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"National Latino Museum Needs Creative Financing"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is it weird? She's hot.

Thinking that's weird is weird.

4/20/11, 9:56 PM

Anonymous CJ said...

“I don’t want a situation,” said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, “where whites go to the original museum, African-Americans go to the African-American museum, Indians go to the Indian museum, Hispanics go to the Latino American museum. That’s not America.”

So, Moran, if you actually think that ... why the hell are you a Democrat?

4/20/11, 10:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So many things to comment on:

1. Emilio Estafan: Much like Salma Hayek, the poor man is obviously a self-hating Lebanese. Come on, Emilio, where is your Arab pride? Shouldn't you be working at getting an Arab American National Museum on the Mall?

2. "and would try to feature people and traditions from all Hispanic countries.": I truly look forward to being educated on the deep impact that Paraguayans have had on American culture.

3.“It’s even more important to show other Americans that our roots go back centuries on this continent,” she said. " Wait, I though that this was supposed to be a Museum about Latinos in the USA? Is it going to be about Latinos in Mexico and Peru?

4/20/11, 10:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was at the Mall last yr. I looked forward to the Indian museusm and it looked really nice from the outside. Inside... it was like the biggest daycare center in the world. I mean there was NOTHING but empty space and a few knicknacks.

4/20/11, 10:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

How long before a gay museum?

4/20/11, 10:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve I was thinking of you while browsing the magazine racks today. Approx zero mestizo faces on display. Very few hispanics of any sort. Zeta Jones - 1/2 spanish? - and Longoria ...and old what's her name from In Living Color.

But there is that Armenian family in the tabloids ...and Snookie. What category confusion. Someone ask Abe Foxman why there's no Middle Eastern category.

4/20/11, 10:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

We used to have museums according to fields such as natural history, technology, science, medicine, astronomy, animal life, etc. Now, we have museums according to 'identity'. I guess too many fields were dominated by 'dead white males'.
But a museum of American music could have lots of blacks. But then, it would mostly be white, black, and Jewish and not much else.

4/20/11, 10:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

But what about all the other groups that are suffering from "Willful Neglect?" Museums must be built on the Mall that will honor the achievements of Australian Aboriginal Americans (where would we be without the boomerang?), Ainu Americans, Arab Americans, Romani Americans (Gypsies to you hegemonic racists out there), Sami (Don't you dare call them Lapps), Turkish Americans, etc.

4/20/11, 10:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's see, if the proposed museum is built, that would mean that we would have separate museums for Blacks, Latinos (of any race/ethnicity), and American Indians. At that point, would the National Museum of American History only be about White Anglos?

4/20/11, 10:38 PM

Blogger Glaivester said...

Catherine Zeta-Jones is 1/2 Welsh and 1/2 Irish. Not Latino at all.

4/20/11, 10:52 PM

Anonymous Ron Mexico said...

But the real question, I think, is why the NYT is tacitly colluding in--what one would otherwise suppose to be most amenable to WN-types--the classification of 'Latinos' as a quasi-racial group to be set along side 'Whites' and 'Blacks'--rather than, e.g., forming a taxon on all fours with 'Italian-Americans' and 'Micks'. Res ipsa loquitur? Maybe..

4/20/11, 10:59 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jessica Alba is half Mexican.

Salma Hayek is half Mexican by race.

Carlos Santana.

4/20/11, 11:14 PM

Anonymous RKU said...

Actually, this lack of significant Mexican/Meso-American Hispanic institutions in the U.S. is hardly surprising...

