Vicente Fox: Mexicans Do Works Blacks Won’t Do

“Mexican President Vincent Fox refused to apologize Monday for saying Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won’t — a comment widely viewed as acceptable in a country where blackface comedy is still considered funny and nicknames often reflect skin color.”

“The president was just telling the truth,” said Celedonio Gonzalez, a 35-year-old carpenter who worked illegally in Dallas for six months in 2001. “Mexicans go to the United States because they have to. Blacks want to earn better wages, and the Mexican — because he is illegal — takes what they pay him.”

“Lisa Catanzarite, a sociologist at Washington State University, disputed Fox’s assertion. She said there is intense competition for lucrative working class jobs like construction and that employers usually prefer to hire immigrants who don’t know their rights.”

TheStateOf…Illegal Immigration. Okay, Vincente, you wanna play like that? African Americans could make the illegal immigration fight really ugly if we side with Right Wing whites.