Confused by the Immigration Debate? Not sure what to think of illegal workers from Mexico? Let National Review’s John Derbyshire explain the intricacies as can only be explained by an Englishman who has opinions about Black People!

In some offline conversations I’ve been having, and on some websites I’ll leave you to search out by yourself, the opinion has been expressed that some portion of America’s white elites welcome Hispanic immigration as a way of sticking it to American blacks. That portion, it is suggested, would prefer to have its lawns mowed by small, polite, brown people, rather than large, surly black ones, even if the price is the same in both cases.

I think there is something in that, but more than I have yet heard discussed.

Uhh …. Okay, let’s have this frank discussion about America’s wealthy households and the preferred race of their servants and how that explains why Bush & Walnuts & Kennedy want the amnesty so bad, after the jump.

MORE »