0 comment Thursday, October 30, 2014 | admin
In yesterday's mail, among the advertising flyers, there was one of those Wal-Mart ads, which many of you probably received. On the front was a picture of four children in Hallowe'en costumes, and I couldn't help noticing the 'multicultural' makeup of the group of children. One of them was black, or mixed-black, one obviously Mexican, one of indeterminate (possibly Asian) race, and off to the left was one lone white child, a blonde girl.
In the early days of civil rights agitation, angry protesters picketed TV stations to demand the hiring of black reporters or anchors. In one rather absurd incident, back in 1970, a group picketed a major retailer because their mannequins were too white, and the protesters demanded the placement of black mannequins with Afro hairstyles -- 'white' hair would not be acceptable. The rationale behind the demands was always that any group of people -- or mannequins, apparently -- had to reflect the actual percentages of each race in society. However as we've seen, those quotas apparently have shifted to making whitey a minority in the media and in advertising. A cursory look at the demographics of actors in advertising and the numbers of minorities in the news media would lead us to conclude that minorities must now in fact be a majority, or close to it.
When I showed the Wally World advertising to a friend who was here at the time, and asked 'do you think they are sending a message?' she understood what I meant, and agreed. She then proceeded to tell me that in our local Christian school, the children in the younger grades are being taught Spanish. It's not as if it's an elective course in the upper grades as before, but Spanish is taught to all students in the lower grades. Mind you, this is in a town which has a rather low percentage of Hispanics, if you believe the official census figures from a few years ago. We've seen major demographic changes within a few short years in many areas, though my area is still fairly homogenous.
I can believe that a public school, which is bound to obey the dictates of multiculturalism, would do such a thing, but a private, Christian-run school? I'm afraid my once-conservative, Calvinistic neighbors have bought into the modern, liberalizing 'emergent church' phenomenon, and are now adopting many of the ideas that used to belong only to those watered-down liberal denominations.
But as to the demographic trends in my town, and county, officially Hispanics make up only 5 percent of our town -- up from 1-2 percent in the previous count. But there are signs: in the supermarket where I shop, sometimes local schoolchildren are taken on field trips there to see how the supermarket operates, and how people work. Recently one second-grade class had left a handmade thank-you message to the manager, thanking him for letting them visit. The children signed their names. Among the usual Kaydens and Jaidyns and Taylors and Tanners and Mykaylas, there were several Hispanic names such as Guadalupe, Cruz, Marisol, Javier. A quick calculation of the number of Hispanic names makes it look as though the class was about one-fourth Hispanic. I fully expect the ratio to grow. In ten years' time, what will it be?
The little girl in the Wal-Mart ad will be representative of white American kids in another ten years, probably, outnumbered 3 to 1. In some areas, such as in border states, this is already the case.
There are relatively few Hispanics in my town -- as yet -- but those who are here seem to be having a bigger share of the children. And my town is one with a higher-than-average family size, being mostly populated by Christians who still believe in large families. Still, the numbers are not in our favor.
We have see the handwriting on the wall, and though it's in Spanish, we can read the message.
In the early days of civil rights agitation, angry protesters picketed TV stations to demand the hiring of black reporters or anchors. In one rather absurd incident, back in 1970, a group picketed a major retailer because their mannequins were too white, and the protesters demanded the placement of black mannequins with Afro hairstyles -- 'white' hair would not be acceptable. The rationale behind the demands was always that any group of people -- or mannequins, apparently -- had to reflect the actual percentages of each race in society. However as we've seen, those quotas apparently have shifted to making whitey a minority in the media and in advertising. A cursory look at the demographics of actors in advertising and the numbers of minorities in the news media would lead us to conclude that minorities must now in fact be a majority, or close to it.
