I know this guy. He worked with me five years ago. He and his wife baked bread on the side and I purchased some. He produced documentation that said he was legal at the time (like most immigrant workers do). Taxes were deducted from his paycheck and went to pay for the social programs that many Americans appreciate.
Unlike him, I was born in Alabama. I grew up on a farm and I learned the value of work. I would come home from school, change clothes and work until the sun went down. I was up early and working every hot, Alabama day during the summer just like my father, grandfather, and my other ancestors back to JH who died fighting for Alabama’s rights and BH who moved to our state after his service in the War of Independence.
To hear this man’s child say that racism led to this law causes my heart to hurt for my home. We are in a period of the highest unemployment in my lifetime. We are staging demonstrations to complain about this unemployment. But when lawmakers open jobs up for my fellow, legal Alabamians, they ignore the jobs and hurt their neighbors.
This isn’t about racism. This is about lawmakers giving people what they demand and being ignored or condemned for doing what they are asked to do. You demand jobs that pay well? You can make $10/hour picking vegetables in Alabama. We work from 6am to 6pm and the legislature has provided you with numerous openings.
I know many men that will gladly earn the right to live in this land by the sweat of their brow if given the opportunity. And I’ve seen way too many people that I’d be more than happy to send to Mexico in exchange for being able to call these men fellow citizens.
The man in this video and his family said what they were told to say because they thought these people were looking out for their best interest. But they told you a lie. The reason this law was put in place is because we demanded more jobs. The problem is the people that have demanded the jobs won’t fill them. They’d rather complain about how they were treated unfairly by Wall Street.
As for the family in the video, they make good pan and I fuly support them if they’d like to stay in Alabama. I will be taking steps to make sure the immigrants I know understand the real racists are the ones that spreading propaganda and are supporting the social programs that have removed the work ethic of my fellow Alabamians.
I have a feeling that if our federal government would stop enabling the complainers and make them get to work, we’d all be better off.
As an aside, the man in the video speaks english fairly well. But doesn’t it add more dramatic effect that he’s speaking Spanish? Of course everyone in Alabama is racist toward people that don’t speak proper English.
