Rob Sanchez will be on the Peter Boyles Show tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss his VDARE blog entry “Bill Gates Scholarships Exclude White Kids.” The program airs in Denver and can be streamed here.

“I am 100% Mexican” said Mark Sanchez, American citizen and New York Jets quarterback. It was at a press conference before the Super Bowl, attended in part by Mexican reporters.[Yo Soy Mexicano : Mark Sánchez,El Universal, Feb. 6th, 2010]

Joe Guzzardi has written about Sanchez, who is U.S.-born and a native speaker of English. On one side anyway, it was his great-grandparents who immigrated.

What does Sanchez mean by calling himself 100% Mexican ?

At the press conference (90% of which was in Spanish) Sanchez said that

“I need to learn more Spanish because I want to talk with the Mexican fans that have supported me much. I am 100% Mexican”.

This is the same guy who said that growing up he “never thought much about being Mexican.” But he sure thinks about it now that he’s quite successful.

So it sounds like some sort of awakening.

Muslims in Malaysia are upset, which means rioting and setting churches on fire, over the fact that Christians speak of God as Allah, the subject of a recent court case in Malaysia.

Christopher Hitchens writes:

When speaking silkily to ignorant Western audiences, Muslim propagandists sometimes like to say reassuringly that we all—Christians, Jews, Muslims—worship the same God. We are all children of Abraham, blah blah blah. We are all “peoples of the book,” blah blah again. It is true that the Quran contains much material borrowed from the Pentateuch and the New Testament, but it is also true that it is widely considered to be authentic only when written or declaimed in Arabic. The Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia lingua franca contains many borrowings from Arabic, including the G-word, but this doesn’t stop its Christian speakers from being told that they can’t follow their own faith in their own tongue. This quite clearly negates the notion that Islam is universal, that it preaches brotherhood, that it is a “religion of peace,” blah blah blah. Instead, it shows a very calculated sectarianism, not entirely free of racial and national exclusivity at that, which proves that deep down the Islamists are not monotheists at all but believe that there are several gods, of whom theirs is naturally the best.

It won’t surprise you, I hope, to learn that I have been an expert on this for decades and took it in literally with my mother’s milk. My earliest years were spent in the island nation of Malta, that wonderful spot of earth between Libya and Sicily, with its capital, Valetta, perhaps the greatest Baroque and Renaissance city in Europe. Malta has a language of its own, which I used to speak in a boyish way. The Maltese tongue was once considered by some philologists to be descended from the speech of the Carthaginians, but by far its closest kinship is with the Arabic spoken in the Maghreb of Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco. It is the only Semitic language rendered in a Latin script, and, along with English, it is an official language of the country. Since Malta’s accession as the smallest member state, it is also an official language of the European Union. And in Maltese, the printed word for God is Alla, which means that when spoken by a priest, it sounds exactly the same.[Holy Names | Now some Islamists want to prohibit non-Muslims from referring to God as Allah. By Christopher Hitchens, Slate, February 8, 2010

Actually, it did surprise me for just a minute that Hitchens had spoken Maltese as a child, since I thought of him as having been raised in England near Dartmoor. (Where he went to a  school with compulsory chapel services and became an atheist.) But then I remembered that Hitchens’s father was an officer in the British Navy.

Malta is a British Navy base in the way that Guam and Diego Garcia are American bases, so it’s natural that Hitchens should have spent some time there as a child.  See Peter Brimelow’s 1990 review of   Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies for insights into Hitchens’s psychology.

I’m wondering whether the NFL passing game is evolving in the direction the placekicking game has already gone. Kickers today get no credit whatsoever for making extra points and very little for making field goals under, say, 45 yards. You mostly hear about them when they miss.

Quarterback strategies and execution are now starting to reach a similar point where the big story of the Super Bowl was the lone interception thrown in the game.

In April of 2008 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) televised a show called “Blood, Sweat, & T-Shirts”. It is now showing in the U.S. on the Planet Green channel.

The show is about six snotty young Britishers who think it it will be “rad” go to India to find out what working in a garment sweatshop is all about. Their first workplace was in New Delhi at Shahi Enterprises — known as one of the best garment factories to work at in India. If that is the best place to work you wonder what working for a real sweatshop is like — and those Brits find out.

As with most reality TV, some of the scenes came across as slightly contrived. Like for instance, their Indian factory floor boss had a tough time holding back from laughing as he ordered the young Brits around, but make no mistake about it, that guy is mean and tough and you just know he isn’t nearly as nice to his regular workers.

I highly recommend the show because it’s thought provoking and amusing. The preview on Planet Green is better than the one on BBC. The toilet scene is a classic!

Here are some excellent links:

• Mail Online: “Why six British youngsters will never buy high street fashion again after visiting India’s sweatshops.”
• The Independent: “Last Night’s TV: They’re cottoning on to the real world”
• BBC Video Short: Fashionista works in India
• Youtube Video: Newsnight Special on BBC

Perhaps the one profound thing said in the entire show was from Georgina:

“You see all the Indian people working so hard and being paid so little for it, and it makes you feel so ashamed.”

Yes, we should all feel ashamed, but not necessarily for the obvious reason the producers of the show would lead us to: that the solution to the exploitation is “fair trade” instead of “free trade”. Brits and Americans should feel ignominy for allowing their leaders to turn their own countries into hellholes like India!

