May 12, 2004
A Tale of Two Southern
Cities; etc
Myrtle Beach City Council is planning to adopt an
ordinance refusing to give city licensing to anyone who
can't "show proof of
eligibility to do commerce and
work in the United States." [“Myrtle
Beach licensing targets illegal aliens
Coastal cousins' councils take different tacks on
business regulation issue,” By Frank Morris Carolina
Morning News, May 10, 2004]
The reason? Local residents have
complained about competition in the business and labor
markets from illegals.
These are the people on the front
line who can't get any
relief from the federal government. They're using
this stratagem to protect their
jobs and businesses.
200 hundred miles down the coast,
Hilton Head has rejected a similar proposal.
“[Hilton
Head Island Mayor Tom] Peeples, who as mayor sets the
Hilton Head council agenda, recently came out against a
similar licensing request by Citizens for a Better
Community and said that is the council consensus. He
said illegal immigration is a national problem beyond
even the federal government's control, so ‘why does
anyone think the local government can control this
issue?’”
Why? One possible reason: Myrtle
Beach Mayor Mark McBride is thinking of running for the
Senate, and using the
issue of immigration reform as a springboard.
Hilton Head's
Mayor Peeples, on the other hand, owns a
construction company.
That means that as a person who is
in
business that uses a lot of
illegal alien labor, he has a direct interest in
non-enforcement.
Immigration reformers take note!
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/southern_cities.htm#cities
Invisible Majority
The passing of California’s
Proposition 209, banning racial preferences, meant
that fewer black students were admitted to elite
colleges in California. Pre-209, black students were
admitted whether they were
qualified or not. Post-209, only
qualified black students could be admitted.
One such student,
Renita Chaney, is feeling lonely at UC-Berkeley.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, she
wants more students who look like her in the classroom
with her. She calls this… "diversity."
"‘Where is the
diversity promised to my community by UC Berkeley
when we decided to come here?’ she demanded at an April
22 rally in front of the chancellor's office after the
latest fall admission figures were released.” [Black
students at Cal irked by lack of diversity
| Underrepresented minorities steadily declining on
campus, Charles Burress, San Francisco
Chronicle, May 10, 2004]
Another student, La'Cole Martin,
said
“I
don't want to say 'segregated,' but it's kind of
discouraging when you don't see a lot of faces in the
classroom that look like you."
I
sympathize, really I do. You see, according to the same
news story, only 31 percent of undergraduate at UC-Berkeley
were white at the beginning of this school year.
How do you
suppose they
feel?
But of
course, that kind of diversity doesn't count with
activists.
Asian-American college students, for example, are
not an underrepresented minority: they can pass the
tests.
In the
meantime, whites, at 31 percent, should be considered an
underrepresented majority at UC-Berkeley. They
make up
almost 50 percent of California's population, and
79.6 percent of the United States population.
[Update: James Fulford writes: A reader pointed out that
the correct figure for the white population of the US in
2004is
nearer to 70%; the link above refers to 1980
figures. In 1965 the US was 90% white, in 1980 80%
white, and now only 70%. In the next 50 years, there may
be
no racial majority in the United States. Discussing
this is considered
uncouth.]
The Justice
Department will be launching an investigation Real Soon.
Reference the above piece using this permanent URL:
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/southern_cities.htm#majority
