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January 26, 2007

Day Laborers Displace Black Workers in Washington, D.C. As Residents Complain

"Regina James says she drives past Rhode Island Plaza every weekday morning and has mixed feelings at the sight of more than 100 Latino men waiting for day-labor jobs in the Home Depot parking lot. The increasing number of laborers, some of whom residents say leave trash on the ground and urinate along a nearby barrier wall, has heightened tension and stirred mistrust between the Latinos and the mostly black residents of the working-class Brentwood neighborhood in Northeast," the Washington Post reports. "In the District, Latino advocates say the Home Depot is the largest day-labor site since one of two paint stores closed at 15th and P streets NW. During the summer, residents say they have seen as many as 200 day laborers at the Home Depot. Residents say police have not acted on their complaints about loitering because the parking lot is private property."

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I've said all along that blacks are really getting screwed in this whole mess. I think JFK and Bobby Kennedy are spinning in their graves watching Teddy Kennedy recruit Hispanic illegals while screwing over blacks that are American citizens. Of course Ted has never been on a par with his brothers. His accident with Mary Jo Kopechne was a gift from God to keep his Big Fatboy Butt out of office. Mary Jo unfortunately had to scafrifice for the country to benefit.

Posted by: Mary on January 26, 2007 10:55 AM

And still the black cacus does nothing. Crime has always been high in DC but it has gotten worst with all the illegals in DC. Gangs are part of the everyday life of DC. The DC and federal government do nothing about it.

Posted by: Beckyal on January 26, 2007 11:10 AM

If U.S. citizens loitered and trashed ANY property, they would be arrested, promptly. These people need to be picked up and deported, period! No meetings and councils on community relations. They aren't a part of the community. They aren't working, they need to go home.

Posted by: Ella on January 26, 2007 11:24 AM

Sounds like the citizens there need to band together and get petitions and pass a new city ordanace to stop home depot from allowing illegal aliens from loitering since the Federal Government won't do it's job and enforce Federal Laws.

Brian

Posted by: Brian on January 26, 2007 11:31 AM

The razist movement says that white Americans would be happier if they went back to Europe. I suppose black Americans can draw their own conclusions about where they would be happier.

Posted by: Gail Roma on January 26, 2007 11:31 AM

And if you still shop at Home Depot, you are supporting their decision to allow illegals to loiter in their parking lots.

It's ridiculous that the feds have effectively told law enforcement that they don't care if the law is followed or not.

If the black community doesn't rise up against those illegals trying to use the civil rights battle for their own purposes, they are foolish. It's this kind of apathy that allows America to continue its slide into third world status. It's time for all Americans to say enough is enough and get out there and fight for what is right.

Posted by: takn on January 26, 2007 11:36 AM

Maybe the black community should bring the President down to these lobor sites for the dayand let him observe for himself.
I doubt it will do much good, though. He'd brush it off as an exception.
As long as the idiots in Washington refuse to see the problems connected with illegal immigration and refuse to listen to us, little will change for citizens, and it will only get worse. In years to come Blacks and Whites will be the new, oppressed minorities. We will be dominated by the Mexicans, Asians and Middle Easteners. They won't be looking out for our best interests.

Posted by: Born American on January 26, 2007 11:47 AM

THE HOME DEPOT SLAVE MARKET

The next thing Home Depot will be doing is auctioning slaves for Ameicans to buy, like before the American Civil War I.

Pathetic. Do we now need an American Civil War II?

Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 26, 2007 12:01 PM

It's about time the black community started taking notice.

Posted by: cher on January 26, 2007 12:22 PM

One thing that occurred to me while reading this: what if a group of black men loitered and urinated every day in the nation's capital?

We all know the answer to that. They'd be rounded up and told to move it along or face arrest.

Posted by: Ralph on January 26, 2007 01:02 PM

MEXICO HAS A SOUTHERN TROPICAL REGION WERE
THE SPANISH CONQUERORS BROUGHT MILLIONS
OF SLAVES FROM AFRICA YEARS AGO. MUCH
LIKE THE SITUATION IN BRAZIL.

