American Immigration Thoughts

Yes it's about the American soul, this work that Americans won't do, and us black folks ought to be weeping tears of repentence, on our knees reclaiming our father's work-ethic. Fifty-years after moving to the front of the bus, it seems we've left our lunch-pails, our tools for self-reliance at the back of the bus. With the culture of civil rights displacing traditional moral grounding, our expectations over the last 40 years have been formed around the notion of legal rights, what the government owes us.

Leaving aside the merits and demerits involved with America's immigration crisis, if it's true that demography determines destiny, then the political vulnerability of black America, having been dominated for 40 years by a one-sided philosophy of citizenship which has stressed civil rights as entitlement- rights, could not be more apparent.

There's a moral wake-up call that we can heed individually, and which is long overdue regardless of the outcome for illegal immigrants. This notion that there is work Americans won't do should perish from the landscape of serious social discourse. And the beauty of this approach is that the only revolution it requires is on the inside, an exercise in self-governance.
vashti