I understand black. But I most certainly can’t comprehend what brown has to do with it. Why are African Americans, who absolutely do have a legitimate historical grievance, lumped together with recent arrivals who showed up willingly? They weren’t dragged anywhere in chains. To the contrary, they insisted on coming. Probably went to great lengths to come. Why is anything’s owed to them?
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Good question.
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Mamdani and his wife, who come from fabulous riches, appropriate the suffering of ghetto blacks, who have been here for centuries and are foundational Americans, and we are supposed to see this as fair. This is ridiculous. Mamdani is a newcomer. As am I. But I don’t ask for any extra consideration because I freely chose to show up and Americans are kindly putting up with me. Such depths of ingratitude and entitlement are painful to observe.
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“appropriate the suffering of ghetto blacks, who have been here for centuries and are foundational Americans, and we are supposed to see this as fair”
They’re just doing what pays. Liberals have a tremendous psychic need for non-white people to feel oppressed and the natives (even those who might suffer from oppression) aren’t playing along.
It’s another case of immigrants doing a job Americans just won’t — in this case debase themselves to make liberals feel good about themselves.
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Amen to that.
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“what brown has to do with it”
Well in the liberal world-view brown = victim.
Puerto Ricans can’t have their country but have to move to New York to rumble with the Jets.
Mexicans can’t have their own country but have to pick beans at starvation wages.
Any brown on brown oppression (as in the Arab World and Indian Sub-continent) is blamed on UK colonialism who brought mean behavior to the previous egalitarian rainbow free sex brown peoples… or some other, equally deranged shit like that.
The question is why brown people play along with it. Some probably haven’t thought it through or are willing to get in on a low level scam to get ahead.
Gross all the way around.
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I’ve heard many complaints from my Mexican students about this. They consider themselves white. Republicans could gain a gigantic advantage among Hispanics by adopting a more Hispanic-friendly definition of what white is. The entire “people of color” line of thinking must be rejected.
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Mexicans were classified as white until the 1930 census.
Walnut
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Exactly. All of this “people of color” and “white adjacent’ crap has to go.
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I’m of mixed opinion about this. One the one hand a lot of them have been marrying into white bloodlines for centuries so they do have some claim.
On the other hand if we start doing things like that it might encourage the return to the caste system used in Central and South America which did nothing but cause issue. It would also encourage mixing of peoples which I tend to view as a bad thing. ….. In large quantities. You have always had individuals joining and leaving the different nations and tribes, but wide scale mixing has always ended badly and I would very much like to avoid that set of issues.
I hate to bring up potential prophets, but that Phillip Barnett had something interesting to say on this particular subject.
Supposedly if he is in fact correct after fighting in the Great Tribulation, America will be expanded a bit. Specifically by two or three states. From what he said after the invasion is beaten back America will claim what is currently Northwestern Mexico. And there will be three states called California, or rather variations of it. From what he said the Mexicans who had flooded into America who survive what’s to come will mostly settle in those two new states.
Again there is no way to know for sure if he is right, but considering he stated years ago that the reason for the anti-christ’s armies invading was to capture Texas and the surrounding states for its oil. Which I thought was a bit odd at the time because there was lots of oil coming from the middle east.
Today though, the idea that Iran might in an act of spite burn all the oil infrastructure in the middle east to the ground. Well that would make the oil fields in Texas one of the largest producers in the world. Especially if Russia’s are hit by the nukes which he said would be heading their way as the opening act to WWIII.
Getting back to the subject matter, honestly most of them have better claim to potentially become American than a lot of the local blacks in my opinion. A lot of them are descendants of the Central and Southern Natives and European bloodlines. They are Christian too. So I would be more inclined to accept them than the parasites being flown in from the Middle East, India, and Africa.
Now please don’t get me wrong I am still not in favor of mass immigration of them or anyone else, but compared to what has been getting flown in they are vastly preferable, even with their gang issues.
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They consider themselves white.
Many, if not most, of them are. Of European descent, I mean.
It’s just that, historically, Anglos have seen other European immigrants of non-British descent as non-white. Including the Irish, originally.
But you know that already, I’m sure.
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It’s the most bizarre view of race where race doesn’t have much to do with actual race and instead is a sort of an award for moral stature.
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“Many, if not most, of them are. Of European descent, I mean”
Race is not really that simple in Latin America, a large majority of Mexicans have mixed European and Native American ancestry. But race is also a question of self-identification and aspiration and many aspire to whiteness as a cultural rather than genetic category. It can be very surreal to be in Mexico and see the difference between the people in the street and the people on TV screens…
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As N asked when I was watching a Mexican telenovela, “But where are the Mexicans?” 😂😂
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“where are the Mexicans?”
A white friend lived a few years in a Latin American city with a pronounced indigenous population and supported herself with private English lessons. One day she got a call for lessons and went to the address (behind a security gate) and customers were very white and she was so uneasy that they never called back…
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I think its wrong to infantilize blacks like this. Not one black American today was ever a slave or brought to this country in chains. Not one was a victim of Institutional racism, though most blacks today have benefited from it at the expense of whites and asians. Black Americans have been the disgrace of this country for at least three generations now but I can remember when it was different. Before the creation of the welfare state black Americans were moving out of poverty at an amazing rate and the black family structure was solid. The welfare state, affirmative action, quotas and set asides did more and continue to do more damage to blacks in this country than slavery or the KKK could ever hope to do. Black Americans have become the Nic Reiner of this nation, lazy, ungrateful, unaccomplished, entitled with a strong propensity to crime and violence. Always offended, never ashamed.
Walnut
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Yes, ok, but they have been around for centuries. They are a given. Newcomers from 15 seconds ago aren’t. There’s no equivalency here, is what I’m saying. These are completely different groups.
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