The key factor is a simple one: virtually all the Mexican/Salvadoran/etc. immigrants who came here are from the working-classes, while their elites tended to stay home (after all, why would the elites want to leave?). This is pretty similar to what happened with lots of other immigrant groups, such as the Italians and the Poles or other Slavs. Now many millions of Slavs came here several generations ago, but it's pretty hard to think of a single prominent Slav celebrity. Offhand, the only name that comes to mind is Charles Bronson, and I'll bet lots of people actually think he's part Mexican rather than Polish. Similarly, neither Slavs nor Mexicans tend to have the political dynamism or aggressiveness of e.g. Irish, or the "vibrancy" of blacks. So they tend to punch well below their weight in attracting visibility or attention in the cultural or political spheres. Meanwhile, in the case of the Cubans it was instead almost the entire elite which originally immigrated, so their relative cultural/political impact has been massive by comparison.

Another important factor is the historic relationship between the people and their own elite. In the case of the Irish, they were generally aligned as allies against the hated British oppressors, and most other groups have typically had positive or at least neutral feelings toward their elites. But Mexicans have traditionally hated their elites as being parasitic and incompetent, basically the people whose mistakes and oppression were a large factor in impoverishing them and eventually forcing them to leave their own country and come here instead (I think some Italians may have arrived with similar sentiments).

So just as young blacks in the South were raised for generations upon stories of their cruel treatment by whites, and Irish upon similar stories of the English, the traditional hated enemy of ordinary Mexicans has always been...elite Mexicans. By contrast, Mexicans have never had any significant hostility toward Norte-Americano whites (except for a tiny sliver of university-trained ethnic-activist radicals). And since "nationalist ideology" is generally created and promoted by educated elites, Mexican immigrants---who arrived without these elites and anyway regard them as their enemy---tend to rank very low on the "ethnic nationalism" scale, with their lack of interest in Latino movies or Latino museums being a perfect example of this. Meanwhile, I'll bet there are already 100 Cuban museums across all of South Florida.

I've always told my East Coast friends that if they wanted to understand Mexicans (whom they had seldom directly encountered until the last decade or so), they should just pretend they're Italians (or Poles), and their predictions will be correct nine times out of ten.

4/20/11, 11:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't know the reason for this Steve.
When the European ethnicities immigrated they were usually very well organised with their own hurches, mutual associations, schools etc.Perhaps the best organised of all were the Ukrainians in Canada.
I believe this has a lot to do with their cultural roots in Europe, they were pretty well organised at home wuith a real senseof who they were, their roots, their history and culture.In the USA they tended to gravitate around charismatic leaders who kept the traditions going, whilst trying to fight their corner in the struggle for life in the USA.
Mexicans however, never really seemed to have as sense of organisation.Why, I do not know - I suppose they never had a real sense of identity or of belonging or a tradition of leadership 'from the people'.Their MO seems to be entirely different, it seems to be imposition of a mass population rather than a sense of exile and relatedness.

4/20/11, 11:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the poster who says he can't think of many 'Polish celebrities'.
Hasn't he considered the possibility that many people in the public eye anglicized/changed their names?

4/20/11, 11:38 PM

Blogger Francis said...

Couldn't we create a really nice "online museum" for like 1/1000th the cost?

4/20/11, 11:44 PM

Blogger agnostic said...

Could they find the South American idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark? That thing made a pretty substantial contribution to American culture.

Of course the museum would have to guard it from onlookers better than the Hovitos did.

4/20/11, 11:46 PM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

"I looked forward to the Indian museusm and it looked really nice from the outside. Inside... it was like the biggest daycare center in the world. I mean there was NOTHING but empty space and a few knicknacks."

Appropriate - kinda like North America looked to our ancestors.

I wonder why they don't build a National Anglo-Saxon Museum. I bet they wouldn't find anything but boring whitebread crap to put in there - like the Constitution, the Declaration, the telegraph, the telephone, the airplane, the steam engine, the compact disk, the television, etc. etc. etc.

But those exhibits are already elsewhere. All Americans get credit for those.

"How long before a gay museum?"

Now that I actually would go to see. The hottest fashions, and a free musical everyday at 11, 1, and 3.

"Approx zero mestizo faces on display. Very few hispanics of any sort. Zeta Jones - 1/2 spanish?"

