Colin Powell brags: I can see illegal aliens inside my house
From the Department of Justice website (pdf), this is the federal statute regarding unlawful employment of illegal aliens:
Sec. 274A. [8 U.S.C. 1324a]
(a) Making Employment of Unauthorized Aliens Unlawful.-
(1) In general.-It is unlawful for a person or other entity-
(A) to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment, or
(B) (i) to hire for employment in the United States an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b) or (ii) if the person or entity is an agricultural association,
agricultural employer, or farm labor contractor (as defined in section 3 of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act), to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for
employment in the United States an individual without complying with the requirements of subsection (b).
(2) Continuing employment.-It is unlawful for a person or other entity, after hiring an alien for employment in accordance with paragraph (1), to continue to employ the alien in the United States knowing the alien is (or has become) an unauthorized alien with respect to such employment.
Not that this pro-illegal alien Department of Social Justice would ever do anything to prosecute anyone who broke the laws on its website. But I digress.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who served in the open-borders Bush administration, boasts brazenly about breaking the law while lobbying for the illegal alien student DREAM bailout:
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and that he has firsthand knowledge of that – because they fix his house.
A moderate Republican, Powell urged his party on Sunday to support immigration generally because those who come from abroad are, in his words, “what’s keeping this country’s lifeblood moving forward.”
Powell said a path to legal status should be offered to illegal immigrants because they do work that needs to get done.
At his own house, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” illegal immigrants are always around when he needs work done.
Does he honestly believe there are no legal Americans to do this work? The unemployment rate among construction workers is hovering around 25 percent.
Black unemployment is 16.3 percent.
In Washington, D.C., not far from Powell’s Mclean, Va., mansion:
* About half of DC’s unemployed workers had worked in a low-wage job. About one-fifth of unemployed DC residents previously worked in sales or food preparation and service occupations, compared to 12 percent of DC’s workforce as a whole. Another one quarter of unemployed residents formerly worked as janitors and maintenance workers, movers, security guards, or construction workers, while only 13 percent of the total workforce was employed in these positions in 2009.
* DC residents with less formal education are more likely to be unemployed than those with college degrees. Only 27 percent of the District’s workforce in 2009 had a high school diploma or less; however, half of all unemployed DC residents had not attended college.
* About two-thirds of unemployed residents in 2009 had been looking for work for six months or less, while one-third had been looking for work for more than six months.
* More than one-third of unemployed residents were in households with incomes of less than $25,000 in 2009, and more than two-thirds of unemployed residents had household incomes of less than $50,000. The low-incomes of many unemployed households is likely due to a combination of the effects of unemployment and the fact that low-wage workers, who have low incomes to begin with, are more likely to become unemployed. In the DC workforce as a whole, 14 percent of workers earned incomes less than $25,000 in 2009 and 36 percent earned less than $50,000.The increase in unemployment affected certain groups of workers more than others, including those who were aged 18-24, were black, and had never been married.
* A disproportionate share of black workers was unemployed in 2009. While black workers make up 44 percent of the labor force, 71 percent of unemployed residents in 2009 were black.
What does Colin Powell have against law-abiding unemployed Americans, anyway?
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So good to seen Colin Powell on the national stage again.
I suppose this will go down with his Americans want bigger government ideas.
So, he’s admityting to knowingly hiring illegal aliens? Seems to me that’s a crime….
Too bad no one will enforce those laws..
Except Sheriff Joe and they’re trying their best to get him to stop.
Black slaves were doing “work that Americans wouldn’t do” too. Now we are going to create a permanent underclass in America called Mexicans? I have friends whose children fight against have to do yard work by arguing that it is “Mexican work”. That is what we are creating.
How ironic that even a black president and highest ranking black ever in the military are advocating a return to an underclass social structure.
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I think General Powell senses a chance to get on the 2012 Presidential Primary election ballots.
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Warn him about the ‘Cuda attacks. Even 100 percent of the Black and Hispanic votes aren’t enough to get him across the finish line after 4 years of Comrade Obama (PBUH) economic “improvements”.
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John Bibb
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>>I think General Powell senses a chance to get on the 2012 Presidential Primary election ballots.
OMG! But luckily for the country, it has probably had its fling for a while with just wanting to vote for a person “of color.”
Have you read/heard something other than this? From the OSullivan Powell bio and other past info, I gathered Powell hates politics and is not interested in office. Is he changing his mind?