When I showed the Wally World advertising to a friend who was here at the time, and asked 'do you think they are sending a message?' she understood what I meant, and agreed. She then proceeded to tell me that in our local Christian school, the children in the younger grades are being taught Spanish. It's not as if it's an elective course in the upper grades as before, but Spanish is taught to all students in the lower grades. Mind you, this is in a town which has a rather low percentage of Hispanics, if you believe the official census figures from a few years ago. We've seen major demographic changes within a few short years in many areas, though my area is still fairly homogenous.
I can believe that a public school, which is bound to obey the dictates of multiculturalism, would do such a thing, but a private, Christian-run school? I'm afraid my once-conservative, Calvinistic neighbors have bought into the modern, liberalizing 'emergent church' phenomenon, and are now adopting many of the ideas that used to belong only to those watered-down liberal denominations.
But as to the demographic trends in my town, and county, officially Hispanics make up only 5 percent of our town -- up from 1-2 percent in the previous count. But there are signs: in the supermarket where I shop, sometimes local schoolchildren are taken on field trips there to see how the supermarket operates, and how people work. Recently one second-grade class had left a handmade thank-you message to the manager, thanking him for letting them visit. The children signed their names. Among the usual Kaydens and Jaidyns and Taylors and Tanners and Mykaylas, there were several Hispanic names such as Guadalupe, Cruz, Marisol, Javier. A quick calculation of the number of Hispanic names makes it look as though the class was about one-fourth Hispanic. I fully expect the ratio to grow. In ten years' time, what will it be?
The little girl in the Wal-Mart ad will be representative of white American kids in another ten years, probably, outnumbered 3 to 1. In some areas, such as in border states, this is already the case.
There are relatively few Hispanics in my town -- as yet -- but those who are here seem to be having a bigger share of the children. And my town is one with a higher-than-average family size, being mostly populated by Christians who still believe in large families. Still, the numbers are not in our favor.
We have see the handwriting on the wall, and though it's in Spanish, we can read the message.
Labels: Demographics, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Wal-Mart
0 comment Tuesday, October 7, 2014 | admin
There is a particular breed of 'conservative' whose main claim to conservatism is their penny-pinching proclivities. For these 'conservatives', the only thing they are truly interested in conserving is their bank accounts. This, unfortunately, contributes to the popular stereotype of conservatives or Republicans as money-grubbers and Scrooges, who will jump over a dollar to save a nickel.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not profligate with money; I like a bargain as much as the next, provided the 'bargain' does not come with a hidden price tag, or concealed costs. And I like value for my money; just saving a buck (or even a matter of cents) doesn't do much for me if I am getting shoddy merchandise for my money. That's being pennywise and pound-foolish. If I buy a cheap item and have to repair it or replace it before I get my money's worth, it was no bargain.
I've found that to make many 'conservatives' (or more accurately, Republicans) spitting mad, all you have to do is to disparage Wal-Mart.
When I first learned that Wal-Mart is a religion to many on the 'right', I was truly baffled. I mean, the 'low, low prices' are understandably attractive to many people, but why do some on the right defend Wal-Mart with more passion than they would defend their mother or their country or their flag or their religion? Notice, the next time you visit one of those 'conservative' mega-forums or blogs: any story which is critical of Wal-Mart is sure to draw scores of impassioned and angry responses. Why?
My best guess is that they are on fire for Wal-Mart mostly because 'the liberals' supposedly hate Wally-World. And if the 'liberals' hate it, then by golly, it's as sacred as the American flag. To be anti-Wal-Mart is to bring into question one's conservative credentials. If you don't love Wal-Mart, you don't love America, or free enterprise.
I haven't been a Rush Limbaugh listener in recent times, but I suspect he is a Wal-Mart zealot. Anything 'the liberals' criticize, he defends, in the most vociferous terms. That's what being a 'conservative' is all about, apparently, to Rush and his most devoted listeners. The liberals say white, you say black. It's simple; anyone can catch on. The liberals hate SUVs. so Republicans are supposed to angrily defend SUVs. See? Easy, right?
