Lion of the Blogosphere

The governor of Puerto Rico looks very white

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http://www.pr51st.com/ricardo-rossello-governor-of-puerto-rico/

Written by Lion of the Blogosphere

September 20, 2017 at 8:09 AM

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  1. So do many Puerto Ricans, no? Here’s an 80s clip for you:

    IHTG

    September 20, 2017 at 8:20 AM

    • Maybe it’s part of the reason why they saw fit to pursue their own best interests and remain a US colony rather than pursue independence, like some of the other Spanish-speaking countries nearby.

      PrinzEugen

      September 20, 2017 at 12:48 PM

      • They choose to remain part of the US because of social security, medicare, medicaid, and tons of other federal programs. There is no way they are going to give up that kind of cash infusion for “independence.”

        Mike Street Station

        September 22, 2017 at 11:16 PM

    • Really like the Pet Shop Boys, but this had to be their most overtly gay video. Almost everything else they’ve done is also gay, but its at least tempered and muted.

      Roli

      September 20, 2017 at 1:43 PM

      • It’s gay in the literal homoerotic sense. It’s not about some other part of gay culture or identity.

        Magnavox

        September 20, 2017 at 9:01 PM

  2. The article states that he ran on a platform for Puerto Rico Statehood. In this climate, I wonder if that’s feasible.

    Dan

    September 20, 2017 at 9:25 AM

    • Romney and Ryan would love nothing better than to add two Democratic Senators and a country full of nonwhites to our nation, but Trump’s election may have bumped the time line back a little. If Jeb or Hillary had won, it would have happened by already.

      PerezHBD

      September 21, 2017 at 7:21 AM

  3. Conquistador American. The ruling class of most of Central/South America looks like that guy. They have a nice thing going. A small, connected, white-European ruling class and 1% (which in some countries actually includes a significant portion of Jews as well, though most people don’t realize that) that lord it over their population of serfs and healots. This is where the U.S. is heading.

    America is going to continue to get both shabbier and more wealthy at the same time, as the 1% continues to pull away from the pack. People don’t understand how much further we can fall. Look at this building collapse from the Mexican earthquake. My point isn’t the collapse, but look at that building. Is there a building that shabby looking anywhere in America? Well, there will be plenty of them soon enough.

    peterike

    September 20, 2017 at 9:41 AM

    • His wife is a “White” Mestiza. He has already diluted his gene pool.

      JS

      September 20, 2017 at 6:41 PM

      • He should have married a guidette. That would have improved his gene pool!

        maryk

        September 20, 2017 at 8:09 PM

      • Quite a number of Puerto Ricans have Italian ancestry. Surnames like Negron (Negroni) and Manzo are good examples.

        JS

        September 21, 2017 at 9:17 AM

  4. Yeah, he looks like he wouldn’t last a day in Puerto Rico.

    SWPL2

    September 20, 2017 at 9:49 AM

  5. The leaders of most South American governments and businesses look more white than their native populations. The same racial hierarchy exists in the Southern Hemisphere where those with Spanish, French, Italian, German and Dutch ancestry rise to the top. When I have travelled in those regions people were very open about the fact that having Caucasian blood confers higher status. Again, the inequalities are not due to oppression, it is due to the natural outcomes of HBD.

    B.T.D.T.

    September 20, 2017 at 9:51 AM

  6. His name is Hispanicized Italian. In his Wikipedia photo he looks like William Devane.

    sestamibi

    September 20, 2017 at 10:49 AM

    • Rosello is a quite Spanish surname, common in Catalonia and the Balaeric Islands (that’s where his great-grandfather was from, by the way). He looks white because he IS white.

      markus

      September 20, 2017 at 11:04 PM

  7. When I saw the headline I thought you meant he was white because he was scared of the hurricane. (I’ve been reading novels written in the early 20th century, where people become pale after getting a shock.)

    Rosenmops

    September 20, 2017 at 11:14 AM

    • Melanie Wilkes in GWTW puts her hand to her throat when she sees Ashley limping to Tara, after spending time in a Yankee prison camp. I think that is where the phrase, “pearl-clutching” comes from. Whenever a woman got all emotional in old books she would put a hand to her throat.

      gothamette

      September 21, 2017 at 2:34 PM

  8. That’s why America is extremely fortunate that most of the third-world invasion here is comprised of Latinos. They don’t have the extreme hostility towards white Christians (or Jews) that is present in many African and Middle Eastern countries.

    fortaleza84

    September 20, 2017 at 11:17 AM

    • I’m not sure Africans from Africa hate whites that much.