Powell’s a member of the ruling class. Laws don’t apply to him.
Powell loves politics. He just doesn’t like the messy part about getting people to vote for him.
I had a random but related thought reading this: Why are illegally invading construction workers so popular? Undercutting the cost of a contractor certainly helps but why don’t young American workers using this model- making money under the table, not reporting their earnings and therefor not taxed?
1st) perhaps they are and the left is just enabling it, whether they know it or not.
Or 2nd) perhaps it has something to do with liability. If you get an illegal to do the work and it collapses (or whatever) you really can’t sue them.
Just sayin’…
There was case recently in Miami where 2 people were arrested for forcing illegals to work for little or no money under the threat of turning them in for deportation. Slavery is happening now in these United States.
Too bad the illegals didn’t know that no one would deport them even if they were reported. The Justice Dept is probably helping them with a lawsuit right now.
Powell got fame because of the War and the “Black, clean and articulate” thing. He fully supports an admitted Marxist so I could never consider him Conservative. Sort of like Megan McCain, I tune them out as static.
I use to respect Powell. Over time he’s gotten loopy.
And Americans don’t do the work that needs to get done?? What an incredibly stupid thing to say. This man is a military leader? Frightening. He sounds like a real idiot. I am starting to believe the stories that there was a bunch of kool aide dumped into our water supply. How else to explain the mass lunacy that is manifesting lately?
I don’t know – he had to fall on his sword and eat the whole Iraq/UN intelligence fiasco for Cheney and Rumsfeld. Pretty ugly stuff.
Which party would he run in anyway? RINO party I guess.
REMF
That about covers it.
Thank you Colin Powell, Karl Rove, GOP leadership, et al, ad nauseam, for showing us all that the GOP is more interested in keeping the Status Quo than standing for the principles that would turn us back from the brink of Socialism, if only you had the balls to stand for them.
speakeasy #9 – Oh, yes, they will sue you.
It’s a faily well known secret illegals work very hard for a few months in the construction industry then mysteriously fall off roofs, off the sides of houses from ladders, step in holes and break or twist various body parts (including the neck & lower back) and show up at local ER’s. After a couple dozen scans/MRI’s etc..they are placed on some kind of disability. If they were working outside of the law, they’ll sometimes sue the homeowner. Employ them, or the unscrupulous contractor at your own peril.
As far as Powell, he is a political animal that has had to appease and say whatever is necessary his entire life to make it to where he did in life. This is nothing new for him. At one time, and admittedly I must have been delusional, I thought he was presidential material. Then I started really listening to what he was saying. Ditto, Michael Steele – he claims to be a Republican too.
Murder, rape, kidnapping, drug running, gang banging, oh yes, more please!
But watch him change his tune during election time. He likes his so-called power, too. I also thought at one time that I would support him but apparently the press kept his lunacy under wraps. I never heard him say anything that made me believe he was anything but a republican, and maybe a conservative. Egads was I wrong.
Heh, I had to look that up, thank G*d (and G*re) for the interwebs!
DITTO.
What happened to the man who used to say inspirational things, like telling black kids “Don’t make being black your problem, make it someone elses problem.”
As Dick Cheney once asked, “Is Colin Powell still in the Republican party?”
Like green on the outside and red on the inside? Obama not Powell
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It is racist for Michelle Malkin to show a picture of Colin Powell dancing like a black person to show that he’s not serious.
Wasn’t Powelle celebrated as a military hero in the Gulf War or was that honor go to Shwartskoff, a real fighting general.
You have no right to judge. I believe Colin Powell, as a military person, takes everything serious, including dancing like a black person! (whatever the hell that is, you racist!)
Dancing??? I thought he was ranting!!.
Colin Powell di two tours in ‘Nam, wounded during first tour, stepped on punji stick.
Second Lieutenant: June 9, 1958
First Lieutenant: December 30, 1959
Captain: June 2, 1962
Major: May 24, 1966
Lieutenant Colonel: July 9, 1970
Colonel: February 1, 1976
Brigadier General: June 1, 1979
Major General: August 1, 1983
Lieutenant General: March 26, 1986
General: April 4, 1989
Like McCain, I applaud his distinguished military service, his politics, not so much.
Powell was Chairman of the JCS during the Gulf War. Shartzkoff was the CENTCOM Commander tasked with the liberation of Kuwait.
