Poet Nguyễn Quốc Chánh’s great-grandfather had a plantation in Bạc Liêu where lived 300 Cambodian slaves. Though they may not have been categorized as such, they spent their entire lives on their master’s land and depended on him for everything. In turn, he couldn’t fire any of them because of disability or old age. None ever lived like filthy beasts under a bridge or on sidewalks as in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland or Denver, etc.
Some think Bạc Liêu is derived from the Khmer Po Loenh, meaning a tall banyan tree. It’s indisputable Cambodians came to Bạc Liêu centuries earlier than Vietnamese. No Viet cares. “Kampuchea Krom” means the southern third of Vietnam, once Cambodian land. Every inch of real estate has been fought many times over. The Angkor Empire didn’t expand via soccer mommish protests with homemade signs. Only Jewjerked pussies yield everything without a fight. To compensate, they mouth off online as sulu, catdompa, SacredCowPies or anonymous. Wrestling bears, flabby queer catchers are more fearless. God forbid they should dox themselves. When no one shows up to fight, you lose everything. A Steve Sailer fan explains why that white nationalist never talks about how Jews are destroying everything white, “Steve has a family.” Jewish jokes are best.
Slavery in Thailand was only officially abolished in 1915. Nearly 8% of Nigeriens are still slaves, as are roughly one fifth of Mauritarians. When you’re enslaved by your own, there’s no permanent social separation or stigma. Though Cambodians are distinct from Vietnamese, many Viets have Chinese, Cham, Cambodian or some tribal blood. Some Cambodians look Chinese or even Indian. Descendants of Bạc Liêu slaves are just Vietnamese. Tank Top at the café on General Uprising is so dark, who knows what’s his mix? There’s a Chinese writer, Ding Ling, so maybe I’m her, transitioned.
Oriental nations never imported another race to enslave. That’s America’s enduring problem. After visiting the US in 1831, Tocqueville wrote, “Negroes can long remain slaves without complaint; but having joined the number of free men, they will soon become indignant at being deprived of almost all the rights of citizens; and not being able to become the equals of the whites, they will not be slow to show themselves their enemies.”
Note his “not being able to become the equals of the whites.” Since postliterate Americans can’t read 12 pages, Tocqueville’s 700-page masterpiece, Democracy in America, is safe from scrutiny. Since “masterpiece” is clearly sexist and racist, let’s go with “cool book.” Almost no SubSaharan tribe had writing or books, so “writing” and “books,” as savage tools of white supremacist oppression, must also be abolished.
In 2018, I was roasted for writing, “In every field besides sports, entertainment and politics, blacks are failing spectacularly against all other races, a fact readily admitted to by blacks and black apologists themselves as evidence of America’s racism and oppression of blacks.” If there’s no achievement gap, why go on about racism? Why impose affirmative action?
Even if all races were perfectly equal in everything, an impossibility, there would still be racial rivalries and competitions, thus problems. Men must compete for money, status and sex. Even if they can’t win, they need to see their own kind kick ass, what we just saw, most obviously, at the Olympics. As expected, Vietnam came home with no medals. Sporting success, though, is only symbolically significant. Otherwise, blacks would rule this earth.
Multicultural societies do well in sports. Having West African sprinters, East African marathoners, Nordic skiers and Chinese table tennis players in one society ensures you’ll win many more medals than, say, Indonesia. Despite having 276 million people, it snatched just three in Paris. Though the world’s biggest archipelago, Indonesia is much more homogeneous than any Western country. This relative cohesion gives it a much better chance at long term survival.
Like nearly everybody else, Lincoln foresaw grave problems with integrating freed blacks, so he tried his best to ship them to the Carribeans, Central America or Africa.
Living among so many blacks, white Southerners understandably dreaded this future. Tocqueville, “The question of slavery was, for masters in the North, a commercial and manufacturing question; in the South, it is a question of life or death. One must therefore not confuse slavery in the North and the South.”
And, “Until now, everywhere that whites have been most powerful, they have held Negroes in degradation or in slavery. Everywhere that Negroes have been strongest, they have destroyed whites; this is the only account that has ever been opened between the two races.”
Pointing to many personable black stars in movies and sports, or the ultra suave biracial Obama, suburban progressive whites may sneer that Tocqueville was way off. Having no experience of rachets, they think Michelle, Kamala or even Whoopi as typical. With a Jewish last name, she must have had a dozen relatives gassed by Nazis. Smoke from their corpses still rises from some Polish meadow. So modest and reticent, Whoopi never discusses this tragedy. Bitch talks about everything else.
Decades before Lincoln became president, blacks were already returned to Africa. Led by the American Colonization Society, this feeble and controversial initiative resulted in the founding of Liberia in 1847. In England, the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor tried to ship British blacks to Sierra Leone, but managed to relocate only 315.
Tocqueville:
There for sure is a strange play of fortune! Two centuries have passed since the day when the inhabitant of Europe undertook to remove the Negroes from their families and their country to transport them to the shores of North America. Today one encounters the European busy with carrying the descendants of those same Negroes across the Atlantic Ocean again so as to carry them back to the soil from which he had formerly dragged away their fathers.
No matter how many are shipped back, many more will be born, so there’s no way to even suspend the “development of the evil that grows larger within it each day”:
The Negro race will not again depart the shores of the American continent, on which the passions and vices of Europe have set it down; it will disappear from the New World only by ceasing to exist. The inhabitants of the United States can put off the misfortunes they dread, but today they cannot destroy their cause.
What’s this shit about ever growing evil? There are Nazis everywhere, man! Burn that cracker!
Online, you can still buy this bumper sticker, “IF I HAD KNOWN THIS I WOULD HAVE PICKED MY OWN COTTON.” Comes with a Confederate flag. Just don’t drive with it through any American city, obviously.
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Hi everyone,
Street lingo can fade fast. Common terms may become incomprehensible just ten years from now. Many of my readers are also not American, so here's a three word glossary:
Bear: a chunky and hairy queer. This sub sub culture even had its own magazine, Bear. On one cover, "OVER A TON OF FRESH MEAT AND FUR"!
Catcher: a receptive queer.
Rachet: Louisiana black pronunciation of wretched. Baton Rouge rapper Boozie Badazz defines it as "to be ghetto, real, gutter, nasty."
Drunk enough, a bear pitcher may just get it on with some bitchin' rachet. Racial harmony achieved!
Linh
Hi everyone,
I just revised the ending to include this quotation. Tocqueville:
"The Negro race will not again depart the shores of the American continent, on which the passions and vices of Europe have set it down; it will disappear from the New World only by ceasing to exist. The inhabitants of the United States can put off the misfortunes they dread, but today they cannot destroy their cause."
Amazing how much he saw and understood just passing through.
Linh