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22 de Agosto, 2006
Brown to the Left of Me, Haters On the Right!
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America faces an existential crisis. If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived."
Pat Buchanan
I don't even know how to begin addressing this type of dishonesty and fear. Except to point out that—
Who built what? This nation was built by whom? White Europeans? Um, how do I put this....
Are you fuckin' serious, man?
So....do you count the Blacks, who were enslaved to insure so much needed labor for a country that still hates them? Or the Irish, who for so long were hardly considered White? I know you understand the importance of the railroads that span the country and first made so much expansion of commerce as well as habitation possible. Do you count the Chinese, then? Do you count the original inhabitants of this land (who were, of course, killed en masse by the White Europeans) and who, in my opinion are still enslaved/assimilated on their little plots of land—and even had their own experiences with adding their flesh to the combine to help it grow? Do you count the massive labor force required to make so many mills and farms produce the profits they still do? Do you count the massive number of non-Whites TODAY who still help build this country, inside our borders, as well as the ones to whom we outsource for cheaper labor? I mean...what country do you live in?
No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived.
Well, I'm here to tell you, Pat et al: surviving means you have to let go of the Hate. Or in the case of the nation of tribes that lived here before Pat's ancestors came here, survival might mean killing every person who sets foot on your shore before they get a chance to setup some crazy society that institutionalizes racism. But I don't think we want to start killing every person who sets foot on American soil. (...or do you, Pat?)
As the scared Neo-Nativists continue to fumble for their googleballs and let the lump of fear in their throat grow larger in the shadow cast by their own ignorance, we must address this completely false meme that these people are desperately trying to use to bolster their fear N hate-based agenda.
This country was not only built by everyone's ancestors who lives here today, pretty much, but under duress or manipulation by the hands of "Americans of European descent." It's too late now to want to be by yourself. Now that the castle is built. Simply put (in a manner a child might understand, Pat): You cannot bake a pie with the help of everyone in the kitchen, and then eat it by yourself.
Additionally, none of these points even addresses the falsity that the rising non-White population is due to immigration. It's not. It is due to the brown citizens right here in this country gettin' busy. How do you like that image, Pat?
You are right. America does face an existential problem. Is she going to crawl under a rock in her fear of the changing landscape? Grow scared and violent and primitive? Or is she going to grow strong, evolve now, and actually embody the empty ideals we are so used to spewing from our lips?
You aren't helping things, Pat. In your scurry for rocks, you are undermining the very ground we all walk upon.
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kick it, ése.