Very admirable military career, I wonder what is it that these people with such distinguished military service records, then seem to go sideways. Surely they study and know more about the constitution than the average citizen on the street.
Powell is the guy who was really responsible for stopping our troops after only 100 hours of Desert Storm in 1991, thereby letting Saddam off the hook.
I’ve loathed Powell ever since.
That was an incredibly stupid mistake, and it showed a twisted value system.
When you are finally forced by the likes of Saddam to spill American blood, you finish the rabid dog.
Failure of will and common sense then has cost us terribly.
There’s only one thing that Gen. Powell has in common with the Republican Party, a strong national defense. Otherwise he’s just another RINO.
One has to wonder if Powell ever visited Kenya ? I’m told Kenya has a mysterious affect on American minds. An American conservative can be turned into a Marxist during just one visit to Kenya.
There are many heroes. The ones who thereafter climb the ranks are the worst of them, not the best.
Who ever came up with the idea that Powell is a moderate Republican? This guy is a left wing progressive that brags of voting for Obama. Sounds to me, that he is another one of those that have forgotten the oath they took when joining the military.
Red State Skeptic:
Yeah, so it’s “RAAAAACIST” to show Colin Powell clowning around. What do you call it when I showed MC Karl Rove similarly making a fool of himself dancing?
Get another race card. Yours is so overdrawn. Yawn.
I wouldn’t disagree with that…must be that politics is next great battle.
I have no more respect for anyone than a military individual…god bless everyone of them…to me they are all heroes, until shown otherwise.
He’d have to pay them more. Maybe he would be more willing to pay union wages if he knew that a portion of his money would be given to his favorite politician, Barack Obama. I really think the local union should surround his house and explain that to him.
RSS, take it easy on Michelle. She’s just worried about having to leave the country if the 14th amendment is abolished and applied retroactively.
Only if Philadelphia, PA isn’t actually part of the US, smookie.
If it’s ok for Colin Powell to pick and choose which laws to obey, why can’t the rest of us do the same? What if people decided to run red lights because they wanted to keep the country “moving forward”. Is that a good enough reason to break the law?
To smookie, I just realized my error. So I take back the previous comment.
Which leads me to ask what’s your point?
Many mega dittos on that one Michelle.
Mook-meister has no point. Just stirring the pot along with RSS.
In the military we were taught as leaders that only two things mattered; our mission and our people.
In this instance his “people” are the law abiding, unemployed citizens and legal immigrants in this country.
As a fellow officer, I believe I have the right to say in terms of taking care of “his people” he isn’t cutting it. He still is a leader on a national scale and a role model. He does not merit a pass on this one.
Moderations bites the Dust,,, Bump,
A Rino bites the Dust,,, Bump,
And Moderate’s gone, and a Rino is gone,
Moderation bites the dust,
Hey, we’re gonna get you too
Moderation bites the dust …
There is no valid justification for breaking this particular law, however, connecting this info to unemployment rates is a bit specious, Michelle.
Is there some evidence that this unemployment has been brought about by illegal aliens displacing native workers? Could unemployment be caused by something else, such as, oh, continued extensions of unemployment benefits? Fear of continued unfettered spending and the spectre of additional taxes preventing economic growth? And on and on…
You think Powell knows the workers at his house were illegal? Or do you think because they look Latino and speak Spanish, he just assumes they are? I’m not justifying his violation of the law, but I bet he has no idea.
As far as all those unemployed construction workers out there, do you think they’ve all opened residential repair businesses? You can probably guess the onerous hoops that must be jumped through to do that in most localities. Where would they get the money to switch from working for a company to being on their own? If the demand for work is out there, why aren’t they hiring on at local firms? Do their skills match those needed to do residential work? Are they willing to take a pay cut to do this work? Are they willing to drop their unemployment benefits? What does their union have to say about it?
The linking of these two pieces (Colin Powell’s admission of guilt and the unemployed) is overly simplistic and just plain wrong.
Yes there is. For example in the 1990′s in the LA area drywallers were primarily balck, union workers making $19.00-21.00 per hour. Today the drywallers are primarily illegals who are paid $7.00 per hour.
Any employer is legally obligated to verify the legal status of any worker they hire.
My point is that by repealing the 14th amendment, we could lose some potentially great Americans like Michelle. You don’t know who a child will turn out to be.
