Terry Anderson: The Prisoner of South Central

August 20th, 2007 at 06:31pm Mike McGarry 214

Terry Anderson: The Prisoner of South Central
A Black American on the Front Lines of Illegal Immigration
By Mike McGarry

"This issue is not new; this preference for immigrant workers over native African-American workers is historical”' —Dr. Frank Morris, former associate dean, University of Maryland

"The hiring of low-skilled immigrants is responsible for 40% of the decline in employment among Black American men. — National Bureau of Economic Research

"If You Ain't Mad, You Ain't Payin' Attention!" —Terry Anderson, Los Angeles radio talk show host.

Depending on which source you use, illegal aliens made up 30-45 percent of all those arrested during the April, 1992, Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.

In 1994 Malibu resident Jack Miles wrote an insightful, reveling article, for the Atlantic magazine: “Blacks vs. Browns: A struggle for the Bottom Rung.” In that piece Miles analyzed the 1992 riot which spread to much of the greater Los Angeles area. While Miles agreed with the conventional interpretation of the causes of the riot—Black unemployment, police brutality, and erosion of public assistance—he wrote convincingly that “the riot was also... about illegal immigration. Latinos are dislodging poor blacks from every kind of workplace,” wrote Miles, “and the conflict between the two groups is becoming more widespread and more intense.” The riot, in which 53 people died, was, in a very real sense, a race riot. And the concerns Miles wrote about 13 years ago have become correspondingly more widespread and intense.

I first met Terry Anderson at a conference in Washington DC in 1999, the same year I decided to become hands-on active in immigration reduction. In October of that year Terry came to Aspen at my invitation to speak at a conference of immigration activists I organize and held at the Aspen Institute: The Myth of Sustainable Growth: Population, Immigration, Environmental Degradation

Terry Anderson, the self-described “prisoner of South Central,” has a Los Angeles radio talk show on Sunday nights that deals exclusively and aggressively with “the illegal alien invasion.” Terry knows intimately the devistating influence illegal immigration is having on Black Americans. He has twice testified on the impact of illegal immigration before U.S. congressional committees, prompting the chairman of one committee to comment that he believed Terry was the only witness ever to testify wearing coveralls, Terry’s signature, radial-chic leisurewear.

Terry Anderson will be joining Michael Conniff and me on Con Games (KNFO), on Wednesday, August 22, during the 8AM-9AM time slot. Tune in only if you willing to hear from someone who minces no words and pulls no punches.

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6 Comments Add your own

1. Himtngal | August 21st, 2007 at 5:39 pm

I've heard Terry Anderson before, Aspen listeners will receive a 5 Star show from this guest. In fact, Terry Anderson should have his own syndicated radio talk show throughout America. He's mad as hell and he's paying attention!
2. Edward Troy | August 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 am

The paymasters of America, the wealthy power elite "free market" and supply siders that are usually Republican, have those, at the bottom, fighting each other, to get to the lowest rung of the economic ladder, in the USA. These paymasters are doing, what the wealthy plutocratic oligarchy of Mexico will not do; pay wages. To be responsible to your family, if you are a typical Mexican, poor and landless, requires you to make the effort, to break the laws of the United States, to get a job. The paymasters of America, like this situation, because they don't have to pay a regulated wage to an American citizen. Some of the wages paid go back to Mexico and other countries, in the form of remittances. These remittances represent the second largest source of income in Mexico, behind PEMEX. That currency then ends up in the plutocratic oligarchy, which also doesn't pay taxes worthy of mention --taxes that would cover; health care, environmental protection, worker safety, transportation issues or education -- all functions in an economy, that distributes wealth, while increasing demand, expanding the market demand for more workers.

Some jackass bigot in the Basalt 7-11, being targeted by the reactively criminally minded, willing to commit murder, is a symptom of this situation. Go to a big city, and you see the scrapping for an old nasty bone at the very bottom of the economic ladder -- illegal immigrants displacing black workers; yet another symptom. By focusing on the symptoms (effect) at the bottom, without looking at the cause (the top and wealthy of both countries wanting this situation) leading to the effects, guarantees no solution.

The arrangement we have today, is one where the wealthy of Mexico drive their poor, to the wealthy of the USA, who pay substandard wages to those poor, bypassing the superior distribution of currency through legitimate wages for Americans. This must be broken. Some of these people should be stripped of some of their illbegotten wealth.

