The Pink Flamingo :: Yes, Racism Still Exists

Outside the Beltway has a very interesting commentary on an O’Reilly piece. Me – I don’t quite know what to say, other than O’Reilly is showing a typical ‘Yankee’ (sorry, it just came out) reaction to ‘average’ Black America.

Media Matters for America

“…You know, I was up in Harlem a few weeks ago, and I actually had dinner with Al Sharpton, who is a very, very interesting guy. And he comes on The Factor a lot, and then I treated him to dinner, because he's made himself available to us, and I felt that I wanted to take him up there. And we went to Sylvia's, a very famous restaurant in Harlem. I had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful. They all watch The Factor. You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like a big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice.

And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was the same, and that's really what this society's all about now here in the U.S.A. There's no difference. There's no difference. There may be a cultural entertainment -- people may gravitate toward different cultural entertainment, but you go down to Little Italy, and you're gonna have that. It has nothing to do with the color of anybody's skin….”

THE JENA SIX
I don’t think this is the perfect civil rights case, if you want my honest assessment. Funny, if I were going to be doing a major civil rights protest, I think it would be up in Charleston, WV where six whites brutally raped and assaulted a young Black woman. There will be no “hate crimes” persecution of this case, but to me it reeks of a hate crime. Earl Hutchinson asks the same question that has been bothering me. Why haven’t Civil Rights leaders passed the hat to raise bail money for Bell?

I think Patrick Haynes of Ankle Biting expresses much of my sentiment. I’m not sure what I think.
Malkin has the conservative view. /
Oricus has the liberal view point which is quite interesting.
Pursuing Holiness has an entirely different view.
Hutchinson has a personal view.

“…The painful answer to that is that civil rights leaders let Bell down. They filled the air with harsh rhetoric about a new civil rights movement, hawked and wore black T-shirts with slogans like "Enough is enough" and "Free the Jena 6," and saber rattled the DA with talk about hauling him before a Congressional committee. Instead, they should have filled baskets with checks to spring Bell. British rocker/actor David Bowie pointed to this shameful failure when he did more than shout and fist wave. He put up $10,000 for the Jena Defense legal Fund. Any one of the legion of high profile, millionaire black entertainers and athletes that routinely shell out big bucks for dinners, soirees, and celebrity bashes could have easily written a check for $10, 000. But the Jena 6 cause is not a social event or a respected and safe charity. These are the kind of feel-good, safe and respectable conscience salvers that athletes and entertainers are comfortable giving too. The Jena 6 case is edgy, controversial, and squarely finger points the deep and troubling racial bias in the criminal justice system, it also makes some squirm at the uncomfortable thought of siding with black male teens. They have been relentlessly tagged as crime prone and deviant.

The reluctance of the black endowed to fork over Bell’s bail makes makes some sense given what they typically give too. The parsimony of the civil rights groups and leaders, as well as the chanting marchers, doesn’t make sense. But this is hardly the first time civil rights leaders and activists have been knocked for not putting their money where their protest is. During the heyday of the 1960s civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., logged more hours begging, cajoling, and pleading with wealthy white Hollywood celebs, foundation heads, and corporate executives to bankroll SCLC than in the streets. Without their backing SCLC would have been out of business….”

The white supremacist alternative – more lynchings.
From the SPLC

“…“The best crowd control for such a situation would be a squad of men armed with full automatics and preferably a machine gun as well,” is how one person put it on the Web forum hosted by the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network. Added another hopeful VNN poster: “I’m not really that angry at the nogs [a recent variation on an ancient racial slur] — they are just soldiers in an undeclared race war. But any white that’s in that support rally I would like to … have them machine-gunned.”

As the rally began to unfold this morning, it became clear that it would attract huge numbers of people, perhaps even the 40,000 that some organizers had predicted. They came to protest the case of the “Jena 6,” black youths who were charged with serious crimes for an attack on a white youth not long after white teens who had targeted blacks were let off with a slap on the wrist. White supremacists reacted with a strange mixture of anger and admiration for the organizing behind the rally.

But the dominant response was violent rage. “I think a group of White men with AK rifles loaded with high capacity magazines should close in on the troop of howler monkeys from all sides and compress them into a tight group, and then White men in the buildings on both sides of the shitskinned hominids shall throw Molotov cocktails from above to cleanse the nigs by fire,” wrote “NS Cat” on VNN. Another poster fantasized about a terrorist attack in Jena today: “Wouldn’t that be sweet? Gosh darn, wouldn’t that be sweet? Good LORD wouldn’t THAT be SWeeeeEET? Boom, Boom, no more Coon! Well? A White man can dream can’t he?”

“If these blacks want a race war,” added a poster on Stormfront, another white supremacist Web forum, “they will get one. Bring it on.”

