Sometimes Racial Voting Is Approved by the BBC

The BBC approves of voting for one's own ethnicity: when it's Mexicans doing it.

Border politics in Texas ahead of the mid-terms

I know I'm late in getting to this, but it's been a long week. In any case, at the beginning of the clip (just after the intro voice over) listen to what the candidate on the stage says: "...we need workers..." Remember that for later.

Andy Gallacher is in a town where both the Democrat and Republican candidates are Mexican-American. The Democrat (the guy who says we need workers) says it's an honor to be elected to serve, and diversity is what makes this country great. We've all heard that before.

Gallacher talks about how the race of candidates matters, but asks, since both candidates are of Mexican descent, how do the voters feel now? He gets a couple of Mexican-American vox pops to say that issues are more important than race. What a shock.

For what seems at first like no reason, Gallacher then speaks to a Mexican-American academic who says his research shows that, regardless of what they say beforehand, most people vote for the race in the end. The Beeboid even helpfully says, "for their own kind". In stark contrast to all BBC reporting about white people, either in the US or UK, this is presented as a good thing. Hispanics need Hispanic representation. Never mind any non-Hispanics living in the area. If one non-white ethnic group has the majority, then it's important for someone of that ethnicity to represent them in government.

I say it seemed at first there was no reason for Gallacher to bring in this academic to talk about racial voting because both candidates are of the same ethnicity. So why talk about whether or not the voters will vote for a Hispanic candidate? It's a moot point.

Then we got to the part where he talks to the Republican candidate. Horrifyingly, he's wearing a US flag pin on his lapel. He says he's proud to be an American, while still being proud of his heritage. But for him, American comes before Mexican, as one is his cultural background and the other is his country. He also has lighter skin, no ethnic mustache, and no trace of the Mexican accent like his Democrat opponent does.

So he's presented to the viewer after the academic who speaks of racial voting because he's clearly a traitor to his race. He doesn't talk about diversity, so he is no good. The subtext here is that the Mexican-American voters will and should vote for the candidate who is more proud of the Mexican part than the American part.

Remember the beginning of the clip where the Democrat said in his speech that "we need workers"? Of course he's talking about the racial politics of illegal immigration. When he spoke of diversity to Gallacher, he was spouting the same old theme we heard a few months back on the BBC that it was racist to be against illegal immigration. Of course the qualifier "illegal" is absent now, as it always is when advocates speak. The Democrat doesn't care about the law: he cares only about his race. When he's talking about "diversity", he means we should grant amnesty to people who look like him. How bringing in more of the same will lead to diversity is beyond my tiny little brain.

The Republican doesn't talk that way. Or at least isn't encouraged to by the Beeboid.

The thing is, there's racial politics everywhere in the US. Right here in New York, former mayor (African-American) David Dinkins endorsed the non-white candidate for State Senate in the Democrat primary in my neighborhood. Here's his reason:

I grew up in Harlem where we taught that New York City is a melting pot. Well I don't agree with that. I have always said that we are a gorgeous mosaic. We have as many separate ethnic identities as the United Nations. That's why we have a parade about every hour and a half. But it is important, it is so very important, particularly for the people of this district who vote on Tuesday to recognize how important it is to understand that the city is changing. Most people in the city are going to look more like us than others and that's just a fact. It is not a bad thing. It is frankly a good thing.

Imagine if Giuliani had said the equivalent. The BBC would be all over it. Not only that, but Espaillat's opponent was a Jew. You'll never hear from the BBC that anti-Semitism is common in the African-American and Hispanic communities. And NYC isn't a border town, so it's inaccurate to portray the racial angle in that Texas town as being due to its proximity to the border. The fact that they're Mexicans is obviously connected to the border, but not the racial angle in the abstract.

But the BBC approves of racism when it's not white people doing it, so never mind.