      Lion of the Blogosphere

      September 20, 2017 at 4:33 PM

      • Most of the ones I’ve met have been decent sorts, not hostile in any way. I don’t know if things are different in Europe, but I suspect not.

        Peter

        ironrailsironweights

        September 20, 2017 at 10:39 PM

      • Consider Haiti, Zimbabwe, and what’s been happening in South Africa. Lots of anti-white violence. Blacks in America have also been quite hostile to whites. Does anything like that happen among Latinos? My sense is that for the most part, no.

        fortaleza84

        September 21, 2017 at 12:13 AM

      • “I’m not sure Africans from Africa hate whites that much”

        The Nigerian students where I work don’t seem angry the way black Americans are angry.
        But I’m glad we don’t have Somali students. Somalis and other Muslims from Africa seem to be angry grievance -mongers. The Nigerians we get are Christians.

        Rosenmop

        September 21, 2017 at 12:41 PM

      • I washed dishes in college with a big Igbo guy from Nigeria. Very sweet, and smart. A lot of African-Americans are Igbo. I would say that some of the nasty temperament of Af-Ams is due to historical circumstance, but I’d get jumped on. Oh well, I will get jumped on. I think it’s true.

        gothamette

        September 21, 2017 at 2:36 PM

      • Might be some truth to that. My experience with them is limited, but many of the ones I’ve met were staunch Reagan/Giuliani supporters.

        sestamibi

        September 21, 2017 at 9:49 PM

  9. Like Sailer says, a Conquistador-American.

    You know me

    September 20, 2017 at 11:34 AM

  10. I commented that the ruling class is very Conquistador looking.

    gothamette

    September 20, 2017 at 12:25 PM

  11. The baseball player Mike Lowell is “Puerto Rican,” but his ethnic background is Irish and Spanish, and his parents were Cuban (I don’t know how he came to be born in Puerto Rico). He always identified himself as Cuban.

    He’s just a white guy whose parents happened to be partly Conquistador, and the current insanity in the US enables him to claim ethnic brownie points.

    So annoying!

    gothamette

    September 20, 2017 at 12:28 PM

    • You’re upset that a white guy might get affirmative action he doesn’t deserve instead of a hispanic getting affirmative action they don’t deserve?

      destructure

      September 20, 2017 at 5:08 PM

      • No, I’m pissed off that a white guy pretends to be something he ain’t. How is that so hard to understand?

        gothamette

        September 21, 2017 at 11:38 AM

      • “No, I’m pissed off that a white guy pretends to be something he ain’t. How is that so hard to understand?”

        His parents were born in cuba. He was born in puerto rico. And moved to Miami as a kid, He’s even part spanish. It’s seems your objection is that he’s a white hispanic instead of a mestizo hispanic, amerindian hispanic or african hispanic. Why do you object to a white hispanic getting the brownie points and not any of the others? Not that I think any of them should get points. But why them and not him?

        Yes, it is hard to understand. Why don’t you explain what, specifically, is your objection.

        destructure

        September 21, 2017 at 2:53 PM

      • I did.

        gothamette

        September 22, 2017 at 4:03 PM

  12. Wow his wikipedia entry is so crazy it looks fake: degrees from MIT and phd from Michigan. Stem Cell researcher at Duke. Founded companies. Three time tennis champion. And married to a woman who competed for Miss Puerto Rico.

    His father was a physician who went to Notre Dame and Yale.
    His brother is a lawyer who went to Georgetown and works for Steptoe Johnson.

    Lion o' the Turambar

    September 20, 2017 at 12:36 PM

    • His father was also Governor of Puerto Rico.

      Anthony

      September 21, 2017 at 9:55 AM

  13. “The governor of Puerto Rico looks very white”

    No doubt. That’s probably the whitest guy in Puerto Rico. I guarantee JS doesn’t look like that. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be whining about how “ameriproles” don’t think he’s white.

    destructure

    September 20, 2017 at 12:53 PM

    • I look Whiter than Tom Ilamas of ABC News, who is Cuban. I look Whiter than Cecilia Vega, another anchor on ABC, who is Mexican.

      These people aren’t White.

      JS

      September 20, 2017 at 6:38 PM

      • They both look mixed to me. Regardless, just because it doesn’t show doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Order your 23andme kit and report back with the results.

        destructure

        September 20, 2017 at 10:11 PM

      • I did it a quick google search on the people you mentioned —– they look pretty white to me.

        markus

        September 20, 2017 at 11:06 PM

      • Most white Americans are descended from NW Europeans. These 2 definitely look White, but not “Gringo” white.

