I am sick of watching the U.S. Democratic Party applaud the importation of a low-wage migrant worker population knowing full well that this policy is filling the country with those who, in need of government aid, will likely support the Democrats - Democrats who will use our tax money to offer such aid.
I am tired of watching the Democrats stoke open-border Latino populism while purporting to stand for U.S. Black community interests. While this strategy may win votes from both Latinos and Blacks, the outcome - more aid and welfare to new citizens that could be going to Blacks, the increase of foreign gang activity and new citizens flooding the labor market and stagnating wages - is entirely disadvantageous to the U.S. Black community.
I am tired of the Democrats polarizing everyone who is not Latino, Black and pro-open borders as an "Uncle Tom" or "hateful white supremacist” - a strategy that the Democrats use so their political platform comes across as "the voice" of those who the Democrats claim to represent, and a moralist force that yearns to unite and protect those the Democrats claim to represent. I am tired of these tricks and the silence surrounding them.
But that ends now.
From this day forward, we will expose the truth about the Democrats and break the silence. Introducing the Black Lives Matter Less Than Migrants (BLMLTM) campaign:
I. Background: 20th century
In the mid 20th century, the U.S. Republican Party advocated minimalist, albeit business-friendly government while the Democratic Party advocated federal aid and reform to help the struggling ‘little guy’.
In time, the Democrats also supported using government aid to rehabilitate impoverished non-whites - "minorities", as they were called at the time. This strategy fit well with helping the struggling 'little guy', captured the spirit of anti-racist, post-1960 fuzzy leftism and, of course, expanded the Democrats' voting base to include "minorities", making it all the easier for the Democrats to take on the Republicans after all the votes were tallied.
More recently, said "minority" population has grown in size across the country and become a powerful voting bloc. Keen to animate “minorities” and gain support as their protectors, the Democrats portrayed Republicans as oppressors who hate "minorities". At first, the Republicans denied the allegations against them and tried to embrace “minorities" by holding up their identities. But, with a platform based on minimalist, business-friendly government policies, the Republicans had nothing to offer impoverished "minorities" than could top the Democrats' offers to impoverished minorities. On principle, the Republicans lost out.
II. 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, the Democrats used the same "for you and against the oppressors" message they had used to gain traction among "minorities" and push them towards the voting booth. There are two prime examples of this appeasement. First, Democrats went to great lengths to support Black Lives Matter, a group that namely advocates justice system reform because of alleged discrimination in the justice system against Blacks.
Second, the Democrats reached out to U.S. citizens of Latino descent by selling the border and citizenship question as a "Latino issue" that the Democrats took to heart.
To the Democrats' surprise, the leading Republican candidate, Donald Trump, broke from the old Republican strategy of fending off the Democrats' attacks and playing catch-up for the "minority" vote. Trump instead focused on those who had been forgotten amidst all of the "minority" pandering - i.e. the blue-collar 'little guy' whose concerns about the future include demographic dispossession due to the surge in illegal immigration. At the same time, Trump was careful not to agitate against ”minorities” who are law-abiding citizens of the U.S., thus preserving support from based “minority” Republicans, and those who respect them. This delicate balance, in view of the current demographic balance, helped Trump win the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
After losing the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, the Democrats rallied against Trump's promise to crack down on illegal immigration and build an impenetrable border wall, calling Trump's plan "racist" and "bigoted". For the most part, the Republicans in Congress have sided with the Democrats and opposed Trump's plans. Perhaps the Republicans were never really about fixing the border, and merely supported Trump once he had won the Republican nomination so as to get a candidate in the White House who, being a Republican, would be sure to erase the Democrats' policies and implement standard, business-friendly Republican tax reform. As note, the Republican Party is the arm of the pro-business lobby and has, for decades, supported open borders to further the importation of foreign, low-wage workers.
