind efforts to end the racism in the criminal justice system.Or they can fight America’s poverty problem or struggle with environmental injustice.Get the point?Latino immigration is not nearly the problem for black Americans all these other issues are,if it is seen as a problem in the first place.There’s no reson the U.S. can’t absorb the immigrants who contibute so much..

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