Mexican leader criticized for comment on blacks
Sunday, May 15, 2005 Posted: 9:08 AM EDT (1308 GMT)
(CNN) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday criticized Mexican President Vicente Fox's comment that Mexican immigrants to the United States take jobs "that not even blacks want to do."
Jackson called the remark "a spurious comparison" with "ominous racial overtones."
The Mexican president's office issued a statement late Saturday disputing the negative interpretation of his comments, saying Fox has "enormous respect to minorities whatever their racial, ethnic, or religious origin may be."
Mexican official defended Fox later in the day, saying his description was not meant as an insult.
"The president didn't make a declaration in the racist sense; of course there are those who interpret it in that way," Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Derbez told a reporter in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
According to Derbez, Fox was making the point that "Mexican migrants are making great contributions in the United States and that their role is a positive role."
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After I read this, all I could think of was WTH?!?
Its not just blacks that won't take those types of jobs but everybody else too (whites, asians, etc.).
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