Urban League

Washington (CNN) — Civil rights leaders Wednesday lobbied Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and top Census Bureau officials to press for a better count of African-Americans in the 2010 census.

The U.S. government already plans a nearly $200 million advertising campaign aimed at getting people to respond to the census, which is used to set congressional and legislative districts and allocate federal funds. But National Urban League President Marc Morial said more needs to be done to make sure underrepresented communities are included.

"My takeaway from the meeting is that the secretary listened intently and took our concerns very seriously," Morial told reporters after the meeting. But he added, "We still feel there are important, significant steps that need to be taken to ensure that there is a complete count in the 2010 census."

Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, said the 2000 census undercounted African-Americans by nearly 3 percent. He said the Census Bureau needs to hire more black managers and subcontractors so "the firms that know these communities best are calling the shots."

African-Americans make up a large proportion of what census workers call "hard-to-count" groups, which also include other ethnic minorities and immigrants, children and poor people, said Corrine Yu, senior counsel and managing policy director for the Leadership Council on Civil Rights. In addition, many of those communities show a "general distrust of government" that has hindered participation, she said.

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Studies conducted since the 1940s show those demographics "are all likely to respond to the census quest at lower rates," Yu said.

Complicating things further this year are the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina, which displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Four years after the 2005 storm, the area still has large numbers of people in temporary housing and a high rate of vacant homes, according to an August report by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

The report found the Census Bureau plans to hand-deliver questionnaires in some of the hardest-hit parts of the Gulf Coast and launch an extensive ad campaign to get people in the stricken areas to take part in the count.

The avalanche of foreclosures over the past two years also is likely to make hard-to-count populations more difficult to tally as well, because many people in those groups have been forced to move, Yu said.

"We don’t know exactly how this is going to work, because this is a unique circumstance," she said. "But that kind of displacement, whether it’s natural disaster like Katrina or a man-made disaster like the foreclosure crisis, will be a new challenge for the 2010 census."

The delegation that met with Locke also included Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus; and two of the most visible U.S. civil rights activists, the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, both of whom have made Democratic presidential bids.

Morial said the group also asked that prison inmates be included in counts of their hometowns, not where they are held. He said that with about 1.3 million African-Americans in prison out of a total black population of about 40 million, "What we have in the prison population issue is a built-in undercount."

Jackson said the delegation did not receive any commitment from Locke on that issue, which he said might need to be addressed by the Justice Department or Congress.

Yu said that issue was unlikely to be resolved in time for 2010, but was "an important issue for consideration for the 2020 census."

Thanks for this info. I tried to suggest in my answer to another question that we are under-represented in count. My data was not as robust as yours, so i appreciate your putting this out there.

A.) President Harry Truman
B.) Dr Martin Luther Kind, Jr.
C.) National Urban League
D.) National Association for the Advancement of colored people

i need this by tomorrow

You forgot all the important ones. Start with Henry Ford! Then read about General Motors. Brief yourself on the stockyards in Chicago and the steel mills in Gary, Indiana, and Pittsburgh. I suspect you haven’t read much real history. For seventy years, southerners of all racial groups moved north for good paying jobs. It goes back to before most of those you listed even existed.

Again: there is no substitue for valid scholarship!

Obama Takes to Basketball Court With Cabinet Members, Lawmakers

By Kate Andersen Brower and Nicholas Johnston

Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama wanted to hold court with LeBron James. He made do yesterday with Cabinet officials and lawmakers.

In perhaps the most exclusive after-work, backyard basketball game ever, the president recruited players from the ranks of the executive branch and Congress to play on the converted tennis court on the White House’s South Lawn.

The group played 10 games over about two hours, with everyone switching teams throughout, said Representative Michael Arcuri, a New York Democrat and one of the participants. Arcuri, 50, was a forward on his high school team.

Others on the court with basketball on their resumes included Education Secretary Arne Duncan, 44, who played on the Harvard University team and professionally in Australia, and Representative Baron Hill, 56, an Indiana Democrat who is a member of that state’s Basketball Hall of Fame and played college ball at Furman University in South Carolina.

Representative Jay Inslee, 58, a Washington Democrat, was a member of the 1969 state champion team at Ingraham High School in Seattle.

“There are two highlights of my life so far,” Inslee said before yesterday’s game. “One was winning the state championship in ‘69. The other is shooting hoops at the White House.”

