Racism Gets a Whitewash

[Bobby F.]

March 29, 2006
Racism Gets a Whitewash
By Michelle Malkin
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...whitewash.html

Few things make liberals more uncomfortable than being confronted with the racism of politically correct minorities.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about Autum Ashante, the precocious 7-year-old black nationalist poet, who said white people are "devils and they should be gone." If this daughter of a Nation of Islam activist father had instead been an Aryan supremacist child of a Klan activist, she'd still be all over the network news and pages of pop culture magazines (as a pair of white nationalist teen pop singers, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, have been since last fall). But with rare exceptions, nobody wanted to touch Autum's spoon-fed hatred with a 10-foot-pole. That would be, you know, "intolerant." We have to "respect diversity."

Well, this weekend, militant racism from another protected minority group was on full display. But you wouldn't know it from press accounts that whitewashed or buried the protesters' virulent anti-American hatred.

An estimated 500,000 to 2 million people, untold numbers of them here illegally, took to the streets of Los Angeles to protest strict immigration enforcement and demand blanket amnesty for border violators, visa overstayers, deportation fugitives, immigration document fraud artists and other lawbreakers. Mexican flags and signs advocating ethnic separatism and supremacy filled the landscape. Demonstrators gleefully defaced posters of President Bush and urged supporters to "Stop the Nazis!" Los Angeles talk show host Tammy Bruce reported that protesters burned American flags and waved placards of the North American continent with America crossed out.

Bet you didn't see that on television.

One of the largest, boldest banners visible from aerial shots of the rally read: "THIS IS STOLEN LAND." Others blared: "CHICANO POWER" and "BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL." (Can you imagine the uproar if someone had come to the rally holding up a sign reading "WHITE IS BEAUTIFUL"?) Thugs with masked faces flashed gang signs on the steps of L.A.'s City Hall. Students walked out of classrooms all across Southern California chanting, "Latinos, stand up!" Young people raised their fists in defiance, clothed in T-shirts bearing radical leftist guerrilla Che Guevara's face and Aztlan emblems.

Aztlan is a long-held notion among Mexico's intellectual elite and political class, which asserts that the American Southwest rightly belongs to Mexico. Advocates believe the reclamation (or reconquista) of Aztlan will occur through sheer demographic force. If the rallies across the country are any indication, reconquista is already complete.

Lest you think these ideas are moldy-oldy 1960s leftovers that no one subscribes to today, listen to Sandra Molina, 16, a junior from L.A.'s Downtown Magnet High School, who complained to the supportive Los Angeles Times: "This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out."

Nor are these sovereignty-obliterating grievances confined to the wacky West Coast. In Milwaukee, Wis., marchers carried signs that read: "If you think I'm 'illegal' because I'm a Mexican[,] learn the true history because I'm in my HOMELAND."

Open-borders sympathizers in the press strained to look the other way. As Slate writer Mickey Kaus, who attended the L.A. demonstration, noted, the Los Angeles Times buried any mention of the presence of Mexican flags in its initial "propagandistic" report -- and then eliminated any reference to them at all. Cracks Kaus: "I used to write this sort of press-releasey 'news' account when my college paper assigned me to 'cover' anti-war demonstrations that I'd helped organize! . . . The Times' effort is filled with representative quotes from participants, without a note of dissent."

Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).

But you'll never hear or read such forgiving caveats in the mainstream press's hostile coverage of the pro-immigration enforcement members of the Minutemen Project -- who are universally smeared as racists. For what? For peacefully demanding that our government enforce its laws and secure its borders.

Yes, borders. Last time I checked a map of North America, they still do exist.

Unless we give in and let the bullies and their appeasers whitewash those out of existence, too.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Bobby F.

March 29, 2006
Racism Gets a Whitewash
By Michelle Malkin
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...whitewash.html

Few things make liberals more uncomfortable than being confronted with the racism of politically correct minorities.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about Autum Ashante, the precocious 7-year-old black nationalist poet, who said white people are "devils and they should be gone." If this daughter of a Nation of Islam activist father had instead been an Aryan supremacist child of a Klan activist, she'd still be all over the network news and pages of pop culture magazines (as a pair of white nationalist teen pop singers, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, have been since last fall). But with rare exceptions, nobody wanted to touch Autum's spoon-fed hatred with a 10-foot-pole. That would be, you know, "intolerant." We have to "respect diversity."

