Okay, We’re Going To Talk About This.
Arizona State Senator Republican Sylvia Allen, please take a seat before you kick something, is off on a tear again.
She is now very, very, concerned about “the browning of America,” and she doesn’t mean tanning beds.
She found herself at the state Republican Party Headquarters speaking to the “Mormon Political Pioneers.” I would like to stop right here and thank Sweet Jesus that I have never been asked to speak to that group at that location. In the future, any time I start feeling sorry for myself, I will say yeah, Babe, but at least you ain’t having to speak to the Mormon Political Pioneers at the Republican headquarters in damn Arizona.
After using the term, ‘the browning of America,” she said … and there’s a tape …
“I said we needed to be able to control our immigration process so that we have time to assimilate people into our society and economic system. Jobs, housing, education, and health care,” she said. “Plus to be able to teach them about the American form of government. That’s all there was to it.”
“The median age of a white woman is 43. The median age of a Hispanic woman is 27,” she said. “We are not reproducing ourselves, the birthrates. But here’s what I see is the issue. It’s because of immigration.”
When the tape was released, she claimed she was just talking about the fact that some South American counties are “socialist” and we need to “retrain” the next generation on how America works. She also said that we needed to make sure we had jobs for them before we let them into America. I guess it’s okay if you need some yard work or roofing done. You could go pick up one down at the border and borrow one for the day.
She also referred to a book called The Browning of America by Dr. James Johnson. She didn’t read it, of course, because his book explains that immigrants give more to America than they take. But, somehow, the title of his book gave her the right to abuse the term.
Now, if all this has a familiar ring to it, that’s because this isn’t Sylvia Allen’s first trip to the beauty salon.
Nope, she’s the same one who wanted to make church attendance on Sundays mandatory. Yeah, this is the same woman clutching her pearls over socialism.
And she thinks the world is 6,000 years old. Period. No arguing allowed.
Now we come to why I’m telling you this story. I spent some time this weekend with a longtime friend who has been pondering on this religious stuff and how it fits in with the new Christians. She said that she believes the religious right sees America the same way they see heaven: It’s not paradise if everybody gets to go.
I think she’s right. They need their country club heaven and their exclusive America so they can have people to look down on.
Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.
There are no words……….
1Hey Mrs. Grouch McAllen, we have a few ‘white’ Bundys here in NV that we’d happily trade for your brown people.
This is all very confusing. Are the Portuguese considered brown? They’re not Hispanic. Schools classified me as ‘white,’ but I’m darker than some of my black friends. Does Ms Allen expect us to wear the results of DNA testing like tramp stamps or will she be shooting at random?
Some want tax returns before idiots run for office. Let’s throw in a demand for sanity checks, too.
2Soooooo sorry brown humans. It was all those pictures of white jesus that made me stick my racist foot in my white supremascist mouth, like the old bigot that I am.
Oh, and for the record, Its Socialist Brown Heaven which is a few rungs up the paradise ladder from you.
3Jane & PKM,
My sister is very dark complexed like the German heritage in our family. She used to get teased unmercifully and called a Mexican in school. Allen makes me more determined to support Mark Kelly here in AZ.
4Meanwhile, in a parallel dimension of white privilege…
‘Complete Chaos’: Latest DCCC Controversy Claims Top Aide of Chair Cheri Bustos as Racial Representation Controversy Continues
“Reminder: it’s only July 2019. Stay tuned to find out which pile of dog shit the DCCC chair manages to step in next.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/29/complete-chaos-latest-dccc-controversy-claims-top-aide-chair-cheri-bustos-racial
5They said the same sort of things about the Irish back in the day. The Irish assimilated and did well, and the “Brown” people will too
6megasoid@5, Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) the new Debbie WTF Schultz? There have been rumblings about Cheri from Blue America.
Papa@4, wish your sister had been at our school where the faculty with the help of the athletic squads were way ahead of “zero tolerance for bullying.” True story, the bullies were somewhat less afraid of being checked by a teacher or one of us guys than the girls on the field hockey team.
7Field hockey is a brutal sport, like soccer with clubs.
8I can’t believe this abysmal creature even exists. That much stupidity, ignorance and bigotry and actually has voters who agree with her.
9Miss Sylvia is a colleague of Gail Griffin, that special soul who proposed taxing internet porn to pay for Spanky’s wall. Also, the town I live in, Bisbee, AZ instituted a plastic bag ban a few years ago (a first at the time), that did not sit well with our special GG so she got our legislators to pass a ban on banning plastic bags (yes, you read that correctly). Bisbee also passed AZ’s first civil unions ordinance which, as you can imagine, do not please the rootin’ tootin’ republicans so they threatened to sue our humble little mile-high artists’ mecca, but they ran into a legal buzzsaw we call our city attorney (former now, regrettably) who provided our state attorney general with a more thorough legal education that he had previously attained–his suit was never heard, too bogus for even Arizona courts. Our state legislature is getting bluer and hope is on the horizon thanks to some feisty women who were elected in ’18, like Victoria Steele, from Tucson’s 9th senate district. We’re fighting our way into the 20th century with sights set on the 21st, stay tuned.
10Apparently things haven’t changed much since Zane Grey wrote Riders of the Purple Sage – or maybe that’s the culture she’s promoting!
11JDM, field hockey is for girls who think the boys’ ice hockey and football teams are for wimps. Women are definitely not the ‘weaker’ sex. Ginger Rogers danced backwards in heels and showed Fred where to go, but the girls’ hockey team conquered while looking like absolute babes. They were hotter than the cheerleaders. What I wouldn’t give to see Old Scratch McConnell face a Democratic Senate, majority women.
12😀 To be clear! Not that I noticed after dating Jane the summer before our sophomore year.
13A lot was implied in her talk. Perhaps she picked a Mormon moment as an appeal (with a possibly receptive audience), for a speedy return to days of a white majority, and customs from a time when sister wives and 14 year old brides could really light a fire under that Caucasian birth rate.
14I think there will be many surprised folk when they get to the Pearly Gates and discover it’s like Communion down here on Sunday morning – ‘God’s dinner party, and we don’t get to set the guest list’. The more the merrier, in my Book.
15I spent a lifetime getting students ready for technician jobs in high tech companies. Walk into any one- if the “brown” people leave, it shuts down. Same for any university engineering or physics department. These folks need to get out more.
16Well, this is the perfect example of what you do with yourself after being expelled from the local sewing circle . . .
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