Hoops Ritual

On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama, 48, had a ritual of playing a pick-up game on the days of nominating primaries and caucuses. He broke with that practice by not playing in New Hampshire and Nevada; he lost the contests in those states.

He also played with the University of North Carolina Tar Heels before the state’s primary in May 2008 and with U.S. troops during a visit to Kuwait last July.

Obama met earlier this year with the Cleveland Cavaliers’ James, the National Basketball Association’s Most Valuable Player last season. In a June Bloomberg News interview, Obama said James would be on the list for an invitation to play at the White House court, repurposed from tennis at a cost of $4,995.

“As soon as we get the basketball nets up we’re going to have some of these guys over for a game,” Obama said.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday that with the professionals now in training camp, “that may have to wait until it gets warmer at the end of next year.”

Going Local

Until he can arrange a matchup with NBA greats, Obama went for local ballplayers, many of whom play each other in occasional pick-up games around Washington.

Representative Rick Larsen, 44, a Democrat from Washington, said beforehand he hoped the line-up would be Congress versus the Cabinet. Along with Duncan, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, 48, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, 54, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, 43, were invited to play.

Larsen was a little worried about the competition. “I heard Arne Duncan has a 3-point shot that is unstoppable,” he said.

Inslee wasn’t intimidated by the venue or the opponent. Obama “may be the leader of the free world but on the court he’s just another gym rat,” he said.

On a conference call early yesterday with reporters, Geithner and Donovan chatted about their preparations.

“Have you been practicing?” Geithner asked.

“I should have, but I haven’t,” Donovan replied.

Geithner played basketball in a staff league when he was president of the New York Federal Reserve; he said he hasn’t had time for the game since joining the administration.

Getting Inspired

Representative Brad Ellsworth, 51, an Indiana Democrat, watched clips from the basketball movie “Hoosiers” to draw inspiration for yesterday’s game, his spokeswoman Elizabeth Farrar said.

“We take our basketball seriously in Indiana, so he is going to play hard,” she said.

This being Washington, there is always the political angle to consider. The list of invitees included North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler, 37, a former professional football player who backed then-Senator Hillary Clinton in last year’s Democratic presidential primaries, and two Republicans, Representatives John Shimkus, 51, of Illinois and Jeff Flake, 46, of Arizona.

Flake said he didn’t expect trash-talk on policy.

“He didn’t ask me to agree to his health-care plan before inviting me, so I think this is all about basketball,” he said.

Foul Concerns

Flake was among the lawmakers who said they probably would adjust their game to stay out of foul trouble.

“I think all of us are worried that the first hard foul we’ll get a quick visit from a Secret Service agent,” he said.

After the game, Arcuri said he was impressed with the skills of Obama aide Reggie Love, 28, who played at Duke University, and that the president was “relaxed” on the court.

“At one point, I had to box the president in, which I kind of hesitated to do, you know, since he is the

What do you mean that we still have troops in Afghanistan? Didn’t they hear? Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. That must mean that we have world peace. They don’t just give those things away like an Emmy.

I hold the following bad news as a result of educational policies that I summarize as "Juneteenthlsm" — the encouragement of making one’s freedoms, one’s status and one’s wealth to be the due of others who owe it to you.

In the East Bay Express Susan Goldsmith wrote:

The professor and his research assistant moved to Shaker Heights for nine months in mid-1997. They reviewed data and test scores. The team observed 110 different classes, from kindergarten all the way through high school. They conducted exhaustive interviews with school personnel, black parents, and students. Their project yielded an unexpected conclusion: It wasn’t socioeconomics, school funding, or racism, that accounted for the students’ poor academic performance; it was their own attitudes, and those of their parents.

Ogbu concluded that the average black student in Shaker Heights put little effort into schoolwork and was part of a peer culture that looked down on academic success as "acting white." Although he noted that other factors also play a role, and doesn’t deny that there may be antiblack sentiment in the district, he concluded that discrimination alone could not explain the gap.

"The black parents feel it is their role to move to Shaker Heights, pay the higher taxes so their kids could graduate from Shaker, and that’s where their role stops," Ogbu says during an interview at his home in the Oakland hills. "They believe the school system should take care of the rest. They didn’t supervise their children that much. They didn’t make sure their children did their homework. That’s not how other ethnic groups think."

