Hey all, I just got back from California where I attended a family function and I thought I'd share an outsider's perspective on the state. I live in Ontario, Canada, and for me seeing a good portion of the state was a real eye-opener. As we all know, California is a real hot button place in America right now with the huge battle going on over illegal immigration. I'll go over where I was and what I saw when I was there.
I left Pearson International Airport in Toronto to attend a family function in LA. We arrived in San Francisco's airport about 5 hours later. Without tangenting too much, I'd like to say the security at Pearson is a thousand times tighter than at SF or LAX. There's more checkpoints and more attending security personnel, which I found somewhat funny. Of course, some of the personnel at LAX and SF were sleeping blacks so they maybe count as half? lol
Ok, so we arrive in San Francisco and the area surrounding the city and the drive in is spectacular. There's greenery, palms and cypress trees all over the place going into the city. It's a very pleasant drive and the homes in the hillside are quite a chance from Toronto. We don't have anything like that and it's far less green in and around the city. In fact, every city we went to was very green and attractive for the most part. Kudos to California on that.
But after entering the city from the main highway going in, you see the cancer. You're forced to drive through a series of streets(Folsom through Turk, I believe) which could be considered "black" neighborhoods. It is filthy and disgusting with grafitti everywhere. There are decrepit looking black people all over the streets in wheelchairs and walking with a limp. As a Torontonian, this was a bit shocking because when you think of San Fran you don't think about ghetto trash blacks making the city look like crap. I've never seen such a bunch of scaggy stanky looking people just loitering around doing nothing. And they curse and yell at each other from across the street. One woman was running down the street yelling to another black guy, "That niggga [censored] that niggga [censored] him!!!!!" and everyone could clearly hear it. I guess this is SF's ghetto. Toronto doesn't really have a black ghetto. It has black neighborhoods but they're nothing like this. Abandon all hope ye who enters the inner city. In SF we ended up seeing fisherman's wharf, the bridge and golden gate park, both of which were spectacular and unlike anything we'd see in Toronto. The park was particularly beautiful and well worth the visit. There is an AIDS monument of sorts in the park. The streets in SF are interesting too with 45 degree angle hills which make driving difficult. I'd say the city is worth visiting if only to see golden gate park.
Another tangent of sorts: There were signs at some places for "free HIV testing". Now, it's good that these services are provided, but really, these people need to question WHY they are needed in the first place. The homosexual lifestyle is what makes this a necessity and I see nothing wrong with questioning the lifestyle in itself. Normal people shouldn't have to worry about getting HIV from sex. The solution is really just don't put your wang in someone's behind. Problem solved.
We drove south to Monterey and the city is absolutely beautiful. Well worth the trip. The city was predominantly white from what I could tell. We also drove through Carmel by the Sea which is a spectacular(and very ritzy) quant little town. From there we went to San Luis Obispo which is a college town and was also very nice and particularly clean. Everyone should make an effort at some point in their life to drive down highway 1 along the coast from San Fran to LA. The coastline, cliffs and forests are unbelievable and something I'll never forget. All the cities we visited were extremely clean and green. As we went south, you could definitely see more hispanics and less blacks popping up. After that we passed through Malibu to Santa Monica where we stayed. Obviously Malibu is ridiculous and nearly 100% rich white folks but Santa Monica seemed more mixed. Overall, both were very nice.
The real shocker for me was seeing the employment demographics in California. Nearly 100% of the skilled tradesmen(ie: plumbers, electricians, contractors), field workers and servicepeople(ie: restaurant workers, cooks, waiters/waitresses) were hispanic. Where I live in Toronto, these jobs are filled by no race in particular. You see whites mostly(simply b/c whites are a big majority), asians, indians, blacks, few hispanics, etc. It pretty much matches the demographic of the city. In California, it's all hispanics and I assume a good chunk are illegal aliens from Mexico, particularly around LA.
Now, I know it's easy to be angry that these people are there illegally. They are violating America's sovereignty, make no mistakes about it. But at the same time, it's very much also the fault of the state of California. What the hell would California do if all these people simply left? They would have no servicepeople, farm workers or tradesmen. The state would fall apart without the hispanics filling jobs that the whites in California for whatever reason won't/can't fill. Now, you might say that the hispanics get the jobs because they do it for less money and probably under the table. I'm sure that's true in a lot of cases, but when nearly 100% of these jobs are filled by hispanics, the white people in California are to blame as well. The whites simply feel these type of jobs are beneath them, and really it's disgusting. The decadence is really palpable. I'm of the opinion that any kind of job for the most part is honorable as long as you put in a good day's work and work hard. A strawberry picker is just as honorable as a coporate executive and works just as hard for his/her money.
The hispanics just seem happy to have steady jobs and be earning money. Being a maid, field worker or waiter isn't beneath them and they aren't decadent or feeling entitled. Yeah sometimes it's a bit hard to deal with them and they're hard to understand, but after seeing it I'd rather deal with a hispanic person who takes their job seriously and is trying than some white guy/girl who couldn't bother to treat me like a person. I'm dead serious when I say that every single hispanic worker I dealt with was professional, courteous and did their job fairly well. Kind of shocking, I know.
So where does this leave California? In a real pickle. They have one ethnicity filling so many necessities. You have hispanics coming from Mexico, not paying taxes and overall being a drag on their economy because of the services they use such as healthcare. This is harmful, though it seems somewhat necessary at the same time because if they all disappeared or went back home, the economy of California would fall apart as whites definitely don't seem to want to fill their jobs. I'm not really sure California can fix the situation at this point. Whatever solution I would say can't be completed swiftly because it would destroy the economy altogether. Something should be in place where these Mexicans who actually want to come work and fill jobs legally. Man, the white people in California really, really let me down. They've let their state get to this point by not instilling a good ethic in their children that service jobs are NOT beneath them. Kudos to the hispanic workers I saw who were looked down upon and treated like crap by rich white [censored] in restaurants. They didn't say a thing and just went on doing their jobs.
I may very well be wrong, but the real ticking timebomb in America is not the hispanics. They can work hard and integrate with whites, or at least enough of them can. The real problem with America is the BLACKS. The black ghettos are cesspools of inhumanity. Even driving through some of the poorer hispanic areas of places like Santa Clara or LA you don't see the disgusting stanky people just loitering around on the streets. The blacks provide virtually nothing, take everything and turn their neighborhoods into hellholes. This is particularly damning seeing as they have receive billions upon billions of affirmative action and handouts, a lot more than the hispanics have got. America's problem will continue to be the blacks and their unwillingness to integrate. I never saw one black person in any of the jobs I outlined. Why work when you can sit on the street drinking malt liquor with your homies and collect a welfare cheque?
Hopefully I've added some perspective. It was eye-opening. California's in a lot of trouble and I don't think any illegal immigration solution presented so far provides a real solution, sadly.
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