Today Brazil is fully a third black and mixed.

Mexico had a different fate for the millions of black slaves, The ruling whites and the meso-american original population both felt threated by these bigger, stronger, men in their midsts, and willfully choose to work them to death on the plantations.
The legacy of that old anti-afro sentiment was never mitigated by a change in attitude. Mexicans as a blended people choose to eliminate the once
sizable Afro component from their mix. That cultural antagonism still persists. They have made
the Mexican black population almost EXTINCT with 300 years of collective supression of all
things "BLACK". It will be a sad similar fate
over time for America's blacks if they allow the
this country to be controlled by the legacy of the
old AFRO-MEXICAN GENOCIDE. More 14 year old American black kids will die from straying onto MEXICAN IMMIGRANT TURF! They are racist to the core, and are hardly touched by the influence of
Martin Luther King and his message. La RAZA (the race)as a name for their unity movement,
expresses their deep contemp for all other groups on their TURF! America, the cities, and even the old SOUTH are becoming Mexican turf right before
our eyes!

Posted by: Allan S. on January 26, 2007 01:47 PM

Hmm, Black citizens not being given a chance for work, before people here illegally. Calling Sheila Jackson Lee, calling Miss Lee, calling Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Mayor Nagin, the black Caucus, hello, hello. No answer. Must be like the rest of the polticians.

Posted by: Bobby on January 26, 2007 02:07 PM

MY QUESTION IS , IF THERE`S 100 TO 200 ILLEGAL ALIENS HANGING OUT IN THE PARKING LOT EVERYDAY, WHERE THE HELL IS ICE?... IT`S A NO BRAINER, AND IF HOME DEPOT ALLOWS THIS, BOYCOTT THEM!

Posted by: American Me on January 26, 2007 02:10 PM

I find the silence of the so-called Black leaders of this nation to be a sign of how morally bankrupt they are. They do not represent the welfare of Blacks at all. Shame on their silence.

Posted by: jaded on January 26, 2007 03:18 PM

Whatever happened to Jesse Lackson's "coalition of color"? Whites aren't going back to Europe and blacks aren't going back to Africa. Unfortunately, the illegals (in large part) aren't going back to Mexico either. Have you ever heard of the Cyprus solution? There was a contentious relationship between the mixed groups of Greeks and Turks on that small island. Turkey went in and forcibly removed people so the island was divided in half, to one side Turkish and the other half Greek. It is known as a population transfer.

We're much larger than Cyprus so here ethnic cleansing will take its course. This has happened to many countries and the UN is unable and largely unwilling to stop the practice of genocide. Nature takes its course and when defacto borders are created after the killings, the UN will recognize the "new" countries.

By the way, I responded to your question Bobby about what we do when we see Bush on TV (the article was taken off by then). I assumed that we all make ugly gestures when we see Arbusto. Answer honestly! What do you do?

Posted by: Terri on January 26, 2007 04:22 PM

Well, ole Bennie doesn't accept mail except from constituants. So here's Nancy's speaker of the house e-mail -- you'll just have to ask Nancy if she'll pass it on to Bennie. He was so concerned about discrimination a while back that he sent that warning letter to Cintas --- he should be real concerned about this.

http://speaker.house.gov/contact/

Posted by: Faye on January 26, 2007 04:25 PM

Softwarengineer,

Why would anyone auction off slaves when you can rent them with no obligation, and force society to pay their maintenace costs, as well as the costs to breed new slaves?

Try Home Depots "Rent-A-Slave center"... No obligation, no maintenance fees...

Posted by: Sparkplug on January 26, 2007 04:39 PM

My prediction race wars, gang warfare, and ethnic cleansing will soon be raging in Washington DC and New Orleans and anywhere else the blacks are in power and Mexicans are moving in en mass, it'll be about 15 years before those cities reach the violence level of South Central LA or Compton or Long Beach but eventually mass violence will break out.