On the other hand, an increasing number of Republicans seem to be aware that the wave of low-wage migrants entering the country constitutes a demographic that is becoming so large, without the support of that demographic, the Republicans may soon never win an election again. Understanding this, perhaps the Republicans are reluctant to support Trump's promises regarding illegal immigration and the border wall because they fear it would play into the hands of the Democrats, who are eager for the Republicans to make any move that the Democrats can spin to be "racist", and would all but ensure that Republicans lose the votes of “minority” Republicans and Republicans who support "minorities". It is for this exact reason that the 'Black Lives Matter Less Than Migrants' (BLMLTM) meme is so critical.
III. The Logic Behind the BLMLTM Meme:
Did you notice how the Democrats' focus on illegal immigration and Trump's border wall made the focus on "Black Lives Matter" disappear? I did. And the moment I made the connection, I realized that these groups could not be attended to simultaneously, and that these groups actually have conflicting interests. Think about it: does the "Black" community have anything to gain from public services being re-prioritized to take care of illegal aliens instead of Black, poverty-stricken inner-city youth in Detroit or Cleveland? Is the use of funding for integration and Spanish-language services in the interest of Black, inner-city youth in St. Louis or Baltimore? Is the national attention on whether or not to build a wall in the interests of those who want the public and politicians to act on the outrageous violent crime problem in cities like Chicago? Is the re-distribution of Affirmative Action opportunities to the newly-naturalized instead of American-born persons in the interest of the Black community? How will the cause for reparations, and continuance of a culture that promotes an interest in Black history last? Will the culture continue to hold up Black heroes or take the history of the African-American people into consideration?
Our first goal should be to expose this reality, which nobody is talking about, and to be the ones associated with exposing it. Consider the attention it will bring us. The media goes to great lengths to convince the public that our arguments lack merit and could not possibly be worth addressing. One of their favorite tactics is to divert the conversation and proclaim that the message is simply "white supremacist". But if the media pulls that here, when "white supremacists" are going all out to push and support Black interests, the media is going to be mocked and made fun of, and the superficiality of their tactics is going to shine through. Moreover, the "white supremacist" accusation may in turn become the next "you're a white male" slur - which has completely lost its original, emotional legacy. This could benefit us in the future, when our opponents attempt to use the slur "white supremacist" to attack whatever we have to say without actually addressing what we have to say. But there is more to consider; once the issues we raise are brought to the attention of the Black community, the Black community will want answers to the points we raise, not diversion; any attempt by the media to pull Blacks away from the facts will only create tensions and infuriate Blacks.
At the same time, any attempt to address our arguments and explain why 'Black lives matter less than migrants' will cause an uproar within the Black community of equal proportion. The general public will be affected as well. Taking their cue from the media, people will want to instantly disagree with what we have to say, on principle, but they will not be able to do so without stepping on the Black community. On the other hand, perhaps they will find themselves listening to what we have to say, which will turn the media's narrative about us on its head. In short, we control all of the pieces on the board with this meme, and we should use it to our advantage to show presence, challenge the media and challenge the public to think about what the media says.
Our second goal is to get people thinking and animate Blacks so as to split the Democrats' "minority" base over the border wall and immigration reform. The split will in turn reduce the power of the opposition to the wall and immigration reform, and break the Republicans’ impression of a bond between "minorities" over illegal immigration and the open border - a bond which may be keeping Republicans who do not want to appear anti-"minority" from taking action. It is deceitful that the Democratic Party, riding its public image as anti-racist and multi-ethnic, is at the same time playing up ethno-centric self-awareness among Black and Latino people, and posing as the party that encourages each group to stand for their own. We must reveal to the public where the Democrat caravan will lead: to split interests, and a continued reliance on imported Latino votes, which will put the Black population in a new, and fully undesirable position. We must get people talking about this, because otherwise the media controls the conversation and, backed by the Democrats (1,2) and backing the Democrats, the media will remain silent. In the meantime, the Democrats will continue to profit from the deception they are fostering, both in terms of votes and the perceived opposition to Trump's promises regarding illegal immigration and the border wall. Having established the rationale behind the BLMLTM meme campaign, below are a few examples of where the campaign could go.
