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The Son of Illegal Honduran Immigrants on Race Realism, “Social Justice,” and White Identity

"It is impossible to fault whites for not wanting to be overwhelmed by Hispanics."

This is part of our continuing series of accounts by readers of how they shed the illusions of liberalism and became race realists.

College was where I first started to think about race. Certain things were immediately obvious to me, like that Asians were the biggest demographic on campus because they’re generally quite smart. But other racial patterns took me longer to understand. I was one of the only Hispanics in my dorm, a fact I didn’t find meaningful at first. However, when my dorm-mates and I discussed our high school achievements, I discovered that I had a lower GPA than all of them, and had done much worse on the SAT and ACT. Despite this, I was attending college for free through federal and state grants, while my friends had to work or borrow money from their parents to pay their tuition. It was then that I realized that affirmative action had helped me immensely.

I studied biology as an undergraduate, which meant my classes were relatively free of “social justice” propaganda — but I still had to deal with other students who were steeped in it. One instance that made a big impression on me was when an Indian dorm-mate posted something on Facebook about how a player on his fantasy football team had been arrested in real life. I left a comment on the post that went something like, “There are mainly black people in the NFL, and blacks do more crime than most, so it’s understandable that he would commit the crime.” I had been learning about statistics and probability, and was happy to apply it to something in real life — but my friend was outraged, deleted my comment, called me a racist, and blocked me. Later on, we spoke about it in person and reconciled, but it was still striking to me that stating something so obvious could cause such a problem.

As a biology major, I learned that race is not “skin-deep” the way so many people claim. It is not just melanin or skin tone that sets us apart, but so much more: height, hair growth, digestive abilities, resistance to disease, presence of hormones, facial characteristics, and even cognitive functions. All biology majors know that DNA yields RNA which gives us the proteins in our bodies, which determine everything else. I was learning all of this in the abstract while seeing examples of it all around me. In the world of biology and sciences, not only was I often the only Hispanic in social and academic settings, sometimes I was the only non-Asian. By the time I graduated, I was a race realist.

However, I didn’t immediately think that that biocentric perspective had any political implications. My entire family is Democrat, and they believe the liberal cliches about the two major parties: Democrats are the party of the poor and non-whites; Republicans are the party of the rich and white. Politics had never interested me very much, so I had never thought critically about any of this. Then, Donald Trump entered the scene and politics became impossible to ignore. As a Honduran born in America, the first thing I wanted to tackle was the claim that he was a “racist,” like so many people were saying. If it were so obvious, I should be able to find an undeniably obvious clip of him being rude or outright mean to Hispanics, blacks or some other group. I went looking for this smoking gun, and, to my complete surprise, I never found it. His notorious comments about crime and criminality in Mexico and Central America are true. My parents had told me all about those things well before Mr. Trump ever did. Smugglers and coyotes are committing crime at our Southern border. Hispanic countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, etc. do have corrupt governments. There are powerful and extremely violent gangs in those countries. These are the main reasons why my parents left their homeland for America. I am extremely fortunate to have been born in the USA, away from all that. Hearing Donald Trump tell the truth about immigration did not offend me at all.

All my life, I had been told that I was the smart kid in the family, the brightest kid in class. But I knew that if I wanted to get even smarter, I needed to engage with ideas that challenged my own assumptions. In 2016, I was still a bit of a Democrat and had a certain tribal loyalty to Hispanics. However, I felt if my beliefs were to remain solid they would have to stand strong against ideas put forth by the other side — so I took a dive into the right. I started with Alex Jones, and to my surprise, I could not get enough, and wanted more! Soon I discovered Paul Joseph Watson, James Allsup, Stefan Molyneux, Gavin McInnis, Lauren Southern, RedIceTV, Red Elephants with Vincent James, Nick Fuentes, Devon Tracey, Jared Taylor, and even the devil himself — Richard Spencer. At first, I mostly just wanted to understand their ideas in order to better refute them, but when I started doing research into what these people were saying, I realized they were telling the truth.

