Reply #17: African Americans did it then first as slaves then as paid employees.. [View All]

[Cleita]

When I worked as a waitress in the late fifties, while I went to school, I had an AA busboy. All the kitchen help were AA and Mexican American. All the hotel staff were African American and Mexican American. All the rich people's maids and nannys were AA. There was a guest worker program or the bracero program that brought Mexican nationals to work in the fields seasonally and legally.

This country does need a working class. The big difference is that now they want to get paid for it, like the plumbers, UPS guys and other better paid workers so the AA's and other underclasses of legal immigrants aspire to do those jobs. The illegals fill those gaps left, but does anyone blame them for trying to get better paying jobs too?