In Roanoke, Va., an especially virulent purveyor of race hate, neo-Nazi Bill White, this afternoon posted the home addresses and phone numbers of five of the six black youths who make up the Jena 6 under this headline: “Addresses of Jena 6 Niggers: In Case Anyone Wants to Deliver Justice.” White previously posted the home addresses of Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen and SPLC cooperating attorney James Boren.

White, the leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, suggests that readers “get in touch and let them know justice is coming.” Another White posting on the matter doesn’t hold anything at all back: “Lynch the Jena 6.”…”

IMMIGRATION
I found a fascinating take on immigration and why people are so upset over it. Frankly, it’s something I never thought about. People fear what they do not know. Because we have such a mobile society now, with easily available, cheap transportation, new immigrants (and illegals) are moving to parts of the US where this has never happened. People who are entrenched in their comfortably little Norman Rockwell communities don’t know how to handle things that are new, thus the problems. It is a fascinating theory.

Doris Messiner is one of the formost experts on immigration. (non partisan)

“…The problem has grown more complex since the mid-1980s, the last time Americans debated the issue as a nation. Back then, the illegal immigrant population consisted of about 5 million people. Today, it is close to 12 million.
At that time, streams of immigrants from Latin America and Asia began the fourth significant immigration to the United States, following initial colonization, the journey west and immigration at the turn of the 20th century.

Seeing the increase, Congress in 1986 voted to legalize millions of immigrants and tighten enforcement. Amnesty worked, but measures to block the border and restrict employers who hire illegal immigrants were not successful.

Attempts to repair the system since 2005 have stalled in Congress, prompting state and local governments to pass their own measures, some of which have been overturned in the courts.

Also, immigrants in the past decade began to spread to places that had not experienced immigration in nearly 100 years. They moved from states such as Texas and California to South Carolina and Georgia. From 1990 to 2000, the foreign-born population in some new-growth states grew by up to 300 percent. In Oregon, that section of the population grew by 118 percent, Meissner said.

In 30 years of studying immigration, Meissner said, she has not seen the intensity of debate she sees today.
"There's been an enormous outcry from people who don't know what's happening, aren't able to explain it," Meissner said. "It's catapulted the issue, and made it a very generalized experience."…”

RACISM AGAINST HISPANICS
Heather MacDonald has done more to promote racism and bigotry against Hispanics than many other anti-immigration foes. Her false and misinterpreted statistics are constantly used by anti-Hispanic bigots to prove they are undesirable.

From her infamous Hispanic Family Values article at City Journal.

“…How these two value systems—a lingering work ethic and underclass mating norms—will interact in the future is anyone’s guess. Orange County sheriff’s deputy Montoya says that the older Hispanic generation’s work ethic is fast disappearing among the gangbanging youngsters whom he sees. “Now, it’s all about fast money, drugs, and sex.” It may be that the willingness to work will plummet along with marriage rates, leading to even greater social problems than are now rife among Hispanics. Or it may be that the two contrasting practices will remain on parallel tracks, creating a new kind of underclass: a culture that tolerates free-floating men who impregnate women and leave, like the vast majority of black men, yet who still labor in the noncriminal economy. The question is whether, if the disposition to work remains relatively strong, a working parent will inoculate his or her illegitimate children against the worst degradations that plague black ghettos.

From an intellectual standpoint, this is a fascinating social experiment, one that academicians are—predictably—not attuned to. But the consequences will be more than intellectual: they may severely strain the social fabric. Nevertheless, it is an experiment that we seem destined to see to its end. Tisha Roberts, a supervisor at an Orange County, California, institution that assists children in foster care, has given up hope that the illegitimacy rate will taper off. “It’s going to continue to grow,” she says, “until we can put birth control in the water.””

Interesting how MacDonald paints one picture of a community and this is another:

“…The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute polled Hispanic immigrants in the Washington metropolitan area. The study consisted of 279 one-on-one interviews among immigrants of Hispanic descent.

In total, 83 percent of the Hispanics in the survey oppose abortion CHLI said and, even among liberals, 60% oppose abortion.

More specifically, 52 percent said they strongly opposed abortion and 28 percent said they were somewhat opposed to abortion. Only 15 percent said they support legal abortions.

Raimundo Rojas, the Hispanic outreach coordinator for the National Right to Life Committee, told LifeNews.com that the poll validates what pro-life advocates have been saying for years about reaching out to Hispanic voters.

"Another poll, more statistics and numbers that prove yet again that Hispanics in general, are pro-life, pro-American, and very conservative on most social issues," he said.

"Yet nearly 50 percent of those polled felt that elected officials don't care about them. This should serve as yet another wake up call to pro-life politicians and political parties who want to court Hispanics on their issues," Rojas explained.

"The pro-abortion movement has nothing to offer Hispanics but disdain, this poll shows that Latinos are open to social conservatism and that we value life," he told LifeNews.com. "Let's hope the powers that be are listening and will act upon yet another recitation of statistics that show where Latinos lean politically."…”