It was only these dissidents, these “deplorables,” that really understood IQ, crime statistics, wage differences as they relate to race, the problem of censorship, and what really constitutes “fake news.” I now realize how much the mainstream media sensationalizes stories that fit with their worldview, and ignore stories that break with it. When they find a video of a white man cussing out a black girl at a Walmart, they try and make it go viral. But they don’t talk about the countless murders and rapes of young innocent white girls all across the country by black men and illegal immigrants. I cried the first time I heard about the murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom from watching the American Renaissance video, “Do White Lives Matter?” If the media treated us as equals, Channon Gail, Mollie Tibbetts, Kate Steinle and so many other victims like them would have gotten the attention they deserve — but the media doesn’t care when the victim is white. At the same time, they perpetuate the myth that America is a white supremacist country that holds back people like me. I don’t buy it. I have never felt oppressed because of my race. I did my best in high school, and my reward was all expenses paid undergraduate degree at a prestigious public university, in no small part because I am not white.

Some of my family members consider me a “race traitor” because of my new-found beliefs (and my MAGA hat), but that is far from being the case. Aside from my Asian college friends, everybody in my social circles is Hispanic, as am I — we all eat beans, speak Spanish, watch soccer and grew-up attending Mexican churches. This culture I’m a part of has its problems: I have friends whose criminality landed them dead or in prison, but it is still indelibly mine, even if I sometimes feel more comfortable in “white society” than my own.

I am extremely fortunate to not only be born in the United States, but also be intelligent enough to see through the victim mentality my people are indoctrinated into holding. American Renaissance gives me hope. AmRen speaks the truth and demolishes most every liberal myth afflicting the US. Whites should have every right to defend themselves, establish their own home, and reproduce amongst themselves to ensure their people survive. It is impossible to fault whites for not wanting to be overwhelmed by Hispanics and all the dangers they bring with them. I like the white world, and wish it all the best.

Bad to Worse in South Africa

In February 2019, I wrote that South Africa’s government would make “apartheid denial” a crime. It’s not technically illegal yet, but South Africa’s president likens it to treason: “[A]partheid was so immoral in its conception and so devastating in its execution that there is no South African living who is not touched by its legacy,” said South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. “I would even go to say that to deny this, in my view, is treasonous.”

Treason to what? To “nonracialism,” which President Ramaphosa says, “is a fundamental and immutable principle that defines the character of our democratic nation.” He has an odd conception of “nonracialism.” South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment policy (BEE) discriminates actively against whites. Mr. Ramaphosa chaired a commission that started the practice. Even the leftist The Nation reports that he used race preferences shamelessly to line his own pockets.

According to South African law, the people who get systematic preferences under BEE are “African, Coloured, or Indian persons,” so Indians get race preferences, too. It is common to point out that South African Indians benefited from apartheid. Some South Africans think there is still “Indian privilege.” The Indian Gupta family became rich and powerful through political connections and bribery. Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) head Julius Malema says Indians in Natal treat [black] Africans worse than Afrikaners do.

When he lived in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi didn’t care about the rights of blacks. He said that the “British race should be the dominant race.” His objection was that the British “dragged [Indians] down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” Needless to say, Gandhi is not much of a hero in South Africa.

Some mixed-race “Couloured” people think BEE favors blacks and leaves them out, to the point that the Solidarity labor union complained recently that the government’s obsession with “racial mathematics” and superficial diversity has brought the economy “to a virtual standstill if it is not outright receding.”

If this is “nonracialism,” what does racialism look like?

What prompted this talk about apartheid and treason? Julius Malema of the EFF demanded it. On February 2, former South African president FW de Klerk said “the idea that apartheid was a crime against humanity was and remains an agitprop project initiated by the Soviets and their ANC/SACP allies to stigmatize white South Africans by associating them with genuine crimes against humanity.” Later, he apologized, but Mr. Malema said that wasn’t good enough and wants to take away Mr. de Klerk’s Nobel Prize.

