There's a new show on TV called "Blackish". Recently an episode dealt with the father wanting to be the office Santa and the boss giving the honor to a Hispanic female. What astounded me was the rant that the black Grandmother gave on hearing the news. She spouted off about how the Hispanics get to jump ahead of blacks, "taking everything, even our jobs".
The thing is that I've heard this for years from family members who lived in Miami in the '50s and '60s. Day labor was filled by blacks until Castro came into power and South Florida was flooded with Cubans who were willing to work for less. And, as they say, the rest is history.
There are plenty of contributing factors to the racial divide and distrust. But the government's repeated promotion of illegal immigrants over legal citizens is pouring salt on old wounds.
Shirley Reynolds
