I happen to like Linda Chavez and disagree with some of the stronger criticism of her latest inflammatory article. However Chavez is right that there’s a racist in the mix in this immigration amnesty story. Her name is Linda Chavez.

As I reported here several times before, and I seem to be the only one doing so, the immigration of violent Latino gangs into the United States has led to a situation in California described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an ethnic cleansing of Black Americans. Central and South American immigrants are not just importing their “work ethic”, but their racism, aggression and criminality.

Now many opponents of the new immigration bill are indeed guilty of some slightly over the top rhetoric. I’m guilty of it myself. And indeed if Linda Chavez is talking about people like Pat Buchanan she may have a point, for while he may not be a racist per se he does seem to make the rounds on the racialist forums. While White Supremacists may claim to have no fealty with Pat Buchanan his ideas speak to them, which says something important about what those ideas are.

But Chavez isn’t picking and choosing certain ideologues to brand as xenophobes, she’s broad brushing everyone who is opposed to the bill as racists. Let me be clear, I’m for a guest worker program. The guest worker program was why I supported Bush in 2000. I’m skeptical of the idea of deporting all the illegals and I in fact think that people with enough sense to flee communist countries and work in a capitalist system are smart enough to make good Americans, but the criminality has to be addressed. MS-13 must be declared a terrorist group, it’s members and their families rounded up and deported. Any one affiliated with Mexican Mafia needs to be deported regardless of other criminal status. We can not allow our good will toward Latin American immigrants lead to the victimization of Black Americans, or any Americans, at the hands of violent criminal organizations.

If that makes me a xenophobe, and after reading Chavez’s piece I suspect she thinks it does, so be it. But Chavez, in her zeal to brand others as racists, is helping in her own way to expedite the extermination of Black America. She claims illegal aliens are making us richer without mentioning the fact they’re making poor areas in California combat zones. She calls Americans racists but doesn’t deal with the racism of the Latino gangs who are on a killing spree in our communities. She wants unconditional support for the bill without explaining how it’s proponents will stop Latino gangs from committing genocide on our very shores.

My family is made up of various races, predominantly Black. I want assurances that the Black community, my family members especially, are protected. I would accept a promise of a crackdown by the government on Latino hate crimes, but even that makes me a xenophobe as far as Linda Chavez is concerned. My concern that newly legalized Latino gang members, now with access to legal (and thus cheaper) firearms and the ability to import more of their “family” members to the states constitutes a threat to the African American community is not just unjustified according to Chavez, but contemptible because it makes me a racist.

And that kind of thinking on her part makes Linda Chavez just plain foolish.