It took the soft-spoken 63-year-old Nigerian immigrant several years to complete his book, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement., which he wrote with assistance from his research aide Astrid Davis. Before publication, he gave parents and school officials one year to respond to his research, but no parents ever did. Then Ogbu met with district officials and parents to discuss the book, which was finally published in January.

The gatherings were cordial, but it was clear that his conclusions made some people quite uncomfortable. African-American parents worried that Ogbu’s work would further reinforce the stereotype that blacks are intellectually inadequate and lazy. School district officials, meanwhile, were concerned that it would look as if they were blaming black parents and students for their own academic failures.

But in the weeks following the meetings, it became apparent that the person with the greatest cause for worry may have been Ogbu himself. Soon after he left Ohio and returned to California, a black parent from Shaker Heights went on TV and called him an "academic Clarence Thomas." The National Urban League condemned him and his work in a press release that scoffed, "The League holds that it is useless to waste time and energy with those who blame the victims of racism." The criticism eventually made it all the way to The New York Times, where an article published prior to the publication of Ogbu’s book quoted or referred to four separate academics who quarreled with his premise. It quoted a Shaker Heights school official who took issue with the professor’s conclusions, and cited work by the Minority Student Achievement Network that suggested black students care as much about school as white and Asian students. In fact, the reporter failed to locate a single person in Shaker Heights or anywhere else with anything good to say about the book.

Other scholars have since come forward to take a few more swipes at the professor’s premise. "Ogbu is just flat-out wrong about the attitudes about learning by African Americans," explains Asa Hilliard, an education professor at Georgia State University and one of the authors of Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students. "Education is a very high value in the African-American community and in the African community. The fundamental problem is Dr. Ogbu is unfamiliar with the fact that there are thousands of African-American students who succeed. It doesn’t matter whether the students are in Shaker Heights or an inner city. The achievement depends on what expectations the teacher has of the students." Hilliard, who is black, believes Shaker Heights teachers must not expect enough from their black students.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/rich__black__flunking/Content?oid=285317

Back in the 70’s, when I was at uni, I read an article which suggested that "black Americans (the term used back then) were less intelligent than their white counterparts. Shortly thereafter I read an article which suggested the opposite. The writers of the second article were wise enough to acknowledge the first article and reproduce the two tools used to measure intelligence in both reports. It is the tests that were biased, not the intelligence of the groups. Maybe some of the same issues exist here.

I am currently curious and looking to get some feedback about whether my current high school resume is good enough to get into these following schools considering I want to be an INTERNATIONAL LAW MAJOR AND PLEASE DIRECTLY ADDRESS IF I CAN GET INTO GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ITS MY FIRST CHOICE?

NYU
Columbia
Georgetown
American University (Washington)
Yale
University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
George Washington University (1st Choice)
UC Berkley
University of Virginia

My Resume looks like this

Weighted GPA

9th: 3.02

10th: 3.95

11th: 4.75

12th: 4.85

Unweighted GPA

9th: 3.02

10th: 3.86

11th: 4.0

12th: 4.0

Next these are my extracurriculars

Took some classes at our local university Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Member of the National Honor Society

High School Forensics High Marks, and Winner at States 3 years in a row

Junior High Forensics Judge

Assistant Coach of Junior High Drama

Mock Trial a Law Group that practice trials at Pitt University, and CMU went to States and was a Lawyer (highest position you can hold)

Went to Governor School (extremely prestigious) to study International Relations at Pitt University

Wrote for the school newspaper for 2 years

Served as Student council President, and served in Student Council for 2 years

Member of Quiz Bowl Team

Member of Math League

Member of the Science Olympiad

Served as a volenteer at our Local Library for 2 years

Participated as a member for The "Get Money Teach Kids" Campaign in Pittsburgh which was a program aimed at helping at-risk youth

Participated as a member for "Coalition on Violence and Public Health" which was another initiative aimed at helping the urban youth

Next these are my notable recommendations

I got a recomandation from my 9th grade English teacher
I got a recomandation from my 10th grade AP U.S. History Teacher
I got a recomandation from my 10th grade Pre-Calc Teacher
I got a recomandation from my 11th grade AP Euro Teacher
I got a recomandation from my 11th grade Calc Teacher
I got a recomandation from my 11th grade English Teacher
I got a recomandation from my 12th grade English Teacher
I got a recomandatino from my 12th grade AP Government Teacher