Mookie, no one wants to repeal the 14th Amendment. We would like to see it used for its original purpose, which had NADA to do with anchor babies. In fact the authors discussed that specifically.
Also, it is un-Constitutional to do anything retroactively.
I realize in Progrssive think any perversion of the law or Constituion is allowed for the greater good of The State, but not there yet dude.
What would it cost him? Another 10-15% cost in his total bill? Do you expect him(us) to pay this outrageous fee!?
Unfortunately, Flyoverman, I’m tired and headed to bed. Off to Minnesota tomorrow for work. I would’ve loved to continue a discussion on this topic.
Here’s my thoughts on what you said:
1) I would hope that the unionized drywallers from the 1990s have found other work by now.
2) Aside from the issue of being here illegally, it seems to be beneficial to have drywalling performed at one-third the price. Demand must have led it there, as well as satisfaction with the work.
3) Assuming this work is primarily done by illegals, it would seem that these gainfully employed people are not likely the criminals and societal burdens that are so often publicized in debates on immigration. Those are other illegals, one would guess.
4) It just doesn’t make economic sense to pay three times as much for the same work. That is the cost of not having a guest worker program, it would seem. And that is only in drywall work in the LA area a decade ago. Imagine what it is across various industries today.
Seems like the answer to unemployment for some of these jobs is for native workers to accept lower wages, or else the stream of resources will continue to flow, as a simple economic model would predict, to fill the need. Keeping wages artificially high just doesn’t make sense (to me, at least.)
That’s why it’s RAAAAACIST. There’s nothing clownish about black people dancing like black people. Karl Rove was cutting up to be funny (he’s a riot) while Colin Powell was just being black, which to you is apparently grounds for ridicule.
I don’t think you’re correct about Michelle’s pedigree, but I’ll leave that for her to explain.
Ann Coulter dealt with that specifically in a recent column. In fact, it was a footnote inserted into a Supreme Court decision by Justice Brennan that lead to anchor babies.
DougT:
Meet South Central Los Angeles.
See also here.
See also here.
All of the above and more. Doesn’t have to be either or.
Fairfax County Va. is an illegal alien sanctuary where several of its cities have attempted to use tax dollars or privately fund illegal alien day labor centers. The wink-and-nudge hiring/contractor tango with illegal alien day laborers is notorious. I bet Powell, like so many Beltway-area employers/homeowners, knew exactly what he was doing.
Yes, unemployed Americans are starting their own businesses despite all the bureaucratic/financial hurdles and yes, they accept pay cuts to do work that only illegal aliens supposedly do.
From labor economist Vernon Briggs’ testimony that I linked above:
hero?? please. Powell is a lefty bootliker for the Ruling Class and he and his cabal will get rolled this November.
this jerk ought to get a huge fine for this disgusting admission.
any so-called “american” who helps Invaders is themself an Invader.
It is hard to believe that Colin Powell would be so arrogant to demand AMNESTY for HIMSELF on national television.
This is what happens when the laws of the land are subjectively enforced. We have politicians, actors, and others that are so CHEAP they will NOT pay a FAIR wage for the services their lavish lifestyles require.
It is very hard to believe a man once held in such high respect by so many, could lower himself into the gutter of stealing from the very same American people that held that respect.
Economic mental midgets, like Colin Powell, do not understand how they have contributed to the gap between the rich and the poor, by importing CHEAP third world labor instead of paying an honest wage to an honest American.
Colin Powell deserves to be placed in jail for 20 years! Just like Al Capone, Colin Powell has DEFRAUDED the IRS!
I always suspected Colon Powell was nothing more than an affirmative action General. Now I know I was right.
On September 19th, 2010 at 7:53 pm, Flyoverman said:
Yep, and what is more, the longer he’s in 1st CivDiv, the more people get to know how he made his career. Some folks are “Stars” others, “slugs” and then there are the “horses”. Slugs, get by. Horses work. and Stars might be horses or slugs but are recognized as being brighter and better regardless of whether they are a horse or just credited for the work of one.
Gee. Doesn’t Colon see that for each illegal alien job here is another black American on the welfare rolls?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I thought I would check in and see if I received any responses. Whew, did I get one or what?
Thanks, Michelle, for the follow-up. I need to read and digest.