IV. Themes for BLMLTM memes:
The election is over and mic is turned off for BLM, because Blacks don't matter: since the Democrats want to legalize up to or over thirty million illegals, preserve sanctuary city laws and implement other policies to that end, they have moved into that camp and completely left behind the African-American communities, and inner-city issues, that the Democrats pretended to care about. The BLMLTM meme makes this point clear, ironically suggesting how good it is that the Democrats and the media have moved on - since Black Lives Matter Less than Migrants. One could utilize images of widespread support for Black Lives Matter by the media and Democrats, and stress that the media and Democrats have since moved on. Images of fully-attended events may come in handy. Or, alternatively, the meme may use imagery of empty assembly halls, or post-BLM event footage, to illustrate the silence. Images that show leading Democrats making awkward faces when confronted by BLM may also be useful to convey the message here.
No conversation about inner-city violent crime because Blacks don't matter: at present, the anti-gun brouhaha is still marginally prevalent, so the issue of gun violence in the cities is being covered by proxy, through the focus on guns in general. The connection was apparent, for example, when Washington/Baltimore Black youth were called upon to join the anti-gun conversation and dominated the stage in a quasi-identitarian display of group interest at the 'March for Our Lives' event. But the media's 180 degree turn to address illegal immigration and the border wall is likely to turn back coverage to its normal state, where people dying all the time in inner-city violent crimes goes unreported. This climate can be used to suggest, with sarcasm, that the media's inattention on the issue of inner-city violence in favor of the illegal immigration focus is a good thing because black lives do not matter as much as migrants. Pertaining the gun issue, here is a video that does a good job putting the problem in perspective (and explaining why this ultimately is an inner-city issue, affecting the Black community above all):
Let foreign drug gangs into our cities to kill Blacks, because Blacks don't matter: a similar angle concerning cities, guns and violent crime is that which pertains to gangs. Here, one could mention how they interfere in daily life, and ruin lives, and how nothing is done to remedy this plague. Or, alternatively, the focus could be on the importation of notorious South and Central American gang violence thanks to the porous border.
Detroit, Baltimore and St. Louis are shitholes but that's ok because they don't matter: here the meme shows cities in decay and terrible shape, and the blight of inner-city Black community poverty. The idea is that the problems these cities have should not be addressed because BLMLTM. The idea will be that it is, in an ironic sense, perfectly okay to leave the cities as they are and ignore these problems. The imagery could trigger Blacks, because maybe they do care about these issues, and they certainly do not have "muh feels" towards those on the other side of the border who they have not been pushed within their own community to identify with. Indeed, does anyone in BLM believe that they matter less than people who have never been here before?
Open the flood gates, because the priorities of Blacks don't matter: this meme shows the flood of migrants from across the border or the overcrowding, in a mass form, simply because this represents a "not us" conception on a very raw level. The idea here is that they will be coming in such a mass that the Black population will also be swamped. The idea is that naturalizing millions of illegals is a threat to all.
Less resources for Blacks, because Blacks don't matter: similar to the above, imagery can be used to show the resources that the migrant community consumes or is in need of, to demonstrate what all the federal funding and allocated resources are going towards and that Black inner-city folks are not the recipient. Because BLMLTM. Note how at present Black community leaders say nothing about the resources and finances dumped into multilingual training, services and integration, nobody mentions the Black lives that suffer when those not born in America compete for the same opportunities that can help Blacks via Affirmative Action.
Start thinking about a new majority, without liberals who think Blacks matter: behind the curtain, Latinos don't think they owe Blacks anything, nor is there a cultural element to create a vendetta. Any racism between the two groups is based on a very strange, caste-like understanding of skin color and class, and merely unchecked, crude humor. But the meme can show the rise of Latino ethno-populism, complete with all the Mexican-flag waving, and the potential cultural conflict that could arise due to language, representation, and so on.
