The City Journal has a fascinating article about the simmering anger and bitterness of many black people who are seeing their jobs, neighborhoods and political power disappear under an onslaught of Spanish speaking immigrants.

Los Angeles is front and center in the debate, as once Black neighborhoods are transformed into Latino districts. Gangs are fighting each other, with some vowing to drive Black people out…by murder, if necessary.

Racial preferences, that were once used by Blacks to gain jobs or positions on the school board, are now given to Spanish speakers in the name of ethnic “fairness”.

Cheaper labor means that blue collar work once done by Black people, will now be in the hands of illegal immigrants who can justify $7 an hour jobs which look like big bucks south of the border.

Politically, Latinos (those who are here legally) might have voted Republican, identifying with the G.O.P’s “family values”. But anti-immigration talk, first raised by Republicans, has turned Latinos towards the Democrats.

And it seems that poor and Black Americans are once again the forgotten people, living in neighborhoods that have seen white flight, black middle class flight, and now the arrival of Spanish speakers who see nothing in common with those who came here in chains 400 years ago.

NAFTA and the power of industrial agriculture has brought in millions of laborers from Mexico who do not vote, but still contribute to the American and Mexican economy. Mexican farmers are starving as cheap imported corn from the US floods Mexico.

Big money, big agriculture and big business see no evil. But all the rest of us little people suffer as communities are ripped apart by multi-national forces beyond our control.