Recently one of our more esteemed members of JU wrote a light hearted article basically detailing his jobs before he had skills.  In other words, entry level.  His title provoked a strong response from another member of JU and myself, as the debate really had nothing to do with his article.

But the debate got me to thinking about the whole immigration debate.  Specifically illegal immigrants, and what some want to make of this debate.  They are being less than honest by trying to turn the debate away from the merits of the issue and make it into a debate on racism.  It is not a new tactic, and one that has been employed by liberals many times in the past when they cannot or will not debate an issue on the merits.

But his diatribe got me to thinking along those lines and this debate.  And in a way, he is right.  Part of the debate is about race and racism.  And the racists who perpetuate it.  And the part that is about race, is coming from those making the accusations.  For when you boil down their attempts at misdirection and misrepresentation, you find out that the ones who are racists are those doing the accusing, not those against illegal immigration.

How can that be so?  To understand the how, one first has to accept one simple (and most would believe undeniable) truth.  Racism is not isolated to Europeans and their descendants.  Racists come in all colors shapes and sizes.  We have been told by the race baiters of this nation that it is impossible for a person of color (that is an oxymoron in itself since pink is a color, as is white) to be a racist.  But that is because they are just trying to hide their own racism, not because of any universal truth.

And the racism in illegal immigration comes from 2 sides.  The first is obvious as soon as you get into a debate with a liberal that really has not thought about the issue and just pulls a knee jerk talking point from his quiver of barbs.  They apparently think that one race (in this case they assume, incorrectly, that all illegals are Mexicans - or when caught on that racist statement, Hispanic, or when caught on that racist statement, Latino - all are still racist and false).  Clearly that is a major problem, but not the sole problem as the boat load of Chinese caught off the Coast of Washington State clearly indicates.  But they want to make it one race, because that is easier for their mind to comprehend, and their talking point rebuttals to work.  That it is not, just confuses them.

So perhaps racist is too strong a word, and they are race promoters?  Promoting one race over all others?  I think it is just 2 sides of the same coin.  They are trying to do a weaseling out of the fact that while they call White Supremacists racist (and rightly so), they do not do the same for brown Supremacists.  A racist is a racist.

They are crying alligator tears for one race, and ignoring all other races.  Why?  The excuse this racist used was "by what right do we have the right to deprive others of the bounty of America? By an accident of Birth, we are citizens they are not!"

Clever way of turning the argument around.  But it brings up the area where they are supremely racist.  For the reality is while most Americans are so because of the fortunate place of birth, most illegal immigrants are here by the same token!  How do you say?  Simple, they were born on this continent, so they can walk to the USA.  But what about all the starving Africans?  Asians?  indeed, while many of the illegal immigrants are looking for a BETTER life, very few are in danger of starving in their own country.  They are poor, but they are not starving (those that are starving usually do not have the means to make it to the USA).  And yet, the poor and starving of Asia, Africa, even Europe cannot do what the poor of the Americas can.  Walk to the USA.  They have to get on a plane or boat to make it here, which of course is a lot harder and a lot more costly. 

So Mr. "accident of Birth" is a racist because he does not give a damn about Asians or Africans, just Latinos.  These are the first side racists.

The second side racists you will hear, see and unfortunately meet, usually on a college campus, but almost always in front of a crowd.  Preaching racism.  And they are usually trashing the country that gives them the right to speak out that way, something they are incapable of doing in the countries they claim to be their homelands.  They are either members of, or supporters of La Raza.  For you not Spanish speaking folks, the name La Raza means - THE RACE.

They do not care about any other race either.  They are race supremacists as well, just as the Aryan Brotherhood (funny that Iranians have their own advocacy group - with no Iranians as members), the New Black Panthers, or any other race supremacist group that advocates the rule of a race over all other races.

So on the illegal immigration debate, yes, Virginia, there are a lot of racists out there.  And they are the ones doing the name calling, not the ones that are seeking to enforce the laws of the land.  They are racists because they do not care about any race but Latino (I use that term since technically Brazilians are not Hispanics - by the American definition, not the classical definition).  They seek to deny African and Asian people the same accident of birth that Latinos enjoy.  And they just want to create a ruling class of Latinos, with all other races excluded from their garden of eden.

The only thing worse than an avowed racists, is a rabid racists hiding behind their accusations of racism of others.