Whose Country Is This?

Immigration -- and the Curse of the Black Legend - New York Times: "Forget for a moment the millions of Indians who occupied this continent for 13,000 or more years before anyone else arrived, and start the clock with Europeans' presence on present-day United States soil. The first confirmed landing wasn't by Vikings, who reached Canada in about 1000, or by Columbus, who reached the Bahamas in 1492. It was by a Spaniard, Juan Ponce de Leon, who landed in 1513 at a lush shore he christened La Florida. Most Americans associate the early Spanish in this hemisphere with Cortes in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru. But Spaniards pioneered the present-day United States, too. Within three decades of Ponce de Leon's landing, the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the Appalachians, the Mississippi, the Grand Canyon and the Great Plains. Spanish ships sailed along the East Coast, penetrating to present-day Bangor, Me., and up the Pacific Coast as far as Oregon."

Native Americans occupied the United States for thousands of years. Then came the Europeans. The Spanish competed with the French and the English for domination. Hegemony swung back and forth between these forces until finally the English prevailed. English language, custom and law ruled.

The Spanish, though, conquered many other territories, including Mexico, which was populated by the same stock as the Native American tribes.

English rebels set up our democracy and guaranteed, through immigration, a European America for over 200 years.

In the 1960's, though, and thereafter, America became a fairly liberal country in many ways, and including immigration policy. We slowed European immigration and became more "egalitarian." Then, in the last 20 years, the Mexicans realized they could invade. They did. Since we are still a fairly liberal country, and we're "nice guys" now, we allowed this to happen.

Now, the Mexicans have voting power, and the game is over.

The United States of America will finally be a Hispanic nation. Spanish will be our primary language. Who knows what will happen to our political system? Will the Mexicans treat the Europeans as well as they have been treated, or will we revert to 1950's style racism—against Caucasians?

The irony is that the Native Americans, or rather their cousins, will have taken back their country, without war.

We, the Caucasian Europeans, will become the new Indians—disenfranchised from power, from our land, our language, our customs, and our culture. I don't mean to exclude Blacks from this either. African Americans will become even more of a minority.

While this is happening, Europe will transform into a Muslim nation.

Alarmist? Not at all. These are facts, considering demographic trends. Deal with it.

The causes? Liberal immigration policies, and democracy, with its one-man one-vote policy.

The solutions? Have more babies? Open the floodgates to European immigration? Civil war? Dictatorship?

Or, learn Spanish (and buy a prayer rug for those trips to Europe).