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This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
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New York Times drives wedge between Blacks and migrants

The second leading story on the imperialist New York Times webpage as of May 3rd at 11:00 pm is proof of the success of the migrant movement. "Growing Unease for Some Blacks on Immigration" treats real issues and has real facts, but suddenly we see the New York Times give it such a priority on its web page. All oppressed nations should be suspicious.

A number of talking heads on radio and some other pundits reached by the New York Times have stirred up Blacks against migrants. The line goes that Blacks paid their dues through hundreds of years of slavery and waited in line. The same is true by the way of some Mexican-Amerikans who feel that their hassle with the INS through legal procedures makes them superior humyn-beings to others who did not manage the bureaucratic redtape with the imbeciles intentionally assigned to the INS to restrict Mexicans to a trickle across the border. Instead of thinking the whole difficulty at the INS is intentional and divides people internationally, the new Latino exploiters think they have some kind of new virtue for getting through the crap-shoot of citizenship. They want to lord it over the people they came from.

The oreos and coconuts blame the migrants for how Euro-Amerikans divide people. The Euro-Amerikans did not have to follow any INS procedures when they stole the land from the First Nations. They did not lobby any indigenous government State Department to get let in. Those are the people in-charge of the government now, but the oreos and coconuts focus on how hard their struggles were to get a piece of imperialist pie instead of thinking that this is their chance to bring down white nationalist domination.

There is a large sector of the Black people that is labor aristocracy, people becoming oppressor-like in their economic outlook. We saw this with Proposition 187 in California when Blacks sided with whites against Spanish-speakers. We are seeing it again now.

MIM actually agrees with the complainers that the current movement is not really a "civil rights movement." It is a movement for national liberation mixed in with some other movements, because it is often the case that it is difficult to have more than two sides in a conflict. Democrats looking to future Latino exploiter votes, employers wanting more workers around, neo-Trotskyists looking to echo the Democrats on "Black-Brown unity" and reconquistas are allied together against white nationalists, fascists and their lackeys. The New York Times is for an expanded Democratic Party vote, but it puts a brake on the process because it fears revolution. So the New York Times prioritization of their news report is a profound compliment to the revolutionary proletariat.

The Latino labor bureaucrats are siding with the Black labor aristocracy, by saying the current movement is a civil rights movement, because both groups are pursuing the "American Dream." MIM cannot deny that there is a powerful impetus to the movement coming from the dream of exploiting the rest of the world. Jesse Jackson agrees with these Latino labor bureaucrats on a joint labor aristocracy integration project for u.$. empire. The international proletariat is on the same side as Jesse Jackson and the Latino labor bureaucrats right now for different reasons than they put forward.

Jesse Jackson is taking the "politically correct" position of perfuming U.$. imperialism with internal civil rights, but he does not carry his own people on this issue to the extent that he carries them to the Democratic Party. According to the New York Times, the Pew Hispanic Center conducted a poll that showed nearly double opposition among Blacks compared with whites on the belief that migrants cost them or someone they know jobs.

The New York Times also distorted W.E.B. Du Bois's politics.

W.E.B. DuBois, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., and other prominent black leaders worried that immigrants would displace blacks in the workplace. Ronald Walters, director of the African-American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, said blacks cheered when the government restricted Asian immigration to the United States after World War I.

In World War I, Du Bois was for proving Black loyalty to Amerika and integrating into the melting pot that way. Rejected with his people by Euro-Amerikans anyway, he then spent decades flipping and flopping on Black nationalism. When DuBois died, he had taken up Mao's internationalism. For that reason, his birthday became a national holiday in China under Mao.

Academic misleader Ronald Walters pointed to high urban unemployment of Blacks but he did not prove that the way capitalism works, the economy works better or hires more Blacks without migrants. Having the capitalist economy collapse generally is not going to help unemployed Blacks, so even on a reformist basis, Walters' argument is pretty dubious. Overall, Walters is falling victim to neo-colonialism--divide-and-conquer.

May Day demonstrations were great, but the New York Times gave us a reminder that even on this most successful proletarian road regarding the future of u.$. imperialism, there are many challenges ahead.

Note:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/us/04immig.html