True Black interests don't matter: this one shows the Democratic Party or communist lib-left internationalist types acting out in ways that have nothing to do with inner-city Black issues and basically talking out of two sides of their mouths. The message is that it is perfectly fine for these groups to do xyz which is not in the interest of Black people because BLMLTM. The purpose of the meme is that it gets Blacks to think about who stands for their interests because these groups that pretend, or try to rope Blacks in, are not the mouthpieces they claim to be. It is time to break the spell that exists due to the illusion of the contrary and to make it clear that those who take interest in Black community interests are being betrayed by the causes they are pushed to support. In one specific example, the objective is to expose the "black/latino/non-white loving "muh minorities" globalist alliance that the Democrats have been building. We need to show that they are talking up internationalist socialist themes on the one hand and latent racialist themes of the minority groups on the other, that lib-left marxist-culturalism is a place where latent black ethno-patriotism a la BLM is not advanced.
Slavery retribution, or addressing Jim Crow, doesn't matter: this might be too over the top, but in line with the aforementioned topic it could highlight the potential culture conflict we are heading towards quite well, hitting home that the future will involve a very different social climate for African-Americans if migration continues.
V. Conclusion:
As we have seen, BLMLTM de-couples Black community ethnocism and interests with the Democrat’s program, all the while destroying the unity against pro-wall sentiment that the Democrats rely on. The campaign exposes the tension of the future that nobody talks about, where Hispanics are a majority, creating a preview of the future to get people to think about the outcome they seem to be fighting for. Similarly, the BLMLTM movement can turn America's Black population (and anyone who supports it) on to realizing that support for open borders politics is a worst nightmare scenario for Blacks. In sum, BLMLTM can split the open borders movement in half and, if the Democrats continue to play their cards wrong, perhaps the Democratic Party as well. For all of these reasons, the BLMLTM meme could be quite a powerful tool, and I have decided to bring attention to it.
I am tired of watching the Democrats stoke open-border Latino populism while purporting to stand for U.S. Black community interests. While this strategy may win votes from both Latinos and Blacks, the outcome - more aid and welfare to new citizens that could be going to Blacks, the increase of foreign gang activity and new citizens flooding the labor market and stagnating wages - is entirely disadvantageous to the U.S. Black community.
I am tired of the Democrats polarizing everyone who is not Latino, Black and pro-open borders as an "Uncle Tom" or "hateful white supremacist” - a strategy that the Democrats use so their political platform comes across as "the voice" of those who the Democrats claim to represent, and a moralist force that yearns to unite and protect those the Democrats claim to represent. I am tired of these tricks and the silence surrounding them.
But that ends now.
From this day forward, we will expose the truth about the Democrats and break the silence. Introducing the Black Lives Matter Less Than Migrants (BLMLTM) campaign:
I. Background: 20th century
In the mid 20th century, the U.S. Republican Party advocated minimalist, albeit business-friendly government while the Democratic Party advocated federal aid and reform to help the struggling ‘little guy’.
In time, the Democrats also supported using government aid to rehabilitate impoverished non-whites - "minorities", as they were called at the time. This strategy fit well with helping the struggling 'little guy', captured the spirit of anti-racist, post-1960 fuzzy leftism and, of course, expanded the Democrats' voting base to include "minorities", making it all the easier for the Democrats to take on the Republicans after all the votes were tallied.
More recently, said "minority" population has grown in size across the country and become a powerful voting bloc. Keen to animate “minorities” and gain support as their protectors, the Democrats portrayed Republicans as oppressors who hate "minorities". At first, the Republicans denied the allegations against them and tried to embrace “minorities" by holding up their identities. But, with a platform based on minimalist, business-friendly government policies, the Republicans had nothing to offer impoverished "minorities" than could top the Democrats' offers to impoverished minorities. On principle, the Republicans lost out.
II. 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, the Democrats used the same "for you and against the oppressors" message they had used to gain traction among "minorities" and push them towards the voting booth. There are two prime examples of this appeasement. First, Democrats went to great lengths to support Black Lives Matter, a group that namely advocates justice system reform because of alleged discrimination in the justice system against Blacks.
Second, the Democrats reached out to U.S. citizens of Latino descent by selling the border and citizenship question as a "Latino issue" that the Democrats took to heart.
