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To: grania

“Blacks are being replaced by hispanics.”

As a life-long CA resident, I can tell you that Blacks were behind the discontinuance of the Bracero Program here after WWII (actually it went into the ‘60’s as I recall). The Bracero Program was a “guest worker” system which allowed Mexicans to legally come here to work in agriculture so long as they went home to Mexico periodically. The Blacks were pitching that these “guest workers” were taking jobs that they wanted. And they were successful in getting the program terminated. But the Blacks never took those jobs, my guess, because it’s damned hard, back breaking work! Somehow the Black’s who in the past, worked in farm labor in the South, were no longer interested in the West!


24 posted on 11/01/2013 12:29:54 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: vette6387

I think the bracero program was really destroyed by the labor unions. But one of the problems with blacks is that they are easily used by unions or virtually anybody who wants to use them by playing to their grudges.

We have plenty of jobs for strong young people in Florida that require nothing but trustworthiness, both in showing up and behaving decently on the job, and the ability to follow orders. Who has these jobs? Mostly immigrants, whether legal or illegal (this includes lots of Latin Americans and some Bosnians) because the young black people don’t learn enough in school to get a better job but on the other hand consider manual labor beneath them. Mexicans don’t; they just want to make money and move on.


31 posted on 11/01/2013 4:00:51 PM PDT by livius
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