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By Glen Ford
These newly white people, from many nations, became the new Americans. Jews, Poles, Italians, and another wave of Irish, They swarmed into our country, and became the new Americans. We Black Americans were locked out of that introduction the to new American society, by immigrants who zealously guarded their newly-granted white privilege. They shut us out of jobs in the big cities, but we came anyway. And we came in great numbers, and overwhelmed these immigrant nations that had become white. We took over the cities, and they ran away. But we made no real base of power in those cities – just titular power, not people power. There is now a great wave of new immigrants, mostly Mexican. We, Black people, are afraid of this new flood, and righteously so. Will these people become white people? That’s what we’re really worried about. More white people or people who become white. We don’t need any more of them.
In the end, this is not for us to decide. As we speak, white America is fighting within itself over whether to claim the current wave of immigrants as its won, or to attempt craft a new kind of apartheid status by militarizing the border, and making immigration a so-called "homeland security" issue. Some of the worst instincts and tendencies of white America are showing themselves.
US prisons have, for the last twenty years contained a number of Black incarcerated far out of proportion to our population. Although we are an eighth of the nation's people, we are half its prisoners. Precise state by state data on the racial breakdown of prison populations increasingly hard to come by, but the proportion of Hispanic prisoners, both citizens and non-citizens held by the federal Bureau of Prisons is nearly one third. And this does not include the rapidly expanding gualg maintained by the Department of Homeland Security in which an undetermined five figure sum of people, including many hundreds of children are held in a separate network of privatized for-profit federal prisons. If this trend continues, the proportion of Hispanics under lockdown in the U.S. may nearly approach that of our own astronomical number, and just as the experience of prison has almost become the defining characteristic of a younger generation of black America, it may become commonplace among Hispanics.
If it does, that will be white America's answer. What then, will ours be?
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