For now, I wanted to point out that I clearly realize that the causes of unemployment are many and varied. Your original post provided no recognition of any other causes. I know, I know, you can’t write disclaimers on everything, however, the lack of it, subtle as it is, has a tremendous effect on the message.
If illegal labor continues to displace low-skilled labor, then what is it about that illegal labor that people find more appealing than hiring from the native labor force? (If this is spelled out in links to your comments or in the long section, I’ll find it later.)
So now you’re the final arbiter of what constitutes proper dance moves for a black person? A black person cannot dance in a clownish manner according to you? Who do you think you are, Paula Abdul? Get over yourself.
“he’s just another RINO.”
RINO?
He’s a democrat.
So if your black and you want to dance your mind goes like this?
“Hey, I think I want to be all black like at this moment. So lets black dance…”
But if your white it goes like this?
“Hey, let’s try to dance.”
Um, it was Michelle Malkin who said it was clownish. Not to be a d*ck, but some reading comprehension would help before you post.
Powell is a democrat. He doesn’t even qualify as a RINO.
And I found this quote by Powell revealing. Could he be as much of an idiot as this statement might indicate???
Youthful. Last time I check Colin, we have plenty of young people, who are actually legal, living here in the US. We don’t need to import them from Mexico.
I surely hope there is some way to file some charges against him if he in fact directly hires illegals. At the very least, he is a tax cheat if he hired them directly.
The idea that it is immigration that makes our country great is HOGWASH! It is FREEDOM that makes people great in this country. To say a person is great just because they go to another country is absurd. When people have the opportunity to “do their thing” they make themselves and our country great. People love to come to the U.S. because they see freedom first and know they can achieve greatness. USA! USA!
Oh I understood perfectly. You insist that protraying a black person other than as a black person is racist. According to you, a black person must always be black, cannot act clownish or foolish, must toe the black line, whatever that is. Whereas everybody else can be whatever. Way to keep them down on the plantation there, Mr. Grand Dragon!
Roland: OT, there was more (MUCH more!) than 100 hours of war in Desert Storm. Read the history and you will see that the war began (along with coalition losses) on 16 January. Had the subsequent 38 days of night and day non-stop pounding of the Iraqi Army and its capability to fight provided by coalition air forces, then the ground campaign would have NOT been as successful.
NOTE: I didn’t say ‘easy’ — the whole operation was VERY difficult, but to quote an old friend, Dave Deptula, when asked about the on-going ‘shaping of the battlefield’ for the expected ground campaign he replied, “We are not shaping the battlefield, we are destroying the battlefield!”
I am NOT saying the air campaign WON the war, but it made the ground campaign less costly and enabled the coalition as a whole to WIN Desert Storm.
These observations were made from the basement of The Pentagon where I virtually lived (with a few nights spent in my own bed maybe once a week) from August of 1990 through the 28th of March 1991.
Re. labeling Powell as such. He didn’t start out as one, but he certainly morphed into one!
That is why I made the post. You are dead on! Kudos.
Flyover….
Often, these illegals have fraudulent or stolen documents. Yes. This is a fact. The employers just accept the docs knowing that that’s all they have to do to cover their asses. And get cheap labor for their willful blindness.
That’s why we need a better system. Maybe like E-Verify if I am recalling the name correctly. And because a system like that will work, Democrats will fight tooth and nail to prevent it and or shut it down.
Powell and the rest of the Dems…. (he’s a dem who hasn’t gotten round to filling out the paperwork)… want the illegal vote.
Michelle #58, your post is absolutely right on. It isn’t that these illegals are doing work Americans won’t perform, it is that they are doing this work for wages legal Americans can’t accept. Illegals don’t pay taxes of any form, and live in places with multiple roomates so they don’t have to pay the rent single handedly. If we wish to have the 1930′s company store society, fine, but don’t expect Americans to easily become the slave class now that they have seen the big city.
Exactly what it’s all about. It’s the globalist perspective that says high American wages are ‘unfair.’
If they were really unfair, we would not be able to compete. Our taxes built this infrastructure that makes higher wages competitive. Now they want the benefit of that infrastructure to go directly to third world workers.
Globalists are traitors tearing America down. Every damned one of them. They hate the whole idea of American Exceptionalism.
And the American Voter keeps electing these scum because they ‘went to the best schools’ and ‘know all the right people’ and the media approves of them.
And they are slick salesmen.
We get the government we as a group deserve. If the people of Delaware elect that sleezeball Coons, they deserve to be taxed into oblivion.
