VDARE.com: 09/16/04 – Blog Articles



John
Edwards Does Read

Time On
Immigration!…Sort Of

[Steve
Sailer
]

Apparently, John Edwards reads

Time magazine

because he`s trying to craft a response to the border
disaster. Of course, while he got the story half
right—the President is "completely
irresponsible
"
about

border security
—the other half of his idea is
fundamentally silly.

C.J. Karamargin reported in the
Arizona Daily Star
[Edwards:
Bush fails on Mexico
, September 14, 2004]:

In a
stinging critique, John Edwards accused President Bush
of failing to win Mexico`s cooperation to secure
America`s borders. The Democratic vice presidential
candidate, speaking to reporters after a rally at the
Tucson Convention Center on Monday, said U.S.-Mexican
relations are in "tatters" because of policies the
president has pursued over the past 3 1/2 years.

"The
president has done an abysmal job," Edwards said. "He
came into office calling President (Vicente) Fox

`my amigo
.` The

deterioration of the relationship
has been
extraordinary." Edwards called the president "completely
irresponsible" for not working more closely with Mexico
to forge a border policy that could reduce the number of
illegal entrants who

die
as they try to enter the United States through

Arizona`s deserts.

"What
John Kerry and I believe is our borders have to be
secure." Edwards said. "It`s important to the safety of
people in Arizona and people across this country. We
need to be stronger than we are now. We need to have
stronger relationships with the Mexican government to
accomplish that."

The vice-presidential nominee`s
notion that

Presidente Fox
wants the American border to be
secure is laughable. America`s border problem is his
border solution to Mexico`s problem of too many poor
people. Edwards can choose to make Fox happy or make
Arizona`s citizens happy, but he can`t do both. 

The rest of Edwards` statements
were more of the usual:

Edwards
did not mention border policy during a 20-minute speech
to thousands of enthusiastic supporters at the TCC, his
first campaign appearance in Arizona since becoming the
vice presidential nominee. But in a series of interviews
after the event, the

North Carolina senator
said more needs to be done
for illegal immigrants already living and working in the
country. These people, he said, should have the chance
"to live the American dream."

Kerry
has promised to send immigration reform legislation to
Congress within the first 100 days of his presidency.
Speaking to Hispanic leaders in Phoenix in June, he
proposed offering undocumented migrants "a path to equal
citizenship" as part of his commitment to "celebrating
immigration."


Australia Smells Coffee On Tech Immigration

[Peter
Brimelow
]

Facing an election, the Australian Government has

moved
to restrict the importation of Indian computer
programmers, after their opponents began to make an
issue of it. Democracy in action! How come it doesn`t
happen here?

How
About DHS Handcuffs? [Juan
Mann
]

The Department of Homeland Security
has its own on-line

DHStore
with plenty of trinkets for sale.  My
personal favorite to commemorate the newly

reconstituted federal immigration bureaucracy
would
be the handsome taxpayer-funded 

DHS paperweight.

There`s more than enough of them
already in Washington, D.C.   Career on the skids??…then
why not give yourself a beautifully-framed

Homeland Security award

Or be a hit on the links while
securing the homeland with some new

DHS golf balls
!   You can also impress your friends
with a new

DHS baseball cap.
  Put it on backwards, have a beer
and rationalize that illegal aliens have only come here
for a better life . . . to do the jobs that Americans
won`t do.


Ethnic preferences for Latinos [Steve
Sailer
]

(cross-posted from

Isteve.com
)

Here are some readers`
additions to the list in my new VDARE

column
of curious categories potentially eligible
for affirmative action as Hispanics:

  • The non-Hispanic
    wives of Latinos who take their husbands` Spanish
    surnames.

  • The non-Hispanic
    ex-wives who keep their ex-husbands Spanish surnames.

  • Blondes from
    Paraguay with the first name Dieter or Klaus who are
    vague about what their grandfathers did from 1933-45.


  • Teresa Heinz Kerry
    — a twofer: not only Portuguese
    and thus sort of Hispanic, but, at least according to
    her, African-American!

  • Exiled Filipina
    co-dictatress Imelda Marcos and her crooked, but
    Spanish-surnamed, son

    Bong-Bong Marcos

  • Madonna: she
    played Argentinean co-dictatress Evita Peron; and
    she`s often been said on various occasions to have had
    a little Latino in her (and have had a lot of big
    Latinos in her, too, for that matter).

Your
Tax Dollars at Work [Steve
Sailer
]

(cross-posted from

Isteve.com
)

Joel Achenbach pens an often
hilarious article in the Washington Post
entitled:

"Taking Off the Color Blinders: Geneticists and
Historians Grapple With the Gray Areas of Race"

"[Race]
doesn`t exist biologically, but it does exist socially,"
said Alan Goodman, incoming president of the American
Anthropological Association, which sponsored the meeting
at the Holiday Inn in Old Town.

The event served as a
brainstorming session for a $4 million project, funded
by the National Science Foundation and the Ford
Foundation, to create a traveling museum exhibit on
race. If all goes well, the exhibit will debut in two
years at the Science Museum of Minnesota, in St. Paul.
The working title is "Understanding Race and Human
Variation."

Beyond that, things get
fuzzy.

It will take a long time
for people to grasp the illusory nature of race at the
biological level, Goodman said. …

He identifies himself,
incidentally, as a white person.

"Culturally I`m white-ified,"
he said. "People see me as white. That has something to
do with how I look, but it has nothing to do with
biological variation."

In terms of biological
variation, Dr. Goodman is actually chartreuse, but he
periodically dips himself in a vat of Sherwin-Williams
Antique White latex paint, which is why people see him
as white-ified, culturally speaking.

But seriously, folks, allow
me to de-fuzz the meaning of race and ethnicity:

A racial group is a
partly-inbred extended family.

(See my essay, "It`s
All Relative: Putting Race in Its Proper Perspective
"
for a full explanation of this sentence.)

An ethnic group is a group
of people who share cultural traits that are often, but
not exclusively, passed down within biological families
such as language, religion, surnames, fraternal
feelings, and cuisine.

UPDATE:

John Derbyshire
responds:

It seems to me that the
official dogma on race — promulgated by all media
outlets, academia, schools, etc — is as follows.

"Race does not exist.
DOESN`T EXIST! Well, it kind of exists, but you
shouldn`t notice it. DON`T NOTICE IT! OK, you can`t help
noticing it once in a while; but you mustn`t find it
interesting. IT`S NOT INTERESTING!"