Posted on 05/24/2002 1:31:15 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Last month, an intriguing little congressional pow-wow was clandestinely held – no press invited – in the Northern Virginia town of Leesburg. It was a 3-day conference, and attendance appears to have been restricted by ethnicity and race.
But this was not a gathering of the Leesburg chapter of the White Citizens Council. It was a conclave of three congressional caucuses – the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus and the Asia Pacific Caucus. And the invitation list appears to have been made up with one provision in mind: No whites need apply.
As described in a front-page story in the New York Times, the goal of this "tri-caucus retreat" was to "create an atmosphere of understanding among groups that have often felt pitted against one another for resources and recognition." But as the caucuses claim to represent only Americans of African, Asian and Hispanic descent, just what were they uniting for, and who are they uniting against?
Now since the Democratic Party has been fairly described as a "collection of warring tribes that has come together in anticipation of common plunder," and all attendees were Democrats, there was lots of talk of a joint looting expedition at the expense of taxpayers.
Attendees pointed to their common front on the $175 billion farm bill, where the Black Caucus demanded an expansion of the food-stamp program, and the Hispanic Caucus demanded restoration of food stamps for immigrants. Apparently, they had jointly triumphed.
Another "shining example" of collusion was in Texas, where Hispanics and blacks joined forces to nominate Tony Sanchez for governor and African-American Ron Kirk for Senate. Capturing the seats lately held by George W. Bush and Phil Gramm for a Hispanic and an African American would apparently be real progress.
But all this raises a question: If it is acceptable for blacks and Hispanics to collude to seize power from white Americans, why is it a violation of civil rights for whites to collude to increase their representation in legislatures at the expense of minorities? If the latter is racism, why is the former progress?
The closer one reads Lynette Clemetson's Times' story, the more it appears this Leesburg summit was not about the politics of aiding the poor and powerless against the rich and powerful. This secret summit was about how folks of Third World ancestry can join forces to seize power and resources from white America.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction is a law of Newtonian physics. The same is true in politics. If it has become acceptable for caucuses that represent people of color to join against America's white majority, look for white folks to begin to identify themselves by race, rather than party or philosophy, to preserve what they have. Has the New York Times considered the consequences of what its reporter seems to be celebrating?
All, however, was not harmony at Leesburg. Seems that last January, Latino businessman broke away from the National Minority Auto Dealers Association to form the National Hispanic Auto Dealers Association. Reported without comment. Can one imagine the Times' reaction to a Euro-American Auto Dealers Association?
As Clemetson's story runs on, the Spirit of Leesburg began to reveal itself in the entertainment: "Audience members sat rapt as Sarah Jones, a socially conscious writer and actress ... slipped in and out of accents to portray characters from a Mexican-American labor organizer to a new immigrant from Haiti who scolded listeners: 'God bless America, but not because of you. Remember, your ancestors came here, too.'"
Would it be impertinent to ask who "you" is? And if this us-vs.-them racial rhetoric is acceptable at a Third World caucus-coalition, why is it a hate crime for white folks? Nor was this the end of the fun. Writes Clemetson: "Beau Sea, a Chinese-American slam poet from Oklahoma, raised eyebrows with his confrontational number, 'The Asians are coming'":
We are everywhere
We are programming your Websites
Making your executives look smart
And getting into your schools – for free
And you know what?
It's only gonna get bigger.
Middle America: Hello! From what went down at Leesburg, it is clear the old idea of integration and assimilation, of one nation and one people, is giving way among elites of color to a racial and ethnic spoils system. And as "Anglos" are a minority in California already and soon to be a minority in Texas, perhaps they should start asking what kind of country it is going to be when they are outnumbered nationwide by mid-century.
And that is why he is so disliked. Very few Americans have the guts to speak out. Good post.
Were they wrong in their predictions?
Yes! It's ridiculous to think that letting German and Irish immigrants into the US was the cause of US socialism. Is that dumb or what ?!
So, I'll guess marxism is o.k. with you too?
I posted this in #33 - "BTW - I'm against all groups sucking at the government tit.
If you need me to explain to you what that means, and how that philosophy is the opposite of Marxism, just reply.
I noticed that while they called you lots of names for stating this, no one has disputed your comment above.
That's why I get the last laugh!
Please show, from the text of this article, why Pat is racist. You've been asked before, and have avoided the question.
You don't get the last laugh around here that easy, bub.
But no, Pat always is ranting against his favorite usual suspects, i.e. Blacks, Jews/Israel, Mexicans, Hispanics, etc., etc.
He does. Often. Now I believe the question that was posed to you, which you have dodged for the third time now, was what in this article do you disagree with?
Based on the NYT article there are 38 members of the black caucus and 19 members of the hispanic caucus. Blacks are roughly 13% of the US population and hispanics roughly 12.5%. If blacks and hispanics had representation proportional to their population, there would be roughly 57 blacks and 54 hispanics in congress. Tell me again, who did Pat say was getting plundered?
-btw the concept that the US treasury keeps the white people's money in a seperate place (so's you know when the colored people are takin it) is hilarious...
Regarding your post hoc, ergo propter hoc non-answer to my question, show a case where other groups have recently caucused to plot a joint plundering process.
'bout 18 mos. ago in CALIFORNIA, whites became less than 50% of its population....the swarms from down south ain't gonna stop soon....
Perhaps you just need to answer the real question.
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