This Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2008-04-22
Cover up: "Brown Pride" graffitti in Colorado
"Get out while you can," says [Fulton's] friend. "I'm moving to an
American
neighborhood."
By Ian Jobling
On the night of April 12, vandals tagged three homes, a mailbox, a
dumpster, and 15 vehicles in a Denver suburb with the words "BROWN
PRIDE," a Hispanic racialist slogan. Slapstick Politics, a Denver
blog, notes that the Denver Post, which printed the photograph to the
right, merely stated that the neighborhood had been tagged with
graffiti, without mentioning what the graffiti said or speculating
about its meaning or source. Even more egregiously, a local TV news
report photographed the graffiti in such a way that you couldn't read
it. The report speculates that the vandalism may have been gang-
related, but does not mention that it was certainly Hispanic-related.
The blogger, El Presidente, asks, "If `White Pride' or anti-Semitic
symbols had been spraypainted over quite a large swath of property
would the local MSM have conveniently ignored this fact?
You have to follow that train of thought a bit further if you really
want to understand what's going on here and to appreciate the full
measure of the media's perfidy. If someone had tagged a neighborhood
with "White Pride," the story would not only have been put on the
front page of Denver newspapers and been picked up by the national
media, but the vandalism would have been interpreted as the expression
of a desire for racial domination and ethnic cleansing, a terrifying
prospect. In short, the media did their best to sweep a threat of
ethnic cleansing under the rug. We only know it happened because a
story on vandalism has to be accompanied by a photograph.
Given the media's willful blindness to events like these, we cannot
gauge the extent of Hispanic ethnic cleansing in America, just as we
cannot know much about racial conflict. How common are events like
these? In what other ways are whites insulted, abused, and bullied
into leaving their neighborhoods? We have no idea.
That's what's so spooky about what's happening to America. Many of us
know vaguely that something immense and profound is occurring, a
demographic eclipse, but we know very little about how the
transformation manifests itself in everyday life. It seems that this
revolution will not be televised.
This incident reminded me of a powerful story in the Orange County
Register from two years ago that provides a glimpse of our racial
reality. It deals with white flight from the city of Orange, although
the term "white" is not mentioned once in the article. No racially
based hostility is mentioned, although the whites were the victims of
plenty of crime and incivility. Here are some extracts:
[Carol] Fulton sits on her front porch, pensive and surveying the
neighborhood. It has changed drastically, she says.
The familiar smells and sounds of backyard barbecues are replaced by
mariachi music and the honking horn of a shaved-ice cart. Fulton sees
unfamiliar cars and people streaming onto the street.
Overcrowding caused by boarding homes-more than two leases on the same
property-is an issue that city officials and residents have grappled
with for years. "This used to be a fun neighborhood," says Fulton, 56.
"Kids stayed outside until 10 or 11 p.m. I figured we'd live here
until we died. We never in 100,000 years thought it would change."
On most days, Fulton caps off the night at 10 with a cigarette in her
garage. But these nights, she does it with the door closed.
The neighborhood transformation was subtle at first.
Some families moved away and a more transient community began to
develop. Unfamiliar faces filtered in and out of several houses.
By the late '80s and early '90s, longtime residents complained about a
parking crunch caused by dozens of people crammed into the
neighborhood's first boarding house-the big house they called "the
Fortress." The city eventually required parking permits, and the
problems subsided.
In the late '90s, Fulton caught people peering into her rooms,
urinating in her yard and making catcalls at her.
It was common knowledge that there were multiple families and dozens
of men, mainly day laborers, living in the homes, she says.
Source
http://inverted-world.com/
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