Professor Ali Agbhar professor of Linguistics and English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown Alum. (gives money to the college as well) gave me a recommendation

Critique Allah managing editor of Original Thought Magazine gave me a recommendation

Michael Muhmmad Knight noteable author and speaker on Islamic studies gave me a recommendation

Sha-King Allah Cehum community activist, and founder of the "Coalition on Violence and Public Health" gave me a recommendation

Adisa Banjoko CEO of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, and Author gave me a recommendation

Next these traits or activities are what make me unique

I am a writer for the magazine Original Thought Magazine

I am a writer for the magazine Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

I speak Farsi the most demanded language by the Federal Goverment (remember I want to go into international law) at level 5 (AP Farsi)

My SAT score was 2330

First off…i can’t help you - im just glad i didn’t have to go through such a long and painful process like this to get into uni where i am (Australia). Your resume seems heavy - i wouldn’t put too much on it - or at least things that aren’t super relevant. good luck with it

I am currently curious and looking to get some feedback about whether my current high school resume is good enough to get into these following schools considering I want to be an INTERNATIONAL LAW MAJOR AND PLEASE DIRECTLY ADDRESS IF I CAN GET INTO GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ITS MY FIRST CHOICE?

NYU
Columbia
Georgetown
American University (Washington)
Yale
University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
George Washington University (1st Choice)
UC Berkley
University of Virginia

My Resume looks like this

Weighted GPA

9th: 3.02

10th: 3.95

11th: 4.75

12th: 4.85

Unweighted GPA

9th: 3.02

10th: 3.86

11th: 4.0

12th: 4.0

Next these are my extracurriculars

Took some classes at our local university Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Member of the National Honor Society

High School Forensics High Marks, and Winner at States 3 years in a row

Junior High Forensics Judge

Assistant Coach of Junior High Drama

Mock Trial a Law Group that practice trials at Pitt University, and CMU went to States and was a Lawyer (highest position you can hold)

Went to Governor School (extremely prestigious) to study International Relations at Pitt University

Wrote for the school newspaper for 2 years

Served as Student council President, and served in Student Council for 2 years

Member of Quiz Bowl Team

Member of Math League

Member of the Science Olympiad

Served as a volenteer at our Local Library for 2 years

Participated as a member for The "Get Money Teach Kids" Campaign in Pittsburgh which was a program aimed at helping at-risk youth

Participated as a member for "Coalition on Violence and Public Health" which was another initiative aimed at helping the urban youth

Next these are my notable recommendations

Professor Ali Agbhar professor of Linguistics and English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown Alum. (gives money to the college as well) gave me a recommendation

Critique Allah managing editor of Original Thought Magazine gave me a recommendation

Michael Muhmmad Knight noteable author and speaker on Islamic studies gave me a recommendation

Sha-King Allah Cehum community activist, and founder of the "Coalition on Violence and Public Health" gave me a recommendation

Adisa Banjoko CEO of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, and Author gave me a recommendation

Next these traits or activities are what make me unique

I am a writer for the magazine Original Thought Magazine

I am a writer for the magazine Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

I speak Farsi the most demanded language by the Federal Goverment (remember I want to go into international law) at level 5 (AP Farsi)

My SAT score was 2330

NYU: 88% odds
Columbia: 83% odds
Georgetown: 82% odds
American University (Washington): 98% odds
Yale: 81% odds
George Washington University (1st Choice): 92% odds
University of Virginia: 84% odds

The UAE population has an unnatural sex distribution consisting of more than twice the number of males than females. The 15-65 age group has a male(s)/female sex ratio of 2.743. UAE’s gender imbalance is the highest among any nation in the world followed by Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia - all of which together comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).[4] The GCC states are also what most South and Southeast Asians refer to as the Persian Gulf especially in context of emigration.[5]

