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There is NO SUCH THING as curses.

Why are nigerian students so sheepishly silent with the abominations going on the country?Why can't they roar up and bring about the much needed change in that country and let the world watch and see how many the government will kill.

The youths are said be the future of tomorrow but nigerian youths are as disillusion and placid as broken creatures.

Oh,what a hopeless situation.

BECAUSE

Unlike African American students during the 1950's, Nigerian Students REVEL in their differences with the rest of Nigerians. They get off feeling they are better than poorer, unschooled africans rather than uplifting their country.

This is why Nigeria will not move forward. They are silenced by their parents and are more concerned with their own inflated status.

Many of which enter into the workforce jobless and are ready to leave for greener pastures abroad.

This is America!

There is ALWAYS food, clothes and shelter for the needy.

not much coin for the unfairly disenfranchized and marginalized.

[size=14pt]How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America
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http://www.theroot.com/views/how-illegal-immigration-hurts-black-america

With national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it's just not true that undocumented workers are doing the jobs that we won't do.

In October 2008, amidst claims that one of its subsidiaries was knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, North Carolina poultry producer House of Raeford Farms initiated a systematic conversion of its workforce.

Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid that nabbed 300 undocumented workers at a Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, S.C., a spooked House of Raeford quietly began replacing immigrants with native-born labor at all of its plants. Less than a year later, House of Raeford’s flagship production line in Raeford, N.C., had been transformed, going from more than 80 percent Latino to 70 percent African-American, according to a report by the Charlotte Observer.


Under President George W. Bush, showy workplace raids like the one that befell Raeford were standard—if widely despised—fare. And though the Obama administration has committed itself to dialing down the practice, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has occasionally found herself the bearer of bad news to immigration activists who expected the raids to end entirely under her watch.

For the most part, the workplace crackdowns themselves are unremarkable—gaudy, ad hoc things that mitigate America’s immigration problem the way a water balloon might a forest fire. Increasingly however, their immediate aftermaths—in which dozens of eager African-American job applicants line up to fill vacancies—call into question a familiar refrain from the nation’s more vocal immigration proponents: Illegal immigrants do work American citizens won’t. Even former Mexican President Vicente Fox fell victim to the hype, infamously declaring in 2006 that Mexican immigrants perform the jobs that “not even blacks want to do.”

Four years later, with national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it seems even less likely that immigrants are filling only those jobs that Americans won’t deign to do. Just ask Delonta Spriggs, a 24-year-old black man profiled in a November Washington Post piece on joblessness, who pleaded, “Give me a chance to show that I can work. Just give me a chance.”

Spriggs has a difficult road ahead. In this recessed United States, competition for all work is dog-eat-dog. But that holds especially true for low-skilled jobs, jobs for which high school dropouts (like Spriggs) and reformed criminals (also like Spriggs) must now vie against nearly 12 million illegal immigrants, 80 percent of whom are from Latin America. What's more, it seems that, in many cases, the immigrants are winning. From 2007 to 2008, though Latino immigrants reported significant job losses, black unemployment, the worst in the nation, remained 3.5 points higher.

“I don't believe there are any jobs that Americans won't take, and that includes agricultural jobs,” says Carol Swain, professor of law at Vanderbilt University and author of Debating Immigration. “[Illegal immigration] hurts low-skilled, low-wage workers of all races, but blacks are harmed the most because they're disproportionately low-skilled.”

Despite President Fox’s assertion, of the Pew Hispanic Center’s top six occupational sectors for undocumented immigrants (farming, maintenance, construction, food service, production and material moving), all six employed hundreds of thousands of blacks in 2008. That year, almost 15 percent of meat-processing workers were black, as were more than 18 percent of janitors. And although blacks on the whole aren’t involved in agriculture at anywhere near the rates of illegal immigrants—a quarter of whom work in farming—about 14 percent of fruit and vegetable sorters are African-American.

For their efforts, African Americans were paid a median household income of $32,000 in 2007. In the same year, the median household income for illegal immigrants was $37,000.

