Candidate For Texas Democrat Gubernatorial Primary Says White People Don't Want To Work In Factories

There's a few nuts in the race for both party primaries in the Texas Governor's Race. There's a nutty "Republican" 9/11 Troofer candidate who no one really heard of until Glenn Beck exposed her for the nut she is.

And, on the Democrat side, there is Farouk Shami (Houston Chronicle) who claims white people are not willing to work manual labor. As a result, most of his factory workers are Hispanic.

Shami, running against former Houston Mayor Bill White, made the comments Friday in an interview with Dallas television station WFAA.

Shami said white people who look for work at his factories “either want to be supervisors or they want to be paid more than the average person and unfortunately, they exit.”

Shami was being asked to follow up on a comment he made at a televised debate between him and White in which he said, in an effort to advocate the benefits of immigrant labor, that “without Mexicans, it would be like a day without sunshine in our state.”

I'm sure there's a key missing word in that last paragraph. It sounds like Shami was really advocating for illegal immigrant labor, using the racist arguments along the line of "they do the jobs Americans won't do."

No wonder whites don't want to work in his factory, because they couldn't make a living. Some business owners want to use illegal workers because it's cheaper. They can pay the cheapest wage they can, and pay them under the table, so they don't worry about paying state/federal taxes, Social(ist) Security, health insurance, etc.

Since Shami has such a racist attitude, I'm certain he would have opposed abolition of slavery if he were running for Texas Governor in the 1850s, on the grounds that "without Negroes, it would be like a day without cotton clothes on your body." Additionally, Shami being a Democrat, the party of slavery, also adds to that certainty.