In the midst of writing a paper for class, I’ve checked in on the rally in downtown DC on C-SPAN. And I noticed something that struck me wrong: the rally seems to paint the illegal/undocumented problem as an exclusively Latino issue.
Funny thing: I’ve known (or have known of) undocumented workers from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia. Yet nobody seems to be speaking for or to them at today’s rally events.
Until the entire scope of the issue is portrayed, it’s impossible to fully understand.
dcfullest
10 April 2006 — 19:52
CNN did a good job mid-day interviewing and talking about how many people who are not Latino were at the rally. One of the women organizing the New York rally is Asian and she was interviewed– she was really well-spoken and did a great job painting the whole immigration issue.
Tom Bridge
11 April 2006 — 08:24
There was an African Immigrants Union that marched yesterday, and representatives from the Asian Workers Alliance (affiliated with AFL-CIO, judging by their signage), but the march was nearly 90% Latino yesterday
Abby
20 April 2006 — 20:40
Don’t forget about the Caribbean, although some of that is Latino too, e.g., the Dominican Republic. Boston is teeming with Haitians. And the rally up here seemed to be mostly about Latinos (and Spanish speaking ones at that–there are a lot of Berasilians here too.)
Oh, and the people in Chinatown who work for way below minimum wage, because they have no papers.