As a very few people may know, Arizona’s immigration law was crafted by an oufit called the Federation For American Immigration, and put into legalese by its chief counsel, "new-wave" nativist Kris Kobach. It’s acronym—FAIR—is anything but accurate, but that hasn’t stopped Congress or the mainstream media to treat the organization with undeserved deference. There seems to be no recognition that FAIR speaks for a large segment of the population that is not so much motivated by the concept of illegal immigration—after all, they say nothing at all about European and Asian illegals, who constitute about at least 2 million of the total—but a fear of and contempt for “Mexicans.” It also speaks to the failure to understand that unlike so-called “black racism” that the right-wing media continually harps upon whenever they perceive some anecdotal evidence of “favoritism” toward blacks, white racism actually is as it is defined in the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary: “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”
Take some of the commentary of FAIR’s leaders, as compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. We find that the anti-immigrant fervor was nothing new, at least in 1986. John Tanton, for example, both justified the theft of land from Native Americans and expressed the paranoia of whites becoming a minority through dark-skinned immigration with the following statement:
"Gobernar es poblar translates 'to govern is to populate'… In this society where the majority rules, does this hold? Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile?"
In another quote, Tanton expresses the fear that an uneducated non-white majority in a country where whites have all the good jobs would turn the U.S. into an apartheid state, like South African (in 1986 South Africa was still governed by Apartheid):
"Is apartheid in Southern California's future? The demographic picture in South Africa now is startlingly similar to what we'll see in California in 2030. In Southern Africa, a White minority owns the property, has the best jobs and education, has the political power, and speaks one language. A non-White majority has poor education, jobs and income, owns little property, is on its way to political power and speaks a different language."
Tanton, of course, never took into consideration the impact that deliberate discrimination against minorities and the opposition to affirmative action programs that opened-up avenues to higher education had on creating an “apartheid” state. It is clear that he supported white “privilege,” and keeping non-whites in a separate, impoverished state. The fear of the “Latinization” of the country is expressed in the next quote, which reveals Tanton’s ignorance of affairs of south of the border:
"Will Latin American migrants bring with them the tradition of the mordida [bribe], the lack of involvement in public affairs, etc.? What in fact are the characteristics of Latin American culture, versus that of the United States?"
The fact that current Latin American "culture" is European in nature generally escapes most people here. It is also a fact that much of Latin America has had a tumultuous history, and frequently subject to revolutions and revolts against the mostly right-wing status quo, which testifies to the fact that people there are not indifferent to the conditions in which the live, or the politics that drive it. If Tanton had considered that, he thoughts might have gone in a different direction, such as what might be his fate if the oppressed minorities in this country rose-up against the oppressors he represented.
Another FAIR leader at the time, Roger Conner, opposed Mexican immigration because he labeled them as inferior beings:
"The new immigration will not work the same as the old. For some reason, Mexican immigrants are not succeeding as well as other groups."
The problem with this idea is that nativists said this about the Irish in the 1850s, and justified it in the 1920s when establishing immigration quotas for Italians and Eastern Europeans. We have seen that most everywhere in the country “Mexicans” are becoming entrepreneurs at a faster rate than any other group, according to one recent story. Yet we have also seen that where there is a modest population of “Mexicans” they are simple not welcome; there are many people who are so infused with prejudice and hate that they don’t want to even see them succeed or “work the same as the old.”
In 1997, another FAIR “leader,” Dan Stein, wondered:
"Should we be subsidizing people with low IQs to have as many children as possible, and not subsidizing those with high ones?"
At first blush, this is the kind of thing that the Nazis justified in their eugenics theories, but Stein is also painting a broad brush over a whole group of people simply because he believes this to be true, not because he actually has facts to back-up this statement. Just because some people have better rote memories doesn’t necessarily mean they are smarter; it just seems that way. If white people, as Tanton stated, have all the good jobs and all the education, then why is the country in the horrendous economic state it is in now? Would they not, by his reasoning, be ultimately responsible for that state? Where is all this technology that is supposed to save them—unless they mean to “solve” problems here like they “solved” them in Iraq and Afghanistan? In any case, I’ll have the Seventies funk group War have the last word on this subject: “Sometimes I don’t speak right, but I know what I’m talking about.”