Try zero percent Spanish. From Wiki: "Zeta-Jones was born Catherine Zeta Jones in Swansea, Wales, to Patricia (née Fair), an Irish seamstress, and David James Jones, a Welsh sweet factory owner..."

4/20/11, 11:52 PM

Blogger agnostic said...

"How long before a gay museum?"

At least they would play better music than the Mex-Am one.

"but it's pretty hard to think of a single prominent Slav celebrity."

Pat Benatar for starters. Steve Wozniak. Casimir Pulaski. Bill Mazeroski. Lots of others at the Wikipedia page. And they're only 10 million today, about 1/5 the size of Hispanics.

4/21/11, 12:10 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Gore Verbinski, director of Pirates of the Caribbean and Rango.

4/21/11, 12:53 AM

Anonymous tommy said...

Without knowing very much about Hispanic contributions to fields like medicine, science and engineering, I'm going to guess that these categories will be dominated by the Cubans. It might even be the case that Argentinian- and Chilean-Americans have made more contributions here than Mex-Ams.

Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and (non-Lebanese) Mexicans will be credited with baseball players, a few pot-smoking comedians, some mediocre politicians, authors of books largely forgotten outside of Hispanic studies departments, Tex-Mex singers, ethnic activists and other such professional entertainers.

Colombians can brag about (Lebanese) Shakira and some non-naturalized cocaine smugglers who amused us in the 80's.

Hondurans and Mexicans alike can claim unfunny joke bandit Carlos Mencia.

Peruvians, Ecuadorians, and Bolivians aren't even on the map.

Guatemalans, Salvadorans and Nicaraguans? Unless MS-13 is up for a spot in the Hispanic Hall of Fame, then forget about it.

4/21/11, 1:01 AM

Anonymous Tom Regan said...

Steve, all this confusion over why Latinos don't have the same level of achievement or attention that blacks have.
Simple. Blacks are a race. Whites are a race. Hispanics are not.
There are white Hispanics, and black Hispanics and various other hues in between. As far as I can tell, Hispanic means nothing more than Spanish speaking. Is it any wonder they lack a sense of common cause that blacks have, and whites used to?

4/21/11, 1:04 AM

Blogger Thrasymachus said...

There is some fascinating Latino history, but none of it happened in the current US. There was little Spanish settlement north of the current Mexican border. The arrival of Latin American immigrants in the last 50 years has been very uneventful.

4/21/11, 1:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Jessica Alba is half Mexican.

Salma Hayek is half Mexican by race."

No, and no.

4/21/11, 2:51 AM

Anonymous sabril said...

It's fortunate that our NAMs happen to be Hispanics. Imagine if we had an extra 50 million Arabs instead. Or an extra 50 million Blacks.

By the way Steve, here's an interesting way to find new blog topics -- find predictions with google news archive searches.

For example, you can search newspaper articles from 1980 for the phrase "by 2000" or "by the year 2000"

4/21/11, 4:33 AM

Blogger DCThrowback said...

@anon

Re: Jessica Alba

Alba submitted to a DNA/Genome test on the George Lopez show.

Imagine her shock when she found her ancestry was 87% White.

"Is Spain, you know, considered white?"

4/21/11, 5:12 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Poles are 3% of this country. The most famous Polish American is Martha Stewart. There pretty much are no other very famous Poles. A lot of groups besides Mexicans are weak at creating celebrities.

4/21/11, 5:36 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Yes, Poles tend to be below average in celebrities, perhaps because there weren't many elite Polish immigrants, like Zbigniew Brzezinski's diplomat dad, or director Gore Verbinski's nuclear physicist dad.

There weren't all that many elite Italian immigrants, like Enrico Fermi or Arturo Toscanini -- perhaps the Coppolas? -- but there have been no shortage of famous Italian Americans from the time of Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. You can't get much more famous than that.

