Mexico's Fox Defends Comment on Blacks - Yahoo! News
yikes. hm. did fox mean to imply that blacks are the natural workers for menial jobs? did he mean to refer to an american working class that has seen a shift in labor from black to brown? (for instance, the fact my father used to be a bus boy in ihop back in the 60s and now most of those we see in those types of jobs are latino)? did he mean to racialize the hiring practices of most of the american service industry when the reality is a confluence of economics and exploitation?
who knows? all we heard him say was something bad about black people.
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Señor Fox needs to be circumspect about his remarks, if in fact the comment was an innocent gaffe...I'm on the fence on that one.
What's damning to me is his use of the word "even," in the sentance (paraphrasing) "..mexicans do jobs even blacks won't do.
What this implies, or even explicitly states is that blacks can usually be counted on to do the sh*t jobs, but that they have limits as to how low they go.
Come to think of it, it's hardly a complement to mexicans, either.
But the whole thing is an obfuscatory dung ball meant to glorify an influx of cheap, exploitable labor into one country, and the failure of another to take care of its own.
Mr. Fox: kindly shut it.
A-non
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In fairness, I need to say that I inserted the word "even" into the paraphrased Fox quote... I am not sure if he used the word "even," but to me, it felt as though that word was implied, putting a heavy racial spin on the thought.
A-non
i think that's what the article said, too: 'even.' which totally spun the sentence a little differently.
i'd love to see someone, anyone, say the truth about this little 'controversy.' it's not about what work a mexican or african american will/won't do.
it's about the conditions in which both these groups find themselves working, or not working as is usually the case.
ok..today I read a reprinting of the fox quote..he did in fact use the words "not even."
OK..IMO, he's damned for saying it. Why?
1. It establishes him as a racist. What doorknob thinks that only people of color go for low-paying jobs. $5 sez you can find plenty of whites and asians working those jobs, too. Try for example single under-educated mothers. True, impoverished persons tend to be non-whites, but Fox grabbed onto a stereotype..MOST unbefitting a statesman, especially one representing non-whites. Sheesh!
2. Fox doesn't think too much about his own people. He implies that in some way they are lower than another group (which he has no right to tag thereas). Further, he's operating on the assumption that, but of COURSE Mexican nationals have to go to to the US to find decent work.
Hey, vicente: how about cleaning up your own back yard? You say the US wields manipulative influence making that difficult? I suggest you lunch with Chavez and other spineful SA leaders and compare notes!
3. Darkest of all, I feel that fox is partnering with bunnypants in a subtle but active method of breaking the back of the american worker. How many times have we heard that American workers are "spoiled..too expensive?" What better way to eliminate those tantrum-throwing, high-maintenence americans than by replacing them with those who'll work for 1/nth of their wages?
It's a win-win-win: bush's base scores on higher profits thru lower overhead, Mexicans get exploitative jobs, and spoiled american workers get a time out to think about what they've done to those poor-defenseless rich people.
A-non
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