I admit to having bought Wal-Mart merchandise; I'm not so doctrinaire that I shun the place altogether. The main reason I avoid shopping there is that the things I have bought there were badly-made Chinese stuff, and on principle, I'd rather buy American-made. That's becoming harder and harder to do, though, as this country manufactures fewer and fewer things, and we become ridiculously, almost obscenely dependent on China and other third-world sources for our goods. And the fact is, very few of the things they make compare to American-made goods, at least in the days when America produced real quality merchandise. I like things which are made well, reliable, made to last. I don't like cheap tat that has to be thrown away a week or a month from now, and replaced. I don't like the disposable, throw-away society that we've become. I'd gladly pay a little more for the things that matter, like quality clothes and appliances. Maybe for some things, disposable is fine, but for many things, quality is more important than price.
And I would also prefer to support American companies, though that's becoming less possible all the time.
But I am considering boycotting Wal-Mart, when I read, in this Chronicles Magazine article, about Wal-Mart's habit of supporting leftist, subversive organizations:
According to the Capital Research Center, the corporate side of the Walton empire shoveled nearly $750,000 to leftists in 2004, compared with $2,500 to ''conservatives.'' None of this, of course, shows up on the foundation�s website. Among the recipients were the NAACP ($60,850), AARP ($3,750), the Izaak Walton League ($2,250), LULAC ($12,000), the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ($10,000), and Planned Parenthood ($2,500). The biggest recipient of Wal-Mart money? The National Council of La Raza, at a cool $630,000.
La Raza (''The Race'') is the radical ''Latino'' organization that is aiding and abetting, by supporting illegal immigration, the Mexican reconquista of the American Southwest. La Raza is uprooting English as the national language, plowing under American history and heroes, and planting Mexican-''Latino'' culture, like so much maize, in the fertile ground of American public schools.'
I'm also aware that Wal-Mart has employed illegals, or used contractors who employed illegals. In any case, they do not have the interests of local communities or of America at heart. They are the epitome of the conscienceless globalist corporation, and that philosophy is behind the real threat to America, via open borders, outsourcing, multiculturalism, and all the rest.
So Wal-Mart is akin to McDonald's: It is the apotheosis of everything wrong with America. Entering the maw of a Wal-Mart is creepy. Any normal person over the age of 40 viscerally feels, as the cornucopia of junk and tatterdemalion illegal immigrants who shop there deluge his eyes, that something is horribly wrong beneath the garish consumerism and materialism. Well, something is wrong. The company knows no loyalty.''
That sums up my visceral feelings very well. I like the phrase, 'cornucopia of junk'. I think it characterizes much of our 'culture' these days: we've got a surfeit, a glut of many things, choices galore -- but most of it junk, worthless.
And if the hidden cost of those bargains includes supporting illegal immigration and the Reconquista, along with other leftist causes, saving those few pennies or dollars is more expensive than our country can afford.
Wal-Mart's vision is not what America should be. And the 'cornucopia of junk' may well be the 'mess of pottage' we are getting in exchange for our American birthright.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not profligate with money; I like a bargain as much as the next, provided the 'bargain' does not come with a hidden price tag, or concealed costs. And I like value for my money; just saving a buck (or even a matter of cents) doesn't do much for me if I am getting shoddy merchandise for my money. That's being pennywise and pound-foolish. If I buy a cheap item and have to repair it or replace it before I get my money's worth, it was no bargain.
I've found that to make many 'conservatives' (or more accurately, Republicans) spitting mad, all you have to do is to disparage Wal-Mart.
When I first learned that Wal-Mart is a religion to many on the 'right', I was truly baffled. I mean, the 'low, low prices' are understandably attractive to many people, but why do some on the right defend Wal-Mart with more passion than they would defend their mother or their country or their flag or their religion? Notice, the next time you visit one of those 'conservative' mega-forums or blogs: any story which is critical of Wal-Mart is sure to draw scores of impassioned and angry responses. Why?
