March 10, 2012

Straight Outta Compton

Mickey Kaus points us toward this great article by Will Evans of CaliforniaWatch that, as far as I can tell, appears to be real. But the possibility that it's just an Onion-like collection of random iSteve tropes cannot be dismissed, either.
Compton City Councilwoman Janna Zurita owes her Hispanic last name to a grandmother from Spain, whom she never met. Zurita considers her mother black and said her father “wants to be black” even though he “looks Latino.”  
Zurita, the mayor pro tem of Compton, sometimes jokes with her sister about their racial roots. 
“She always tells me I look just like a Mexican: flat booty, straight hair. You know, just all kind of – how Mexicans used to look. You know, now they have big booties,” Zurita said in a legal deposition in November. “You know, little jokes about it.” 
While Zurita takes a sometimes-playful approach to her racial identity, it became the serious subject of a recent lawsuit under the California Voting Rights Act. In January, a judge ruled that a trial would be necessary to figure out whether Zurita could be considered Latina and whether that means Latinos have a voice on the council. The city settled the suit late last month. 
The legal gymnastics in Compton illustrate California’s far-reaching law, which bars local governments from diluting the voting strength of minorities. The law has become the foundation of a burgeoning onslaught of legal threats that could upend the racial makeup of elected bodies throughout the state. 
Armed with 2010 census data, a network of attorneys is increasingly targeting local governments – from cities and school boards to hospital and community college districts – for not reflecting the demographics of their constituents.  
While the dispute in Compton, where Zurita’s race was under question, pitted Latino residents against the city’s traditionally black leadership, other cases seek to increase minority representation on elected boards that are dominated by whites. ...
Particularly striking against this backdrop are the 14 cities in California where all-white councils preside over communities where either Latinos or Asians make up the majority of residents. Several are clustered in the Los Angeles area, like Whittier and Arcadia, but they range from Tulelake, on the Oregon border, to Holtville, near the Mexican border.

The joke here is that Whittier and Arcadia are traditionally white-run municipalities that affluent Mexicans and Chinese, respectively, crave to move to. Whittier is the place that wealthy Mexican-Americans in Southern California are congregating, while Arcadia, where my aunt has lived my whole life, has filled up with rich Chinese who tear down the modest ranch houses and build huge houses out to the property lines. Arcadia H.S., a public school, has about 30 National Merit semifinalists per year. In other words, Mexicans with money seem to like how Whittier has been run and Chinese with money like how Arcadia has been run. But, all that's irrelevant because the 2010 Census shows lots of Mexicans in Whittier and Chinese in Arcadia. Of course, the 2010 Census didn't bother asking if they were citizens or not.
Another 20 cities have Latino majorities and only one minority on city council.
Such cities can make especially attractive targets for civil rights lawyers, who see the stark disparities as evidence of a systemic problem. 
“These are the cities that should recognize that they are low-hanging fruit for groups who might want to bring lawsuits,” said Paul Mitchell of Redistricting Partners, a Sacramento-based consulting firm that works with local governments to determine their vulnerability under the law.

