The Uncomfortable Truth

America, almost from its discovery, has always had a permanent underclass--people that we could abuse and take advantage of. Some economists will tell you that this country would fail without those on the lower rung providing the cheap labor necessary for America to be great.
Shortly after the first Africans arrived in 1619, they lost their freedom and became slaves for those who held the economic strings of power.
Of course, slavery was eventually outlawed, but Jim Crow laws kept people of African descent down for another hundred years.
Of course, immigrants were around to take advantage of, but through hard work and living by American ideals, most immigrants rose out of the underclass.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was crafted to end discrimination for Blacks. Giving civil rights to Blacks would surely lift them up economically, but who was going to fill the ranks of the underclass? “Well, gee! There’s a whole country full o’ folks right next door! We’ll make them the new underclass.”
“Ahh, but how? How do we keep them in their place?”
The answer to that is found in Title VI of that same (so-called) Civil Rights Act. This is where the seeds were sown. Title VI provided for alternative language programs necessary to ensure that national origin minority students with limited English proficiency have meaningful access to schools' programs. This was the beginning of teaching English as a second language (ESL).
Every single study that has been done comparing the incomes of people who took ESL classes shows they earn substantially less than those who took classes in English, which is why I voted yes on Proposition 187.
ESL programs aren’t the only ones designed for this purpose. Since the Civil Rights Act we have a whole host of programs designed to keep immigrants in their place. Have you ever wondered why we spend a fortune to let people vote in their native language? Go to a big city and see how many government services are offered in languages other than English. Sure, we give free medical care to illegals who show up at the hospital, but who else are we going to get to dig our ditches and clean our toilets for next to nothing? The people profiting of their labor aren’t paying those bills, we are!
I don’t know which makes me angrier, the lies told by the corporate media, or the idiots that believe those lies.
As with Proposition 187, I have been called a racist because I oppose the Immigration Reform Act that was recently revived in the Senate. Last week Governor Schwarzenegger was called a racist because he made the common-sense suggestion that immigrants learn English! And people believed it! Geez, how stupid can you get?
On the first of May, scores of people walked in front of my house demonstrating for their friends and families to come here and be treated like dirt. Amazing! As they walked past, I marveled at their complete ignorance of the fact that the reason their own wages are so low is because of what they were doing.
A popular chorus heard in the media is that “Americans won’t do those jobs.” Bull! There isn’t ANY job that an American citizen won’t do—for a decent wage. If the wages cannot be afforded, then American ingenuity can come to the rescue.
Australia, as we all know, is surrounded by water—it doesn’t have a problem with illegal immigration. Who picks the crops down under? Machines. Those clever Aussies have machines to do the scut work of agriculture.
America has not solved the problems of illegal immigration because those in power don’t want to! It’s cheaper for them. And if they have their way, it will always be thus—just as long as we keep them in their place.