4/21/11, 5:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Captain BS is the Anglo-Saxon version of Afrocentrism.

the steam engine, the compact disk, the television, etc. etc. etc.

telephone - lots of people
steam engine - a Scot
compact disc - Japanese
television - Northern Italian

4/21/11, 5:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This post is mean-spirited and it obscures the real issues: (1) the promotion by the federal government of racial distinctions and particular racial groups, funded with general taxes; (2) the balkanizing effects of ongoing mass immigration.

I couldn't care less whether Americans with Mexican ancestry have produced a lot of "celebrities" or "Mexican American" institutions. In fact, I find it much more important that a fellow citizen contributes as a regular productive member of society, assimilates, and is loyal to this country and only this country.

4/21/11, 6:00 AM

Anonymous none of the above said...

It's common to hear Salvadorans and Mexicans and Colombians and such expressing pride in their identity as Salvadorans/Mexicans/Columbians, but I don't recall ever hearing people self-identify as Hispanic or Latino outside of two places: US politics (trying to make up an ethnic coalition so some would be Mexican Jesse Jackson can arise) and discussion of statistics (talking about how X percent of Latinos in the US have health insurance, say.). And their kids mostly think of themselves as Americans with grandparents back in Mexico.

That's got to be a big handicap in raising donations--that kind of depends on appeals to group identity and pride.

4/21/11, 6:05 AM

Anonymous Casimir Pulaski said...

Poles are 3% of this country. The most famous Polish American is Martha Stewart. There pretty much are no other very famous Poles. A lot of groups besides Mexicans are weak at creating celebrities.

Why only celebrities - they're pretty vapid, transient and eminently replaceable for the most part? Most celebrities today are an embarrasement to their heritage, country and themselves.

A far better list of citizens who matter and shape the world would include academics, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, etc. That wouldn't really boost Latino accomplishment, but I suspect Poles would do much better in the League Tables.

4/21/11, 6:18 AM

Anonymous Isabel Fuentes said...

"Jessica Alba is half Mexican.

Salma Hayek is half Mexican by race."


"Mexican" is not a race - it is a nationality.

* Selma Hayek is Caucasian whose parents were a Spanish opera singer and a Lebanese oil executive.

* Jessica Alba is 87% Caucasian by DNA tests.

* Current giant and former Mexican President Vicente Fox is approximately 93% European and 7% Indigina.

Latino culture seems to admire lighter hispanic mixes and not envy/resent them like American black culture does.

Would a Latino museum have a "keepin it real" test of authenticity and really exclude beloved Selma Hayak?

4/21/11, 6:27 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One big mistake that the Indian museum made was to expand its range beyond the US.

As a result it badly lost focus. Most folks want to know about their lives in the US where we live before Europeans arrived, and about the great conflict. That's all lost in the shuffle of miscellaneous info about Guatamala, etc.

And also, everything is distorted by presenting everything through the lens of pre-Christian religion and related PC which denies all archeology. It's not a museum, it's an indoctrination center. So sad.

Robert Hume

4/21/11, 6:37 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why do they estimate the museum will cost so much? They should be able to find some cheap labor to build it...

4/21/11, 6:39 AM

Anonymous Has to be said...

Not many elite Jewish immigrants either. Some (especially after 1917) but not many.

Anyway, in related news. Boehner refuses to host Cinco de Mayo reception.

4/21/11, 7:50 AM

OpenID djf said...

The Museum of Native Americans is the most boring of all the Museums on the National Mall. It has a huge amount of open space, some photos of individuals from various tribes, and a whole bunch of buckskin dresses ornamented with beads (behind glass cases). The Museum of Natural History (with the Hope Diamond) and the National Air & Space Museum are much much better. See them first.

4/21/11, 7:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

a single prominent Slav celebrity

Well, for nerds & geeks, there is the uber-celebrity himself, Nikola Tesla.

4/21/11, 8:39 AM

Blogger Formerly.JP98 said...

"How long before a gay museum?"

Ever been inside an art museum?

4/21/11, 9:06 AM

Anonymous Sgt. Joe Friday said...