Powell decided to become part of the 98% club. He has been lost ever since.
Michelle Malkin showed a picture of Colin Powell dancing as regular (albeit younger) black people dance to show that he’s a clown, and I called her out on that. I didn’t say it’s how they should dance, nor did I or ever have have said black people should or should not dance, act or vote a certain way. Act like you know.
Whatever happened to this Colin Powell? The one that said this at the 1996 Republican National Convention:
“I became a Republican because I believe, like you that the federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives. We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them and fewer results to show for it.”
You sold your soul, General.
The headline needs to be corrected. It should read.
Colin Powell wants Black Unemployment HIGH to Keep Blacks DEPENDENT on the Government. Have to keep control of their most brainwashed voting block. While at the same time facilitating the Illegal Alien vote.
American history has shown that cheap labor eventually bites us in the rear end. This is such a moment.
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There are a lot of comments above on the error of stopping the first Gulf War after 100 hours of invasion. The HIGHWAY OF DEATH photos showed a beaten and dying Iraqi Army dying in droves under constant air assault by gun ships of many types. The burned and blackened bodies in the oil covered sands. The wanton destruction of the Kuwaitis and their oil fields as the Iraqis ran for their lives.
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General Swartzkopf was asked if we should stop–he said no–and was overruled by higher command. He did what good military men do–gave his opinion once when asked–and followed orders and kept his mouth shut.
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I was an Army draftee from 1964 to 1966–and got really used to having President Lyndon Johnson lie to us troops and to the American People every few months. I really expected the first Iraq invasion force to make an “accidental left turn” and blow away Saddam and his Regime in the first hours of the war. And then to call up President Bush 41 in the morning and apologize profusely for the unforeseen map reading and GPS failures that resulted in the unfortunate deaths.
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I never believed that our stated goal of leaving Saddam in power was the truth! Machiavelli was a lot smarter than our military and government–never leave an enemy alive if you can kill him. We had to do the job again in Gulf War II–with a much better result–at a lot greater cost in lives and gold.
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John Bibb
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Oh my freaking god, are you kidding me? Seriously. This comment is utterly ridiculous. Talk about treating minorities, like blacks, like cherished, little chia pets. What are you, the arbiter of what is and isn’t racial sensitivity? Get over yourself.
And for your information, Colin Powell is a CLOWN. He made his career on the backs of those fighting in the field. Colin Powell, like “some” blacks who make the rank of general, got there because of affirmative action, not because of any real talent on their part. In fact, a former commander of my husband’s basically admitted to him and others that he made general because he WAS black… even after being reprimanded for issues related to performance.
People like you think that blacks and other minorities are children to pat on the head and “defend” against anybody who pokes fun at them or criticizes them. You are nothing but a disingenuous, concern troll who could care less about race relations or that posers like Powell get a free pass for his idiocy because of the color of his skin.
What potentially “great” Americans are we losing if we’re making an exception for anchor babies who were simply born here to get their illegal parents some welfare freebies? I think this comment is utterly ridiculous.
I do think that the 14the amendment should be repealed given that it was designed to give citizenship to slaves after the Civil War… not anchor babies. I find it laughable that you think that Michelle or someone like me who has American Indian ancestry, would be retroactively kicked out of the country because the 14th amendment would be repealed.
I think you underestimate the anger many Americans feel about how illegals have used not only their own children but our country to establish a foothold in industries that have suffered high native unemployment, especially industries like construction.
Repeal is not necessary.
I merely needs to be interpreted the way it was intended.
“…AND subject to the jurisdiction thereof…” actually MEANS something.
This guy is a “military man” and yet open borders and free access for terrorists is A-OK with him. And never mind the thousands of unemployed Americans-they can go hang as far as he is concerned. Tired of these elitist PIGS!
You’re the racist! He’s not dancing–that’s his swagger!
That’s completely ridiculous. There’s no such thing as “being black” or “being white”. Black and white are skin colors, not behavioral phenomena.
Implying that race is defined by behavior is itself a bit racist. If it were true, then that would objectively justify racial discrimination, since now the discriminator can claim that that certain races are predisposed to certain kinds of behaviors and attitudes, instead of judging each person as an individual. That sword you live and die by cuts both ways.
I’ve seen regular black people dance, and this isn’t it.
exactly, AG