quote:Originally posted by Billy The Adult:
"Soon there will probably be as many Mexicans in Texas, New Mexico, lower California, and Arizona-and as many Cubans and Latin Americans in Florida-as there are natives?They are also pouring in from Haiti. Now a vast majority of these are illegal. They?re coming over the border, and they're coming with wives and sisters and nieces who get pregnant immediately because they can then become American citizens and go on relief. I do not know how much more we can absorb?In the 19th century, the U.S. absorbed something like 40 million immigrants. But the vast majority were of a fundamental culture, and they were all white. They were not black or brown or yellow." She went on to say that "to prefer the ways of one?s own culture is not racist." America is being overrun by people who are not given to white Western folkways."
Written by Clare Boothe Luce 1903-1987
NATIVES??? Did you just put the word NATIVES up there? Hello, we acquired that territory from Mexico. That would make them the NATIVE people of the area. If you proof your copy and paste jobs you can correct the punctuation. Also, having a baby here does not make you a citizen, it only makes the child one. Ms. Luce's statement was made in a different era and has little or no bearing on the situation today. Add to that the fact that her statement appears on the site www.kkk.bz and it begins to lose credibility. That Mrs. Luce is obviously not a paragon of liberal, internationalist compassion is very clear. That she does not seem to be aware of the underlying racism of her remarks is also obvious. That she also re-writes history to suit her arguments appear to be a symptom of her social, economic, and cultural amnesia which has become increasingly used to justify and to defend the transformation of public policy initiated by the national executives Mrs. Luce advised. In point of fact, many upper class WASP (white anglo saxon protestants) Americans before World War I didn't see the immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe as sharing the same common fundamental culture with them. The upper class pessimism about the ability of the immigrants and their children to ever become American was a lot more profound than Mrs. Luce's about the new immigrants. In the 1920's immigration restriction laws were passed, not to keep out Mexicans or Haitians, but to exclude the Polish, Greeks and Jewish. Though many people recognize cultural changes in the USA, it is equally important to note the cultural aspects of race consciousness and ideology in America.
Next time you want to make a point about race, try not to quote a racist.
