Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by MegaSilver
In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.
We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.
We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.
In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.
By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.
Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.
Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.
Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.
Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?
Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.
Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.
America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.
If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.
Here's a good article that may be very relevant today. In the case of the Irish(referring to Catholic Irish), there was two political parties (American Republican and Know Nothings) dedicated to giving them the boot. They were hated since they were "Popists"(and involved in a conspiracy to bring the US under "Papal Rule"), were lazy, illiterate, superstitious, drunk, pugilistic, gang members, etc. Cartoons compared them to simians, and many of the papers there like Harper, Thomas Nast, and George Templeton Strong (the gorilla is superior to the Celtic in muscle and hardly their inferior in a moral sense.) led the charge.
Two of the main settlements of NYC they settled were "Five Points" and "Hell's Kitchen". From all I've read on it(and I'm in the process of a 25 page paper on it), it makes Detroit look like McLean, VA. That reinforced the stereotypes of Strong and others. 60% of the NYC arrests in the mid 1800's were Irish.(Dropped to 10% in 1890's)
The Republican Party of the 1860's was largely made up of "anti-slavery Free Soil Democrats", Know Nothings, and Whigs. While the Irish had some friends in that party like Seward and would be at home with the free soilers, they became democrats for 120 years+(It took abortion, LBJ, and Reagan to start to break that), and some areas still have that tradition. What concerns me is will the Mexicans be the "New Irish?" and have a 95% voting block backlash against the GOP?
That said, will they follow the Bishop John Hughes route? Or will they follow the LaRaza/MECHA route? Hughes was an American first("I became an American by choice, not by chance.") and worked hard to educate the American Irish there. Since the Public Schools were horrible then(anti-Catholic), he worked to set up a Catholic School and University system. Hughes was also a strong moralist and much of even today's old school Irish Catholicism can be traced back to Hughes's influence.
As for the LaRaza/MechA types, I put them in the same category as the KKK, IRA, Hamas, or Al Sharpton.
I second that.
Sorry, the Constitution, which I'm sworn to support and defend, as are you assuming you really were a Marine, defines a citizen as one born (or naturalized) in this country. Live with it.
Amendment XIV: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside (prior to the 14th amendment, the Constitution did not explicitly define citizenship, but it did imply that a person born in the United States was a citizen, in the section requiring that only a "natural born citizen" or one a citizen when the Constitution was ratified, could become President. TFB for the Governator).
El Gato. Are you in this country legally? Where is your allegiance?
I was born in Nebraska, in 1949. As for my allegiance, I am:
Captain El Gato
USAFR(ret)
The most obvious two things I can think of are corn and tobacco. Canoes(Very popular in North Michigan) and LaCrosse are two others I can think of.
In the final analysis there are no "indigenous people", except perhaps in Africa, but even there people have moved around, and intermixed (voluntarily or not as the case may be). Europeans may even have a dose of Neanderthal in their ancestry. (I'm sure the French do ;) ) Still it would have been highly unusual to find a blue eyed AmeriIndian prior to the European invasion beginning in the late 15th century. Well, unless the Vikings were in Vineland well before that time. But if so, then before they came. However since migration, or just travel of small groups, accross Eurasia could have put a few blue eye genes into the population from which the Amerindians sprung.
Yep, my wife and her sister. (Wife is the blond). When her sister was born, her father told her grandfather that "we have day and night". :)
I wouldn't say that an Apache from Northern Mexico looked much like Mayan from Southern Mexico and neither looks much like the descendants of the Incas in Chile. Other than having brownish skin, dark eyes and dark hair, otherwise they look alot different. In Argentina (the Patagonia part of which is as far south as you can get in South America) the current inhabitants look pretty European, although like "white" Americans, they are a mixture European peoples, English, German, and Spanish mostly. I don't know what the "original" Amerindians looked like, probably a bit like the Incas, but maybe not. (I put "original" in quotes because there were others living there before them)
Those folks were the "original" Japanese, until they were displaced to the norhternmost islands by invaders from Korea. Some think that the first wave of asian immigrants to the Americans may have been related to these people, the "Ainu", based on skeletal remains found in several places in the Americas.
This is the 14th amendment. It was proposed before the war and contributed greatly to the hostilities. Before the war, a state, under it's power to determine the electorate, awarded citizenship, and these were, by virtue of state citizenship, US citizens.
The 14th amendment is the moving force behind the destruction of the form of government designed by the framers. It invalidated large sections of the state constitutions.
It placed individuals in direct line of fire from federal legislation, when before it's ratification, except for few exceptions, it could not directly affect individual citizens. The power of granting citizenship at the national level gave it that power.
This amendment is the single most cause of the cultural and social disintegration we see now. Shepardize it and see SC cases that condoned expansion of the national government previously denied.
However, legislation can be enacted under this amendment to modify the process of automatic citizenship for illegal alien mother that drop their babies between crop rows seeking to create an anchor for themselves and the rest of their family.
This is a vile and destructive practice which gains the country nothing but those who wish to suck off its bounty and owe allegiance only to their home country.
You support this fraud, evidently. So, I would not say that your allegiance to America is not close to perfect. Service in the United States Air Force Reserve means nothing to me. Live with that.
Did you, and your parents, come to this country legally?
From what you have said, and your obvious support for the illegal invasion of America by Mexicans, I judge your position to be self serving in an attempt to advance the theory that Mexicans are somehow related to and descended form original Americans, a piton in the rock of our national sovereignty.
How do you feel about La Raza and similar movements. Support their agenda, do you?
Bah. Bugger off, mate.
Words-of-wisdom-at-the-end-of-a-L-O-N-G-thread bump.
Regards;
DD
(still laughing)
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DD
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