UAE has one of the most diverse populations in the Middle East.[6] 19 % of the population is Emirati, and 23 % is other Arabs and Iranians [7]. An estimated 85 percent of the population is comprised of non-citizens, one of the world’s highest percentages of foreign-born in any nation. In addition, since the mid-1980s, people from all across South Asia have settled in the UAE. The high living standards and economic opportunities in the UAE are better than almost anywhere else in the Middle East and South Asia. This makes the nation an attractive destination for Indians, Filipinos, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis along with a few thousand Sri Lankans. In 2006, there were approximately 2.15 million Indian nationals, Philippines Nationals—OFW, Bangladeshi nationals, and Pakistani nationals in the UAE, making them the largest expatriate community in the oil-rich nation.[8] Persons from over twenty Arab nationalities, including thousands of Palestinians who came as either political refugees or migrant workers, also live in the United Arab Emirates. There is also a sizable number of Emiratis from other Arab League nations who have come before the formation of the Emirates such as Egyptians, Somalis, Sudanese and other Gulf Arab states, who have adopted the native culture and customs. Further, Somali immigration also continued in the 1990s as a result of the Somali civil war.
A woman shopping at Dubai Duty Free
A woman shopping at Dubai Duty Free

There are also residents from other parts of the Middle East, Baluchistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, Africa, Europe, Post-Soviet states, and North America. The UAE has attracted a small number of very affluent expatriates (Americans, British, Canadians, Japanese, Chinese and Australians) from developed countries who are attracted to a very warm climate, scenic views (beaches, golf courses, man-made islands and lucrative housing tracts in Abu Dhabi and Dubai), the nation’s comparably low cost of living (but in 2006, thousands of real estate properties are valued over millions of dollars) and tax-free incentives for their business or residency in the UAE. They make up under 5 percent of the UAE population; mainly English-speaking. Expatriates adhere to the law and customs of the UAE, their adopted country.

The most populated city is Dubai, with approximately 1.6 million people. Other major cities include Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Sharjah, and Fujairah. About 88% of the population of the United Arab Emirates is urban.[9] The remaining inhabitants live in tiny towns scattered throughout the country or in one of the many desert oilfield camps in the nation.

This will not work 100%.
http://www.lingvozone.com/
Good luck!

On February 6, 2007, the Anti-Defamation League released a report showing "a surprising and troubling resurgence" of the Ku Klux Klan.

The resurrection of the Klan, whose numbers had taken a drastic hit in the 1990’s, may be in part to hot topics of the past year such as immigration, gay marriage, and urban crime, the report
The KKK Has Found a Rebirth Through Immigration Issues
says.

"Extremist groups are good at seizing on whatever the hot button is of the day and twisting the message to get new members, " Deborah M. Lauter, ADL Civil Rights director, said Monday.

Slogans such as, "Let’s get rid of Mexicans’," were included in an anti-immigration rally last May in Alabama, according to the ADL document titled "Ku Klux Klan Rebounds."

Klan chapters have grown by 63 percent and hate groups by 33 percent, says Mark Potok, who tracks hate crimes and serves as director of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The ADL report lists 19 states as having notable activity and growth in Klan chapters. Those states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.

While it is difficult to pinpoint specific numbers, Potok’s group has located upwards of 150 Klan chapters numbering 8,000 members around the nation. Southern Poverty has also found at least 800 hate groups in existence.

The union between groups has been significant. For instance, in March 2006 several Klan groups met in Laurens, South Carolina, in conjunction with approximately 80 members of the National Socialist Movement. Their purpose was to discuss a cooperative effort among the various organizations.

Such groups saw a significant drop in members and leadership during the late 1990’s. Many hit rock bottom around 2000, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

"Whenever you think the Klan is down and out, they find another way to reinvent themselves," he said of the current rebirth.

The KKK Has Found a Rebirth Through Immigration Issues
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/143995/the_kkk_has_found_a_rebirth_through.html?cat=9

They have the same free speech rights as normal people.

When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants.
But the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents did not cripple the company or the plants. In fact, they were back up and running at full staff within months by replacing those removed with a significant number of native-born Americans, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

That was the most extreme example of what has become an increasingly common result of the raids: "They were very beneficial to American workers," according to Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain.

"Whenever there’s an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do those jobs that Americans will supposedly not do," said Swain, who teaches law and political science.

Exactly who is filling the jobs has varied, depending on the populations surrounding the plants:

•Out West, one of the Swift plants raided by ICE, had a workforce that was about 90% Hispanic — both legal and illegal — before the raids. The lost workers were replaced mostly with white Americans and U.S.-born Hispanics, according to the CIS.

•In the South, a House of Raeford Farms plant in North Carolina that was more than 80% Hispanic before a federal investigation is now about 70% African-American, according to a report by TheCharlotte Observer.

