Ken Brown – Black Commentator

Ken Brown

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Kenneth R. Brown, II, is the Director of Which Way Forward, a program of the Center for New Community in Chicago, Il. Which Way Forward is a national strategic discussion with African American leaders and organizers from around the United States, addressing the impact of anti-immigrant activity and public policy on the African American community and on U.S. Civil Rights gains of the 1960s. Which Way Forward seeks to build a coordinated response by African Americans to the growing anti-immigrant assault on Civil Rights. Click here to contact Mr. Brown.

Guest Commentary

African Americans: Stop Hatin’ on Immigrants!

By Ken Brown Guest Commentator

A word to my fellow U.S. African Americans: Get real – and stop hatin’. I’m referring to growing anti-immigrant sentiment in black communities in this country. After reading reports containing the disgusting news of black workers cheering at government immigrant-hunting raids,e.g., “Immigrant Raid Divides a Mississippi Town,” Miguel Bustillo and Richard Fausset, LA Times, August…

A word to my fellow U.S. African Americans: Get real - and stop hatin’. I’m referring to growing anti-immigrant sentiment in black communities in this country.…

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