Posted on 12/16/2002 5:34:44 AM PST by SJackson
I haven't seen Texas do this. And since 1 in every 20 Texans is now an illegal alien, when do you think Texas may step up to the plate and hold their own election to stop this lunacy? And if they do, what do you think would happen in the state George Bush is from? I think the results would be predictable, as even Bush Senior came came out, and spoke out against our election here in California. I remember it clearly and can even find a quote if you like.
These are the brutal hard facts.
In my view, all employers should concentrate on the job qualifications, performance, on the job behavior and attitude of employees, and matters of race, sex, gender orientation should be irrelevant unless manifested in inappropriate behavior in the office.
"I think assimilation of American values, both by immigrants but also by our children is the strength of our nation. Yup, mostly white, Judeo Christian stuff, but not defined that way, universal values, and theyd work for a hard working black Muslim refugee from Sudan just fine if he accepts them.
Exactly. And that assimilation has little to do with some sort of a homogenous nation, or with people discarding their ethnic/cultural traditions and embracing the prevailing culture, but rather, as you said, embracing American/western values of equality, justice, and tolerance of diverse opinions.
And I agree with you that there's not room for everyone who would come, so controlled immigration is called for, with few exceptions (my status as a political refugee does tint my opinion on that subject), but I believe that immigration policy should be liquid, and always be based on the needs of America.
For example, it would be perfectly acceptable to me to see immigration quotas being skewed to help the farming industry when needed, or the fishing industry. In other words, allow in what work force that we need at any particular time.
At the same time, I also believe that industry does have the right to seek specific individuals outside of the country to come work in the US. I don't consider H1-B workers as immigrants, but rather contract labor.
We need to also clean up our own house, and limit the welfare benefits paid out to new arrivals.
So, hypothetically, what do you think would happen since 1 in every 20 Texans is now an illegal alien, and Texas stepped up to the plate and held their own election to stop this lunacy? And if they did, what do you think would happen in the state George Bush is from? I think the results would be predictable, as even Bush Senior came came out, and spoke out against our election here in California. I remember it clearly and can even find a quote if you like.
My point is California with all it's politically problems, at least stepped up to the plate several years ago and voted to stop this government sponsored, forced support of illegal aliens, and the government stepped in after we won and told the vast majority of Californians to F off.
All the other states out there that are being inundated with illegal aliens haven't done anything to help themselves as this ever escalating crisis continues.
So even with comment such as these
Additionally, white liberals are a relatively rare species in Texas, without the vast strongholds of leftism found in the S.F. Bay Area and Los Angeles County. The Texas rich are, by and large, moderate to conservative; their California counterparts are not. Highland Park, a wealthy, old money, in-town suburb of Dallas, was President Bush's and VP Cheney's home; Marin County, north of San Francisco, was John Walker Lindh's.
Texas, in other words, will be no pushover for a Hispanic takeover, in either slow motion or double time.
The fact remains, the huge overall majority of Californians held a free election, (prop 187) and voted to end this illegal immigration lunacy. We won, and won big, but the government had other ideas...... So even if some of your statements are true, the fact remains, California spoke loud and clear with 187 only to be bound and gagged by the government.
1) The economic elites like to pay lower wages to immigrants via flooding the labor market with low skill legal and illegal immigrants.
2) The imperial political elites gain power within the imperial system by playing different groups off against one another (the imperial roman and imperial british elites were the champs of this strategy).
The elites in imperial systems tend to be urban and internationalist. They view themselves as above and separate from the various tribes who populate the empire. They must espouse a version of universalism because they realize that they cannot be seen as openly being for or of one of the consitutent tribes of the empire...that would provoke rebellion by the other tribes. Also, the elitism tends to act as a justification for the elite's rule ("we are obviously SO much more urbane and sophisticated than those rabble in fly-over country!")
Our society is in transition to an empire...it still has a central, culture group that makes up the clear majority of the population (the white middle class). In order to off-set the political influence of this group, the elites have made strategic coalitions with other tribes within the empire.
They have co-opted the black elites into the empire via the granting to them of affirmative action preferences. The black elites get cushy jobs, admission to elite universities, contract set-asides, etc. In return, these black elites steer the ideas and feelings of their people in directions that are desirable to the empire. The black elites throw the bone of welfare to their followers to keep them "on the reservation".
Immigration is also a key part of the elite's tribal-empire strategy. The elites have fostered the growth and awakening of an hispanic tribe in the US for reasons mentioned above (the council of La Raza was created by the Ford Foundation specifically to radicalize the hispanic population into a sentinent tribal unit in the empire). Immigration is a key elite pay-off to this constituency. Continued immigration is necessary for the hispanic elite in order for their tribe to grow in numbers and influence.
What this woman's article represents is an attempt by a black elite intellectual to warn the imperial elite that its program may be faltering in one big way: the great herd of white middle class america (whose apathy is critical for the completion of the imperial transformation) may actually be waking up. They are starting to pull their heads up from their grazing and focus a partially-narcotized gaze on the country around them. What happened to the world trade center? Where did all of these muslim terrorists in my neighborhood come from? Why is Trent Lott jumping for biscuits on BET?
This realization is curtains for the empire, and must be prevented at all costs (notice that this woman doesn't want to end affirmative action because she believes that discrimination is wrong....she wants to end it as a political strategy to short-circuit white middle class oppostion to her and the elite's political plans).
The elite may follow her suggestions, but I doubt it. They may make a splashy show of ending affirmative action in the supreme court...but the elite cannot end it. It is too important for buying-off the black elite and keeping them "on the team". My hunch is that they will work overtime finding devious ways to continue to discriminate against the white middle class, but make it harder to detect (as the university system in Cal is doing right now).
As for immigration...no way. It is the center piece of the elite's plans for social transformation...and is too valuable to the corporate elite. This demographic transformation MUST occur if the imperial elite is to realize their true, Caesarian dreams.
Any homogenous nation with an elite dedicated to the survival of its core cultural group would have militarized its borders by sundown on Sept 11. The fact that ours are still wide open for any terrorist to waltz across, shows just how powerful the forces for open borders really are. Even at the cost of another terrorist attack on 9/11's scale, the borders will remain open.
But hey....no one ever said empire comes cheap.
Texas' saving grace is that the state government provides fewer and less costly services than does California. Also, the Lone Star State lacks an income tax. Its beauracracy and regulations are far less restrictive than in California. Perhaps Texans lack the ability to override the Legislature, but at least our state government is less oppressive than that of the Golden State.
I am sorry for what has happened to California, nor do I assume that Texas will escape the former state's fate. However, there are certain factors at play in California, specifically, the large volume of white liberals, who facilitated the leftist takeover of that state and possibly the future establishment of Atzlan there, which are not the case with regard to the Lone Star State.
Well back to my point, if California has such a large volume of liberals, how in the world did Proposition 187 pass so overwhelmingly? It wasn't even a contest.
There were other propositions in California, such as the property tax rollback, that passed by a wide margin. Even Massachusetts came within a few percentage points of abolishing that state's income tax last month. Few "gay rights" propositions receive a majority of the vote; state level Equal Rights Amendments went down in flames, for the most part. Gun control initiatives seldom pass in referenda.
To summarize, electorates in both California and elsewhere will vote in a more conservative manner than their legislatures and high courts do. However, too large a portion of the electorate simply disconnect their choice of candidates from their personal beliefs. Too many votes select a candidate for providing funds for a new highway or helping fund the expansion of the local college than for principled positions.
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