•Throughout the Great Plains, a new wave of legal immigrants is filling the void, according to Jill Cashen, spokeswoman for the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents 1.3 million people who work in the food-processing industry. Plants are refilling positions with newly arrived immigrants from places such as Sudan, Somalia and Southeast Asia.

Recession plays a factor in shift

Steven Camarota of CIS said native-born Americans are not only willing to take on those jobs, but currently fill a majority of them.

Native-born workers outnumber immigrants 3-to-1 in construction jobs and 2-to-1 in farming, fishing and forestry jobs, according to Camarota.

T. Willard Fair, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Miami, said it has taken the greatest recession in a generation for poor Americans to line up to work in fields and factories.

"We’ll take anything now," Fair said. "We’re willing to be exploited for a while."

After ICE agents descend on poultry-processing plants, pork factories and meatpacking facilities across the USA, in some cases plant owners are forced to raise wages to get Americans to sign up, Swain said.

Catherine Singley, a policy analyst for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights organization, said the post-raid increases in salaries were also necessary for Americans to accept the harsh, dangerous working environments.

She said wages did not plummet in recent decades because of immigrants undercutting Americans, but because employers took advantage of the immigrant population fearful of seeking help from authorities.

"If you’ve got a segment of the workforce that’s afraid to speak out against violations of their labor rights, then that drags down wages and working conditions for all workers," Singley said.

A report released last week by the NCLR found that the occupational fatality rate for Latinos remained the highest among ethnic groups in the country for the 15th straight year in 2007, when 937 Latinos died on the job.

"That’s something that native-born Americans and native-born Latino workers are dealing with for the first time," she said.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2009-09-13-plants_N.htm

My thoughts are that especially in a financially hurting time, if work places didn’t hire illegals there would be much more opportunity for legal residents. I also think that the government should stop supporting these illegal immigrants with so much housing and welfare. If they weren’t getting so much of the low income housing around my area there would be more room for the people that live here legally and are honestly trying very hard to make enough money to support themselves (don’t get me wrong, I know there are plenty of peole who are here legall that feed off of the system, but there are plenty that aren’t like that too). I have found that in my area that the children, the younger generation, tend to be the hard workers, who want to fit into society and go by are way of life, but the older ones don’t. In my opinion, if you want to come into this country, get your green card, do the paperwork, LEGALLY just like everyone else has to do before they move to a different country.

For those who don’t think illegals feed off of the system, have you ever seen a current year, brand new higher middle class budget car with a license plate that reads "u bot it" with a Somalian driving the car? I have, and it pisses me and everyone else around here the hell off!

"About some weeks ago, they had the young foster son sleeping with his father’s girlfriend, and it did not sit well with a lot of people, predominantly black women because African American women make up the "Young and the Restless" audience,"

"I take this very serious, and I think that a sterling story line that received so much positive attention just hit a cord with a lot of people, and this is not the Bill Bell legacy."

"I put in 16, 17 years and doggedly tried to bring in effective change so that the new generation of actors wouldn’t say who’s going to do my hair. … It’s 2009 and the show has been on the air for 37 years. We had a cast of eight black actors and now you’re down to two. Come on NAACP and Urban League, speak up. Who’s asleep at the wheel at CBS?"

"White actors in daytime are brought back from the dead all the time. Why does it require a national campaign to bring back perhaps arguably the strongest black actress in daytime?"

http://www.bvnewswire.com/2009/09/11/victoria-rowell-not-ruling-out-returning-to-daytime-tv/?icid=main|hp-laptop|dl5|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bvnewswire.com%2F2009%2F09%2F11%2Fvictoria-rowell-not-ruling-out-returning-to-daytime-tv%2F

I agree with her totally. What she’s trying to say about the Tyra/Devon situation is that since blacks are so under represented on the soaps, it is particularly horrifying when a major storyline surrounds an aunt sleeping with her nephew. It’s hard for a lot of people to understand who are not people of color. We are used to not seeing many of us represented on daytime television so a storyline like this rankles. Victoria Rowell is the strongest black actress in daytime…was she lying? There is no excuse for them not to bring her back. Ashley was brought back for one of the stupidest storylines ever. Nikki was brought back after her contract negotiations fell through. Why can’t it be done with Victoria Rowell? She’s earned her ego folks. She’s earned it!