"Immigrants don't come all church-loving, freedom-loving, God-fearing. Some of them firmly believe in socialist or redistributist [sic] ideas. Many of them hate America, hate everything the United States stands for. Talk to some of these Central Americans."
Stein again. Note that he says only “some” Latin American immigrants believe in all that socialism stuff. Perhaps if he questioned some of these Central Americans a little more closely, he might discover that it isn’t the United States they hate so much, but its support of oppressive right-wing murder regimes.
Tanton now returns to the scene with these enlightening thoughts:
"[Millions of immigrants coming to America will be] defecating and creating garbage and looking for jobs…In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies."
Science and stupidity reaches it natural terminus.
"American secessions have rarely been viewed with alarm [but] in the 1990s ... we are more inclined to consider them a serious threat to national unity, especially since that unity is being stretched to the breaking point by ethnic revanchiste movements fueled by Third World immigration. ... In any major city, the peace is disturbed by Latino, black, and Asian nationalist gangs, which in some cases are only the shock troops of ethnic movements seeking the racial dismemberment of the United States. In refusing to control immigration, the Federal Government is writing a script for ethnic civil war. Why?"
FAIR found the above useful quote from Thomas Fleming, a member of the hate group “League of the South.” The whole theory behind this is patently absurd and paranoid, since it is white “gangs” like this who more than anyone else want “racial dismemberment” and seek to foment an “ethnic civil war” so they can “cleanse” the country of non-whites. I remember back around 1985 when I was in the service, I flew over from Germany to attend my sister’s wedding in Smalltown, Wisconsin. I decided to take the long way, stopping by bus in New York City and Washington, DC. On the trip to my eventual destination we stopped in a Greyhound station in Chicago; since everyone in the Army was supposedly one big happy “family,” what I saw fairly shocked me: there were two large seating areas, one completely occupied by whites, the other completely occupied by blacks. I wondered, is this because they want to, or is this a “custom” from a racist past that still lingered? I should think the latter.
"I have a secret plan to destroy America. … We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. … I would then invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. … Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws…It is clear that there is a 'fifth column' movement in the United States that professes greater allegiance to a greater Mexico or a breakaway, separatist movement based on a Latino homeland, despite the efforts of Latino politicians to dismiss it as a quixotic idea of rambunctious Latino youth, largely on university campuses."
Aside from the strange fact that there are actually Latino youth on university campuses (which would certainly surprise Tanton), what we have here is once more, FAIR taking a page from Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher’s racial theory propaganda handbook. The suggestion that there is a monstrous conspiracy afoot is a real head-scratcher when one recalls that “Mexicans” have just been accused of being apolitical. These people just can’t get their conspiracies straight. It is also curious to note that white complaints have a sense of “victimology” all its own, which seems to trump all others. It’s always about them and their imaginary victimization, even though, as Tanton stated before, they have all the best jobs.
"Every illegal alien is a person whose true identity has never been verified and therefore an illegal alien may be a terrorist or violent felon. I will say with a great degree of confidence that had [the 9/11 terrorists] not had driver's licenses, my son and 3,000 other people would be alive today."
This is a recent quip from a former board member of FAIR named Peter Gadiel. He suggests that every illegal alien is a potential terrorist or violent felon. He doesn’t, of course, say exactly that the Mexicans are responsible for 9-11 or any future act of that nature, but to those who “get” his “point,” a possibility is as good as fact.
"I am sick and tired of all the white bashing that goes on through the use of political correctness as an indoctrinating tool."
So sayeth Joe Turner, another FAIR functionary. Frankly, I am sick and tired of the deliberate dehumanization, the lies and falsehoods, and the preying on the worst aspects of human nature that racist like this think they can get away with without censor. The truth is plain enough to see.
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