To the Democrats' surprise, the leading Republican candidate, Donald Trump, broke from the old Republican strategy of fending off the Democrats' attacks and playing catch-up for the "minority" vote. Trump instead focused on those who had been forgotten amidst all of the "minority" pandering - i.e. the blue-collar 'little guy' whose concerns about the future include demographic dispossession due to the surge in illegal immigration. At the same time, Trump was careful not to agitate against ”minorities” who are law-abiding citizens of the U.S., thus preserving support from based “minority” Republicans, and those who respect them. This delicate balance, in view of the current demographic balance, helped Trump win the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
After losing the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, the Democrats rallied against Trump's promise to crack down on illegal immigration and build an impenetrable border wall, calling Trump's plan "racist" and "bigoted". For the most part, the Republicans in Congress have sided with the Democrats and opposed Trump's plans. Perhaps the Republicans were never really about fixing the border, and merely supported Trump once he had won the Republican nomination so as to get a candidate in the White House who, being a Republican, would be sure to erase the Democrats' policies and implement standard, business-friendly Republican tax reform. As note, the Republican Party is the arm of the pro-business lobby and has, for decades, supported open borders to further the importation of foreign, low-wage workers.
On the other hand, an increasing number of Republicans seem to be aware that the wave of low-wage migrants entering the country constitutes a demographic that is becoming so large, without the support of that demographic, the Republicans may soon never win an election again. Understanding this, perhaps the Republicans are reluctant to support Trump's promises regarding illegal immigration and the border wall because they fear it would play into the hands of the Democrats, who are eager for the Republicans to make any move that the Democrats can spin to be "racist", and would all but ensure that Republicans lose the votes of “minority” Republicans and Republicans who support "minorities". It is for this exact reason that the 'Black Lives Matter Less Than Migrants' (BLMLTM) meme is so critical.
III. The Logic Behind the BLMLTM Meme:
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| 2016: Black Lives Matter, whose vote the Democrats want, but certainly at the expense of the rising Hispanic vote. |
At the same time, any attempt to address our arguments and explain why 'Black lives matter less than migrants' will cause an uproar within the Black community of equal proportion. The general public will be affected as well. Taking their cue from the media, people will want to instantly disagree with what we have to say, on principle, but they will not be able to do so without stepping on the Black community. On the other hand, perhaps they will find themselves listening to what we have to say, which will turn the media's narrative about us on its head. In short, we control all of the pieces on the board with this meme, and we should use it to our advantage to show presence, challenge the media and challenge the public to think about what the media says. |
| Yes, the future lies with the migrant vote. Is the African-American community aware of this and the implications? The BLMLTM meme will help us find out. |
IV. Themes for BLMLTM memes:
The election is over and mic is turned off for BLM, because Blacks don't matter: since the Democrats want to legalize up to or over thirty million illegals, preserve sanctuary city laws and implement other policies to that end, they have moved into that camp and completely left behind the African-American communities, and inner-city issues, that the Democrats pretended to care about. The BLMLTM meme makes this point clear, ironically suggesting how good it is that the Democrats and the media have moved on - since Black Lives Matter Less than Migrants. One could utilize images of widespread support for Black Lives Matter by the media and Democrats, and stress that the media and Democrats have since moved on. Images of fully-attended events may come in handy. Or, alternatively, the meme may use imagery of empty assembly halls, or post-BLM event footage, to illustrate the silence. Images that show leading Democrats making awkward faces when confronted by BLM may also be useful to convey the message here.
No conversation about inner-city violent crime because Blacks don't matter: at present, the anti-gun brouhaha is still marginally prevalent, so the issue of gun violence in the cities is being covered by proxy, through the focus on guns in general. The connection was apparent, for example, when Washington/Baltimore Black youth were called upon to join the anti-gun conversation and dominated the stage in a quasi-identitarian display of group interest at the 'March for Our Lives' event. But the media's 180 degree turn to address illegal immigration and the border wall is likely to turn back coverage to its normal state, where people dying all the time in inner-city violent crimes goes unreported. This climate can be used to suggest, with sarcasm, that the media's inattention on the issue of inner-city violence in favor of the illegal immigration focus is a good thing because black lives do not matter as much as migrants. Pertaining the gun issue, here is a video that does a good job putting the problem in perspective (and explaining why this ultimately is an inner-city issue, affecting the Black community above all):
Let foreign drug gangs into our cities to kill Blacks, because Blacks don't matter: a similar angle concerning cities, guns and violent crime is that which pertains to gangs. Here, one could mention how they interfere in daily life, and ruin lives, and how nothing is done to remedy this plague. Or, alternatively, the focus could be on the importation of notorious South and Central American gang violence thanks to the porous border.