California Watch was able to identify the 34 cities with data from Redistricting Partners and another consulting group, GrassrootsLab. But the cities represent one end of a spectrum. Numerous other communities, with smaller minority populations or more diversity on the city council, also could be subject to a suit under the California Voting Rights Act, which was passed in 2002 and signed by Gov. Gray Davis. 
The law prohibits local governments from holding at-large elections – in which the entire community votes for a slate of candidates – if that system weakens the ability of minorities to elect candidates of their choice.  
An elected board can be found in violation if voting statistics show the community polarized along racial lines. That happens, for example, when Latinos vote more than their white neighbors for Latino candidates.  
A law so rooted in race inevitably leads to thorny questions about racial politics and the murky, subjective cauldron of ethnic identity. Should the race of a city councilmember even matter? And, in a state where the lines are increasingly blurred, who can determine a councilmember’s race other than the council member? 
In Compton, lawyers representing two Latina residents argued that Zurita is not Latina. Zurita, on the other hand, pointed to her election as evidence that Latinos are represented. 
But even she seemed conflicted during her deposition, at one point saying that she is Latina, at another point that she isn’t. 
Asked point-blank by an opposing lawyer, Zurita replied, “I don’t think there is any pure races.” 
The brouhaha over Zurita’s race “raises an issue that I believe is silent in the legislation, which is, how are you calculating ethnicity?” said Compton City Attorney Craig J. Cornwell. “Is it people who have Latino ancestry? Is it how a person self-identifies themselves?" 
The U.S. Census doesn’t provide clear answers, because it considers being Hispanic or Latino separate from race. On government forms, Zurita sometimes marks black, sometimes “other” and couldn’t remember if she ever marked Latino. 
Adding to the confusion, Zurita later referred to her Spanish grandmother as Mexican. The attorney sought to clarify: “So she was from Spain, but her heritage was Mexican?”  
“Well,” Zurita replied, “you know, I don't know. All this Mexican, third generation, fourth generation, Latina, Latino – I just kind of refer to the group as Mexican.” 
Regardless, Zurita maintained that she represents all residents of Compton, where 65 percent of the population is Hispanic. 
“I don't even think race, you know,” she said. “I don't look at race.” 
In a settlement last month, Compton agreed to let voters decide whether to change to district elections. If voters shoot it down on the June ballot, the city will put it to another vote in November. Compton also agreed to pay the opposing attorneys’ fees.  
California’s law is grounded in the idea that minorities sometimes vote differently from the rest of the population and that at-large elections, where the majority rules, can unfairly dilute their influence. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld that underlying notion in cases interpreting the federal Voting Rights Act. 
Indeed, in many parts of the state, including throughout Los Angeles County, Californians do tend to vote for candidates of their same race, according to research by Matt Barreto, who served as an independent expert to the state redistricting commission. Barreto also consults for lawyers suing under the law. 
The California law makes it much easier to challenge at-large elections than under the federal Voting Rights Act. Plus, the state law puts local governments at a disadvantage: If they lose a lawsuit, they have to pay the other side’s attorney’s fees, but not the other way around.  
The act was drafted by Joaquin Avila, a Seattle-based voting rights attorney, and Robert Rubin, who until recently was legal director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. The duo has gone on to sue school districts and cities, racking up millions of dollars and sparking accusations that they are in it for the money.  
Rubin, now in private practice, said the money from his share of legal settlements went to the nonprofit civil rights organization where he worked. He said governments saddled with huge legal costs have only themselves to blame for not following the law.  
“We’re going to continue to be aggressive,” Rubin said. “We intend to enforce this until it doesn’t need enforcement anymore.” 
In 2010, law co-authors Rubin and Avila sued the Central Valley city of Tulare.  
The suit argued that even though Tulare then had a Latino councilman, he wasn’t the “candidate of choice of Latino voters.” Another councilman, David Macedo, said in an interview that he identifies as Hispanic because of his Portuguese ancestry, but doesn’t consider himself Latino. 
Tulare settled for $225,000, which went to the plaintiff’s lawyers, and will hold a vote this year on switching to district elections. Macedo said he would encourage residents to approve the switch because, given the law, “one way or another, that’s the way it’s headed.”  
Rubin, Avila and affiliated attorneys have directed the legal offensive so far. But labor unions and other groups also could use the law as a weapon in disputes with cities and school boards. 
The first such case came in December, when the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California sued the city of Escondido, in San Diego County, alleging that at-large elections leave Latinos without fair representation. The union targeted Escondido because officials there have been trying to lower wages on public construction projects.  

The last bit about unions is a KausFiles theme. But, boy, does the rest of the article sound like I just made it up by riffing on my old reliable themes. By the end, I was wondering why the article lacked any references to cousin marriage or gold chains.


49 comments:

rightsaidfred said...

Sheesh. Sounds like they want Apartheid done right. Be sure to tip the lawyers.

Anonymous said...

Armed with 2010 census data, a network of attorneys is increasingly targeting local governments... Particularly striking against this backdrop are the 14 cities in California where all-white councils preside over communities where either Latinos or Asians make up the majority of residents...


A network of Scots-Irish attorneys, no doubt.

Boy, I tell ya what, the Scots-Irish sure do seem to be supremely confident that they will be able to control their new pets.

But what will the Scots-Irish do as their pets grow older and get their adult canine teeth and are no longer satisfied with just chew toys and the occasional table leg?