        Mark

        September 26, 2017 at 10:20 PM

    • i think my favorite JSism is when he described listening to the same song more than once as “masturbating with music”

      gm

      September 21, 2017 at 4:18 PM

  14. He looks very guido/prole.

    Rifleman

    September 20, 2017 at 1:24 PM

    • I also got that vibe!

      Lion of the Blogosphere

      September 20, 2017 at 4:36 PM

      • We need MaryK to confirm

        DdR

        September 20, 2017 at 5:25 PM

      • :We need MaryK to confirm”

        Reporting for duty! I personally think he just looks like a white guy and doesn’t look especially Mediterranean and certainly not “guido.” Nothing in his appearance indicates what social class he is from. He could be a Nordic-Mediterranean hybrid,as I am. But I’m half Irish and this man is lighter skinned than me. Of course there are men in Italy – both in the North and in the South that have a similar look to Governor Rosello. Blood is mixed all over Europe.

        On the issue of statehood, it’s easy to see why Puerto Ricans on the island would want statehood if they think it would lead to financial gain for P.R. But as a current American citizen, I don’t want any move that would result in more easy votes for the Democratic party or increase the number of people who need economic assistance. Culturally, Puerto Rico is part of Latin America. It really should be an independent nation.

        maryk

        September 20, 2017 at 8:07 PM

      • Can the race realists on this blog tell me why I have blue eyes? And don’t say it’s because my mother has them, that’s cheating.

        gothamette

        September 21, 2017 at 2:52 PM

  15. Puerto Rico’s best moment since the dance scenes in West Side Story!

    Christine

    September 20, 2017 at 2:11 PM

  16. Yeah, not even a Conquistador-American, just out and out White.

    CamelCaseRob

    September 20, 2017 at 2:41 PM

  17. Most Puerto Ricans who look white have black ancestry in the woodpile.

    Tom

    September 20, 2017 at 3:38 PM

    • Yes, Ricky Martin is purported to be tainted with sub-saharan blood.

      JS

      September 21, 2017 at 9:18 AM

    • I know of a Puerto Rican who looks like Vin Diesel, who has black and Italian ancestry.

      JS

      September 21, 2017 at 9:20 AM

      • Did you know that Vin Diesel is a fan of Dungeons and Dragons?

        Lion of the Blogosphere

        September 21, 2017 at 9:27 AM

      • Nope, and there are speculations that Alexander Hamilton had black ancestry (TUJ will have a fit).

        JS

        September 21, 2017 at 9:38 AM

      • Here’s a still photo of a young Vin Diesel in a 1980’s breakdancing video. He was still going by his real name of Mark Sinclair at the time. He definitely looks black in this photo.

        Peter

        ironrailsironweights

        September 21, 2017 at 3:05 PM

  18. Is that a surprise? Have you ever been to Puerto Rico?

    ipc

    September 20, 2017 at 3:41 PM

  19. He looks recognizably Hispanic in the Wikipedia photo, less so in the pr51st link.

    Peter

    ironrailsironweights

    September 20, 2017 at 4:06 PM

  20. You’re right. Rosello doesn’t even look Dago enough to have been a leading Nazi.

    I’ve just been watching a documentary about the British middle distance runner Sebastian Coe, because I’m bored, and a sideways shot of his face pinged my Jewdar. Checking on wikipedia it turns out he is half Irish and half Indian on his mother’s side, and Jewish on his father’s side. Kind of disappointing seeing as he’d always seemed so perfectly English, but at least I could spot the Jew in him. And we’ll always have Steve Ovett.

    prolier than thou

    September 20, 2017 at 5:14 PM

  21. OT: I’m trying to post a link to a Saturday Night Live skit with someone portraying Anthony Scaramucci. It’s hilarious! I’d normally get offended by something like this, but it’s just too funny.

    maryk

    September 20, 2017 at 5:51 PM

    • I liked the part at the end where he does Andrew Dice Clay.

      Lion of the Blogosphere

      September 20, 2017 at 6:10 PM

      • When he described himself as being “a goombah beetlejuice” I completely lost it!

        maryk

        September 20, 2017 at 8:32 PM

  22. “Colorism” is a big thing among Latinos. This one Latino grandmother I know is always showing me pictures of her grandchildren and she’s very proud of the ones who look whiter than the others. “He looks so white, doesn’t he?” These conversations are always awkward. Latinos certainly aren’t “natural conservatives,” but on average, it seems safe to assume Latino voters prefer politicians who are or who look white.

