Thread: Malkin: Stop whitewashing racism

Malkin: Stop whitewashing racism

http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=10628

By Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin

April 2, 2006 - Few things make liberals more uncomfortable than being confronted with the racism of politically correct minorities.

Militant racism from a protected minority was on full display last week. But you wouldn't know it from press accounts that whitewashed or buried the protesters' virulent anti-American hatred.

An estimated 500,000 to 2 million people, untold numbers of them here illegally, took to the streets of Los Angeles to protest strict immigration enforcement and demand blanket amnesty for border violators, visa overstayers, deportation fugitives, immigration-document fraud artists and other lawbreakers.

Mexican flags and signs advocating ethnic separatism and supremacy filled the landscape. Demonstrators gleefully defaced posters of President Bush and urged supporters to "Stop the Nazis!"

Los Angeles talk show host Tammy Bruce reported that protesters burned American flags and waved placards of the North American continent with America crossed out.

Bet you didn't see that on television.

One of the largest, boldest banners visible from aerial shots of the rally read: "THIS IS STOLEN LAND." Others blared: "CHICANO POWER" and "BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL."

Can you imagine the uproar if someone had come to the rally holding up a sign reading "WHITE IS BEAUTIFUL"?

Thugs with masked faces flashed gang signs on the steps of L.A.'s City Hall. Students walked out of classrooms all across Southern California chanting, "Latinos, stand up!" Young people raised their fists in defiance, clothed in T-shirts bearing radical leftist guerrilla Che Guevara's face and Aztlan emblems.

Aztlan is a long-held notion among Mexico's intellectual elite and political class, which asserts that the American Southwest rightly belongs to Mexico. Advocates believe the reclamation (or reconquista) of Aztlan will occur through sheer demographic force. If the rallies across the country are any indication, reconquista already is complete.

Lest you think these ideas are moldy-oldy 1960s leftovers that no one subscribes to today, listen to Sandra Molina, 16, a junior from L.A.'s Downtown Magnet High School, who complained to the supportive Los Angeles Times: "This is unjust. This land used to belong to us and now they're trying to kick us out."

Nor are these sovereignty-obliterating grievances confined to the wacky West Coast. In Milwaukee, marchers carried signs that read: "If you think I'm 'illegal' because I'm a Mexican learn the true history because I'm in my HOMELAND."

Open-borders sympathizers in the press strained to look the other way. As Slate writer Mickey Kaus, who attended the L.A. demonstration, noted, the Los Angeles Times buried any mention of the presence of Mexican flags in its initial "propagandistic" report - and then eliminated any reference to them at all.

Cracks Kaus: "I used to write this sort of press-releasey 'news' account when my college paper assigned me to 'cover' anti-war demonstrations that I'd helped organize! ... The Times' effort is filled with representative quotes from participants, without a note of dissent."

Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement, never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democrat gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante.

But you'll never hear or read such forgiving caveats in the mainstream press's hostile coverage of the pro-immigration-enforcement members of the Minuteman Project, who are universally smeared as racists. For what? For peacefully demanding that our government enforce its laws and secure its borders.

Yes, borders. Last time I checked a map of North America, they still do exist.

Unless we give in and let the bullies and their appeasers whitewash those out of existence, too.

Yes, I still don't understand, but they keep telling me only WHITES can be racist since we are the supposid majority. Only WHITES make racist comments, racial slurs or racial threats. They've abused the meaning by making it anything they don't like or feel like doing, and that isn't what it is. It's a great cloud screen to hide under. Another extreemist way of defining something. Putting down the man didn't make woman equal, putting down one race doesn't make anything or any race better. But I'm tired of observing and noting that the illegal immigration problem is 99.9% a mexican issue and being called a racist for that. I know there are other illegals here from other countries but they aren't trying to change our language, they aren't refusing to learn english, they aren't abusing our welfare system, they aren't overcrowding our schools, they aren't demanding the rights and privilages of citizanship, and they aren't threatning to kill the white gringo and take their land back! Don't make me deny whats in front of me. And no there are plenty of mexicans who came here legally and that's fine. I don't see why they can't even understand that there's no excuse for big business to be using anybody. We're all tired of the cheap labor excuse whether it be here or having our jobs outsourced. And we have laws that EVERYONE has to obey no matter what the color of their skin or their heritage, or their financial status. Kill the gringo and welcome the low wages and have laws that aren't enforced then it becomes a 3rd world and what will America be then? Sorry for rambling.....

They want America, but they want the same enforcement of laws, they enjoyed in Mexico, NONE!!

They want to benefit, and do well, but they want it to be on THEIR terms, not that of the majority, Americans. They want it to be Mexico, but better, so they can live as they please, but have a better income than in Mexico.

They want their cake, and to eat it too!!!

They hope to browbeat Americans by using the "racist" card, while all the time practising racism themselves, but hey, that's ok because they have been "oppressed".

There is no excuse for bad behavior, by anyone.

Lastnight on our regional cable news, they showed a neo-Nazi group marching on the steps of Washington states capitol. Then there was an opposing group, quietly demostrating and speaking. The camera panned in to one of the neo-Nazi's and he crudely told the media to go "f" themselves, and the liberal f..n media could go to h***. NICE. Yet we act responsibly, and with concern and compassion, just wanting our laws enforced, but get called racist, being equated to this!!

There is no comparrison. Not one of the Minutemen, or any other reform group has ever acted near this way. So those "proud to be brown" people had better get their heads out of their @%%$% and stop makig up lies about all of us.