Detroit, Baltimore and St. Louis are shitholes but that's ok because they don't matter: here the meme shows cities in decay and terrible shape, and the blight of inner-city Black community poverty. The idea is that the problems these cities have should not be addressed because BLMLTM. The idea will be that it is, in an ironic sense, perfectly okay to leave the cities as they are and ignore these problems. The imagery could trigger Blacks, because maybe they do care about these issues, and they certainly do not have "muh feels" towards those on the other side of the border who they have not been pushed within their own community to identify with. Indeed, does anyone in BLM believe that they matter less than people who have never been here before?
Open the flood gates, because the priorities of Blacks don't matter: this meme shows the flood of migrants from across the border or the overcrowding, in a mass form, simply because this represents a "not us" conception on a very raw level. The idea here is that they will be coming in such a mass that the Black population will also be swamped. The idea is that naturalizing millions of illegals is a threat to all.
Less resources for Blacks, because Blacks don't matter: similar to the above, imagery can be used to show the resources that the migrant community consumes or is in need of, to demonstrate what all the federal funding and allocated resources are going towards and that Black inner-city folks are not the recipient. Because BLMLTM. Note how at present Black community leaders say nothing about the resources and finances dumped into multilingual training, services and integration, nobody mentions the Black lives that suffer when those not born in America compete for the same opportunities that can help Blacks via Affirmative Action.
Start thinking about a new majority, without liberals who think Blacks matter: behind the curtain, Latinos don't think they owe Blacks anything, nor is there a cultural element to create a vendetta. Any racism between the two groups is based on a very strange, caste-like understanding of skin color and class, and merely unchecked, crude humor. But the meme can show the rise of Latino ethno-populism, complete with all the Mexican-flag waving, and the potential cultural conflict that could arise due to language, representation, and so on.
True Black interests don't matter: this one shows the Democratic Party or communist lib-left internationalist types acting out in ways that have nothing to do with inner-city Black issues and basically talking out of two sides of their mouths. The message is that it is perfectly fine for these groups to do xyz which is not in the interest of Black people because BLMLTM. The purpose of the meme is that it gets Blacks to think about who stands for their interests because these groups that pretend, or try to rope Blacks in, are not the mouthpieces they claim to be. It is time to break the spell that exists due to the illusion of the contrary and to make it clear that those who take interest in Black community interests are being betrayed by the causes they are pushed to support. In one specific example, the objective is to expose the "black/latino/non-white loving "muh minorities" globalist alliance that the Democrats have been building. We need to show that they are talking up internationalist socialist themes on the one hand and latent racialist themes of the minority groups on the other, that lib-left marxist-culturalism is a place where latent black ethno-patriotism a la BLM is not advanced.
Slavery retribution, or addressing Jim Crow, doesn't matter: this might be too over the top, but in line with the aforementioned topic it could highlight the potential culture conflict we are heading towards quite well, hitting home that the future will involve a very different social climate for African-Americans if migration continues.
V. Conclusion:
As we have seen, BLMLTM de-couples Black community ethnocism and interests with the Democrat’s program, all the while destroying the unity against pro-wall sentiment that the Democrats rely on. The campaign exposes the tension of the future that nobody talks about, where Hispanics are a majority, creating a preview of the future to get people to think about the outcome they seem to be fighting for. Similarly, the BLMLTM movement can turn America's Black population (and anyone who supports it) on to realizing that support for open borders politics is a worst nightmare scenario for Blacks. In sum, BLMLTM can split the open borders movement in half and, if the Democrats continue to play their cards wrong, perhaps the Democratic Party as well. For all of these reasons, the BLMLTM meme could be quite a powerful tool, and I have decided to bring attention to it.