A second episode of the show aired on the BBC about the experiences of the young Brits when they go to the real sweatshops. Green Planet hasn’t scheduled the second show.

More from Obama’s illegal Armada De Haiti–a woman who decided to set sail (for her third try) because she heard about TPS:

The time was right

Among Louis’ passengers is Fanise Jean, 24, who lives on the ground floor of a pastel-pink French Creole house a short walk from the water. Jean has twice attempted the journey, once a year ago and again in July. Those journeys depleted her resources, which she collected as a beautician, and her stamina.

“It’s a lot of suffering,” she said. “People throwing up on you, you can’t take a shower, there’s little food, and the boat is always shaking back and forth.” One of her journeys lasted 14 days because the captain got lost, and three people became ill and died.

Until last month, Jean had been resigned to waiting longer before trying again. But she began reconsidering two weeks ago, when she got word that her boyfriend, who lived in Port-au-Prince, had been crushed to death in the earthquake. “We had just talked that morning on the phone,” she said.

Then, she heard from a friend in Boston who had joined her on one of the earlier attempts to reach the United States. The friend, alone among those on the boat, had been allowed to stay because she was eight months pregnant. The baby was born and the friend was being held for deportation.

“She called to tell me that she got her papers,” Jean said. “Just like that. All the Haitians in the United States are getting their papers.”

So, Jean decided the time was right.[Haitians prepare for boat journey to Florida, By Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2010]

There’s a slideshow here.

Obama’s decision to grant TPS, (Temporary Protected Status which means that like his aunt, they can’t be deported) to Haitians I the United States has caused an entirely predictable response from Haitians in Haiti–they’re building boats to invade America.

“America is a place where everybody can become someone,” Douna says before bedding down for the night, an expression of certainty on her pretty young face. “It’s where everyone lives like human beings.”

And besides, she says, “I have nowhere else to go.”

After the earthquake, the Obama administration quickly announced that it was granting “temporary protected status” to the more than 100,000 undocumented Haitians estimated to be living in the United States, and suspending deportation proceedings. That status can be extended up to 18 months. … To qualify for temporary protected status, Haitians have to prove that they were in the United States on or before the quake. But for people in the country illegally, that could be difficult to verify, and the would-be immigrants in Cap-Haitien are counting on that.

[Haitians prepare for boat journey to Florida, By Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2010]

As for the lady with “nowhere else to go”, Senegal has offered refugees from Haiti free land. And for an alternative destination, one that must be suffering a labor shortage, see my 2001 piece  Dear Mr. Fox: Please Find Attached our Poor/ Tired/ Dispossessed, Etc.

There’s always the Washington Post’s XX featurette for heaping mounds of Taking Everything Personally:

To Be Young, Gifted, and White in Hollywood

• By Nina Shen Rastogi

The blogosphere is a-twitter about Vanity Fair’s latest “New Hollywood” cover. Specifically, its stark lily-whiteness. As Dlisted put it, this year’s annual Annie Leibovitz shot “makes a BYU class picture look like a Benetton ad.”

Bloggers have pointed out a few obvious, non-white actresses who could have been included, like Gaby Sidibe, who is featured in the portfolio inside the magazine, but not on the cover.

The star of Precious weighs 300 pounds. No woman is going to be drawn to make an impulse purchase of a fashion and lifestyle magazine because there’s a 300 pounder on the cover.

There’s also Zoe Saldana, who starred in the two biggest sci-fi movies of the year, Star Trek and Avatar.

This Dominican-American is really good in Avatar as Manute Bol’s big blue sister, or whatever she’s supposed to be. On the other hand, would anybody who saw her in Avatar recognize her? (more…)

Peter Brimelow will be guest on the nationally syndicated Mancow Show on Monday morning at 9:35 a.m. He will discuss how whites are excluded from the Bill Gates Scholarship program. The show can be streamed here.

Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, former Thatcher Cabinet Official Norman Tebbit declares that Britain needs a moratorium on legal immigration.

Tebbit explains,

“The projections from that inflow confirm that our population will rise by 10 million within 25 years, nearly 70 per cent by new immigration unless something is done. That is the population of another London, or seven Birminghams. At present the population of the UK is set to rise to 70 million.

“This would be bad enough if we could be confident that the newcomers and those born of earlier immigrants were all determined to integrate into our society. At present, despite the integration and assimilation of very many immigrants and their descendents, there is no evidence that the pace of integration is fast enough to avoid a state of voluntary apartheid. We are, as Trevor Phillips has said, ‘sleepwalking into segregation’ and the consequences of that can be seen in other parts of the world.”

Lord Tebbit seems to understand the urgency in halting immigration into his native homeland. America’s political elite remains clueless in grasping the magnitude of the problem of allowing current U.S. legal immigration levels to continue apace.

Tebbit however argues,

“It seems to me that we must assert that we need to aim for a zero net immigration policy. We cannot achieve that while our frontiers are open to EU citizens, and although that is not too threatening at present, some of the prospective new member states would act like wide open doors to Third World migration. We need a decent policy of giving sanctuary to true refugees … but we must close the door to others and start serious work on deporting those here illegally, as well as reinstating proper border controls. It would also require changing our law to prevent judges and others simply claiming that foreign law overrides the laws of this country.”

When will we ever learn this lesson on this side of the Atlantic?