...while Arcadia, where my aunt has lived my whole life, has filled up with rich Chinese who tear down the modest ranch houses and build huge houses out to the property lines...

For the Chinese, the best thing about Arcadia is the race track, so they can always pop in and get their daily gambling fix.

It's a really beautiful area, BTW, and home to the prettiest little Motel 6 in the whole wide world.

Steve Sailer said...

Thanks, now I finally understand why all those Hong Kong millionaires started buying houses in Arcadia in the 1980s and plunking there teenagers in them alone for much of the year: Arcadia is right next to the Santa Anita racetrack, which on sunny winter day with snow covering Mt. Baldy was the nicest place to play the ponies in the world back then, and there's nothing Hong Kong millionaires like more than gambling.

AMac said...

> Compton also agreed to pay the opposing attorneys’ fees.

So journalist Will Evans -- a white-sounding name -- feels free to slur the vibrant legal duo of Joaquin Avila and Robert Rubin. A pair that is at least 50.00% diverse (not sure Rubin's ancestry, though his extreme politics entitle him to honorary membership in the oppressed ethnicity of his choice.)

Evans should be sued for directing a slur towards two people who do not fully represent the diverse vibrancy of the California Tossed Salad.

This case cries out for an innovative application of the EEOC Four-Fifths Rule. There oughtta be a law.

Anonymous said...

As I keep saying, why don't they just simply legislate white men as legal third class citizens - just like Indian dalits - and be done with it?
I mean it would be a helluva a lot simpler and easier to follow than all the current semantical bullshit and gyrations and it would achieve the desired and explicit effect directly.
Just why go through the motions of all this damned bullcrap when the solution is just so obvious?

- And it's not like white men will actually do anything about it.

Anonymous said...

One thing I really, really hate is this modern usage of 'such and such' person or group is 'considered' white or black or whatever.It's that weasel word 'considered' that really gets on my tits.
A cat is a cat is a cat.It is not a dog because someone 'considers' it to be a dog.
I am infuriated because the most basic logical precept that there is, the thing that sets apart creatures with nervous systems and neural ganglia from the cosmic vacuuum ie the ability to know and understand is being violated here.

Anonymous said...

....and meanwhile China is growing by 10% per annum, building furistic new cities, mag-lev train networks, advanced atomic reactors, graduating millions of engineers and scientists per annum, buying up the world's oil and minerals, exporting like crazy, issuing most of the new patents, dominates scientific reserach, has wages that grow by 20% per annum etc etc etc.

Steve Sailer said...

"....and meanwhile China is growing by 10% per annum, building furistic new cities, mag-lev train networks, advanced atomic reactors, graduating millions of engineers and scientists per annum, buying up the world's oil and minerals, exporting like crazy, issuing most of the new patents, dominates scientific reserach, has wages that grow by 20% per annum etc etc etc."

Yeah, but they don't have diversity, so all that stuff is impossible.

Dept of Deconstruction Theory at the Frankfurt School said...

A cat is a cat is a cat.It is not a dog because someone 'considers' it to be a dog.

Au contraire, mon Amie, au contraire.

Chairman, Dept of Deconstruction Theory, the Frankfurt School said...

A cat is a cat is a cat.It is not a dog because someone 'considers' it to be a dog.

Au contraire, mon amie, au contraire.

Zee chat and zee chien err precisely vut vee declare zem to be.

Nussing merr, nussing less.

Nussing at all, really.

Anonymous said...

"The first such case came in December, when the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California sued the city of Escondido, in San Diego County, alleging that at-large elections leave Latinos without fair representation. The union targeted Escondido because officials there have been trying to lower wages on public construction projects."

The great thing about a minority government is that they are pushovers when it comes to public contracts. They are more interested in whether a service provider is minority owned than whether they are honest or competent.

I still remember when the Harold Washington administration in Chicago awarded an exclusive contract to a black distributor for toilet paper at the highly reasonable cost of $10 a roll. I mean, what a bargain. In your local Jewel back in 1985 you'd have to pay at least $100 for your basic 8 role pack, right?

Evil Sandmich said...

There's plenty of stories that could serve as the obit for the death of the republic, but that one is as good as any. (Although it does remind me of the Feds descending on Cuyahoga county and forcing them to do up bilingual ballots, even though the lawyers outnumbered the malcontents who cared about it. "First, kill all the lawyers" I suppose....)

