On this federal Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, please take five minutes to watch NumbersUSA's brand new YouTube video entitled "Frederick Douglass encounters a violent lesson on immigration economics on docks of Baltimore."

This is history that few Americans have been taught. Make sure you know it.

I think you will find that Chad and Amanda on our staff have done an exceptional job in illustrating and animating the first section of Chapter Three of my audiobook: BACK OF THE HIRING LINE: A 200-year history of immigration surges, employer bias, and depression of Black wealth.

When you watch the video, WILL YOU DO US AN EASY FAVOR? Please consider clicking on the THUMBS UP and BELL icons shown below. When we publicize this video to the public, it would be helpful that they see a lot of other people have already been looking at, liking, and sharing the video ahead of them.

So much of our societal tensions and polarization today stems from the huge Black-White wealth gap. Our new video portrays the 1820s and 1830s and the beginning of the serial mass immigration surges that have been a major factor behind the shocking racial inequality in our country.

Every American fighting for major reductions in current immigration numbers should be aware of how that fight is, among other things, a battle for more equality of opportunity.

And every American who insists on continuing mass immigration needs to understand that they are contributing to the wide racial wealth gap in this country.

It is unlikely that the Civil Rights movement led by MLK in the 1960s would have been necessary if immigration the previous 140 years had been moderated to a level that did not keep African Americans from climbing jobs ladders and often from getting on an occupational ladder at all. I know that is a provocative statement. You can start to understand why I say that from watching the video.

We are excited that the BACK OF THE HIRING LINE audiobook has been listed by Amazon as the No. 1 New Release of all audiobooks, hardcovers, paperbacks and Kindles in the Immigration Policy category over much of the last month.

Thanks for all you do to press for lower immigration and for a nation of more equality of opportunity for all Americans regardless of our race, ethnicity, religion, or ancestry.

roy beck, numbersusa FOUNDER & president