Update II (6/8): The amnesty bill is off the table for now. Why did Republicans support a bill so unpopular with constituents? Some thoughts. Michelle Malkin commends three Republicans who held out.
Update (6/7 @ 5:29 p.m.): Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill has stalled in the Senate. For now. The Senate needed 60 votes to end debate and vote on the bill, but fell 27 votes short. Some senators held out for the right reasons, others for the wrong reasons. Who cares? Just stop that bill from becoming law.
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Lynwood, California, has gone through a few demographic changes. It was once predominantly white, then predominantly black, and now it’s predominantly hispanic. And dare I guess that a fair number of its hispanic inhabitants are illegal aliens? (Source)
Speaking of which, Michelle Malkin and others are live-blogging the “immigration” bill debate in the Senate this week. Click over and follow her reports and links, because I won’t be covering it. It’s too painful to watch a bunch of suicidal white men hasten the destruction of America and turn it into a two-language, Third World cesspool.
But I digress. I’ve blogged numerous times about the tension to come between blacks and hispanics. See here and here. It’s been simmering in California for a long time, and it’s going to get much worse.
Lynwood is the place to watch to understand how America’s future will unfold. The city is over 80 percent hispanic, and 40 percent of its residents are “foreign-born.” That means they’re illegal aliens. (How do I know?)
Because illegal aliens can’t legally vote in this country, blacks in Lynwood have a slight advantage. They still have the numbers to put their people in office. But as the children of illegal aliens come of age (who also should be considered illegal aliens; get rid of birthright citizenship for children of criminal aliens!), that will change. And if the amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill passes the Senate, Lynwood’s hispanic voting bloc will emerge from the shadows.
You know what that means, right? Bye-bye, black politicos. From the story:
The tensions are playing out in cities such as Carson, Compton and Inglewood, where traditional black political muscle concentrated largely among older working- and middle-class homeowners is showing signs of weakening as a generation of Latinos reaches voting age. Tensions are also playing out in the race to succeed Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, where the competition between two well-positioned African American candidates may result in their canceling each other out, paving the way for a Latina to capture a seat blacks have held for decades.The black-Latino friction in a city such as Lynwood is exacerbated by a lack of resources and decent jobs and by poverty all problems common to both groups, said Harry Pachon, a USC professor and head of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, which released a report in April titled “Beyond the Racial Divide: Perceptions of Minority Residents on Coalition Building in South Los Angeles.”
One conclusion, he said, was telling…”Each group is buying off on the negative stereotypes held by the majority [white culture], rather than questioning them,” Pachon said. “Blacks say that Latinos don’t take care of their housing, and Latinos felt that blacks don’t value families as much.”
Yes! It’s all whitey’s fault! What would a story about tension between blacks and hispanics be without blaming “white culture” for nasty stereotypes? What a world we live in. People never want to look in the mirror. It’s so easy (and profitable) to keep blaming whites, isn’t it? What happens when whites become a minority and lose power? Who will they blame then?
By the way, stereotypes aren’t necessarily false. Anyone who’s lived in or around certain neighborhoods knows firsthand that some of those “negative stereotypes” are true. (Northern Virginia liberals are are learning that lesson.) White people (and now blacks) didn’t leave California in droves because of false stereotypes, did they?
As for Harry Pachon, who made the “white culture” remark, he must be hispanic. Given his vocation of all “Latinos†all the time, his assessment isn’t exactly objective, is it? He, like everyone else, has an agenda to push.
According to the story, hispanics once claimed they lost jobs to blacks. Now blacks are complaining they’re losing jobs to hispanics. One thing that would help the situation is to hire people and award contracts based on merit rather than skin color. Although it’s illegal in California to use race in hiring decisions for government jobs and contracts (thanks, Ward Connerly!), I have no doubt that Lynwood does so. In a city flooded with illegal aliens, who’s around to care about obeying the law?
Anyway, I’m done editorializing. I just wanted to bring Lynwood, CA, to your attention. It’s a sign of things to come. Reconstruction is over.
Watch and weep.
Addendum: Last week I asked for your firsthand experiences with a certain “diverse” culture. You may share your experiences on this thread.
I never cared much for Atlanta, anyway. Never understood the hype.
Related sources:
- Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans (PDF):
“In both the Mississippi and Miami cases, a system of racial hierarchy and segregation allowed both communities to flourish. In the Mississippi case, the Chinese flourished despite their status as a non-favored group, whereas with the Cubans in Miami, their success was predetermined given the conditions under which they entered the United States and the massive federal government assistance. If the patterns observed in these two historical cases are predictive, it suggests that the new Latino immigrants into the South will distance themselves from Southern blacks. Recent literature underscores the presence of this historical pattern.
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“One might think that the cause of Latinos’ negative opinions about blacks is the transmission of prejudice from Southern whites, but our data do not support this notion.”
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“In addition to holding negative stereotypical views of black Americans, Latino immigrants do indeed feel that they have more in common with whites than with blacks. Moreover, living in the same neighborhoods as blacks, contrary to our expectations, appears to reinforce the view on the part of Latino immigrants that they have more in common with whites and the least in common with blacks. Thus, while social contact in the previous hypothesis reduces negative stereotypical views, Latino immigrants living in the same neighborhoods with blacks pushes them farther away from blacks and closer to whites.” - The State of Black America, Part Two: The Nation’s Debate Over Illegal Immigration and How it Impacts Us
- Blacks losing political clout to Hispanics in Los Angeles – California politics
- Blacks, Latinos battle for California seat
- NPR — Blacks, Latinos and the Immigration Debate
- Illegal Immigration Threatens Tidal Change In Black Politics
- Blacks in Los Angeles Have Mixed Reaction to Massive Immigration Rallies
