AND THE RIFT BETWEEN BETTER OFF AND MORE DESTITUTE AFRICAN AMERICANS
OVER IMMIGRATION DOTH EMERGE? ONE SAYS THEY ARE FREINDS, THE OTHER SAY
THEY ARE ENEMIES...
During an afternoon news conference at the Lucy Florence Coffeehouse,
activist Najee Ali said he believed Hayes is being used as a pawn by
what he called a racist faction that never has affiliated itself with
the black community until now.
REALLY??? NAAAA.....
"Ted Hayes and his involvement in the Minuteman group is certainly an
issue that we should be concerned about," Ali said. "We feel that
[the Minutemen] will polarize the [black and Latino] communities. It
will bring us farther and farther apart instead of [bringing us]
together collectively to talk about tolerance, peace and resolution."
GOOD. I HATE AMERICA. ANYTHING TO SEE THE HILARIOUS SITE OF SOME
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION MAGGOT FAT ***** BEING STOPPED ON THE WAY IN TO WAL
MART AND TOLD AT A POLICE / MILITARY CHECKPOINT TO GET THE ***** OUT OF
THEIR SUV WITH A GUN POINTED TO THEIR FACE SO THEY CAN DO A CAR SEARCH.
During the Sunday forum, Hayes announced a plan to hold a protest march
in downtown Los Angeles on May 21 and invited gang members to join the
border patrol.
I HOPE HISPANICS FROM RIVAL GANGS SHOW UP TO HARASS THEM....
***** AMERICA.
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L.A. Organizers Denounce Black Minuteman
Wave Newspapers, News Report, Gene Johnson Jr., Apr 27, 2006
LEIMERT PARK - A coalition of community activists from diverse
backgrounds came together in Leimert Park Wednesday to denounce
homeless activist Ted Hayes' recent alliance with the
ultra-conservative Minutemen Project as a means of battling illegal
immigration.
During an afternoon news conference at the Lucy Florence Coffeehouse,
activist Najee Ali said he believed Hayes is being used as a pawn by
what he called a racist faction that never has affiliated itself with
the black community until now.
"Ted Hayes and his involvement in the Minuteman group is certainly an
issue that we should be concerned about," Ali said. "We feel that
[the Minutemen] will polarize the [black and Latino] communities. It
will bring us farther and farther apart instead of [bringing us]
together collectively to talk about tolerance, peace and resolution."
Hayes, who did not attend the news conference, said he approached the
Minutemen about eight months ago, in part, because they were in support
of helping the homeless. Hayes help organize Dome Village, the homeless
encampment west of downtown.
"I'm realizing that illegal immigration is taking away the
resources of the homeless," Hayes said. "The Minutemen are right.
They want to help the homeless. I can't get Jesse [Jackson] or [Rep.]
Maxine Waters to work with the homeless. Who's helping me? White
people."
Others speakers at the Leimert Park news conference faulting Hayes'
alignment with the Minutemen included Randy Jurado Ertll, executive
director of El Centro De Accion Social; Gideon Krakov of the
Progressive Jewish Alliance, attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill and writer
and activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
"We [have] enough violence between black and Latinos in schools,
jails and in the community," Ali said. "We're speaking out
against potential violence that may happen based on Ted Hayes."
Ertll agreed with Ali saying that "we need to unite both communities.
I think it's time that [blacks and Latinos] start talking to each
other more and finding common ground and common issues that we can work
on together."
"I think the president and Congress need to find a solution to
[illegal immigration] because it will create more divisions in the
future," Ertll said.
It's a matter of learning to listen and "walk in other people's
shoes," added Krakov "and not being a part of the problem, but
being a part of the solution."
Hayes, a Republican, his newly formed Crispus Attucks Brigade, and some
of his Minutemen allies held a forum Sunday in Leimert Park, drawing
more than 100 people. It became an intense war of words between him and
another group, the Progressive Alliance, a coalition of blacks and
Latinos urging unity.
The argument grew into a physical altercation for which Hayes later
apologized.
During the Sunday forum, Hayes announced a plan to hold a protest march
in downtown Los Angeles on May 21 and invited gang members to join the
border patrol.
Tuesday Hayes said he went to the downtown Mexican Consulate to
"clarify" the goals for his new group.
"We support civil rights for illegal immigrants - but in Mexico, in
the country that drove [illegal immigrants] out - whatever country
that drove you out," he said. "[Iillegal immigrants are] coming
here to get my civil rights, something [blacks] fought for. You just
can't come here and take our civil rights.
"We're going to champion your cause for civil rights in Mexico. We,
as blacks, are going to be your champion," he said. "You might not
understand now, but in time you will."
Hayes said he wrote the Mexican consulate general a letter about five
weeks ago, asking President Vicente Fox to allow a multi-ethnic
delegation led by blacks to talk with Fox, Cardinal Roger Mahony and
other Mexican civic and social leaders as a means of restoring civil
rights back to Mexicans.
Hayes has called illegal immigration the "biggest threat to blacks in
America since slavery."
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