Well, this weekend, militant racism from another protected minority group was on full display. But you wouldn't know it from press accounts that whitewashed or buried the protesters' virulent anti-American hatred.

An estimated 500,000 to 2 million people, untold numbers of them here illegally, took to the streets of Los Angeles to protest strict immigration enforcement and demand blanket amnesty for border violators, visa overstayers, deportation fugitives, immigration document fraud artists and other lawbreakers. Mexican flags and signs advocating ethnic separatism and supremacy filled the landscape. Demonstrators gleefully defaced posters of President Bush and urged supporters to "Stop the Nazis!" Los Angeles talk show host Tammy Bruce reported that protesters burned American flags and waved placards of the North American continent with America crossed out.

Bet you didn't see that on television.

One of the largest, boldest banners visible from aerial shots of the rally read: "THIS IS STOLEN LAND." Others blared: "CHICANO POWER" and "BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL." (Can you imagine the uproar if someone had come to the rally holding up a sign reading "WHITE IS BEAUTIFUL"?) Thugs with masked faces flashed gang signs on the steps of L.A.'s City Hall. Students walked out of classrooms all across Southern California chanting, "Latinos, stand up!" Young people raised their fists in defiance, clothed in T-shirts bearing radical leftist guerrilla Che Guevara's face and Aztlan emblems.

Aztlan is a long-held notion among Mexico's intellectual elite and political class, which asserts that the American Southwest rightly belongs to Mexico. Advocates believe the reclamation (or reconquista) of Aztlan will occur through sheer demographic force. If the rallies across the country are any indication, reconquista is already complete.

Lest you think these ideas are moldy-oldy 1960s leftovers that no one subscribes to today, listen to Sandra Molina, 16, a junior from L.A.'s Downtown Magnet High School, who complained to the supportive Los Angeles Times: "This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out."

Nor are these sovereignty-obliterating grievances confined to the wacky West Coast. In Milwaukee, Wis., marchers carried signs that read: "If you think I'm 'illegal' because I'm a Mexican[,] learn the true history because I'm in my HOMELAND."

Open-borders sympathizers in the press strained to look the other way. As Slate writer Mickey Kaus, who attended the L.A. demonstration, noted, the Los Angeles Times buried any mention of the presence of Mexican flags in its initial "propagandistic" report -- and then eliminated any reference to them at all. Cracks Kaus: "I used to write this sort of press-releasey 'news' account when my college paper assigned me to 'cover' anti-war demonstrations that I'd helped organize! . . . The Times' effort is filled with representative quotes from participants, without a note of dissent."

Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).

But you'll never hear or read such forgiving caveats in the mainstream press's hostile coverage of the pro-immigration enforcement members of the Minutemen Project -- who are universally smeared as racists. For what? For peacefully demanding that our government enforce its laws and secure its borders.

Yes, borders. Last time I checked a map of North America, they still do exist.

Unless we give in and let the bullies and their appeasers whitewash those out of existence, too.

My niece and her friends and her dad were part of the protesters. They are not illegals. They were born here. There were also many American flags and there was also flags of other nations there. There were blacks there. There were also chinese there. My niece brought home the video and i seen ALL FIVE OF THE AMERICAN PROTESTERS WHO WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THIS PROTEST. I seen many diverse cultures being represented there. But this is not mentioned in your post. For you to say that certain things weren't shown on t.v., you yourself didn't mention all the info abt the protest. My grandfather came from Mexico. My father was a veteran of WW2. He enlisted. He fought for this country so we can have a voice. I agree with your statement abt the media at times being one-sided. For example, the Natalee Holloway case. She is white and to this day we are hearing abt her. What abt the many missing cases of black girls? Hispanic girls? Chinese girls? poor girls? The media doesn't talk abt those cases. Are the media WHITE WASHED?