Audrey Singer is a senior fellow specializing in race and immigration at the Brookings Institution. She agrees that blacks are disproportionately hindered by illegal immigration, but says that pay is a necessary variable to note when talking about work Americans will and won’t do. “There is evidence that shows people at the lower end of the skill spectrum are most affected by immigrant labor, particularly illegal immigrant labor,” she says. “But would Americans do the jobs illegal workers do at the wages that they’re paid? I don’t think so.”

Besides competing for work while simultaneously attempting to avoid drastically deflated paychecks and benefits, unemployed African- American job seekers must also frequently combat racial discrimination. In a 2006 research paper called “Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets,” a team of Princeton sociologists discovered that, all else being equal, black applicants to low-wage jobs were 10 percent less likely than Latinos to receive positive responses from potential employers. Furthermore, employers were twice as likely to prefer white applicants to equally qualified blacks.

[size=14pt]"To be blunt, a lot of employers would rather not deal with black American workers if they have the option of hiring a docile Hispanic immigrant instead,” says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. Krikorian’s organization advocates a large-scale contraction of immigration to America, one of the main reasons being that low-skilled immigrants aren’t contributing to the U.S. labor force in a way that American citizens can’t. Nevertheless, Krikorian says that easily exploitable immigrants remain attractive to businesses looking to eliminate hassles. “[Illegal immigrants] are not going to demand better wages, and they're not going to ask for time off,” he adds. “And frankly, a lot of bosses are thinking, 'I don't want to deal with a young black male.'"
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Most political analysts expect the debate over immigration reform to find new life in 2010, under a president who thoughtfully supports both increased border enforcement and the “recognition of immigrants’ humanity.” Wherever the discussion meanders, however—from amnesty on the left to expulsion on the right—from here on, it seems that anyone interested in speaking thoroughly on the matter can no longer do so without discussing its impact on black America.

This type of discussion has proved difficult in the past, however. “Many of the black scholars dance around this hard issue,” says Swain. “They do their research in such a way that it doesn’t address how immigration affects blacks. There’s a lot of pressure to say the politically correct thing—that immigrants aren’t hurting African Americans. Well, that’s not true.”

Cord Jefferson is a regular contributor to The Root.

Zimbabwe is getting a bad rap, globally by the White media for taking back THEIR LAND and having the audacity for "self determination"

The Western media and its allies sponsor strife in Zimbabwe to show a political unrest.

When in reality - it just a few sellouts willing to do anything for MONEY.

I agree with Mugabe.

The west cannot tolerate a country trying to GOVERN BY ITS OWN MEANS AND PRACTICES.

They want all countries tied into its greedy power thirsty channel.

They do not teach this to the American public.


Yet the Europeans knows it very well.

It is interesting to hear all the views and invectives as well, when all we needed to do was to EXPLAIN WHAT CURSE MEANS, and rub minds.

A leper was to be healed. The precondition was for him to throw himself into the River Jordan seven times. It is similarly interesting that know that what prolonged this man's cleansing was the decision between plunging himself into the waters and ego-flexing; when, of course, he had no choice.

Until we wake up, God knows when,

Bullsh.t Religion

Here's a question.

When was Nigeria introduced to Jesus Christ?

Who brought christianity to Nigeria?

HOW LONG HAS Nigerians practiced Christianity?


If anything the people that brought you that FRAUDULENT religion, brought you the curse.

The curse of shackled thinking.

Israel is a terrorist state.


I do not understand how oppressed people can support Israel who are KILLING the palestanians.

This is only one of the blessing of Allah given to whomever he so wish, but you cannot attain it unless with practical struggle and commitment.

Damn!

People are easily "ideologically captured"

all religions think they are special.

All religions are full of sh.t

No religion is better than the other.

they all believe in supernatural beings that have never been seen ONLY talked about.

Hence,i am requesting that Seun put a thread related to fashola's corruption saga on the front page or i shall begin a national campaign calling for the boycott of nairaland on this grounds.

Thank you.

Get your punk Azz outta here.