Nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, Roma has generated controversy in Mexico. Written and directed by Euro-Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron (right) it tells the story of a Euro-Mexican family (pictured above )and their live-in Indian maids in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood. Understandably, its success has caused no small measure of joy and pride. But it has also triggered difficult “conversation about race”—not supposed to be an issue in Mexico. Eric Holder, call your office!

Roma received 10 Oscar nominations: Cuaron for Best Picture and Best Director, Yalitza Aparicio for actress and Marina de Tavira for supporting actress. It won Best Foreign Language Film, with Cuaron picking up Best Director and Best Cinematography. He shot the film himself.

Significantly, Aparicio, a 25-year old “indigenous” A.K.A.  Indian woman from Oaxaca, portrayed the protagonist. The half-Mixtec-half-Triqui, actress (left) studied to be a teacher. Roma is her maiden role and made her a star.

Again and again, we are told, Americans are inveterate racists who should be more like Mexicans and other Latin Americans, who not only don’t care about race, but also are more open to and accepting of those of a different hue and background.

That’s bunk, of course. Race is supremely important in Mexico, as the hullabaloo over Roma has made clear.

Poor Felicity Huffman is being raked over the coals for paying a lousy $15,000 to get her daughter extra time to take the SAT.

Jared Kushner's father paid $2.5 million to get him into Harvard—and arranged for two of his beneficiary politicians, Sens. Ted Kennedy and Frank Lautenberg, to make calls on his offspring's behalf.

"His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it," a former administrator at Jared's private high school told Daniel Golden, author of the 2006 book, The Price of Admission. There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard."

Welcome to the baby boom's remaking of college admissions!

For decades, going to college was a matter of social class, not IQ, talent or merit. From 1900 to 1960, only a tiny percentage of Americans even went to college, about 2 to 5 percent until well after World War II.

It wasn't until the '60s that admission to college first began to be based on a universal standardized test, the Scholastic Aptitude Test. This fulfilled the dream of Harvard president James Conant, who believed that SAT-based admissions would redeem America's promise of a classless society.

Recall that England's law of primogeniture was one of the best things that ever happened to this country. If you are a small island nation and want to keep land from being chopped up every generation, it makes sense to mandate that entire estates be bequeathed to the first-born son. But that left a lot of smart second-, third- and fourth-born sons—not to mention daughters—out in the cold.The talented, but screwed, Brits responded by hopping on boats, sailing across the ocean and creating America! In this country, status would be earned, not inherited.

See, earlier, by Martin Witkerk: The Relevance Of Raspail—Visionary French Novelist Saw It Coming, Published Just Before Censorship Crackdown

The Social Contract Press has just brought out a sixth edition of Jean Raspail’s prophetic novel Camp Of The Saints, including for the first time an English-language translation of the substantial foreword that the author added to the 2011 French edition. He’s not backing down.

Raspail describes the original inspiration for the novel. One day in 1971, he looked out his window on France’s Mediterranean coast and a thought occurred to him: “What if they came?”

I didn’t know who these they were, but to me it seemed bound to happen that the innumerable poor from the south, in the manner of a tidal wave, were one day going to set out for this opulent shore.

He sat down to write.

I had no plan and not the slightest idea of how things would go, nor of the characters who were going to populate my tale. I used to stop for the night without knowing what would take place the day after, and to my great surprise, the next day my pencil raced across the paper without a snag. It went like that all the way to the end.

Camp Of The Saints was first published in France in 1973. The French publisher, Robert Laffont, expecting a bestseller, took a personal interest in the novel and contacted all the major booksellers of France personally to promote it. But the initial results were disappointing: 15,000 sold out of an initial print run of 20,000. The Leftist press ignored the book; it was panned by France’s leading “conservative” daily, Le Figaro (actually it’s moved to the Left—very like National Review).

In 1975, however, the American publisher Charles Scribner brought out an English translation that sold better and attracted more favorable attention than the French original. Readers included Ronald Reagan and Samuel Huntington; Jeffrey Hart praised the novel in National Review (those were the days!). The rest of the world began to pay attention: translations followed in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, and even Afrikaans.

VDARE.com Note: Since this is a column about a de-financing attack on us, we might have ended it with an appeal for donations. Instead, we’re putting the appeal for donations right at the top—go here to donate—while you still can!

A recent JournoFa attack on VDARE.com and others argued that “Hate Groups” shouldn’t receive donations via charitable trusts, a common device used by wealthy donors to simplify their giving.[America’s Biggest Charities Are Funneling Millions to Hate Groups From Anonymous Donors, by Alex Kotch, ReadSludge, February 19, 2019]

The subhead is

“Four donor-advised funds, which create accounts for individuals to anonymously give money to nonprofits, are financing more than 30 anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT, and other hate groups.”

This Kotch thug (email him) says:

Whatever systems may be in place have not prevented Fidelity Charitable and Vanguard Charitable from continuing to donate money to hate groups such as the VDARE Foundation or the Family Research Council, which a quick web search shows are considered hate groups by some experts.

Then Kotch quotes, and links to, this quote from VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow:

"But there's no doubt that something in that book  got to [President Donald Trump], because the way his speech was set up. His announcement speech went to the question of Hispanic crime, specifically rape. And [Ann Coulter]'s book is a very powerful statement of the fact that crime in this country is ethnically variegated. There's ethnic specialization in crime. And Hispanics do specialize in rape, particularly of children. They're very prone to it, compared to other groups."
— On President Trump's immigration policies at the American Renaissance conference, 2017

This is a quote—with no link, of course— appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Extremist Files” Peter Brimelow page, which describes VDARE.com as an “an immigrant-bashing hate site that regularly publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right.”

(We describe the $PLC as a “Cultural Marxist Treason Lobby fundraising scam”, by the way).

This is not really Peter “On President Trump's immigration policies”, by the way. During a question and answer session the  2017 American Renaissance conference Peter was asked if he thought that Trump had really read Ann Coulter’s seminal Adios, America, of which David Frum said “Perhaps no single writer has had such immediate impact on a presidential election since Harriet Beecher Stowe.”

Watch Peter answer the question below:

Peter’s years as a financial journalist have left him skeptical about any CEO actually reading a whole book, but Trump must have either listened to it on Audible (read by Ann herself!) or got some kind of synopsis, because Trump knew to say, on June 16, 2015 in the Trump Tower:

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

[Donald Trump’s false comments connecting Mexican immigrants and crime, By Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, July 8, 2015]

So—is there “ethnic specialization in crime”? OF COURSE THERE IS! Ask the Mafia, the Tongs, or the Nigerian internet scam specialists.

Back in 1995, in his book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, Brimelow wrote:

[C]rime is "dirty work" that some of the post- 1965 immigrant groups are positively anxious to do—more violently, particularly in the burgeoning drug business, than the Mafia ever was.

There are several such new "mafias," each with its own specialties: Colombians (cocaine); Mexicans (marijuana, auto theft, alien smuggling); Hong Kong Chinese (heroin, alien smuggling); South Koreans (prostitution)...and even lesser-known communities like the Chaldeans, Iraqi Christians whose heroically run convenience stores in the Detroit ghetto are reportedly centers of criminal activity (narcotics, gambling, coupon fraud).

You haven't read much about this because of the contemporary taboo that ensures only good things can be said about immigrants.

But is true that Hispanics specialize in the rapes of children? OF COURSE IT IS—and if you read Adios America, you know that, too. In fact, Chapter 11 is titled Why Do Hispanic Valedictorians Make The News, But Child Rapists Don’t?

 First of all, it’s a different culture in Mexico, where the age of consent is 12.