Superb piece. And so timely.

As one who has witnessed the massive influx of Mexicans into the Charlotte, NC area, I have been wondering how long it would be before the black community realized the economic and political impacts that were about to descend upon them. This could get really nasty. And all those do-gooders who have not bothered to carry out their constitutional duties to see that the laws are faithfully executed will pay an enormous price in terms of their legacy.


And where is Obama on this?

Immigration is crushing the working class. The eight million illegal workers make up about 25% of the 33 million people in the working class. How's that affecting wages?

Democrat support for amnesty is betraying blacks and the working class. How long can they get away with this betrayal?

The African-American vote will begin swinging to the Republican Party in the next decade. On values issues and immigration, the African-American middle class trends toward the Republicans. They will trend that way on taxes, too, once they realize the Left wants more and more and delivers less and less. The socialist tax policies advocated by the Democrats will inhibit the entrepreneurs that are revitalizing numerous inner city areas.
The Left has long taken this group for granted and their welfare policies of the sixties have wreaked havoc on African-American families and communities. The Democratic Party and their raced-based politics are largely responsible for the problems in our inner cities. The Republican Party needs to make a conscious effort to reach out to the African-American community, and at this time it doesn't seem as if they have. It will take work, but once the effort is made, this vote will be up for grabs.

On top of all the other problems African Americans have to face, being racially targeted for elimination by Hispanic gangs is a brutal injustice. It's time Americans understand that our illegal immigration problem needs to be fixed for all our sakes. Thank you, Mr. Malanga.

A fascinating article. I never did believe there would be a long-term coalition including blacks and Hispanics, based on what I saw in California in the 1970s - when blacks were the militants, and Hispanic ("Chicano") activists were just beginning to organize.

Although the things I saw were anecdotal, I was profoundly impressed by a number of conversations I witnessed among Hispanic activist leaders and their relatives who were then in the military -- and, hence, for the first time in their lives, in close contact with black militants. The activists were preaching the usual solidarity message and hostility to whites (amusing as I sat there as a white reporter for a university radio station) and getting the most strenuous push-back from the Hispanic soldiers, whose comments about blacks -- based explicitly on their experiences with blacks in the service and detailed in story after story -- could have come straight from the mouths of the most unreconstructed Southern bigots I had known in Virginia.

It has long been a mystery how so many black politicians and legislators consistently toe the white liberal party line on such non-racial cultural issues as environmentalism, gay marriage, abortion, etc., when such positions are so completely at odds with the views of their constituents.