What For?

It's probably not a conservative take that I have on this issue but rather I just have a thick skin. Mexico's Vincente Fox met with Jesse Jackson to diffuse tensions. What tensions? I'm not tense because I don't give a flying flip what that guy says. I haven't been to Mexico in almost 20 years. What are Jesse and Al going to do, negotiate a "black discount" for those who travel to Mexico? I'll bet the jobless folks who could be hankering for some illegal's job won't be going.

"Mexican President Vicente Fox has met US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in an attempt to defuse tensions caused by his comments about black US citizens.

Mr Fox had caused offence when he said Mexicans did jobs in the US 'that not even blacks wanted to do'.

After the meeting, Rev Jackson said the Mexican president had expressed regret for his 'harmful' remarks.

While the US criticised his remarks, Mr Fox explained he was merely defending the work done by Mexican immigrants.

Mr Fox is expected to meet Al Sharpton, another prominent US civil rights leader, later in the week."

Though I understand that Al and Jesse may feel that Fox painted - even "uppity" negroes like myself - with the same brush that he paints those who might be eligible for the jobs his fleeing citizens take (heck, white folks here still do that), my question from the other day remains: Is Fox wrong? Who do Jesse and Al know who will take these jobs?