What about Linda Ronstadt?

1974: Hot, and sang great American songs.

1986: Still not too bad looking, did a nice job with the Great American Song Book under Nelson Riddle's direction.

Now: Singing Mexican songs, gotten fat, and looks like she fell out of the Ugly Tree, hitting every branch on the way down.

4/21/11, 9:06 AM

Anonymous John Mansfield said...

It's time for a word of praise for Hungarian billionaire Steven Udvar-Hazy, who donated $65 million so the Smithsonian would have a suitable place to display big planes, like a SR-71, a Concorde, a space shuttle, and numerous war planes.

Can you imagine a Hungarian museum on the mall? Now, that would be an interesting place with exhibits on the "Martians," von Neumann, Teller, Wigner, Szilard, von Karman, and whoever else. Maybe Dirac would get a spot by marriage.

4/21/11, 9:15 AM

Anonymous tommy said...

Yes, Poles tend to be below average in celebrities, perhaps because there weren't many elite Polish immigrants, like Zbigniew Brzezinski's diplomat dad, or director Gore Verbinski's nuclear physicist dad.

As you once pointed out, Poles are an understated people. Even their high achievers stand out less than comparable individuals in other countries. Self-absorption and celebrity tend to go hand in hand. That's why exceptionally narcissistic populations like the Irish and the Jews do so well in the entertainment biz.

4/21/11, 10:03 AM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

"Captain BS is the Anglo-Saxon version of Afrocentrism.

"telephone - lots of people
steam engine - a Scot
compact disc - Japanese
television - Northern Italian"

Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
Steam Engine - James Watt

Both Anglo-Saxon Scots.

Compact Disc - James Russell
Television - Philo Farnsworth

Both men of British descent.

But keep posting "Anonymous." I love your work.

Additionally, it's odd that we continue to obsess about separating Scottish from English from Irish from Welsh. At the time of this country's founding, and for most of its history, they were all a single nation, either de jure or de facto (under James VI). Germany was not a unified country, nor was Italy, but we don't generally break out Hessians from Bavarians or Lombards from Calabrians.

4/21/11, 10:06 AM

Anonymous Saint Louis said...

Isn't the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Milan, Mexican?

4/21/11, 10:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was born in Washington DC and grew up in the suburbs. As a kid I spent many Saturdays an Sundays in the various Smithsonian museums. About twenty years ago I wanted to show it to my wife.

We flew back to the nation's capitol and joined the hoards of tourists on the Mall. The technology exhibits were very interesting. I saw my first three computers displayed - the Altair, the Commodore PET, and the Osborne portable. That was cool.

But too many exhibits had gratuitous leftist placards. For example, they had an early telephone switch board, but instead of any description of the technology there was an essay on how women were exploited as telephone operators. Something had happened to my Smithsonian. Everywhere we looked every opportunity had been taken to insert a political message.

So I'm not surprised but I am disheartened to see that this once great museum complex is evermore agenda driven.

Albertosaurus

4/21/11, 10:40 AM

Anonymous Svigor said...

But then, it would mostly be white, black, and Jewish and not much else.

Another ANTI-SEMITE!!! who thinks Jews aren't white.

4/21/11, 12:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's hordes, damnit. Hoards are what dragons sleep on.

4/21/11, 12:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I almost never see colored people when I go to a museum.

4/21/11, 12:32 PM

Blogger Formerly.JP98 said...

"I almost never see colored people when I go to a museum."

Are museum guards invisible to you?

4/21/11, 2:23 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're talking about Slavs and about celebrity, and nobody's mentioned Andy Warhol?!

4/21/11, 3:07 PM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

Poles?

Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Knight, Loretta Swit, John Krasinski, Marilu Henner, Bobby Vinton, Christine Baranski, Jane Krakowski, Gloria Swanson, Roger Zelasny, the Wachowski Brothers, Wayne Gretsky, Tim Pawlenty, Pat Sajak, Gene Krupa, Mike Royko, Peter Cetera, Ed Muskie, and both Siemaszkos.

