"Latinos and Life Without Milk"
by Fred Reed
"Oh help. I am told that some still believe that diversity is our strength. These people are powerful believers and probably could believe a hole into a bank vault or believe an anvil into flying. The fact is that diversity has been the cause of unending hostility, bloodshed, misery and social malfunction since Nordic white men imported black Africans and began killing off the Indians. Without race we wouldn’t have had slavery, arguably the Civil War, Jim Crow, burning cities, affirmative action, the Floyd riots, or cities you can’t walk in without wearing an armored bathysphere. If that is strength, I would like to see what weakness looks like.
More recently the presence of Latinos has lots of people gnashing their hair and pulling their teeth and hollering for ethnic cleansing. They say things like America is a White European Country with a shared culture and genetic unity and other things it ain’t. When the country is nineteen percent Latino and thirteen percent lack and six per cent Asian, then as sure as nuttiness in a Democrat administration it ain’t a White European Nation. And, obviously isn’t going to be.
What now? Saying over and over that unrestricted immigration was a bad idea, as indeed it was, accomplishes exactly, precisely nothing, as does ranting about how Chinese, Latinos, and Iranians are terrible folk, which they are not. The problem is that different kinds of people don’t like each other. So, just for a moment, let’s break with all tradition and think in terms of raw practicality. I claim we need to deal with the world we live in, not the one we wantto live in and that things will go wrong if, as we usually do, we try to live in a desired world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy is a great place to live, but doesn’t hold up too good if it rains.
Consider Latinos. There are about sixty-five million of them in the US, along with fourteen million illegal aliens. Now, can we throw them all out, as many would like? I’m not asking whether it is a good idea, or patriotic, or moral, or whether Latinos are warm and fuzzy or rapists and narcos. I am asking whether it is possible. Thinking practically is a desperate measure, but strange times call for strange remedies.
Deporting sixty-five million in a century would mean over six hundred thousand a year, assuming they didn’t have children, which is a pretty robust assumption. In a decade, six million a year. This ignores impediments such as that most are citizens and can vote. No one who isn’t smoking Drano can believe this is going to happen. But if it is what the deportation lobby have in mind, they should say so. The public deserves to know what is being cooked up for it.
it might be worth looking at how Latinos got to America. In 1965 the United States–not Mexico–opened the border to encourage immigration. At least, that must have been the intention since it was obviously going to be the result. In essence, America was saying, “Now, Pedro, don’t you cross that river. If you do, we’ll give you a job, school for your children, medical care, and drivers licenses, and I don’t know what all, and your kids will be citizens. But don’t you cross the river, you hear?”” And who would have thought it….Pedro crossed the river. As a parent, offered such a deal, he would have been irresponsible not to.
America kept the border open for over sixty years when it could have closed it in six weeks, as Trump has just done. Liberals said, “All these poor people want is a better life.” Republican businessmen didn’t say, not out loud anyway, “All we want is cheap labor.” It is what they meant. Left and Right working together in bipartisan idiocy. It’s heartwarming.
Anyway, deporting a million would amount to less than two percent of the Latino population, which in practical terms means that they mostly aren’t going anywhere. A law of physics says that if something doesn’t go away, it stays where it is. (I didn’t go to school just tocarry my lunchbox.) So America is going to be pretty seriously multiracial whether we like it or not. Some will, some won’t. it don’t matter. We can like sunrise or gravitation or corruption in Washington. They’re going to happen anyway.
Now, some white folk just don’t much like people who are any shade of brown, and would probably dip then in Clorox is they could. These are usually called White Nationalists or WhyNats. They tend to be very English and Protestant and kind of solemn and remind me of American Gothic with better clothes. But while they can deport hundreds of thousands or maybe a million illegals, the difference wouldn’t be noticeable. So hear we come to the great big, thumping, motingator question for WhyNats:
What do they propose to do about the fifty million or so Latino citizens who can’t be deported? I mean what practically? Fizzing and fuming and talking about Andrew Jackson and George Washington are not practical measures. When you get through, everything is just like it was when you started. How does that help things?
One answer is to keep the border closed, do nothing, worry about something else, and wait for assimilation. Which is going to happen anyway. Another is to encourage racial hostility so as to keep the country divided and angry, and wait for assimilation to happen. Which it is going to anyway.
Other suggestions that I have heard from individual WhyNats, though not espoused formally as policy, are: break America into three racially pure countries, as is sometimes suggested? If this is the plan, say so. should we make intermarriage illegal? If so, say so. Revoke citizenship? Make employment of (increasingly Americanized) Latinos illegal? Reimpose racial segregation? If so, say so. Something else? What? Tell us.
All of the foregoing ideas would likely face “no” votes from fifty million Latinos, from all Democrats, constitutionally-minded Republicans, politicians eyeing the Latino vote, and dairy farmers who want their cows milked. Complicating things is that lots of Latinos have gone and married white Americans. How do you deport half of a child? I would rather that ICE not think about this. Add that Latino girls can be horribly pretty–the condition is endemic–and, when speaking unaccented American English and pecking at cell phones like everybody else, are not going to repel Willy Bill Jenkins who is all blue-eyed and Nordic. That’s just a practical fact. If you know anything about teenagers, you understand this.
Which brings us to birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court gets to tell us whether it is constitutional. If it ain’t constitutional now, then it never was. The Court doesn’t change the Constitution but just tells us what it means, this week anyway. So if Pedro and Maria came over illegally in 1900, their children were illegal because mom and dad were, so their children were illegal, and so on, and so most everybody Latino in the whole country is illegal.
Now, the country has been through all of this before. In the KKK Revival of the Twenties, the same people were all agitated over Italians, Catholics, the Irish, and other horrors. They mostly got over it, though I think they are still a little suspicious of Italians. The same thing is going to happen with Latinos who as a practical matter–that wretched word again–are mostly not going to go away.
So will Latinos destroy the US? Probably. Now they milk cows, which is what God wants them to do, but next thing you know they’ll all stop and go to college to be lawyers, which is enough to destroy any country, and we’ll have to drink sugary soft drinks and die of diabetes because we don’t have any milk. Of course another approach might be to go to Guadalajara and see what kind of folk Mexicans are but the ensuing shock would likely cause cardiac arrest. We’re doomed either way. There’s no hope."
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