Chris Anderson said...

Cincinnati is unusual for a large city in that it has a 9-member council, all elected at-large, no districts. Until recently, we didn't even directly elect the mayor.

That system has come under attack from time to time over the years from the usual suspects but the voters have declined to change it. The "vote for up to 9 candidates" was EVIL because it was supposedly put into place to keep a black man from becoming the top vote-getter in 1957.

This past election there was quite a turnover and now there is a black majority on the council. Also, 7 out of 9 are democrats.* Suddenly you don't hear any calls for proportional voting or single-member districts. Now it's 4-year terms, so they don't have to face the voters as often.

Funny thing, that. After listening to complaints about the mythical bloc-voting power of rich east-side whites, now the at-large system is fine. I speculate that now any misgivings about the current makeup of the council would be denounced as racist. Should it change back to a white majority, we'll start hearing about the problems again.

Unless, that is, a judge issues a California-style order. At that point, why not just declare 5 of the 9 seats off limits to whites? Can't let the voters have too much choice.

*Cincinnati has weird municipal politics. In addition to having a local third party which used to cause parliamentary-style coalitions in order to form a majority, this year the one republican and one independent are both black. Thus racial voting and left-right voting don't quite align.

Anonymous said...

...and meanwhile China is growing by 10% per annum, building furistic new cities...

You mean those uninhabited 'ghost cities' that are part of the biggest property bubble in human history?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM

Anonymous said...

Particularly striking against this backdrop are the 14 cities in California where all-white councils preside over communities where either Latinos or Asians make up the majority of residents. Several are clustered in the Los Angeles area, like Whittier and Arcadia, but they range from Tulelake, on the Oregon border, to Holtville, near the Mexican border.


Okay, but how many Latinos or Asians ran for office?

I mean, you can't win if you don't play.

How can we make (affluent) Asians or Latinos want to run?

Also, if they are majority non-white, but vote for the white guy, they have no one but themselves to blame!!

Anonymous said...

This is clearly a case where Race really is a myth.

rec1man said...

@Anon - Indian Dalits are legal first class citizens

Dalits and Tribals ( SC-ST )
have 22% reservation in IIT, in Medical College, in State, Local and Federal Legislative seats

The largest Indian state of UP, with over 200 million people, had until last week, a Dalit chief minister, who got elected on a brahmin-dalit coalition - You didnt expect that did you.

They allied to mutually protect themselves from criminals of the Yadav-shepherd caste

G Joubert said...

What we see here is yet more evidence of the self-immolation of California. As if we needed more.

Chicago said...

Seems this society just breeds a huge amount of parasites. Does anybody do any real work anymore, you know, the kind that actually produces some value of one sort or another? It's popular to dump on the lowly welfare recipients out there but these guys and gals in the expensive suits are the ones really hauling off the swag.

Anonymous said...

As I keep saying, why don't they just simply legislate white men as legal third class citizens - just like Indian dalits - and be done with it?

No, they are committed to implement their plans in a super-Byzantine way that's apparently derived from a secularized blend of Calvinist theology and the Talmud:
http://orthosphere.org/2012/03/04/criminalizing-disrespect-weve-all-learned-to-speak-liberalese/#more-399
Reactionaries around the web are disturbed by revisions to the Education at of Alberta that make it against the law to show “disrespect” for “differences” when educating children–even in private schools or in the home:

“Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, told LifeSiteNews on Wednesday evening.

“You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction,” she added.


“Disrespect for differences”–what can this mean?

(...)
We all know that “disrespect” for these sorts of “differences” is in no danger of being suppressed, just as everyone always knew that English laws against disrespecting religions would never be applied to reign in the rampant anti-Catholicism of the BBC. “Inciting hatred of a religion” is liberals’ way of saying “criticizing Muslims”. Also, remember liberals’ outrage when someone demanded that their own gender antidiscrimination laws be enforced as written? Similarly, when Canadian liberals decide to criminalize disapproval of homosexuality, they invoke a very abstract and neutral-sounding principle as its justification: “we will not tolerate disrespect for differences”. Stated this way, the principle is vague to the point of meaninglessness, rather like the principle that one may not “discriminate”.
(...)
Liberals’ vague principles only acquire any sort of meaning when they’re read through the liberal frame of official oppressor groups and victim groups. When they say “we will not tolerate disrespect for differences”, they mean “we will not tolerate members of oppressor groups expressing disrespect or criticism toward members of victim groups”. Therefore, in anything that might be construed in an instructional setting (and soon any interaction between children and adults will be so characterized; note that home environments have already been explicitly included), oppressor adults speaking to their oppressor children may not make any negative statement about victim groups or allude to any standard under which a victim group would come off looking worse than an oppressor group.
(...)

