Reply #16: Interesting remarks, following up on the coup supporters' racism [View All]

(snip)....After the coup, which revealed that the opposition sought to impose a regime on Pinochet lines, the people realised that they had a government that they needed to defend. The opposition's protest marches have now conjured up a phenomenon that most of the middle and upper classes might have preferred to have left sleeping - the spectre of a class and race war.

Opposition spokesmen complain that Chavez is a leftist who is leading the country to economic chaos, but underlying the fierce hatred is the terror of the country's white elite when faced with the mobilised mass of the population, who are black, Indian and mestizo. Only a racism that dates back five centuries - of the European settlers towards their African slaves and the country's indigenous inhabitants - can adequately explain the degree of hatred aroused. Chavez - who is more black and Indian than white, and makes no secret of his aim to be the president of the poor - is the focus of this racist rage. (snip/...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,857027,00.html

Yep, here's another one:

(snip) the most common complaints one hears about Chavez have more to do with his style than with any concrete policies he has implemented. There often is a racist undertone to such complaints, implying that Chavez, because of his folksy and populist style and his Indio appearance, is sub-human, a "negro." (snip/...)

http://www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/extra/d0416gw.htm

I definitely can provide more examples if it seems appropriate. Hugo Chavez is the first non-European looking President they have had in Venezuela, or they wouldn't keep both writing and talking about it.

It's the European descendants who are the core of the coup supporters, and it's racism, just as it has manifested THROUGHOUT this hemisphere. What could be clearer?

The wealthy, European people control the wealth, they will NOT easily release their death grip on the power of these countries, no matter what cost to humanity. Devious side-stepping and misdirection can't conceal this fact.