Black American politicians, most notably the Hispandering Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), might find interesting the recent statement by El Presidente Vicente Fox:

“There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States . . .”

Naturally, I wouldn’t hold my breath that our MSM and their knuckle-dragging editorial writers will jump all over THIS story with the same intensity and savagery they display each time someone introduces legislation aimed at enforcing our immigration laws.

If the Los Angeles Mayoral race between incumbent James Hahn and challenger Antonio Villaraigosa were to be decided by endorsements, then it would be lights out for Hahn.

Villaraigosa has racked up most of the big names.

And Villaraigosa’s support among black leaders has lead to the usual observation that his candidacy is helping to form “new ethnic alliances.”

The truth: in today’s Los Angeles low income blacks and Hispanics are bitter rivals. They compete for scarce jobs, dwindling social services, and the limited time of their overburdened teachers.

This hard fact is not something that politicians who support Villaraigosa are going to trumpet, however.

But there is an interesting sub-text to the so-called alliances. In earlier columns, I have wondered why the Congressional Black Caucus has all but abandoned black America.

Now I have my answer. The Mexican invasion has been so rapid and so complete that formerly black Congressional districts are now heavily Hispanic.

Villaraigosa’s most coveted endorsement came from U.S. Representative Maxine Waters.

Curious about the make-up of her district, I asked VDARE.COM ace numbers cruncher Ed Rubenstein to ferret out the details of Waters’ 35th California Congressional district.

Here, from Census 2000, is the rundown:

25.9% white; 34.4% Black; 47.3% Latino; 32.6 percent are foreign-born; 26.4 % live below the poverty line and 50.2% speak a language other than English.

Waters has one of the biggest “get out the votes” machines in California. But if I were a black American who read those census figures, I’d be voting for Hahn.

From this moment on, blacks can count on Waters to side with Hispanics at their expense. She is more dependent on Hispanics than any other ethnic group to stay in office.

NRO has a Bush-boosting article, with chart, claiming that the jobless recovery is over, and that Bush’s tax cuts have led to a lot of people entering the labor force.

The unemployment rate is low because there are a lot of jobs, not because people aren’t looking for work. Since President Bush was first elected roughly 5 million people have reentered the work force. Since his tax cuts of 2003 were fully implemented, 2.3 million new workers have entered the labor markets. Both new job seekers and over a million previous job seekers have been absorbed. BuzzCharts: Jerry Bowyer on the April 2005 Jobs Report on NRO Financial

Of course, there’s a number missing: how many of these newly employed people are Americans? If the majority of them are immigrants, then it benefits the Mexican economy more than it does the American economy.

And when you speak of new entries in the labor market, how many of them “entered” via the Rio Grande?