[James"Thunder"Early]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

My niece and her friends and her dad were part of the protesters. They are not illegals. They were born here. There were also many American flags and there was also flags of other nations there. There were blacks there. There were also chinese there. My niece brought home the video and i seen ALL FIVE OF THE AMERICAN PROTESTERS WHO WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THIS PROTEST. I seen many diverse cultures being represented there. But this is not mentioned in your post. For you to say that certain things weren't shown on t.v., you yourself didn't mention all the info abt the protest. My grandfather came from Mexico. My father was a veteran of WW2. He enlisted. He fought for this country so we can have a voice. I agree with your statement abt the media at times being one-sided. For example, the Natalee Holloway case. She is white and to this day we are hearing abt her. What abt the many missing cases of black girls? Hispanic girls? Chinese girls? poor girls? The media doesn't talk abt those cases. Are the media WHITE WASHED?

Good post

[Bobby F.]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

My niece and her friends and her dad were part of the protesters. They are not illegals. They were born here. There were also many American flags and there was also flags of other nations there. There were blacks there. There were also chinese there. My niece brought home the video and i seen ALL FIVE OF THE AMERICAN PROTESTERS WHO WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THIS PROTEST. I seen many diverse cultures being represented there. But this is not mentioned in your post. For you to say that certain things weren't shown on t.v., you yourself didn't mention all the info abt the protest. My grandfather came from Mexico. My father was a veteran of WW2. He enlisted. He fought for this country so we can have a voice. I agree with your statement abt the media at times being one-sided. For example, the Natalee Holloway case. She is white and to this day we are hearing abt her. What abt the many missing cases of black girls? Hispanic girls? Chinese girls? poor girls? The media doesn't talk abt those cases. Are the media WHITE WASHED?

How many do you think were out there just to be part of the protest and how many do you think really were there for the cause? You say that there were blacks there yet today I was hearing stories asking why are we not hearing anything from the black civil rights leaders? The answer being that blacks don't think that this is their fight and basically are in a culture war with Hispanics as far as jobs and representation. Blacks are frusrtated that all that they had to fight for during the civil rights movenment is basically being given to illegals. Expecially if they are granted amnesty again.

Someone on Laura Ingrahms show brought up the point of why aren't these kids that are skipping class protesting on their own time instead of on school time. Why not on the weekends and after school. There were many that were their because they believed in what they were doing but I can guarentee that there were many that said "looks like a good reason to skip class!". That would have been my way of thinking back in high school.

I can't argue about the Holloway case. It was the same with the Peterson case. Too much coverage. There is or was a bit of coverage on 2 little black boys that have been missing from up north. I haven't kept up with it to hear if there has been any outcome.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Bobby F.

How many do you think were out there just to be part of the protest and how many do you think really were there for the cause? You say that there were blacks there yet today I was hearing stories asking why are we not hearing anything from the black civil rights leaders? The answer being that blacks don't think that this is their fight and basically are in a culture war with Hispanics as far as jobs and representation. Blacks are frusrtated that all that they had to fight for during the civil rights movenment is basically being given to illegals. Expecially if they are granted amnesty again.

Someone on Laura Ingrahms show brought up the point of why aren't these kids that are skipping class protesting on their own time instead of on school time. Why not on the weekends and after school. There were many that were their because they believed in what they were doing but I can guarentee that there were many that said "looks like a good reason to skip class!". That would have been my way of thinking back in high school.

I can't argue about the Holloway case. It was the same with the Peterson case. Too much coverage. There is or was a bit of coverage on 2 little black boys that have been missing from up north. I haven't kept up with it to hear if there has been any outcome.

i am in agreement that this protest brought out the "let's cut class" excuse. I am not in favor of any child skipping school for the sake of just "skipping school". We had protesters here in our city on Monday but these kids did it AFTERSCHOOL. Smart kids. There were quite too many kids who took this opportunity to do this. I think alot had to do with the HBO original movie that took place just a week before called WALKOUT. it's the true story of chicano students who were not allowed to use the restrooms during school time, being treated like third class citizens, etc. These students walked out of school. I feel that's where this came abt. Perfect timing? Who knows.

But the media can spin what it wants when it wants. I have seen many stories abt white missing people and white Americans being killed. As a matter of fact, the Peterson case brings up a good point. There was a murder that happened less than a year before Laci's and it was a hispanic mother who was pregnant and she and her five year old son were missing. Her body was found weeks later by the "edge of water" near San Francisco and her fetus was missing. Her five year old son has never been found. Where is the hoopla surrounding her murder? Was it because she was hispanic and one less mexican is one less mexican to worry abt?
What abt that damn runaway bride? Had that woman been black, would the media have cared? Hell no.