Singer Alicia Keys, who was raised by her white mom after her black dad split, provides another example of how interracial mating automatically creates transracial amity and understanding among the mixed race offspring:

NEW YORK (AP) - There’s another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: “‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. ‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”

Keys, 27, said she’s read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ‘em dead,” according to an interview in the magazine’s May issue, on newsstands Tuesday.

Another of her theories: That the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled “by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.”

Keys’ AK-47 jewelry came as a surprise to her [white] mother, who is quoted as telling Blender: “She wears what? That doesn’t sound like Alicia.”

Despite careful inspection of the pendant in the picture above, I can’t quite tell if that’s an AK-47. As they say at the end of every scientific paper ever published: More research is necessary!

Update: An indefatigable iSteve reader has done the more research necessary and found this photo of Alicia wearing her Huey Newton leather coat, Eldridge Cleaver shades, and her own AK-47 pendant.

He points out:

There’s a cutesy girl thing going on, I think–Automat Kalashnikov and Alicia Keys, same initials: “AK.”

Oh, now I get it! AK …

Isn’t she adorable!

And yet, if Alicia Keys were 47-years-old, making the whole “AK-47” thing even more appropriate, theoretically-speaking, it would somehow be less cute.

Funny how that works.

In the meantime, AK, enjoy it while you’ve still got it.

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Check out Boycottabsolut.com, which is about the Absolut ad that Michelle Malkin wrote about on Tuesday.

What impressed me about that ad, as people have pointed out, is that while Janet Murguia says that the Mexican idea of reconquista is a product of our feverish nativist imaginations, it’s actually so popular that Sweden is trying to get in on the act. I myself haven’t had a drink since Reagan’s first term, but if I meet you for drinks, I’ll buy you something American to drink, like an Old-Fashioned. (A good Old-Fashioned, as  I somewhat blurrily  recall, has about four ounces of Bourbon in it–oh, right that’s why I had to quit.)

As I have reported since 2005, the Bush administration has endangered the American public by welcoming college students from Saudi Arabia to study at US universities. It’s bad enough that these foreign students are taking slots that could go to worthy young citizens, but the policy is clearly a national security threat. Now, President Bush and his Saudi pals want more.

Al-JOUF, 10 April 2008 — US Ambassador Ford Fraker said in Sakaka that his country aims to double the number of student visas issued to Saudis.

“Currently there are 15,000 Saudi students in the US,” he said during an event on Sunday with local business leaders to an audience at the Al-Jouf Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “We aim to increase their numbers to 30,000 over the next five years.”
[US to Double Visas for Saudi Students, Arab News, April 10, 2008]

Muslim students have already been involved in terror plots, for example Egyptian nationals attending the University of South Florida, Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed. They were charged last August with possessing explosive devices: 2 Charged With Pipe Bombs Near Navy Base.

A well known criminal was in fact a Saudi student, namely Homaidan Al-Turki, who was pursuing a PhD in Colorado. Though not convicted as a terrorist, he was sentenced in 2006 to 20 years to life for slavery. He forced an Indonesian woman to work as a nanny in his house for years, held her passport and sexually abused her.

At sentencing, al-Turki played the cultural victimization card, saying “The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.”

He continues to whine from prison on his personal website, HomaidanAlTurki.com. (You can drop him a line about American values at alturki.mr@gmail.com)

So even when Saudis residing in America don’t commit terrorism, many believe that they can act as they please and break American law — including the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery.

This sounds like the Army is either desperate for recruits, or desperate to be multicultural, but that’s not the whole story here:

U.S. Army Set to Recruit Citizens

The Nation (Nairobi)

NEWS
6 April 2008
Posted to the web 7 April 2008

By Angelo Izama
Kampala

Ugandans who want a career in the United States military, can sign up at the annual convention of the Uganda North American Association, organisers say.

American military recruiters will set up a booth at this year’s UNAA convention in Orlando, Florida, and seek out professional Ugandans, said Lt. Frank Musisi, himself an officer in the US Army.

