Camera Habits During the NCAA Tournament

During the month of March, I enjoy watching the NCAA Basketball tournament. This year I have the added incentive of rooting for Michigan State which is a scant 30 minute drive from where I live. So, for the past couple weeks I’ve watched a number of tournament games that have involved hundreds of NCAA college Basketball players. Now, during the tournament games the cameras will sometimes focus on those in attendance. Maybe the camera will pan a coach’s wife during a particularly dramatic point of the game. Maybe the camera will locate a celebrity in attendance.

I must admit though that one thing that is driving me mad with curiosity is why the cameras keep panning the parents of Oklahoma Stars Blake and Taylor Griffin. With the exception of once seeing the cameras pan the father of UNC star Tyler Hansbrough the only parents I’ve seen the cameras focus on are the parents of the Griffin brothers of Oklahoma. The cameras have been on these parents so often during Oklahoma games I’ve begun to think that the Griffins were starring in some kind of bizarre reality Television show.

Now, naturally, I’ve found myself asking why the cameras have focused so much on the Griffins. I mean, after all, if there are 10 guys on each team that is potentially twenty set of parents that cameras could pan. But lets reduce the pool by 16 sets of parents and suggest that the cameras are only interested in showing family members of star players and coaches. That would reduce it to a far more manageable handful of people that the cameras might pan. Still, even by those reduced numbers the Griffin parents are getting far far more face time on camera proportionally then any other family members. Indeed, one begins to wonder if all their camera time is designed.

So why do the Griffins get all this camera time? Are they the only family members in attendance supporting their star basketball player sons? Is it because they are more telegenic then other people? Or is it because CBS is subtly communicating that inter-racial marriages are something to be esteemed and aspired to?

Dissolving The People

“The people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts. Wouldn’t it be easier to dissolve the people and elect another in their place?”

Bertold Brecht
German Communist Poet / Playwright

The politicians and bureaucrats of the American state, at almost every level are criminal guilty of the crime of cultural-cide. The policies they are pursuing are tantamount to seeking to dissolve the people and their culture while electing another in their place. Americans are being dissolved by illegal immigration. Americans are being dissolved by multiculturalism. Americans are being dissolved by planned financial ruin. Americans are being dissolved by the death cult of abortion. Americans are being dissolved by a educational system that has spent decades preparing Americans for dissolution.

In Barack Obama we are being led by a man who is a stranger and an alien to all things Americans. Even if Obama is legally President he should be characterized as a “accidental American.” He is a man who had a mother who hated her own people. He had a Father who was a Tomcat who spread his seed over more than one continent. For a substantive period of his life he was raised by a Step-Father in Indonesia. Obama is the perfect character to dissolve America because he doesn’t belong to America.

America’s Bastard Percentage Increases Again

In 2007 in America almost 40% (39.7%) of children born are born to unwed mothers. This is an increase of 1.2% from the statistics of 2006. For those who attended government schools this means that almost 4 out of 10 (2 out of 5 if you never learned fractions) babies were born to unwed mothers. The statistic reveal that from 2005-2007 the number of children born in these United States to married women has declined 0.3% while the number born to unmarried women has mushroomed to 12.3%

Broken down by ethnicity the numbers reveal that between the years 2005-2007 that among blacks the percentage of children birthed to single moms grew from 69.9% to 71.6%. Among whites, who have considerably more ceiling room for increase, the numbers of bastard children, in terms of percentage expanded from 25.3% to 27.8% over the same two year period. The largest increase in out of wedlock births was found in the Hispanic community as their numbers jumped from 48%-51.3% of illegitimate children. If we take 1980 as a base for the Hispanic community that is a 32.3% increase from the base year 1980 when the rate was 19%.

Rutgers sociologist David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project, He writes,

“…Hispanics seem to have assimilated into the American culture of secular individualism more than the reverse. … These trends contradict earlier expectations that Hispanics might bring this nation a new wave of family traditionalism.” [The State of Our Unions |The Social Health of Marriage in America]

The growth in Hispanic illegitimacy is especially important because Hispanics keep increasing as a share of all new births, married or unmarried, up from 14.3 percent in 1990 to 23.8 percent in 2005 to 24.6 percent in 2007.

Thus, from 2005 to 2007, the number of babies born to unmarried white women dropped 2.0 percent, while the number of babies born to unmarried Hispanic women grew 15.2 percent.

If you’re under 35 I hope you’re taking Spanish classes because demography is destiny.

What’s Wrong With This Quote?

“The long-term prospect—the type of country our grandchildren and great grandchildren will struggle to live in—should drive the programs, policies, and objectives of our leading immigration-reform organizations. And the type of country future generations of native-stock Americans will inherit rests on this maxim: demography is destiny! (If for no other reason than that the races vote systematically differently, and current immigration policy is driving the U.S. further to the left.)

Opposing mass illegal and legal immigration, multiculturalism, and diversity while disregarding the role of race and ethnicity—above all in establishing the criteria for immigrant selection—is largely why we’re in the mess we’re in. It is the equivalent of not only misdiagnosing a patient but prescribing the wrong treatment—treating someone who has advanced throat cancer with Listerine.

The way out of this mess (if there is a way out) will depend on a multifaceted long-term strategy. A sizable increase in white birthrates; stripping out the incentives for non-traditional immigrants to relocate to the U.S.; reversing the cultural pollution of our “entertainment industry”, which promotes diversity, multiculturalism and white demoralization—all would make for a good start.”

Cooper Sterling
Free Lance Writer

When Presidents Still Understood The 10th Amendment

“I presume the general proposition is undeniable that Congress does not possess the power to appropriate money in the Treasury, raised by taxes on the people of the United States, for the purpose of educating the people of the respective States. It will not be pretended that any such power is to be found among the specific powers granted to Congress nor that “it is necessary and proper for carrying into execution” any one of these powers. Should Congress exercise such a power, this would be to break down the barriers which have been so carefully constructed in the Constitution to separate Federal from State authority. We should then not only “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises” for Federal purposes, but for every State purpose which Congress might deem expedient or useful. This would be an actual consolidation of the Federal and State Governments so far as the great taxing and money power is concerned, and constitute a sort of partnership between the two in the Treasury of the United States, equally ruinous to both.”

President James Buchanan
Veto Message To Congress — 1859