Poor responsible Mexicans will obey NATURAL LAW, and continue coming, and the greedy evil of the wealthy power elites in both countries, will keep this convenient arrangement, until working class Republicans realize what suckers they are, for running around with flags supporting that President they worship, and the 12.5M illegals he wants, for his plantation owning, country club and slick oil supporters. Don't hold your breath.

Where sovereign laws violate NATURAL LAW and Adam Smiths market place, you have black markets, unless theere is a collective effort, within the idea of a commonwealth democratically run, that decides on regulated standards and a safety net. NAFTA undermines this desired outcome. Once again, don't hold your breath.
3. alpha6 | August 23rd, 2007 at 8:15 am

Of the top five richest members of Congress, FOUR of the five are Democrats. Your hatred of Republicans and your unreasonable and tiring class warfare arguments completely disregard our economic system. No socialistic system has been shown to be productive. Example, Europe, who are currently changing there systems as the burden of such systems are wiping out their economies. They are currently making radical changes to their systems, eliminating the social programs that have been shown, in just about every part of the word to be failures.

I don't see your rich Democrats doing anything different the the Republicans. Your failure to acknowledge that this fact demonstrates either a lack of knowledge on your part or an intentional omission just to vent your venom against the Republicans.
4. Edward Troy | August 24th, 2007 at 12:31 am

Of the top five richest members of Congress, FOUR of the five are Democrats. {how about the top hundred, I won't even bother to look, but I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts up to ten just for fun that the GOP takes the cake or the dough} Your hatred of Republicans and your unreasonable and tiring class warfare arguments completely disregard our economic system.{naturally the best defense for your beloved Republicans is that well those four wealthy Dems are doing it too, good thing we aren't talking murder -- at least directly. News flash for you those Dems that are a part of this f%^ them too. Would you say that about your party of patriotic purity. I can't think of a post where you said the GOP was morally or economically wrong. I wrote mostly Republicans, which means there are others. Yes I got it you support the egalitarian society that we have where some are more privileged as part of the leisure set} No socialistic system has been shown to be productive. {education attracts capital, universal health care allows people to live longer, at the mean and in average, contributing the investment in their education longer examples ; Ireland and Singapore.} Example, Europe, who are currently changing there systems as the burden of such systems are wiping out their economies. They are currently making radical changes to their systems, eliminating the social programs that have been shown, in just about every part of the word to be failures. {In educational testing, longevity, savings, obesity, carbon footprint per capita, currency strength, crime, teen age birthrates Europe is superior, I guess in Bushspeak that means failure, just as the failure in Iraq justifies declaring victory}

I don't see your rich Democrats doing anything different the the Republicans. Your failure to acknowledge that this fact demonstrates either a lack of knowledge on your part or an intentional omission just to vent your venom against the Republicans. {that you see my slamming the wealthy of both countries or any countries involved in this situation as an attack on your precious republicans more than illustrates your linear horizon, and not just for the record, but in the record when I ran for office, it was NOT as A Democrat. I have little but chilling contempt for the Democratic party, a party due to a vertebralectomy, better called Dummycrats, but they are not in the White House are they. Since you do claim your Republicans, and jump to their defense, whenever anyone questions what they have or have not done, I will offer what you call venom in huge doses; your president is a treasonous scoundrel, deserving of impeachment for economic, domestic, and the War on terror in the Iraqi theatre (the logic of why he picked Iraq instead of Uruguay, totally escapes me, but alas there must be some reason), finally he should be served up to the world court, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as soon as we can get that treaty signed. I think that multidisciplinarian genius, the magnificent, clean living halcyon of American culture, the one and only, heard over the fruited plains, Rush Limbaugh deserves to be paraphrased; Bush is greatness defined downward. Say is O'Brien over my shoulder, listening through the telescreen? I have no known association with Winston Smith.}
5. jackhammer | August 27th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Blacks are fighting browns for the bottom rung for four reasons
1. 60% of black males do not graduate from high school.
2. Blacks have voted for government relief for decades because
3. they live in a culture of victim-hood...someone (read government) is required to deliver them from sorrow, and
4. the left-wing scum they vote for thrives on their ignorance of capitalism, politcs, and world perspective.
6. Edward Troy | August 28th, 2007 at 10:19 am

Obviously you must have considerable experience growing up black, in the ghetto, attending substandard schools, the product of uneducated parents, having bigots; block, undermine, and play the race card through preemptive innuendo and rumour; to derail careers, opportunities to acquire wealth, and more important, education. How does it feel to have overcome it all? I would have fewer problems living under Natural Law than what we have, how about you?? I find it amusing how tough talkers hide behind their screen names. Come out. Come out, wherever you are!