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New Cultural Practices in U.S.
Now that the U.S. is a multicultural country, differing cultural habits and customs are practiced on its soil. One of those habits is slavery. Eradicated in the U.S. more than 150 years ago, slavery is making a comeback as reports of Third World immigrants enslaving each other pop up in newspapers all over the country. In one of the latest, a federal judge in May sentenced a South Florida woman to seven years in the slammer for keeping a teenage house servant in bondage for six years. Maude Paulin, 52, a Haitain-American former middle school teacher in Miami, was convicted along with her mother, Evelyn Theodore, of enslaving a teenage illegal immigrant girl from Haiti. In court testimony, the girl said she was forced to sleep on the floor, work 15 hours a day, and was given only a bucket of water to bathe with.
More Third World Conditions
As we've reported in this space before, Third World conditions are cropping up all around the U.S. as multiculturalism and diverse populations replace America's European-derived culture and its people. A recent example comes from the nation's capital. Shoot-outs between street gangs in the District of Columbia are so commonplace now that Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced last month she would establish military-style checkpoints to stop cars in a Northeast neighborhood known as "Trinidad" in an effort to prevent thugs and criminals from entering. Called the "Neighborhood Safety Zone," the Iraq-style checkpoint initiative is aimed at curbing a surge of bloody street violence that in one recent weekend killed seven people. At various checkpoints in the neighborhood, police will stop and search all vehicles if they suspect drugs or guns, and arrest anyone who don't cooperate under a charge of failing to obey a police officer. "In certain areas, we need to go beyond the normal methods of policing," said Mayor Adrian Fenty.
Is She American, or Is She Hmong?
California's legislature is also considering a bill (Assembly Bill 2064 by Democrat Assemblyman Juan Arambula) to require textbooks to teach all students the history of the Hmong people. It passed the Education Committee by a unanimous 6- 0 vote. Testifying in favor of the bill was Connie Vang, 18, who said that until she was 14, she had no idea why she was in America. "For the first 14 years of my life, I was disconnected from my culture," she complained. "I did not know anything about it." She figures -- and many state officials agree -- that American taxpayers are obligated to teach her about it.
The Multicultural Capital in Action
Hartford, the capital of Connecticut, is a member of the Third World Club, too. Founded by English and Dutch settlers in 1637, it is one of America's oldest towns. Today it is a living, breathing bastion of diversity and multiculturalism. According to the 2000 Census, the population is roughly18 percent white, 38 percent black, 2 percent Asian, 41 percent Hispanic. It's the kind of place where pedestrians struck by cars are left to die on the pavement. That's what happened to a 78 year-old man who was, say news reports, "tossed like a rag doll by a hit and run driver," and left lying motionless and bleeding on a busy city street as cars zoomed by without stopping to help. "We have no regard for each other," lamented Police Chief Daryl Roberts. The whole event was captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera. Cars whizzed by the man, pedestrians gawked but did nothing, and a man on a scooter circled the victim but then zoomed away. The man, who survived, was taken to the hospital only after a police cruiser responding to an unrelated call spotted him.
Paper American
Hispanic immigrants are becoming citizens in record numbers. But many are doing it not because they love America; they're doing it because they want more power. Just ask Los Angeles radio host Eduardo "Piolin" Sotelo. He took the citizenship oath last month, after coming to the U.S. illegally 22 years ago. He uses his Spanish language show to urge fellow Hispanics to get naturalized so they can vote, enhancing their ethnic solidarity and political power. "We have to make a difference," he told the L.A. Times. What kind of difference? Sotelo says of his new citizen status, "Now we have one more vote to defend our rights." Take note: when he says "we," he doesn't mean white Americans.
Free Country?