Anonymous said...

Man. What an incredible COMPLICATION race is for America. I can't even begin to imagine a country like Japan having this insanity. But of course diversity is 'strength'.

Svigor said...

I'm torn, here. On one hand, I'd like to see all these White pols replaced with Blacks. "Hispanics" simply won't do - too many Whites hiding in the ranks. So I want to side with the civil rights lawyers.

On the other hand, I'd like to see all these White (including Whites like Mike Wallace) lawyers replaced with Blacks. So I want to side with the pols.

Then I have a "your peanut butter in my chocolate" moment and realize I'd like all pols and all laywers replaced with Blacks. Win-win!

Anonymous said...

Rubin, now in private practice, said the money from his share of legal settlements went to the nonprofit civil rights organization where he worked.

Which is to say, it goes directly into his pocket, since he owns the "organization."

Brazilian said...

Ah Compton, i miss NWA and the early '90s Rap scene of my youth...

I heard that mexicans ethnic cleansed the blacks of the area...

An Unmarried Man said...

Compton lives in what I call the "corridor time forgot" which is sliver of badly run/corrupt municipalities in Southeast LA County. Here you can find such sterling examples of well-run local government like Bell, Montebello, Maywood, South Gate... I jokingly asked my mom why she thought these cities were embroiled in such problems..."Mexicans" she joked. We're Mexican. We bring our own brand of corruption to a town near you!

Auntie Analogue said...

All I know, for sure, from empirical knowledge of the origins and fate of history's polyglots is this: A nation atomized against itself cannot stand.

jody said...

rubin is a jewish name, so rubin is almost certainly jewish. this is the usual pattern - politically active jewish person sees europeans as the enemy, teams up with somebody from a different ethnic group to use them as a weapon against europeans. rubin doesn't care about mexicans, only about destroying europeans. that's the guise they hide behind, "civil rights". same pretense the US justice department now routinely hides behind. and hey, making a dollar at the same time? it's win win for rubin.

of course, since in modern american english, the words "hispanic" and "latino" mean basically nothing, this is essentially a law where you can just make up anything and win a suit. it's like trying to nail jello to the wall.

lol. only in year 2012 america can a portuguese person identify themselves as "hispanic, but not latino". it's completely the other way around. nobody but full blooded spaniards are hispanic. it means "of spain". last time i checked, portugal was not spain.

makes about as much sense as saying i'm scandivanian, because of my german ancestry. i'm not slavic, scandinavian, hellenic, or any other -ic. but let's just make up stuff now.

Rev. Right said...

So many questions.....Do these peple realize how insane they look? How is this constitutional? Why would any white peopele live in California? Is this what a world run by women looks like?

Using the one drop rule against our racialist overlords, all white people should just claim minority status. Just say your grandma was half black, or your great grandfather came from Argentina. Absent mandatory DNA tests, there is no way to check.

BTW, when I posed this as a college admissions strategy to my friend who works as a university administrator, he agreed that there is no real way they could challenge such a claim.

An overload of vibrancy might crash the system.

Either that, or just stand up and point out how effed up this all is. Is there no limit to absurdity?

jody said...

"building furistic new cities"
furistic? the cities are furry? like pandas?
anyway their futuristic cites are sometimes empty, leading to the strange phenomenon of chinese modern ghost cities

" mag-lev train networks"
built by german, french, and japanese companies

"advanced atomic reactors"
built by american, french, and japanese companies. china is building westinghouse AP 1000s, presently. care to guess who designed those? hint - headquarters are near my hometown in pennsylvania.

