And The Patriotic Backlash
By Brenda Walker
When Nashville, Tennessee, is mentioned, most people immediately think of the quintessentially heartland America community that is home to the Grand Old Opry and a lot of excellent country music.
But Patsy Cline would be surprised to see the changes that have overtaken her musical home. Nashville has experienced a rapid influx of Hispanics and others: now, around one in eight is foreign-born.
With that has come the usual social churning, increased crime and culture collision that are the normal byproduct of sudden demographic change created by unwise immigration policy.
In fact, immigration-driven diversity speeds along so fast that it can be hard to keep up. The New York Times—ever the promoter of liberal one-worldism—noted a bump in the road to perfect kumbaya with the recent advent in Nashville of the nation’s apparently first Kurdish street gang. There are 8,000 Kurds in Nashville, we learn, and some are criminally inclined.
Naturally, the NYT coverage was warmly accepting and multicultural—as far as was possible with a criminal gang accused of murder, rape, drug dealing and burglary. (Which is quite possible, it turns out.)
“’I think they’re really confused,’ said Rebaz Qaradaghi, [Send him mail a 22-year-old regional director of the national Kurdish American Youth Organization who lives here. ‘They really think that they’re helping, but they’re actually messing it up bad.’
“Police view Kurdish Pride as being as serious a problem as older, more established gangs, [Nashville police detective Mark Anderson said. But there is a difference: ‘Kurdish Pride are not the kind of kids that normally join gangs.’” [In Nashville, a Street Gang Emerges in a Kurdish Enclave by Theo Emery New York Times July 15, 2007
Those darn kids!Back in Tennessee, local reporting was more serious.
http://www.vdare.com/walker/070719_kurdish.htm
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=323