Exploiting Illegal Aliens De Facto Legitimates High Black Incarceration
By
Dr. Sherman N. Miller
When I ponder illegal immigration I find myself becoming very distressed
that African Americans once again find themselves relegated to economic
chattel. It makes economic sense for the robber barons to build prisons
to incarcerate blacks and have illegal aliens (“quasi slaves”) to do
today’s low skilled jobs that they would have to pay market value to get
done. Hence, the roughly one million African Americans in prison are not
missed in today’s labor market for there are roughly 12 million illegal
aliens to fill the jobs void.
The vilification of marrying aged black males (18 to 40) is pervasive,
so it is no surprise to read about the high probability of them going to
jail. In an August 8, 2007, report The US Department of Justice
reported, “Based on current rates of first incarceration, an estimated
32% of black males will enter State or Federal prison during their
lifetime, compared to 17% of Hispanic males and 5.9% of white males.”
Young voting age blacks’ failure to vote allow both political parties to
either pay lip service to their needs or redline their neighborhoods.
Douglas R. Hess writing for Project Vote in an article, ‘Representational Bias in the 2006
Electorate,” paints the picture of the data that political pundits may
use to devise plans on which to address the needs of young black males.
“Minority voter registration and turnout is lowest among young minority
men. Only one in five Black men aged 18 to 29 voted in 2006 compared to
more than one in four Black women in the same age group.” These low
turnout figures suggest that political strategists have no need to make
admiring comments about young voting aged blacks.
Cassandra Logan, Jennifer Manlove, Erum Ikramullah, and Sarah Cottingham
give us a glimpse of the weakening fallout from the high black male
incarceration rate on the black family structure in their November 2006
Child Trends article, “Men Who
Father Children with More Than One Woman: A Contemporary Portrait of
Multiple-Partner Fertility.”
“Approximately 61 percent of men who experienced multiple-partner
fertility had ever served time in prison, compared with 28 percent of
men with single-partner fertility. . . African-American men are more
likely to have experienced multiple-partner fertility than are white or
Hispanic men. . . One in three African-American men (32 percent) had
children with more than one woman, compared with 17 percent of Hispanic
men and14 percent of non-Hispanic white men. . . The high prevalence of
multiple-partner fertility among black men may have contributed to the
decline in marriage among African Americans, in that this pattern
reduces the probability that black mothers will marry the fathers of
their children.”
Patrick F. Fagan in the November 29, 2006 issue of
National Review Online
quantizes that today’s African American family structure morphed from
the traditional two-parent model of a mother and a father to a
semi-family model. “[African Americans’] total out-of-wedlock births is
now 69.5 percent, inching back towards its 1994 historical high of 70.4
percent.”
The picture that I am painting is that although nonvoting American
blacks are native born citizens, their chances for upward mobility in
the economic mainstream are marginally better than the illegal aliens
and worse than legal immigrants with good educations. Legal immigrants
cannot cast votes but they can have excellent jobs that pay big
salaries. Hence, the real issues in Black America are to overcome its
political impotence in the 2008 General Election and a reconstitution of
the two-parent family.
On the other hand, the political pundits realize that the black vote is
like a sleeping giant that could radically alter the direction of the
2008 Presidential and Congressional elections. This black sleeping giant
may be awakening from a deep sleep for a Presidential candidate hinting
at a modern day version of a President Lyndon Johnson style Great
Society effort. Some folks might get upset with President Johnson but at
least he attempted to enfranchise Black America.
