05:32 PM CST on Friday, February 19, 2010
In October 2008, amid claims that one of its subsidiaries was knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, North Carolina poultry producer House of Raeford Farms initiated a systematic conversion of its workforce...Today, with national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it seems even less likely that immigrants are filling only those jobs that Americans won't deign to do. Just ask Delonta Spriggs, a 24-year-old black man profiled in a November Washington Post piece on joblessness, who pleaded: "Give me a chance to show that I can work. Just give me a chance... Read More
Cord Jefferson is a regular contributor to The Root, where a version of this piece originally appeared.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-jefferson_21edi.State.Edition1.28a6ee9.html
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