The EFF has been demanding this for years. Mr. de Klerk won the Nobel Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993, but today he’s just another white “racist.” Just weeks ago, President Ramaphosa told blacks not to thank Mr. de Klerk for ending apartheid, but to credit “pressure and the struggle that our people waged.”

Why did Mr. de Klerk hand the country over to the ANC? Ilana Mercer recently wrote a devastating column about Mr. de Klerk’s “Great Betrayal of South Africa.” Many white South Africans supported negotiations, she wrote, but they didn’t want “to be legislated into a permanent position of political subordination.”

Afrikaners’ “conservative” leaders, especially General Constand Viljeon, decided democratic elections in a black majority country were better than secession and creating a Volkstaat, or Afrikaner homeland. Miss Mercer writes: “As the democratic South Africa amply demonstrates, political rights and a paper constitution don’t secure the natural rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.” The situation is so bad that even National Review published an article called “The End of South Africa” in 2015, which supported an independent city-state for Afrikaners.

A recent survey found most South Africans — including blacks — don’t trust the government and aren’t satisfied with its performance on jobs, crime, and the economy. They are also worried about cuts in electricity and water. The Human Services Research Council, which did the research, concluded that “it appears that South Africans do not believe that the government can adequately navigate the country under the weight of the present socio-economic challenges.”

The African National Congress still won re-election in 2019. The ANC is more moderate than the EFF, but the two have certain things in common. Just a few days ago, EFF and ANC parliamentarians were trading accusations about beating women.

The “historically white” Democratic Alliance is the main opposition to the ANC. Interim leader John Steenhuisen said on Sunday that the ANC has failed to improve the lives of black South Africans. If the alliance is to accomplish anything it must attract more black voters. It probably can’t.

Meanwhile, South Africa is crumbling, and when egalitarianism fails, its believers need scapegoats. The Afrikaner-only town of Orania is booming, but a month ago, Rebecca Davis of the Daily Maverick called it “a shameless challenge to the rainbow nation project” and a “festering boil on the face of social cohesion; a grotesque suggestion that the country’s racial rifts can never truly be sewn together.” Last summer, an EFF parliamentarian advocated “relocating” landless people to “whites-only places” like Orania.

In May 2019, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule called for an “unstoppable” struggle for “economic emancipation.” “We can no longer be slaves in our own nation,” he said. He said the “control of the resources of our country is still primarily in the hands of white people, who are the descendants of colonists who stole our wealth and land in the first place.” This is after 25 years of ANC rule.

Last month, the ANC announced that the executive branch, not the courts, would decide whether land owners would be compensated if their property were seized. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said expropriating without compensation (EWC) would ruin the South African economy. In response, President Ramaphosa said an upcoming bill wouldn’t undermine property rights, but simply “broaden the property rights of all South Africans.” He argued it was the failure to change “patterns of land ownership in this country” that hurts the economy.

Many whites are being murdered. Western nations mostly reject white South Africans who claim “refugee” status. In this context, it’s chilling that South African leaders are blaming white property owners for the country’s economic troubles, especially when Mr. Ramaphosa is considered a “pro-business moderate.”

“Power can only be resisted by power,” said John Calhoun. Mr. de Klerk deceived white South Africans and gave away his constituents’ power, but the current South African president essentially called Mr. de Klerk a traitor to the very regime he enabled. President Ramaphosa doesn’t need to appease powerless relics like F.W. de Klerk who prattle about constitutional niceties. Mr. Ramaphosa worries more about Julius Malema, who acts as if he’s above the law and commands a powerful movement.

The lesson for whites is that you can’t secure protection by surrendering power. Constitutions, promises, hopes, and wishes are no substitute for numbers, money, and sovereignty. Nelson Mandela’s “Rainbow Nation” was a transition phase in black state conquest of South Africa. That phase is approaching for our entire civilization. We can’t afford another South Africa.