Over the Rainbow

The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates

Black anger grows as illegal immigrants transform urban neighborhoods.

“ “I have gone on the streets and talked to people at random here in the black community, and they all ask me the same question: ‘Why are our politicians and leaders letting this happen?’ ” What’s got Anderson—motto: “If You Ain’t Mad, You Ain’t Payin’ Attention”—so worked up isn’t the Jena Six or nooses on Columbia University doorknobs; it’s the illegal immigrants who allegedly murdered three Newark college students last August. And when he excoriates politicians for “letting this happen,” he’s directing his fire at Congressional Black Caucus members who support open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. “Massive illegal immigration has been devastating to my community,” Anderson, a former auto mechanic and longtime South Central Los Angeles resident, tells listeners. “Black Americans are hit the hardest.” Though blacks have long worried that the country’s growing foreign-born population, especially its swelling rolls of illegal immigrants, harmed their economic prospects, they have also followed their political leadership in backing liberal immigration policies. Now, however, as new waves of immigration inundate historically African-American neighborhoods, black opinion is hardening against the influx. “We will not lay down and take this any longer,” says Anderson. If he’s right, it could upend the political calculus on immigration. ” " ... isn't the  Jena Six or nooses on Columbia University doorknobs  ... ." Why would either of these contrivances make blacks mad?  That aside, there may be racism in the country, but dammit we have done more to address it than any civilization in history.  From my vantage point, near 100% of today's racial incitements come via blacks themselves, guilt ridden or Machiavellian liberals, and Hispanic comedians.  In fact, if a virus killed every white liberal tonight, the healing would begin in the morning.