She was telling the truth IMO. 
This is the new game now of days. Where whites use other so-called minorities against the black cause. I'm glad the black community in Memphis is standing behind her comments.
Group Compares Commissioner Henri Brooks To Malcolm X | WREG.com
Has the Outspoken County Commissioner Crossed the Line?
- The portion of the Commission meeting that has attracted the most attention occurred during the determined resistance by Brooks and Commissioner Walter Bailey to the awarding of a roofing contract to a company whose work force was 76 percent Hispanic but contained few if any blacks.
Repeated objections by Brooks and Bailey to what they saw as the company’s technical-only compliance with equal-opportunity employment mandates by hiring the Hispanics and not blacks, finally provoked a response from Pablo Pereya of the Hispanic Republic Alliance.
Pereya — who was in attendance to defend the interests, later on, of the trust company involved in the purchase of the tax-delinquent rental property — came to the Commission’s witness table and made a stirring objection to what he regarded as a dismissive attitude toward Hispanics by the two complaining commissioners.
“I’m a little bit shell-shocked, to be honest with you said,” he began. “I took an oath to protect that flag, domestic and overseas. And I’m reminded: who is here representing the Hispanic folks... Are we going to put up a sign saying, ‘Hispanics need not apply?’ I know what it’s like to be in a minority. I can tell you, growing up Hispanic in Memphis is definitely a minority in the minority… Am I any less American? Am I any less minority?”
Brooks had an answer for that: ”Your experience does not compare to mine. What you are experiencing as a minority probably has been blown out of proportion here,” she said to Pereya, telling him that Hispanic deprivations could not compare to “a history where there is a pattern of intentional discrimination against black folk.”
She continued, wagging a didactic finger Pereya’s way: “You asked to come here. You asked to come here. We did not. And when we got here, our condition was so egregious, so barbaric. Don’t ever let that come out of your mouth again, because — you know what? — that only hurts your case. Don’t compare the two. They’re not comparable.”
This is the new game now of days. Where whites use other so-called minorities against the black cause. I'm glad the black community in Memphis is standing behind her comments.
Group Compares Commissioner Henri Brooks To Malcolm X | WREG.com
Has the Outspoken County Commissioner Crossed the Line?
- The portion of the Commission meeting that has attracted the most attention occurred during the determined resistance by Brooks and Commissioner Walter Bailey to the awarding of a roofing contract to a company whose work force was 76 percent Hispanic but contained few if any blacks.
Repeated objections by Brooks and Bailey to what they saw as the company’s technical-only compliance with equal-opportunity employment mandates by hiring the Hispanics and not blacks, finally provoked a response from Pablo Pereya of the Hispanic Republic Alliance.
Pereya — who was in attendance to defend the interests, later on, of the trust company involved in the purchase of the tax-delinquent rental property — came to the Commission’s witness table and made a stirring objection to what he regarded as a dismissive attitude toward Hispanics by the two complaining commissioners.
“I’m a little bit shell-shocked, to be honest with you said,” he began. “I took an oath to protect that flag, domestic and overseas. And I’m reminded: who is here representing the Hispanic folks... Are we going to put up a sign saying, ‘Hispanics need not apply?’ I know what it’s like to be in a minority. I can tell you, growing up Hispanic in Memphis is definitely a minority in the minority… Am I any less American? Am I any less minority?”
Brooks had an answer for that: ”Your experience does not compare to mine. What you are experiencing as a minority probably has been blown out of proportion here,” she said to Pereya, telling him that Hispanic deprivations could not compare to “a history where there is a pattern of intentional discrimination against black folk.”
She continued, wagging a didactic finger Pereya’s way: “You asked to come here. You asked to come here. We did not. And when we got here, our condition was so egregious, so barbaric. Don’t ever let that come out of your mouth again, because — you know what? — that only hurts your case. Don’t compare the two. They’re not comparable.”
