Posted on 01/08/2013 7:41:39 PM PST by Bon of Babble
Vice President Joe Biden says the 2012 election will be forever viewed as a turning point for the Latino community, whose political and economic power is "just about to take full flight."
"What's finally happened is the American people, the American people have finally begun to understand …the awesome potential, future potential of the Hispanic community," he said Thursday at a welcome reception for new Latino members of Congress. "...Now the nation -- and I might add the hemisphere -- understands the Hispanic community must be courted. Must be courted."
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As always I appreciate your perspective.
The landscape is different here in KS; I spent many years of my youth back east.
Rhodesia was always a somewhat low-leverage situation, remote from reinforcement.
It’s not quite like that here.
“Rhodesia was always a somewhat low-leverage situation, remote from reinforcement.”
Being cut off from the British isn’t what killed them; the fall of Portugal’s military government did it (the new government wouldn’t supply them through Angola/Mozambique, having given them up). An older friend had been in the Portuguese Army in Angola, and when the government let the colony go he moved to Quebec, then on to NJ, without ever looking back. No Portuguese flags/bumper stickers; he was absolutely disgusted.
Even here in NJ we keep our unassimilated malcontents pretty boxed in; they just kill each other.
Interesting. Our media here has seemingly always been less objective globally than,say, the BBC.
The Boers, et al had a positive thing going but now it seems a hellhole.
Containment is a productive strategy, but it requires dedicated containers.
The Boers were a sad case because they originally settled much of that land (long before their conflict with Britain); migrations of Africans south along the eastern coast of Africa eventually brought them into conflict. Like European settlers elsewhere in Africa, the heyday is past and the former colonies are increasingly resembling what the Europeans found when they first arrived.
The US media blackout on “World War III” in the Congo is bizarre; the war (involving at least 7 countries) has raged for years, killed millions of people, and nobody here even knows it is happening. Not that it would matter; if they did know they wouldn’t care (and I understand that - we no longer have the luxury of projecting salvation overseas as our own country melts away).
You are 100%- there was almost a complete US media blackout as colonial Africa devolved.
Clinton wrings his hands now about Rwanda.
It wasn’t even on our radar.
South Africa all we heard was how abusive apartheid was. “ Ain’t gonna play Sun City”
Rhodesia was like, they’re on their own..
Now it’s all a shithole again.
What happened to the white farmers in Rhodesia has been brutal. The blacks there have suffered too, as a result of the black kleptocracy.
What happened to the white farmers in Rhodesia has been brutal. The blacks there have suffered too, as a result of the black kleptocracy.
What happened to the white farmers in Rhodesia has been brutal. The blacks there have suffered too, as a result of the black kleptocracy.
I’ll never call it Z_____we.
Devolution chosen over advancement. You can lead a horse to water...
Being just past 40, I missed most of it, but I’ve read about it and had some interesting pieces turn up in my coin collection (a Biafran 1 pound banknote, for instance). Reading up on those pieces is how I learned about those places; my best African piece is from German “Ostafrika”.
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