Lt. Musisi, who comes from Kalangala District on Lake Victoria, is the current president of UNAA. He said the US military would also advise Ugandans on the “proper channels” to follow in enlisting. The announcement, which is also on the UNAA website [http://www.unaanet.com/], is set to cause a rush to this year’s convention that takes place from August 29 to September 1.

UNAA is encouraging interested Ugandans to book flights to Orlando and take a shot at joining the US military. The organisation says it has made a deal with Kenya Airways/KLM for a discounted return ticket at $1,200 (Sh74,400). The conference fee is $190 (Sh11,700).[More]

Lt. Frank Musisi is a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Reserve, specializing in logistics, and is thus not very important militarily, and he’s running for president of the UNAA on a platform that includes “immigration advocacy.” All this tory actually means is that he was able to dig up a recruiter to man the booth, and make a long-distance call to Kampala.

In any event, recruiting Africans for the US military may not work out very well. Recently a Nigerian sailor who was serving aboard the USS Cowpens, (which is stationed in Japan) was handed over to the Japanese Police who wanted him for murdering a Japanese cab driver.[AP headline: US Sailor Arrested in Cab Driver Murder--that's so Associated Press.]

I was interviewed by Silvio Canto, Jr. on his show, you can listen to it here. Scroll down to where it says “Click here for the show!” Topics include anchor babies, Mexican preferences in the U.S. presidential race, NAFTA, the PEMEX controversy, Mexican military anti-cartel operations, and Mexicans killed in South America.

John Dickerson in Slate sums up what the GOP strategy will be against Obama:

“The GOP’s attack will boil down to the accusation that Obama is a big phony.”

I presume I was the first person to point out in detail that Obama’s campaign themes, which are based on common assumptions about the political implications of his life story, are contradicted by his actual life story. And two months ago I explained how McCain could use this.

So, does that make it my fault if McCain gets elected and blows up the world?

Perhaps.

But, it’s not as if nobody in the GOP would have noticed if I hadn’t been hollering about it for so long. I just hastened the process.

It’s actually to Obama’s advantage that the GOP has figured out their strategy so early. It gives him seven months to figure out a counter-strategy, such as, to pick an unlikely example, to stop being a big phony.

From my “Obama’s Mr. Wright” article in the April 7, 2008 issue of The American Conservative on why the press overlooked for so long the obvious fact that Barack Obama wasn’t actually Tiger Woods:

“That Barack Obama is black offers the country a potential advantage: it makes his intellectual sophistication and verbal adeptness more acceptable to the bulk of voters, many of whom found Al Gore and his 1330 SAT score too inhumanly cerebral to trust. If Obama, a superb prose stylist, were white, he’d be written off as an effete intellectual. But white voters are hungry for a well-educated role model for blacks. And blacks see the preppie from paradise’s membership in Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ as evidence that he’s keepin’ it real.”

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Hugh Hewitt is a big Mark Steyn fan, and demonstrates it in this clip here, where Hewitt wants to give Steyn a Pulitzer, and Steyn has to remind Hewitt that he’s a Canadian:

HH: The Pulitzers came out this week, and they made a grievous error. They did not nominate Mark Steyn’s America Alone. I cannot believe it, but now Steyn’s America Alone is out in paperback. It is at number five on the Amazon.com list as we speak. We’re going to keep it into the top ten this hour, next, and in the third. Joining me from Washington, D.C. tonight, the author of said America Alone, Mark Steyn, Columnist to the World. Hello, Mark, how are you?

MS: Hey, good to be with you, Hugh. I’m not actually sure I’m technically eligible for the Pulitzers. I think it’s one of these, it’s more restricted than the U.S. presidency. I think you’ve got to be born in the United States, or whatever it says.

HH: Even if your book is published in the U.S? That’s too bad.

MS: Yeah, it’s very restrictive. I know, occasionally, people have talked about putting me in for a Pulitzer for this, that and the other, and it turns out an undocumented American can do almost anything in this country. He can get a fake driver’s license and all the rest of it. But apparently, the Pulitzers still maintain, it’s like an old-time country club. It’s very hard to get into.

