Black Leaders in Los Angeles Support Pro-immigration Boycott

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<Leaders of African American community Saturday voiced their support for the upcoming nation-wide boycott of job, school and shopping by illegal immigrants and their supporters.

Speakers at a press conference in a Los Angeles church likened Great American Boycott, scheduled for Monday on the occasion of the International Labor Day, to the black civil rights movement.

"Rosa Parks steered a new course for history against racism and for workers rights," said John Parker, West Coast coordinator of the International Action Center. "This right here is today's Montgomery bus boycott."

He was referring to the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger in a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955 triggered the Martin Luther King-led civil rights movement.

Lasting from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday, the boycott is designed to underscore the economic importance of immigrants at a time when U.S. lawmakers are crafting immigration reform. >

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[Ms. Clio]

1. well, this has to be kind of unnerving for all those folks

who have huffily insisted that there is NO COMPARISON to the civil rights movement.

[rodeodance]

2. I am glad to see them support this.

[Solo_in_MD]

4. Per the MSM, this has split the black community and its activists

Again, per the MSM, there were protests against black elected officials who support the boycott in Los Angeles and elsewhere. This is from memory, no cites handy...

[donheld]

3. I also am glad to see this

It's time the immigrants stood up for themselves. They have done a hell of a lot of work in this country. It's time they're recognized for it.

[xultar]

5. I'm glad to see this for a couple of reasons

1. We as blacks have become to complacent and I've even heard some blacks talking bad about mexicans taking jobs. We can garner mutual gains in this struggle.
2. We need to remember the struggle and need partners to help push the establishment.

[goclark]

7. I agree

If anyone should support their efforts it should be us, Black Americans.

I'm not buying anything tomorrow in support of their efforts.

[DBoon]

6. did someone say "worker's rights"?

maybe we are seeing the end to the "class slaughter" that has been going on for the last 25 years?