That's the problem with people here. they're obviously very anti-Pole but cover it up by blaming others for same.

4/21/11, 3:34 PM

Blogger Roland said...

My favorite Slavic-American celebrities: Ric Ocasek (Otcasek) and Benjamin Orr (Orzechowski; RIP) of the new wave hitmakers the Cars.

4/21/11, 3:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Natalie Wood, Yul Brinner, ummm... Weird Al Yankovic?

4/21/11, 4:10 PM

Blogger C. Van Carter said...

Here's an architectural rendition of the proposed museum.

4/21/11, 4:21 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

There are plenty of famous Polish Americans, but they often don't have very Polish names:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_Americans

The most influential one (for the worst) is undoubtedly Alan Greenspan.

4/21/11, 5:41 PM

Blogger Eric said...

The panel’s report, entitled “Willful Neglect,” found, for example, that only 2 of the 470 people featured in the “notable Americans” section of the National Portrait Gallery were Latino.

Is that because they're being neglected or because they haven't done much of note?

4/21/11, 6:03 PM

Anonymous SouthernAnonyia said...

"Steve I was thinking of you while browsing the magazine racks today. Approx zero mestizo faces on display. Very few hispanics of any sort. Zeta Jones - 1/2 spanish? - and Longoria ...and old what's her name from In Living Color."

Zeta-Jones is completely Welsh.

4/21/11, 6:59 PM

Anonymous SouthernAnonyia said...

"Additionally, it's odd that we continue to obsess about separating Scottish from English from Irish from Welsh. At the time of this country's founding, and for most of its history, they were all a single nation, either de jure or de facto (under James VI). Germany was not a unified country, nor was Italy, but we don't generally break out Hessians from Bavarians or Lombards from Calabrians."

Very good point. All the people of the British Isles are genetically pretty similar despite historical exaggerations amd myths which suggest otherwise. People make a big deal about the English being more blonde/Germanic and Welsh/Irish being more Celtic/red-haired, when in actuality the differences between these populations physically and to a lesser extent culturally are much smaller than the differences between North Germans and Bavarians, or the differences between Sicilians and the Genoese.

4/21/11, 7:08 PM

Blogger Truth said...

"Another ANTI-SEMITE!!! who thinks Jews aren't white."

Well, let's be honest; a lot of Jews are WWC (White When Convenient).

4/21/11, 7:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

magazine covers can't afford to be too pc

there's too much $$$ on the line

jerry garcia would be a great hispanic except don't think he spoke spanish

doubt jerry qualifies as latin either

4/21/11, 7:59 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

A lot of the Hungarians named above and some of the Poles are not ethnic Hungarians or Poles. They are Jews who were born in those respective countries.

4/21/11, 8:17 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought the Irish were actually traced to the Czech/Hungarian region and were an anomaly in the British Isles (German-Scandinavian-French).

4/21/11, 9:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Greenspan was born in the Washington Heights area of New York City. His father Herbert Greenspan was of Romanian-Jewish descent and his mother Rose Goldsmith of Hungarian-Jewish descent.

4/21/11, 10:17 PM

Anonymous Yezhovshchina said...

The panel’s report, entitled “Willful Neglect,” found, for example, that only 2 of the 470 people featured in the “notable Americans” section of the National Portrait Gallery were Latino.

America has been a predominately white for about 350yrs until 1965. Latinos have only been a significant percentage for the past 50 some years.

Forgetting about the actual merit of people invovled, this fact alone sets a baseline that hispanics would optimistically make up 8% * (50/400) = 1% of the portraits in the National Gallery(assuming an avg US Hispanic population of 7% 1965-2011).

This sudden demand to rewrite the whole of American history and human accomplishment to reflect relatively recent ahistorical demographic changes smells of a Stalinist purge. It's like airbrushing out all references and images to 400 years of truths to accomodate the untruths of today.

