Illinois State Sen. Mattie Hunter Celebrates Resolution Creating Task Force on Black Immigrants – Chicago Defender

https://chicagodefender.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/05/State-Senator-Mattie-Hunter.jpg Recognizing the unique challenges faced by Black immigrants in Illinois, a resolution sponsored by State Senator Mattie Hunter to create the Task Force on Black Immigrants has been adopted by the Senate. House Joint Resolution 18 was adopted by the Senate on Friday.
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debtsor
2 years ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

The author said ‘Black’ immigrants and not African immigrants, thereby excluding Illinois’s enormous immigrant population from the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia) and the rest of North Africa. They Ain’t Black according to virulent racist Sen. Mattie Hunter. M

Old Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

Spot on Mark. I’ve been acquainted with a few thru work who were from Africa or the Caribean. No chip on their shoulder, work hard and live with their kids. They seem do just fine.

debtsor
2 years ago

Time to pull out the DNA tests for the one-drop rule all over again.

The Paraclete
2 years ago

She should be be prepared to watch thi s idea go nowhere. A task force, scoff and chortle.

Old Joe
2 years ago

Mattie, why would foriegn black people want to immigrate to a land full of racisists?

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