Gerry Hudson: Wisconsin, Racists, and 'Immigration Reform'

Gerry Hudson, Executive Vice President of Service Employees International Union, had some very unkind things to say about Wisconsinites.

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SEIU Executive Vice President Gerry Hudson on union members' attitudes about immigration reform, April 6, 2010:

Transcript

GERRY HUDSON: I've organized huge numbers of conversations among workers about immigration, comprehensive immigration reform. And there is significant worker opposition to comprehensive immigration reform.

And appallingly, among African Americans, people have gone overtime in trying to organize a battle royal, right, for the country between African Americans and Latinos on this whole issue. So, I got a feeling it's got some legs. What's interesting to me is it doesn't take a whole lot to argue at least African American workers to another place. It doesn't take a whole lot. And I've spent not a whole lot of time doing it, but it has some success. And so, I think we need to spend more time doing it. Try to figure out what's the best ways to get it done. But I think we can get the work done.

On white workers, I think we got some real problems. I spent a lot of time in WISCONSIN and places like that where I have heard some of the most anti-immigrant sentiments around. It's also, and this is where you get the black workers first, it's so f---ing rabidly racist. Black people get scared. You know, they don't just mean you, right? And so you can organize them quicker, like, look at what's there, right?

So, how does it feel Wisconsinites?

Do you think that your home is a hotbed of racism? Are we so "f---ing rabidly racist" here?

Hudson doesn't have a very high opinion of the white union members in places like Wisconsin.

But he finds the silver lining. The rabid racism of the white workers in Wisconsin makes it easier for organizers like him to win over the black people because they're so scared.

Of course, when Hudson refers to "comprehensive immigration reform," he means amnesty.