    Horace Pinker

    September 20, 2017 at 5:59 PM

    • Correct, it’s call blanco, regardless of ancestry.

      Anglo America concept of Whiteness is that of Northern Euro ancestry, without any non-white impurities, or Southern European ancestry.

      JS

      September 20, 2017 at 6:45 PM

      • It’s really not. I have never considered southern Europeans non-white.

        Stealth

        September 20, 2017 at 8:17 PM

      • I have always considered Mediterraneans to be non-white. Caucasian, but not white.

        CamelCaseRob

        September 21, 2017 at 3:54 AM

      • Karina Vetrano, guidette who was killed by a NAM while jogging around her home in Queens. She looks like a Mestiza, except in this photo.

        The Vetranos are Southern Italians. There are many of them in Howard Beach, where Karina was killed.

        JS

        September 21, 2017 at 9:55 AM

  23. He looks like Donald Trump Jr, but whiter.

    snorlaxwp

    September 20, 2017 at 6:23 PM

    • sad!

      ron bordeaux

      September 21, 2017 at 3:32 AM

  24. There seems to be a low key meme that Trump’s approval is on the upswing. It isn’t. At least not as part of any meaningful trend.

    The 538 aggregator properly weighs and averages all the polls that measure Trump’s approval (although they don’t include PPD’s poll which is criminal). 538 only missed the popular vote by 0.7% so these guys know what they are doing.

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

    If we examine the trends, we can see that Trump’s honeymoon lasted from late January until early May. His approval was at ~42% an on a downward trend when he fired Comey, which essentially marked the end of the brief Trump honeymoon. Comey was fired on May 9th and by May 20th, Trump had dropped to 38.8% approval where it has more or less remained for the last 4 months. Trump’s approval currently sits at 39.1%.

    Since May 20th, Trump’s approval has gone as high as 39.9% in the aftermath of Handel’s humiliation of Ossoff and as low as 36.6% in the aftermath of the Sessions feud, The Mooch and the Healthcare repeal debacle. Any improvement in Trump’s popularity over the last weeks should be seen as a reversion to the mean now that Kelly is running a tighter ship, the hurricanes were handled well, the economic boom continues to accelerate and people have simply just started to forget about the July craziness and the Charlottesville incident.

    …

    other politics: Big race this upcoming Tuesday for the AL Republican primary. I don’t really have a problem with Strange, but in AL we can do a lot better. Moore winning would be a huge blow to McConnell and would put the overwhelming majority of GOP Senators on notice that they are vulnerable to a Bannon backed primary challenger. This will simultaneously force them to cling more tightly to Trump while killing any chance that may still exist of the DREAM Act passing. It will also be great to see Vox, NeoGaf and DailyKos cry about it.

    Now if Moore wins and healthcare repeal fails against next week, oh boy. McConnell is very strong in the conference, but Trump is going to be furious and he is going to want a “win”. The pressure on McConnell to nuke the filibuster will be enormous. And not just from Trump, but from the base, from many of the big donors and even from members of the conference who will be becoming increasingly worried about a primary from their right flank.

    Otis the Sweaty

    September 21, 2017 at 12:38 AM

    • Well it’s a wonder his popularity is as high as it is with the incessant hostility from the MSM claiming he is worse than Hitler.

      Rosenmop

      September 21, 2017 at 12:45 PM

    • Big race this upcoming Tuesday for the AL Republican primary. I don’t really have a problem with Strange, but in AL we can do a lot better.

      Isn’t Strange basically pro Amnesty? Why aren’t you going berserk at him?

      He’s a GOPe, open borders/globalist guy.

      Moore is most likely a Southern kook but probably not open borders.

      Rifleman

      September 21, 2017 at 2:49 PM

      • He is but he is also a Trump loyalist. He is not more pro immigration than the bulk of the Republican caucus. He isn’t a guy like Graham, Flake, McCain or Tillis who are outright pro immigration ideologues.

        If Moore beats Strange despite Trump’s backing Strange, forget about any amnesty bill getting out of the Senate, even if Trump is stupid enough to push for it. In contrast, if Strange is able to pull it off that will be seen by Congressional Republicans and possibly even Trump himself as the go ahead for amnesty.

        Otis the Sweaty

        September 21, 2017 at 6:54 PM

  25. Now a big dam collapsed there. What next?

    gothamette

    September 22, 2017 at 9:37 PM


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