HH: Well, that’s work that Americans will do, so they’re very pleased to get the Pulitzers.[Hugh Hewitt Show,April 10, 2008 Transcript | MP3 ]

I looked it up, and it turns out that the Pulitzers for books are very restricted:

• For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
• For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States.
• For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author.
• For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.
• For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.

Joseph Pulitzer set it up that, in spite of the fact that he was, like Peter Brimelow, an “immigrant himself.”

Just a reminder–what Mark Steyn said about demographics in America Alone, and elsewhere is roughly the same thing Dr. John Tanton said years ago, that Linda Chavez reacted hysterically to–that people who have more children will eventually outnumber those who have fewer, and it’s mistake to allow them to move in with you.

Edward Said, the late Episcopalian Palestinian intellectual, whose 1978 book Orientalism launched “post-colonial studies” and did so much damage to scholarship by teaching a generation of students that studying non-Western cultures was racist and that the only acceptable activity was to interrogate what earlier Western scholars had said about non-Western cultures for proof of their racism, taught Barack Obama at Columbia in the early 1980s, according to the LA Times.[Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama, By Peter Wallsten,April 10, 2008]

There’s nothing about Edward Said in Obama’s memoirs because of Obama’s relentless refusal to include anecdotes about famous people he had met just because readers might find them–horrors–interesting.

I mean, in the unlikely event that I ever write my life story, I’d include the time I was interrogated by a Maryland chief of police on suspicion of attempting to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with a letter bomb.

Their robot bomb disposal unit was ready to hurl into the Chesapeake Bay the small dense package I had mailed to myself at a hotel where both Mrs. Thatcher and I would be staying for a conference when I finally convinced the police the package just contained some new business cards I had had printed up.

Granted, this story doesn’t reveal anything about my inner soul, but it’s more entertaining than any single anecdote in Obama’s boring book.

Obama left out random stories about famous people he had met because they don’t have anything to do with his own personal all-absorbing “story of race and inheritance.” And, besides, who knew whether potential Jewish donors in some future campaign would be pleased to hear about the impact Said had on Obama? Why leave a paper trail?

All right, maybe it’s not that unusual for a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board to write a book calling for open borders. The book is Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders , by Jason L. Riley. But Robert Z Nemeth of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, thinks it is:

Jason L. Riley,  [send him mail] a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, is a rare specimen. He is a conservative African-American who rejects affirmative action and champions a cause that is an anathema to most fellow conservatives: wide-open borders and virtually unrestricted immigration. I had an opportunity to read a proof of his upcoming book (“Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders”) and to interview him before he spoke to the Worcester Economic Club last week.[The Case for Open Borders, April 6, 2008]

Nemeth, who has probably never given the downside of immigration a moment’s thought, says Riley

stresses that today’s influx of Latino newcomers, legal and undocumented, is similar to the waves of Irish, Italian and Eastern European immigrants.

Except of course for the significant fact that they’re not Irish, Italian or Eastern European–they’re mostly Mexicans, loyal citizens of the Estados Unidos De Mexico, a more-or-less failed state directly south of the US border.

Jason Riley specializes in smearing what he calls “nativists,” in articles with titles like GOP Nativists Tarnish Reagan’s ‘Shining City’, and Nix on Nativism | Ignore the anti-immigrant right. Bush did.

The subtitle of his book is “Six Myths About Immigration, and Why They Are Wrong.” I expect, as with the National Council Of La Raza propaganda website, that his myths will be facts, and his facts will be myths. They always have been before.

Check out the blurbs:

“The immigration debate seems to have been taken over by shrill anti-immigrant voices. Ace editorialist Jason Riley restores some balance with this calm, reasoned, highly compelling presentation of the case for immigration. His fact- laden polemic should make even the most die-hard xenophobe think twice. He shows why immigrants are a net plus, and why illegal immigration isn’t the crisis it has been made out to be.”
—Max Boot, senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, author of War Made New and Savage Wars of Peace

That gives me a lot of confidence–and this one  is good too:

“Jason Riley makes a very comprehensive argument for an Open Borders policy. People on all sides of this would do well to understand where he is coming from.”
—Lawrence Lindsey, former chief economic adviser to President George W. Bush

Understand where he coming from? Oh, we do, we do.