End of the Rainbow

The American Conservative ^ | December 19, 2005 | Roger D. McGrath

[rmlew]

While not as violent, this is happening across the country.

[rmlew]

ping

[Tzimisce]

I thought blacks and Hispanics COULDN'T be racist. As Al Sharpton so intelligently puts it, they have no way to enforce any of their ideas. They're both disempowered groups - so why is this considered racist?

It's more like ...angry youths...

[Past Your Eyes]

That's quite a story. I can't imagine living like that, or anywhere near a place like that. Thankfully, I don't. It's hard for me to even imagine that there are such places in this great country.

[junta]

Ain't diversity great.

[Clemenza]

Interesting. What few Californicators seem to realize, and few folks in other states care to remember, there were violent fights between blacks and "white ethnics" when the blacks moved north in the mid-20th century. They actually canceled high school football in Philadelphia for awhile in the early 1960s due to brawls between blacks and Italian Americans. The 1943 Detroit riots were largely a black/Polish conflict.

That being said, the folks most adversely affected by the illegal aliens are blacks and native-born Hispanics. Which makes it interesting that most folks involved in the immigration issue are white conservatives.

[Clemenza]

That's quite a story. I can't imagine living like that, or anywhere near a place like that. Thankfully, I don't. It's hard for me to even imagine that there are such places in this great country.

Folks who were raised in Outerwhitelandia don't understand, or refuse to remember, that racial violence is as old as America itself. The deadliest civil disturbance in American history were the 1863 New York draft riots, when Irish immigrants ran around Manhattan lynching every black they could find, even burning down a black orphanage.

[MarkL]

Last week I visited my father in Yonkers, NY, and I just had to stop in at the Nathans Famous on Central Ave, a place I used to hang out when I was a kid...

None of the people working there were teenagers, they were all in their 20s to 30s, and not a one spoke english clearly. Every one spoke spanish to each other, and I could barely make out what they were saying, and they seemed to have trouble interpreting my order of "2 frank special with a medium coke."

I wish I had visited the bathroom before ordering and eating. If I had, I wouldn't have stayed there. It was disgusting. I'll never go back, and I'm going to fire off a "nasty gram" to the operators.

Mark

[Clemenza]

"Dos perritos calientes y un Coca medio, por favor."

Speaking as someone who is from the New York area, all I can say is that I have always encountered neighborhoods where English speakers were in the minority. Luckily, I speak Spanish, but I still have a problem when the shopkeeper speaks Arabic, Chinese, or Korean.

[bkepley]

According to Thomas Sowell, the waves of Chinese in the 1800's probably suffered more than any racial group, much of the suffering instigated by Jack London who was a socialist union leader. The Chinese were not allowed jobs accept in a few industries (hence the Chinese laundry) and they died like flies. Nevertheless when Chinese gangs began to appear in California, Chinese leaders went to the police and asked them to lay on more with the billy-clubs and the gangs were defeated.

[Past Your Eyes]

I'm well aware of that incident in 1863. I don't live, nor do I ever wish to live in such a place as that, either. I'm not sure what the point of your posting that in this situation was, but I take it that it must mean that since I choose to live in "Outer Whitelandia", I must be ignorant of all the enlightenment that there is all around me if only I would look. I might say that people in the places spoken of in the article are like animals but that would be an insult to all animals.

[Clemenza]

There is nothing wrong with living in Outerwhitelandia. Just that where we live often determines our perspectives on certain realities.

As Thomas Sowell pointed out, the massacre of Indians in Colorado was widely condemned by the New York press in the 19th century, yet was greeted with cheers by folks in Denver, who were closer to the "problem."

[conservative physics]

well considering that I think of most Mexicans as white... it seems somehow fitting and just that the neighborhoods the blacks took from the whites would be in turn taken from them.

[junta]

Do you really want the eloi to remember those days? You see part of the script given to us proles is that everyone who comes to the US becomes just like us and that is what we say because that is what is expected of us. You know those quaint little civil unrest periods called riots would last about a day if the proles remembered those days and decided to participate in their own gang fun.

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[Clemenza]

The "proles" (ie the native born yobbos) are too drunk on TV and beer to do anything.

BTW: I piss on Morlocks and Eloi.

[Windcatcher]

Chilling article. I've expected a rivalry between Blacks and Hispanics to form for years, but not in this way and certainly not violent. One would think that black community leaders would be SCREAMING that we need to control our borders at this point.

[Rytwyng]

well considering that I think of most Mexicans as white

Have your vision checked.

[junta]

I didn't suggest that.

[conservative physics]

Within 2 generations of being in America most Mexicans could easily pass as white if they wanted to.

most Mexicans are as white as most Italians.

you've got to remember a Mexican is a Spanish European (white) mixed with some native American Indian.

I rarely see a Mexican with easily recognizable Indians traits (Inca type appearance) here in America. What I see are European looking people with dark tans from working construction jobs, and strait black hair. If they worked inside jobs, dressed differently, and had no accent, you'd be hard pressed to guess what race they were.