Over at Blogs for Bush, they're reifying myths about the willful docility of Latinos and gushing about the joy of exploiting them: the more Hispanics the better - or would you rather have us get a flood of Euro-trash, socialistic weenies emigrating here to demand welfare?...While the race-hustlers of the Democratic Party have been playing a pied-piper tune for Hispanic Americans, trying to get them in on the useless resentments and feelings of entitlement they have laid out for other American minorities, the plain, hard fact that Hispanic Americans are enthusiastic volunteers for the American dream has made them a tough nut for the Democrats to crack. Its got to be kept in mind that these Hispanics are either the immigrants themselves of the sons and grandsons of immigrants who came here to work and prosper... And then there are the comments: As an employer of a legal Alien and at times his brother who is illegal I can tell you they do work at the bar that I could never get the bartenders to do. If these people really believed in empowering Latino workers and valuing their work, they'd be calling for the robust defense of their right to organize for respect and dignity on the job. But then they wouldn't be blogging for Bush, would they?
5/07/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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