First the "hard working immigrants" move in then they each have 5 or 6 kids and the legal generation feels empowered & their vice conflicts with the local established vice & power structure then competition gets eliminated.

Disasters are a great tool for ethnic population repleacement, NOLA could be majority Latino in less than 10 years, should DC ever get nuked or a bad hurricane the same will occur there too.

On the bright side the Commie-Congressional Black Caucus will be history along with all minority set asides, you can't have set asides unless you're a minority and Mexicans aren't a minority in CA anymore, they're a majority and they feel no obligation to throw anything to the blacks either.

Posted by: Smitty on January 26, 2007 05:19 PM

I find it impossible to believe we have illegal aliens standing around without jobs! After all, our fearless leader says we need more, more, and MORE illegals, so every corner in the country can have them hanging out. I can't believe the man. I would love to know why. It's something more than just pandering to big business. Maybe somebody knows something about somebody else. You reckon?

Posted by: June on January 26, 2007 07:49 PM

Home Depot has illegals in the parking lot!!!???
No, they are IN the stores up here in MA. I call on these stores and some of them when I go in I am surrounded by non english speaking people . I am told in one that ALL their contractors are Brazilian. They are taking over the construction industry.
" We don't need no stinkin visas!!"

Posted by: mary on January 26, 2007 09:05 PM

Ralph?
This can't be the Ralph of old? The one who was always defending illegals?

Nah, can't be...

But I agree wholeheartedly with you. We all know what would happen and to allow the illegals, oops, day laborers to do it is more proof that the government has lost its will to govern the people and enforce the law.

Posted by: takn on January 27, 2007 01:28 AM

I agree, Jaded. The so-called "Black Leaders" still want the world to believe blacks are nothing but victims. They have the absolute gall to support the illegals, because they were once oppressed minorities, even though there' s no comparison between the brown illegals and the slavery and pre-civil rights situations of Blacks. Laws and society have changed. There are many successful Afro-Americans in all walks of life, but their "leaders" will always have us believe they are nothing more than the descendents of former slaves. Victims, every one. If I was Afro-American, I'd be plenty mad for overlooking my brains, talent, personality, values, skills and everything else that makes for a worthwhile individual and contributing member of society in favor of blaming all black "problems" on oppression and continuing to keep me a victim.

Posted by: Born American on January 27, 2007 02:23 PM

I know you responded Terry, and I was being facetious. I have been practicing giving Bush the bird in front of the TV for a long time. In fact I have a friend who was gung ho in 2000 and even gave me trinket, I think it was a Bush2000 bubble gum shaped like a cigar. I told him and I swear to who this is true, that having watched Bush's fathers politics and attitude for quite awhile, don't get too excited. This guy is going to be worse or equal to Clinton. I am being honest. I saw phony written all over him during his campaign. I was so disgusted that year I did'nt vote at all.

Posted by: Bobby on January 27, 2007 05:12 PM

Do us all a favor and stop shopping at HomeDepot which has sheltered the day workers because it provides their contractors (customers) with slave labor.

Write to their websites and telephone thier local area offices and tell them that you feel uncomfortable shopping there because of the unwanted presence.

Profits are more important to HomeDepot than our societal woes. Make them know that they have lost your business and watch them turn tail.

Posted by: Rey on January 28, 2007 04:58 PM

Have you heard the news, everyone? Home Depot announced today that they are doing well, and plan to hire something like 1,000 new full, part-time and seasonal workers. I bet most of them will be illegal aliens!

Posted by: Born American on January 29, 2007 07:17 PM

To Mary in Massachusetts-
I agree. I have; however, written to both, Home Depot and Lowes complaining of the English/Spanish signage hanging in their stores. It disgusts me.

Now, on to the story. Americans, stand up for what is right and shoot down what is wrong. Obviously, what HD is allowing is wrong. What the law enforcement in DC is allowing is wrong. The fact that ICE is not "raiding" this shopping center is wrong...

Posted by: Chris on January 31, 2007 10:16 PM