Back in 2000, I put forward a theory of why, 500 years after Cortez, Mexico, like many Latin American countries, is still run by largely white people despite no sharp color line:
... Now, in Mexico every century or so, there is a massive upheaval like the Revolution of 1910. The white monopoly is fractured. Up through the cracks come the most talented mestizos and Indians. They start dynasties that persist to this day … but their grandsons and great-grandsons are notably whiter than they were, since the men of the family have been exploiting their social ascendancy to marry white women. (Of course, many rich Mexican men father second families with their lower-ranking mistresses. But these kids seldom get the breaks in life that the legitimate children do.)
The late Venezuelan presidente Hugo Chavez, whose family life I wrote about in 2010, would be a good example of a poor man of pardo background (Indian, black, and white), who clawed his way up in life. But, I suspect his grandchildren, especially by the second wife he obtained after becoming successful, will be quite a bit fairer than him.
The most interesting thing about Chavez is that he would drink up to 40 cups of coffee per day, averaging around 30 a day. That's impressive.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least he won't be the next Pope. Richard Dawkins still has a shot.
ReplyDeleteChavez will surely be missed. Dedicated champion of progress for his people, his region and bright example for all world leaders. He proved u don't have to kiss Uncle Sam's A77 or flush his toilet in return for protection/ friendship/ self esteem & economic progress. Venezuela lost a great leader!!
ReplyDeleteThere is a myth among many HBD'ers that as the US becomes more brown, we will follow the course of Latin American countries, with a brown underclass and White elite running things.
ReplyDeleteBut we are more likely to break into blocs that war with each other (political war).
I always thought that Chavez could have been a poster boy for a campaign against multiculturalism. Something like a mugshot of him paired with the question " Do You really want your grandchildren to look like this ?". He truly was the human Mr Potato Head , sans mustache of course.
ReplyDeleteReg, only baptized Catholic men are eligible to be pope, so that rules out Dawkins who is an apostate Anglican (but I repeat myself.) If the Cardinals are looking for a layman, I'm rooting for Silvio Berlusconi.
ReplyDeleteLa primiera esposa on the left looks a lot easier to take sitting across the breakfast table from you for thirty years. Blondy is more, 'bend her over the Harley, light out while she's still tied to the brake' material.
ReplyDeleteBeefy: I know the rules. But Oddschecker sees it differently. Not only is Berlusconi behind Dawkins, but Oprah and Madonna as well!
ReplyDeleteThis tribune of the people, mourned by socialists and liberals around the globe, died with a net worth of about one billion dollars.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/03/06/blue-civil-war-the-battle-for-california/
ReplyDeleteWhy getting rid of the GOP will hasten the contradictions within the Democrats.
Why getting rid of the GOP will hasten the contradictions within the Democrats
ReplyDeleteThe GOP has already been gotten rid of for, all practical purposes, in many parts of the US. The result has not been as wonderful as you seem to imagine. See New York, New Jersey, California, Chicago, Detroit, etc for examples of GOP free zones.
Steve, the white elite in Latin America is largely post 1900 European (and Arab/Jewish) immigrants. Few if any of these people are descended from non-white leaders and their white wives. Products of the kind of pairings you describe are negligible in number. Almost all the racial mixing in Latin America has involved white men with non-white women.
ReplyDelete"The GOP has already been gotten rid of for, all practical purposes, in many parts of the US. The result has not been as wonderful as you seem to imagine. See New York, New Jersey, California, Chicago, Detroit, etc for examples of GOP free zones."
ReplyDeleteTrue, it's not to our liking, but the fissures are starting to grow within the ranks and amongst the groups.
I'm not saying that getting rid of the GOP will be good for conservatism. I'm saying it will be bad for liberalism in the long run as they won't have a GOP to scapegoat anymore for all the problems.
If GOP can't win, conservatives can all turn Democratic and side with moderate forces against the real nuts.
Conservatives must play on the contradictions within liberalism. Play on the tensions between Jews, gays, blacks, browns, blue collars, union employees, illegals, feminists, Muslims, and etc.
If you can't win outright, weaken the opposition by slowly prying its various elements apart. Make shifting alliances, all with the purpose of undermining the powers that be in American liberalism.
If GOP can't win, conservatives can all turn Democratic and side with moderate forces against the real nuts.
ReplyDeleteYou're living in the past, chum. There have not been any moderate forces in the Democratic party for decades now. Those moderates left the Dems and now make up the liberal wing of the GOP. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani .. once these guys would be been the moderate wing of the Democratic party.