Lessons in political correctness, racism and what to expect in the borderless “New America” promised by Bush, the Council on Foreign Relations [ click here and scroll down to see if CFR Independent Task Force on the Future of North America members names ring any bells ] and every CEO who is focused on profit above all else - even the future of their own children’s nation - from what my friend Terry Anderson calls “La Times”, that giant of objective journalism in occupied California.

La Times ran a story today on the coming English subtitles and the increase in Spanish language shows in television broadcasting.

In ABC’s new sitcom “Freddie,” one of the main characters — Freddie Prinze Jr.’s Puerto Rican grandmother — speaks only Spanish. The show, which premieres in October, will use subtitles to translate her words.[Networks Have an Ear for Spanish By Meg James]

Included in the story, this quote:

“…color is cool and white is washed out.”

This observation from Gary Bassell, chief executive of Young & Rubicam’s the Bravo Group, an advertising agency that specializes in reaching Latinos - is not racist. Remember that.

Neither is this:

Stephen Chavez, a vice president of the Los Angeles-based Latino advertising agency La Agencia de Orci. “Second- and third-generation Latinos like myself want to see characters who reflect their lifestyle and their culture. And story lines that are relevant to our lives.”

Or this.

“At the end of the day, almost everyone prefers to come home to speak Spanish and watch Spanish-language programming,” said David Woolfson, Univision senior vice president for network research.

Indeed.

Second and third generation Latinos have no more intention of assimilating into the American culture than does Mario Obledo or the 8-10,000 illegals who entered our nation today…11 September, 2005.
The fact that George W. Bush has abandoned all pretense of stopping illegal immigration, that most Hispanic “immigrants” come into the U.S. illegally and that were we as nation to deport the balkanizing horde, secure our borders and enforce our employment laws - as the constitution requires - none of this would be happening, is never mentioned in the La Times piece.

That would be racist ….si?

The nation-building within the American nation s far ahead of schedule [ they could never have dreamed of a George W. Bush!], and for those who doubt the certainty of future similar stories in their hometown paper… come take a trip through Georgiafornia.

Frome the June 1992 Heterodoxy [PDF]

LOOT SUITERS: “A fashionable beggar approached a downtown worker during Los Angeles’ three days of rioting and asked for money to buy food.

“He was wearing a new suit with tags still on,” Herb Sanders of suburban Van Nuys said in a letter published in the Los Angeles Times.[May 10, 1992]

“The sleeves on the jacket were rolled up along with the legs on the pants. A piece of rope held up the pants. He had on a new pair of Reebok shoes that didn’t match.” Sanders said the man asked for change to buy food.

“I asked him, “Did you spend all your money on your new suit and shoes?’ With a smile he said, “No, I’m a looter, and I got this new suit and shoes looting.’”

At that point, Sanders asked, “What do you think of the Rodney King situation?” “I don’t follow sports anymore,” the man replied.”

Any reasonable observer must conclude that the difficulty the U.S. Authorities, at all levels, have had with dealing with Hurricane Katrina arose not simply because it was an exceptionally savage and huge storm, but, much more importantly, it was so sudden. This thing was not even declared a hurricane until just before it arrived in Florida - few in recent years can have picked up so much power in a short passage over the northern Gulf of Mexico. Usually, serious storms spend a week or more tromping over the Caribbean islands, so that everyone gets the message.

This has nothing to do with the political effect of Katrina. The chaos in New Orleans appears to be quite simply an issue of the moral quality of the population - America’s Burden, so to speak.

A piece of evidence supporting this view was recently published on Prestopundit. It is a report by a lady who volunteered at a Texan relief center:

I know they have just suffered a lot and lost everything, but that’s really no reason to take advantageous of people’s generosity. I swear it’s like they didn’t have any home training. Some of these people don’t have any sense of common decency or respect for fellow human beings; especially those who are trying to help him.

To which one can only observe:

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Matthew Chapter 7 v. 20

Hat Tip California Conservative

This appeared in The Corner, and I will refrain from comment, and just email the answer to Jonah, but I thought it it might interest Vdare.com’s readers, too.

The Corner on National Review Online
PC BLEGS [Jonah Goldberg ]

Am I remembering this wrong, or during the hight of the PC craze (and the anti-PC craze) didn’t some kid get an F on a paper for using the word “individual”? This would have been at least a decade ago. Ring a bell?

Also, I’m doing research on contemporary PC, anybody read a good overview (pro, con, analytical?). I’ve read Kindly Inquisitors and, of course, Illiberal Education but I’m looking for more up-to-date material. The folks at Fire have some great — i.e. depressing — examples. What I’m particulary interested in is stuff that puts it in a larger context; the crusade for social justice etc. It seems on the one hand PC has receded a bit, but on the other hand what’s left behind has more official sanction. Any thoughts, examples, counter-examples are welcome.

Please send solely to my JonahResearch@aol.com account.

Actually this is fairly easy to answer, it’s on page 9 and 10 of Illiberal Education and on the Internet here:

What attracted the most attention in the editorial—indeed, it developed a life of its own in hundreds of citations—was an exchange between a student and an administrator who both were on the committee to design “diversity education.” In truth, I had encouraged this brave, female undergraduate both to join the committee with her own sense of a university and to speak her mind plainly. She wrote a memo to her colleagues about the emphasis on group, expressing “my deep regard for the individual and my desire to protect the freedoms of all members of society.” An administrator sent her memo back to her, with the word “individual” underlined, and writing, “This is a ‘RED FLAG’ phrase today, which is considered by many to be RACIST.”

FIRE - ‘We Shall See’ By Alan Kors, May 19, 2005,

The original source was It’s speech, not sex, the dean bans now, Wall Street Journal, 12 October 1989, pA16.

Here’s the story as it appeared there:

“Racism” is not prejudice alone, but prejudice plus “institutional power,” which only white males possess. “Culture” is not an evolved system that confers survival and life-enhancement benefits upon its inheritors, adapting as material conditions and ways of thinking change, but a system of creating and preserving “hegemonic dominance” for white males. “Diversity” is not the coming together of diverse individuals, but the recognition of the primacy of group-identity.

One brave undergraduate on Penn’s planning committee for “diversity education” wrote a memo to her colleagues about “my deep regard for the individual and my desire to protect the freedoms of all members of society.” An administrator paid to think about such things wrote back to her, circling the quoted phrase, underlining the word “individual,” and commenting: “This is a ‘RED FLAG’ phrase today, which is considered by many to be RACIST. Arguments that champion the individual over the group ultimately privileges {sic} the ‘individuals’ belonging to the largest or dominant group.”

Central administrations have the final word on such programs and they will inhibit or advance the full force of their ideological agenda as conviction, careerism, public monitoring, local unrest and the politics of universities dicate. Make no mistake, however: The “in loco parentis” role of today’s universities is meant to cleanse the souls of undergraduates of the political, social and moral sins of the communities, churches, high schools, peer groups and families from which they come. It is, as well, to designate official agents for groups such as America’s blacks, women and gays and to preach an official history of their place in America to them.