Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (10 page)

African Americans’ contributions to the nation’s wars, and especially to its culture, make this country what it is. Blacks served with one of the most important outfits in the American Revolution, John Glover’s Marblehead Regiment, which provided the Continental Army with its first naval ship and also stood guard at General George Washington’s personal headquarters. In 1775 America, General Glover was perfectly at home with black Americans, who “served aboard vessels in Marblehead’s fishing fleet, lived in the same town that he did, and even attended the same church.”
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The Civil War might have ended differently if so many blacks hadn’t fled their Confederate masters—including the inspirational abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass—or without free blacks fighting with the Union army. Black Americans fought bravely in both world wars, even in an army kept segregated by part-French FDR.

In addition to fighting its wars and helping shape its history, black Americans have an outsized influence on the nation’s style—the Christianity, the slang, the music. For half a century, every rock group in the world aspired to sound like Chuck Berry. No one has ever wanted to sound like a mariachi band. The nation’s most pressing social problems—principally illegitimacy—are also disproportionately black problems. Imagine if all the resources lavished on immigrants had gone to American blacks!

Two centuries after the first Europeans settled America, the white population was 80 percent British and 98 percent Protestant.
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A century after that, the populace was still overwhelmingly English-speaking, British, and Protestant, but, for an exciting change, also included Germans and Scandinavians.
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The colorful immigrants at the turn of the nineteenth century were wildly different from the original settlers in the sense that they were white people from a different part of Western Europe. For vibrancy,
America had the Puerto Ricans, whom President Woodrow Wilson made citizens in 1917, because Democrats needed bodies to fight World War I and employers needed—guess what? That’s correct: Cheap labor. By 1970, fewer than a million Puerto Ricans lived in the United States.
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MY, OUR POST–WELFARE STATE IMMIGRANTS HAVE CHANGED!

The entire time it was processing immigrants from 1892 until 1954, Ellis Island received only 12 million immigrants.
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Please stop weeping about your grandfathers arriving at Ellis Island. It’s irritating. And it bears absolutely no relationship to immigration today. Earlier immigrants proved their heartiness by vomiting all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to get here. There was no welfare, and certainly no welcoming committees of ethnic grievance groups.

People weren’t allowed to come to America and just hang out. Towns provided for their own infirm and elderly, and they definitely didn’t want deadbeats wandering over from the next town. In 1797, for example, Vermont state law required each community to “prevent the poor, resident within their respective towns or places, from strolling into any other town or place.” When a new family showed up, the town clerk would promptly investigate, and if it looked as if the newcomers might become a burden, the family would be sent a “warning out” letter, telling them to leave.
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About a third of pre-1965 immigrants went home—except British and Jewish immigrants, less than 10 percent of whom returned.
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Now no one goes home, they go on welfare. Today’s immigrants aren’t coming here to breathe free, they’re coming to live for free. Most of them wouldn’t come at all if they had to survive in the work-or-die America that existed when we got all those relatives being wept over. What are Mexico’s policies on that? If my money runs out and I have a few kids with my equally non-Mexican boyfriend, do we get free money from Mexican taxpayers?
What about the babies! They didn’t do anything wrong!

Today, any immigrants who didn’t come expressly for the welfare have the Ford Foundation to acquaint them with their rights. If the Ford Foundation is busy, there’s always the National Council of La Raza, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Migration Policy Institute, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration Policy—all working to transfer money from the American taxpayer to poverty-stricken immigrants from primitive cultures. Not only are immigrants taught to live off the American taxpayer, but they are counseled in resentment toward their benefactors. The vast majority of children of Mexican, Filipino, Haitian, Vietnamese, Laotian, and Jamaican immigrants complain about being discriminated against.
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We take fewer immigrants from Britain than from any of these countries, except Haiti, Laos, and Jamaica—all of which have populations about the same size as, or much smaller than, the city of London.
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DARFUR IS THE NATURAL STATE OF THE WORLD

America is not the natural state of the world. The natural state of the world is Darfur. The British Empire spread Anglo-Saxon culture around the globe—Protestant morals, individualism, and the rule of law. Most British colonies rejected those values. Only the ones populated by actual British people—America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—managed to hold on to them and, as a result, prospered. The empire’s most successful experiment was the United States. Anyone who hesitates for a moment to recognize that some groups have it over other groups in producing free and prosperous nations has been brainwashed beyond reclamation.

The UPI syndicate puts out a weekly almanac column listing important world events that happened on given dates in other years. I happened to come across the one for the week of April 9 and noticed something about the rest of the world. From UPI:

       
   
In 1992, a federal jury in Miami convicted deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega on cocaine trafficking charges.

       
   
In 1997, a government of unity was launched in Angola, three years after the end of the country’s 19-year civil war, with the seating of 70 members of the rebel UNITA party in parliament.

       
   
In 1999, the president of the African nation of Niger was assassinated, reportedly by members of his own guard. A military junta led by the commander of the presidential guards took over.

       
   
In 2000, Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori failed to win a first-round election victory, forcing a run-off in May, which he won. However, a vote-fraud scandal forced him to step down later in the year.