From New York Times, via Digg.com.

As an African-American living in Warner Robins, Ga. who sees a poor neighborhood filled with both Mexicans and blacks just across the street from his mother’s church, let me just say that the article rings very true for most, if not all Mexican-black race relations in Georgia. True, we make jokes about how the Mexicans are always riding in vans packed like sardine cans, but we’re also familiar with, and have a private admiration for their work ethic. That, combined with their inexhaustibly-increasing numbers, will only drive them towards further demographic, then economic, and finally political clout.

Do I have a problem with it? Absolutely not.

It makes sense that they’ll bring an immigrant work ethic with them. The African-Americans here are both numerically inferior and predominately lax – hell, damn near apathetic – towards a work ethic, and seek either a non-vocational education or a non-manual vocation. Thus, the incentive for those African-Americans who *do* pursue manual labor to continue in their vocation is waning with their numbers, and has come under threat from the rising Mexican presence. Thus, we come under a demographic siege, even in the poorest of areas, and we can’t say or do anything about it.

I don’t blame the government or the Mexicans, but ourselves, for our inability to compete. I can say that we’re about to end up like the Native Americans of this country: destitute, dispossessed, and either drugged or drunk.

“Yo, por uno, bienvenido nuestro nuevo dominadors demographicas.”