4/21/11, 10:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"It's fortunate that our NAMs happen to be Hispanics. Imagine if we had an extra 50 million Arabs instead. Or an extra 50 million Blacks."

I guess it's better to have breast cancer than pancreatic cancer.

4/21/11, 11:06 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Notice how there are almost no Mexicans in commercials, but they make it seem like blacks are 50% of the population in commercials.

4/21/11, 11:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Another ANTI-SEMITE!!! who thinks Jews aren't white."

On Half Sigma's site I have seen Jews say they are not white.

4/21/11, 11:09 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Additionally, it's odd that we continue to obsess about separating Scottish from English from Irish from Welsh."

I see what you mean,but if you go to the UK it seems the Scots hate the English and consider themselves a different country from what I have seen. A Scottish coach, I think David Moyes of Everton, considers himself a foreigner in England the same as an African is a foreigner. They all have their own national team too which seems ridiculous.

4/21/11, 11:13 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

I would support a Latino museum, American Indian museum, Black museum, Gay museum, etc. As long as all the traditional Smithsonian museums (up through the Air and Space museum) are torn down.

Washington, as the capitol of a now ridiculous nation, needs to be made manifestly ridiculous itself. Let us strip from our elites the pretense that they govern anything other than a fractious, decaying empire.

4/22/11, 7:10 AM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

"I would support a Latino museum, American Indian museum, Black museum, Gay museum, etc. As long as all the traditional Smithsonian museums (up through the Air and Space museum) are torn down. Washington, as the capitol of a now ridiculous nation, needs to be made manifestly ridiculous itself. Let us strip from our elites the pretense that they govern anything other than a fractious, decaying empire."

You can scribe away all your days, and never come up with anything as eloquent as that. Thank you, Mr. Anon. Thank you.

"Well, let's be honest; a lot of Jews are WWC (White When Convenient)."

Yes. By making themselves white when the quota game is played, they entitle themselves to the entire ~70% of the white share of the pie.

The US is 14% black and 2% Jewish. The US Senate is 13% Jewish, counting John Kerry. It is 0% black. The liberal, pro-AA, pro-quota Jews - all 13 of them - could easily remedy nearly all of both Jewish overrepresentation and black underrepresentation by stepping down on the condition that a black is nominated to replace them. It hasn't happened yet, and I predict it never will.

4/22/11, 1:51 PM

Blogger David said...

Affirmative action museums. What about the lesbian midget museum?

4/22/11, 4:37 PM

Blogger Syncretism said...

Steve,

As for the ingenious mortgage idea, that mortgage's credit rating will have to be robo-signed. Phone the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

4/22/11, 5:45 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"David said...

Affirmative action museums. What about the lesbian midget museum?"

I don't know if there's a museum dedicated to that topic, but I'd bet it's got a website hosted in the Phillipines.

4/22/11, 8:05 PM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

"The arrival of Latin American immigrants in the last 50 years has been very uneventful."

Other than the mortgage meltdown, the great recession, the near complete decay of California and the rest of the Southwest...you're right.

Glad it's been so uneventful.

4/22/11, 8:39 PM

Blogger silly girl said...

Oh, no, not latino and creative financing in the same sentence.

4/23/11, 2:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"browsing the magazine racks today. Approx zero mestizo faces on display."


who wants to look at mestizo faces, let alone pay to look at them?

If you want to sell something, put a hot woman or rich guy on it, not the maid/nanny/gardner.

4/23/11, 2:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

agnostic said:

"Could they find the South American idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark? That thing made a pretty substantial contribution to American culture."


I love agnostic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4/23/11, 2:30 PM

Anonymous Has to be said...

"The US is 14% black and 2% Jewish. The US Senate is 13% Jewish, counting John Kerry."

If you count someone like Kerry as a Jew there are a lot more Jews in the US than 2%.

4/23/11, 8:41 PM

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