Working
Toward Tripartite Racial Disunity: Maybe Not a
Really Great Idea
By Fred
Reed
July
25, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Regarding Latinos not as citizens but as
internal enemies of America is an idea pushed
not just by many racialist websites (e.g.,
Vdare).but
also by Donald Trump. The outlook is
particularly characteristic of something called
the Alt-Right, a substantial if loosely defined
group who are horrified at the thought of racial
amalgamation. Hostility intensifies as one moves
farther along the right wing to where the
feathers end and giddy space begins.
It is
perhaps worth noting that the accounts of Mexico
in the anti-immigrationist literature bear
little or no resemblance to the Mexico I have
lived in for fifteen years. The streets are not
strewn with garbage, it is not legal to screw
little girls of twelve years, guns for home
defense are not illegal, and Mexican school
children behave like everybody else’s. The
racialist sites often do not check facts, do not
correct false claims when notified of them, and
not infrequently simply lie. Many of the leaders
seem never to have been to Mexico, speak
Spanish, or have the foggiest notions of the
world below the Rio Bravo.
The President agrees with them.
He is openly hostile to some 43 million American
citizens. He has placed Mexico itself among “our
enemies,” His “Mexicans are rapists” assertion
resonated among Latinos much as Hillary’s
Deplorables among Americans. How smart is this?
Not very.
In fact it is wrong, dangerous, stupid, and
threatens disastrous consequences.
Let’s
take a quick look at some numbers. Census
figures show 57 million Latinos in the US,.
Perhaps 12 millions of them being illegal. Trump
promised to get rid of the illegals in two
years, which would require deporting 500,000 a
month for 24 months. He is way behind. He could
also deport 125,000 a month for eight years. Do
you see anything resembling this? If he deports
10,000 a month for eight years, it will come to
a bit under a million–less than two percent of
the Latino population,
In
short, the number of Latinos is not going to
change much whatever Trump does. There will be
at least fifty million in the country regardless
of anyone’s politics. Trump will deport enough
to keep tension high but not enough to make a
statistically noticeable difference. Most of the
Latinos are, and more will be, American
citizens. Treat them as internal enemies and
they will likely become such–wouldn’t you?–with
grievous results lasting for generations. This
would suit the Alt-Right fine, but be ruinous
for America.
There arise hard questions and curious
situations. For example, the Left and
businessmen do not want illegals expelled,
businessmen because they like cheap labor that
cannot organize, and the Left for the votes and
because many think deportation cruel. The
anti-immigrant people do not want to grant
amnesty. This makes the illegals an underclass
of twelve million unable to start businesses, go
to college, or get good jobs. Brilliant. Exactly
what the country needs. Further, the people who
complain that the illegals are badly schooled
want to deny education to undocumented children.
This would produce a large number of
irremediably unemployable illiterates. What a
swell idea.
Add Trump.
He too quite obviously loathes Mexico and
Mexicans, probably because he failed in a couple
of crooked real-estate deals here. He is
supposed to be the President of all Americans.
He is not. When he plays to his base by
attacking something like seventeen percent of
the citizenry, he is doing the country no favor.
Permitting
mass immigration, like importing slaves, was a
bad idea, but it was done. The time to stop
immigration is when it begins. When numbers
reach a vague tipping point, it becomes
irreversible. This has long since happened. Note
that it was an inside job. Patriotic American
businessmen have encouraged immigration,
Congress has condoned it as have both political
parties and Presidents–except Obama, who did
everything he could to encourage it. The problem
is home-grown and self-inflicted.
The
future? Many fear that Latinos won’t assimilate,
the Alt-Right that they will. The desire of the
latter, often explicitly stated, is for racial
purity of European stock, and Mexican girls are
alarmingly attractive. While racial purity is in
bad odor currently, it is actually a very good
idea–if you can get it. No diversity, no racial
strife, riots, burning cities, or endless anger
over immigration. The white race has been by far
the most successful and creative the planet has
known. A desire to keep it around makes great
sense. Well and good. Fine.
Unfortunately you cannot have both assimilation
and racial purity. It is one or the other. If
you concern is the well being of America, you
want good relations with the newcomers,
inevitably leading to intermarriage. If purity
is your goal, you want bad relations, and the
worse the better. To all appearances, the
racialist websites are working toward the latter
end. Trump, however intentionally, aids and
abets.
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A degree
of friction between the races cannot be avoided.
A small town in Tennessee does not like being
descended upon by people of an unfamiliar
culture. But the descenders have descended, with
the explicit help of the federal government.
They will not undescend. When a situation cannot
be changed, it must be dealt with. The practical
question, for anyone who gives a damn about the
country, for anyone who has to live in it or has
kids who will, is how to make the best of things
as they exist.
Many would
say, “Stop the influx and assimilate the ones we
have.” It is probably the best approach
available. Yet to accept it is to concede the
legitimacy of the citizenship of a minimum of
forty-some million Latinos. Racial and ethnic
purists cannot bring themselves to do this, so
they vituperate and vituperate. The constructive
value is not clear. What do they expect to
achieve?
How to
assimilate Latinos? A good question, grist for
another column. Everywhere I have been–LA, San
Fran, Houston, San Antonio, Chicago, New York
City, and Washington, DC–the problem has seemed
to be solving itself. Mexicans worked as
cashiers, bus drivers, waiters, and secretaries,
and spoke English. But LA is not Wheeling, and
California is not Arizona.
A
statistic that will hearten assimilationists and
revolt genetic purists is that (if Pew is to be
believed) the rate of intermarriage between
white and brown is twenty-six percent, higher
among the second generation than the first, and
higher between the well educated than the less
so. For what it’s worth, Latinos who speak
unaccented American English cease to seem very
Latino.
Working
against assimilation is that different cultures
inevitably experience friction, that most of the
immigrants are poor, poorly educated, young, and
male, that assimilation works less well with
populations large and dense enough be
self-isolating, such as we see in black ghettos,
and that the white-nationalists do all they can
to cause antagonism.
Working
toward successful assimilation is that Mexicans
are Christian, heavily European in their roots,
live in amity with a million American expats in
Mexico, and as a race are demonstrably able to
run modern cities universities, and such. Unlike
blacks and Muslims, they do not see whites and
Christians as mortal enemies. Much depends on
keeping things this way.
But one
thing I believe to be sure: Constantly attacking
forty million American citizens as stupid,
dirty, disease-ridden, criminal, given to rape
and all the rest, will not make for domestic
tranquility.
Fred,
a keyboard mercenary with a disorganized past,
has worked on staff for Army Times, The
Washingtonian, Soldier of Fortune, Federal
Computer Week, and The Washington Times.
https://fredoneverything.org
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