If you're like most Americans, you probably think America is a free country. After all, that's why hundreds of thousands of Americans fought and died in many wars -- to defend our freedom. But football coach Marcus Borden of the East Brunswick High School in New Jersey might be forgiven if he had a different view. In April, a federal appeals court issued an order prohibiting Borden from bowing his head during pre-game prayers initiated and conducted by students on the football team. In his decision, Judge D. Michael Fisher wrote, "A reasonable observer would conclude that [Borden] is continuing to endorse religion when he bows his head during the pre-meal grace..." If America were truly a free country, Judge Fisher would be stripped of his job, tarred and feathered, and thrown out of town. |
Same Old Story
The presidential contest is not yet in full swing, but the neocons pushing the GOP leftward have already begun to trot out what will be their favorite ploy to lure conservative voters to support Sen. John McCain. National Review, once the nation's leading journal of conservative opinion, but now an unofficial newsletter for the Republican Party, claims that McCain is the man to support if you want conservative judges. But it was McCain who last year famously joined forces with left-wing Democrats vowing to block any effort to stop a Democrat filibuster of judicial nominees regarded as "too conservative." And it was McCain who complained that nominee Judge Sam Alito wore his conservatism "on his sleeve." Fact is, McCain cannot be trusted. During his primary fight with George Bush in 2000, McCain told South Carolina voters that flying the Confederate battle flag was up to them. But after the primary, he told reporters he lied simply to get conservative votes, and that he thought the flag ought to come down. Make no mistake: McCain lied to get conservative votes, and he will do it again.
The Growing Tyranny
A bill to transfer wealth to the leaders of non-white non-profit organizations passed the California Assembly and faced a vote in the Senate as this issue of Middle American News went to press. The Foundation Diversity and Transparency Act would require California foundations to report to the state the ethnicity and sexual orientation of their boards and staffs, as well as the same information about the boards and staffs of charities to which they make grants, and report the extent to which the foundations provide support to non-white entities. The purpose of the reporting is get infomation leftwing activists can use to accuse foundations of "racism" if they don't give enough money to left-wingers. The bill is being pushed by the anti-white Greenlining Institute, which claims that "only 20% of foundation funding from the state's 50 largest foundations is going to 'minority-serving' causes." The institute says its mission is "to empower communities of color." To that end, the institute operates a school "to train the next generation of leaders that will fight for social justice and collaborate along racial and ethnic lines." What they mean by that is the creation of a social and political movement of non-whites united against whites. The institute doesn't hide its racial agenda, calling itself "the oldest and most diverse coalition of Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, and Latino leaders organized around a common purpose and struggle."
Jacksonville Joins the Club
Jacksonville, Texas, is the latest American community slipping into Third World conditions. That's where a 48 year-old disabled woman was raped just hours after being released from the intensive care unit of a local hospital. The accused attacker is Juventino M. Pizona, identified in news accounts as a 25 year-old illegal alien. The woman had just undergone surgery the day before, to insert a catheter in her heart.
ACLU Where Are You?
In the absence of formal legal prohibitions against free expression, multiculturalists throughout the U.S. are using all other available means of social discipline to enforce their ideology. That is especially true in public schools where impressionable students are taught to think in lock step and punished for deviations. That's why in Bloomington, Minnesota, last month, three graduating high school seniors were not allowed to attend their school's commencement as punishment for bringing a Confederate battle flag onto school grounds. The three are big fans of the early 1980's TV sitcom, Dukes of Hazard, about the misadventures of two cousins who deliver moonshine in a fictional Georgia county. The cousins drive a Dodge Charger emblazoned with a Confederate battle flag. When the students arrived with flags displayed on their own trucks in the school parking lot, school officials suspended them. "We are very clear that the Confederate flag is a symbol of hatred, bigotry and racism," scolded Rick Kaufman, executive director of community relations at Bloomington Kennedy High School. But that's not what the students think. "We're all big fans of the Dukes of Hazard," said one of the suspended students. "It's just showing we have our own style and we aren't going to conform to whatever anyone else thinks." That, of course, is the American spirit -- now prohibited in U.S. public schools. Meantime, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota said his group would not defend the students.
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