Sanctuary Cities, the New Plantations

I have always said that if you want to find entrenched, self-satisfied, institutional and individual, carved in granite bigotry don’t look to the clan; find a liberal. They are so blatant in their bigotry that they express it in conversations for all to see. From Paterico’s Pontifications a tale about Malibu: Sanctuary-cities-prevent-wealthy-communities-from-becoming-paralyzed-and-stuck-with-dirty-houses.

And confirming just how utterly out of touch with the everyman the uber-wealthy residents of Malibu are, Mikke Pierson, a supporter of the resolution, commented:

[I]t’s hard to imagine a Malibu without the many immigrants who toil there. That why expressing support for people who are in the country illegally is so important, he said. Here are some additional justifications:

Like many sanctuary city resolutions, Malibu’s is largely symbolic. Backers said the move, which passed on a 3-2 council vote, is a chance for Malibu’s privileged to stand up for the city’s vulnerable population.

Malibu is about 92% white and one of L.A. County’s wealthiest cities. Everyone agrees the city has workers who are not authorized to be in the United States, and they tend to serve the food at upscale eateries, clean the beachside mansions, look after children and keep the landscaping looking lush.

Malibu, you know the place where the median home price is over nine million, wants to protect the less fortunate. I guess that means people living in less than 9 million dollar homes. Course this does not include access to the beaches. Malibu has tried a variety of ways to keep illegals and other riff-raft from populating the beaches for years.

Juan Lopez, who works in Malibu, is quoted:

Most immigrants just want to work, and they end up doing jobs that hardly anyone else, let alone most Americans, want to do.

In each house, there’s one immigrant here. You see Spanish speakers taking care of babies in every house. They help people here.

People make the mistake in thinking that slavery was about free labor. Slaves entailed an overhead cost. They had to be transported, clothed, fed, housed, and when needed have their medical needs met. It is easy to tour 150-200-year-old slave quarters and say how inhuman. Find the white overseers or farm managers quarters and you may find there wasn’t a great leap in the difference of accommodations.

At Mount Vernon, slaves were given a new suit of clothes, with shoes every year. They drew from plantation stores for most food needs. Slaves were able to maintain the own garden plot and either sell or consume what they grew. Mount Vernon as a farm operation did not raise poultry or eggs. Poultry and egg production was controlled by slaves for purchase by the “big house.” I am not claiming that all slave owners were that magnanimous, and can speak only to the conditions on Mount Vernon.

I don’t know but suspect a subsistence farmer from the region and era would not be much better off on a daily basis than the slaves on Mount Vernon. The difference being that the white subsistence farmer owned the land he worked and had mobility or freedom. The slaves had neither and that is the crux of the matter.

Mexico and the liberals have formed this unholy alliance. Mexico’s three biggest exports are people, drugs, and oil. Billions of dollars are returned to Mexico each year by illegals working in the United States. Liberals are no longer bothered with transportation, purchase, clothing, feeding or meeting the medical costs of illegals. Modern day slaves pay those expenses themselves. However, the chances of obtaining mobility and freedom are the same for today’s illegals as they were the slaves of the 1800’s. In exchange, liberals get labor at a third the cost. These laborers don’t complain, won’t sue, or ever go on strike. As a concession to the times, liberals do not require their employees to refer to them with pet names of the past, such as Massa, or Patron. Otherwise, everything remains the same.