My best guess is that they are on fire for Wal-Mart mostly because 'the liberals' supposedly hate Wally-World. And if the 'liberals' hate it, then by golly, it's as sacred as the American flag. To be anti-Wal-Mart is to bring into question one's conservative credentials. If you don't love Wal-Mart, you don't love America, or free enterprise.
I haven't been a Rush Limbaugh listener in recent times, but I suspect he is a Wal-Mart zealot. Anything 'the liberals' criticize, he defends, in the most vociferous terms. That's what being a 'conservative' is all about, apparently, to Rush and his most devoted listeners. The liberals say white, you say black. It's simple; anyone can catch on. The liberals hate SUVs. so Republicans are supposed to angrily defend SUVs. See? Easy, right?
I admit to having bought Wal-Mart merchandise; I'm not so doctrinaire that I shun the place altogether. The main reason I avoid shopping there is that the things I have bought there were badly-made Chinese stuff, and on principle, I'd rather buy American-made. That's becoming harder and harder to do, though, as this country manufactures fewer and fewer things, and we become ridiculously, almost obscenely dependent on China and other third-world sources for our goods. And the fact is, very few of the things they make compare to American-made goods, at least in the days when America produced real quality merchandise. I like things which are made well, reliable, made to last. I don't like cheap tat that has to be thrown away a week or a month from now, and replaced. I don't like the disposable, throw-away society that we've become. I'd gladly pay a little more for the things that matter, like quality clothes and appliances. Maybe for some things, disposable is fine, but for many things, quality is more important than price.
And I would also prefer to support American companies, though that's becoming less possible all the time.
But I am considering boycotting Wal-Mart, when I read, in this Chronicles Magazine article, about Wal-Mart's habit of supporting leftist, subversive organizations:
According to the Capital Research Center, the corporate side of the Walton empire shoveled nearly $750,000 to leftists in 2004, compared with $2,500 to ''conservatives.'' None of this, of course, shows up on the foundation�s website. Among the recipients were the NAACP ($60,850), AARP ($3,750), the Izaak Walton League ($2,250), LULAC ($12,000), the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ($10,000), and Planned Parenthood ($2,500). The biggest recipient of Wal-Mart money? The National Council of La Raza, at a cool $630,000.
La Raza (''The Race'') is the radical ''Latino'' organization that is aiding and abetting, by supporting illegal immigration, the Mexican reconquista of the American Southwest. La Raza is uprooting English as the national language, plowing under American history and heroes, and planting Mexican-''Latino'' culture, like so much maize, in the fertile ground of American public schools.'
I'm also aware that Wal-Mart has employed illegals, or used contractors who employed illegals. In any case, they do not have the interests of local communities or of America at heart. They are the epitome of the conscienceless globalist corporation, and that philosophy is behind the real threat to America, via open borders, outsourcing, multiculturalism, and all the rest.
So Wal-Mart is akin to McDonald's: It is the apotheosis of everything wrong with America. Entering the maw of a Wal-Mart is creepy. Any normal person over the age of 40 viscerally feels, as the cornucopia of junk and tatterdemalion illegal immigrants who shop there deluge his eyes, that something is horribly wrong beneath the garish consumerism and materialism. Well, something is wrong. The company knows no loyalty.''
That sums up my visceral feelings very well. I like the phrase, 'cornucopia of junk'. I think it characterizes much of our 'culture' these days: we've got a surfeit, a glut of many things, choices galore -- but most of it junk, worthless.
And if the hidden cost of those bargains includes supporting illegal immigration and the Reconquista, along with other leftist causes, saving those few pennies or dollars is more expensive than our country can afford.
Wal-Mart's vision is not what America should be. And the 'cornucopia of junk' may well be the 'mess of pottage' we are getting in exchange for our American birthright.
Labels: Conservatives, Wal-Mart