"graduating millions of engineers and scientists per annum"
true

"buying up the world's oil and minerals"
true. they sure do burn a heck of a lot of coal. wonder if acid rain will return. haha, just kidding. if burning THAT much coal, more than the US ever burned, actually caused severe, society threatening acid rain, the liberals would let us know about it. so far, radio silence from the liberals on the dire threat of acid rain returning, due to explosive chinese coal power plant growth. one new plant per week, is the figure quoted most often.

"exporting like crazy"
almost as much as germany. oh no, wait, i see in 2011, china finally exported more than small germany. china is only 15 times bigger than germany, and the chinese are twice as smart as dumb germans. seems like china should export 30 times as much stuff. germany still ahead in net exports, though. exports minus imports, also known as having the biggest trade surplus in the world.

jody said...

"issuing most of the new patents"
nope. they don't recognize intellectual property law. and new stuff doesn't come out of china anyway. stuff goes the other way. stuff is developed outside of china first, then goes to china, where they reverse engineer all the technology. this is the basis for all their business contracts with foreign vehicle manufacturers. a faustian bargain for GM, for instance, whereby GM is required to turn over all their original technology to china in order to gain access to the chinese market. at least in their current instantiation as Government Motors, they know china is the only thing saving them from going bankrupt again - under rick wagoner, a total moron, they didn't even know that.

or, if it's not something china can buy, they send out their spies to steal the technology. seems like NASA is one of their favorite targets these days, though obama takes zero criticism for the complete security breaches NASA has been suffering. ironic considering NASA is a direct report to obama, and obama hand picked chuck bolden to change NASA from the world leader in aeronautics, to a muslim public relations firm. the US television media hates, hates, hates criticizing obama for anything, so china's in a good position to keep stealing from NASA.

"dominates scientific reserach"
the next time something huge in science comes out of china, it will be the first time.

"has wages that grow by 20% per annum"
more like 10%, but it's easy to grow fast when you start from almost nothing, and all you have to do is copy what the europeans have been doing for a century. at least china can do that though. most nations around the world can't even copy.

Mr. Anon said...

Both Senators from California belong to a particular ethnic group - the same ethnic group as Mr. Rubin, as it happens. It sounds to me that people not-of-that-ethnic-group are not being represented in the U.S. Senate. Is Mr. Rubin's group of stick-poking, trouble-making, busybodies going to do something about that?

No, I thought not.

SF said...

Tule Lake??
Yeah, there are a lot of Mexican agricultural workers there, but not many Latino American citizens. Their basketball team almost had to forfeit a game a few years ago because of racist catcalls from the bleachers against the Weed team. Weed has a lot of African-Americans imported during the WWII labor shortage, and a lot of Laotians due to refugee resettlement.

Beecher Asbury said...

David Macedo, said in an interview that he identifies as Hispanic because of his Portuguese ancestry, but doesn’t consider himself Latino.

Our census crap is so messed up even the natives don't understand. This guy got this totally backwards. Portuguese are Latins, but are not Hispanic. That is why Brazil is considered part of Latin America, but it is not part of Hispanic America. Hence, Brazilians in the US are Latins, but are not Hispanic.

This guy sounds like dufus. He is PC, but he doesn't even understand it. Sort of like a Bible thumper who hasn't read the Bible.

Anonymous said...

So a massive and rapid demographic shift hits, and it not being reflected everywhere equally and immediately is a sign of systematic racism?

First, lets kill all lawyers indeed.

Marlowe said...

Rev. Right: Using the one drop rule against our racialist overlords, all white people should just claim minority status. Just say your grandma was half black, or your great grandfather came from Argentina. Absent mandatory DNA tests, there is no way to check.

Call it the Steve Martin Strategy: "I was born a poor black child."

Kylie said...

"Our census crap is so messed up even the natives don't understand. This guy got this totally backwards. Portuguese are Latins, but are not Hispanic. That is why Brazil is considered part of Latin America, but it is not part of Hispanic America. Hence, Brazilians in the US are Latins, but are not Hispanic.

This guy sounds like dufus. He is PC, but he doesn't even understand it. Sort of like a Bible thumper who hasn't read the Bible."


No, you're the one who doesn't get it. It's all about self-identification these days and the darker or more "ethnic" you claim yourself to be, the better off you are. It's about how you feel yourself to be, not about what or or who you are in any factual sense.

Thus, our mulatto president, with a white mother, checked only the "Black, African Am., or Negro" box on the 2010 Census.

Obama's Census-Form Choice: Black

The left's blithe disregard for the facts and emphasis on feelings trumps the right's fact-checking and logic every time. And many on the right still don't get that.

fwood1 said...

Instead of going to district elections, why not have at-large elections using proportional representation? Under PR, Whites, Blacks, Asians and Hispanics can vote for the race ( er.. uh..candidate) of their choice, and have their vote count.
In fact, I wonder why none of the 49 states that have bicameral legislatures haven't used PR to elect one house, while having the other house use the current single member plurality system.

eh said...

Particularly striking against this backdrop are the 14 cities in California where all-white councils preside over communities where either Latinos or Asians make up the majority of residents.

Here the author of this article forgot to add 'Not that there's anything wrong with that'. Just an oversight I'm sure.

So once the immivasion proceeds past a certain point we're supposed to cede political control too -- since they'v already taken over the land physically. Got it.

swimming swan said...

This Zurita chick is a dead ringer for one of my neighbors who isn't black or latina. Except for the tan, she looks like she might have more than a little german ancestry or else my neighbor hasn't been forthcoming about family history...

ben tillman said...

The great thing about a minority government is that they are pushovers when it comes to public contracts.

That doesn't make any sense. Do you mean "non-White government"?

ben tillman said...

PC makes you stupid, part 1:

The legal gymnastics in Compton illustrate California’s far-reaching law, which bars local governments from diluting the voting strength of minorities.

And:

Particularly striking against this backdrop are the 14 cities in California where all-white councils preside over communities where either Latinos or Asians make up the majority of residents.

The article says that the law protects the voting strength of minorities. But in these 14 cities, all the councilmen are minorities, so what's the problem?

ben tillman said...

PC makes you stupid, part 2:

Another 20 cities have Latino majorities and only one minority on city council.

I know that the author means something other than "minority" when he says "minority" in this context, but you have to be completely brain-dead to use "minority" in this offensive manner when the term is juxtaposed with a statement that the supposed minority is actually a majority.

Anonymous said...

If Chinese & Mexicans were so concerned about local political representation there are a couple of places they could guarantee that - in China & Mexico.

Anonymous said...

I can remember a South African comedian in the apartheid era Pieter-Dirk Uys got a bit of exposure in Britain.

He used to joke about how the apartheid state wrote his material for him with its convoluted racial categories. How we liberals laughed!

So here we are in 2012 and things have moved on....

Note: PDU is of partly Scots-Irish ancestry, his mother leaving Berlin in 1939. Im sure we should all congratulate him on his small contribution the the effort to destroy white SA and repay it for taking in his mother.

Anonymous said...

So once the immivasion proceeds past a certain point we're supposed to cede political control too -- since they'v already taken over the land physically. Got it.

Yep. I think, deep down, even most liberals realise all the talk of minority rights, diversity, multiculturalism is BS that will be dispensed with the second that non-whites are an absolute majority.

We will be told, as in those 14 cities, as in South Africa, that minority rule and political power is immoral - when that minority is white.

Truth said...

"Thus, our mulatto president, with a white mother, checked only the "Black, African Am., or Negro" box on the 2010 Census."

What if he had been checking your daughter's box, in say 1980? What category would you have put him in?

neil craig said...

A strong argument for quotas for non-laywers among legilsators.

Anonymous said...

This guy sounds like dufus. He is PC, but he doesn't even understand it. Sort of like a Bible thumper who hasn't read the Bible.

Lol! That how all PC types sound. None of it makes any real sense at all unless you understand the purpose is get whitey.

Even to ask for clarification, online, is enough to get your comments deleted. Ive been banned from Facebook groups for asking innocent questions about such things.

Of course they know such questions are never 'innocent'. The fact they know that exposes the lie at the heart of it all.

Mark said...

Look on the bright side of diversity. There will never be a dull moment in a diverse

Scotch Irish free speech advocates were upset at Farrakhan's appearance at Cal Berkeley


The appearance of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at the University of California at Berkeley on Saturday, March 10, has created no shortage of controversy.

The event was organized by the Black Student Union.

http://www.bet.com/news/national/2012/03/12/farrakhan-s-speech-at-cal-berkeley-is-criticized-and-defended.html