Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William E. Fanning, Brea Schools Pioneer, Namesake of Fanning Elementary

• LOVE IT!!!

• My son goes to Fanning. The current Principal there is a Black woman. How awesome is that!?

• Bill, Any guppy can read what they agree with and not their head in agreement. So dance on down the street behind gustavo and his magic flute.

• Name calling really.. that is your best. shot I do read the weekly both the OC and LA ones, it often has good stories.  It is a much better paper than the OC Register.  No faux outrage or real outrage in my comments.  But your stories more often than not portray Mexicans as victims.     

• Oh we do, but your whiny ass chooses not to pay attention, so spare us your faux outrage.

• gustavo shines a light to show us the path towards truth and and goodness

• He always has to play the victim since the time he was young and sitting on his uncles laps...

• Go back to swallowing your gay lover...

• Since you were too lazy to give me an actual citation I am reduced to speculation. I suppose you are referring to "... one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors ..." as the basis of your conclusion. Points to think about: 1. The Federalist papers were essays and articles reflecting individual authors' opinions. At most what you might be able to draw from this is that some authors may have been in the only-whites-may-apply camp. 2. Whatever your speculations on the motives and beliefs of the founding fathers the Consitution is the final authority expressing their intents and was created from a quorem of representatives as opposed to being the expression of some individuals' opinions. It is strongly implied in its usage that "citizen" and "resident" were closely, if not in fact, interchangeable. 3. Women did not have the vote, this is cast-iron fact. Using this solid fact as a basis I feel much better justified to conclude that the founding fathers did not consider women to be citizens then you using cherry-picked opinons to base your statements. I notice you skirted this little statement in your "response". Either cite specific references and sustantiate how they support your opinions or back off.

• I didn't say they were in the Constitution, I said the same people that passed the Constitution passed the first naturalization and militia acts, and limited them to free whites. Blacks, of course, were mostly slaves and free blacks in a sort of limbo, Indians (or 'the merciless Indian savages as Thom. Jefferson put it in the declaration of independence) were treated as foreign nations. Obviously things have changed since then, most importantly with the Fourteenth Amendment. But it is clear the Founders themselves never intended a 'multi-cultural polity'. Read through Federalist 2 for some more proof. Indeed even the Civil War generation which passed the Fourteenth Amendment had no problem passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, limiting competition from Chinese labor.  

• What article and clause of the Constitution makes this statement? (I'll help you out, there is none.) The definition of citizenship was only implicit until the 14th amendment in 1868. Actually there is better reason to believe that they explicitly intended landed males to have the vote (left up to the states, there is no indication in the original version of the U. S. Consitution as to which citizens were eligible to vote). Using this argument apparently you would also exclude women as citizens using your interpretation of the the founding fathers' definition? There are many examples of free African-Americans participating in full citizenship in the north, it was mainly in the south where their rights were systematically stolen. Even in some slave states there were freed slaves who fully participated as citizens. Every statement you make reinforces the evidence of your ignorance.

• That lands were they are the overwhelming majority. But somehow when they get here, the also cluster where they are a local majority. And surprise, the area starts having similar social conditions to the areas they left in the first place.

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• Racial covenants were agreements among private parties. No government coercion. Likewise, 'white flight' is merely the desire of whites to live among people who share their language, culture, folkways, and yes-- physical appearance. You'll not that immigrants do the same thing, clustering in their 'Little Saigons' etc. Apparently Calvito wants to force white folks to remain as their neighborhoods turn into barrios.

• In 1790 the very first Congress -- you know, the guys that brought you the constitution-- restricted naturalization to 'free white persons'. Militia service was required of 'free white males'. Sure there have been some contributions by other groups, but there is no indication that the Founders wanted this to be a 'multicultural' society.

• Now Mexicans create the subpar education all by themselves. 

• "Frat dudes, just take it like a man in prison does: don't fight it, accept it, and learn from it." Spoken from experience, no doubt. But please, don't project your feeling on us.

• "The city, of course, was a sundown town, where African-American families couldn't legally leave." That's a novel definition of a sundown town.

• You learned absolutely NOTHING. Go back to bashing gay marriage—at least that's amusing in its stupidity...

• Everything is f**king sad to you - cheer up dude! Yes, the Bernal / Sunnyside incident was regrettable.  It was obviously an over-reaction to the zoot suiters.  However, it was an isolated incident and not indicative of rampant racism throughout Orange County at that time.

• What? No white women on the list. Seems like things have changed. Nowadays white women tend to be more racist than white men, especially on OC! Try being a white male/Asian female couple in Huntington Beach and walk along the waterfront...count how many stares or snide remarks you get from white women versus white men!

• Why do you never talk about the racist Mexicans who dislike African Americans?   You never write or discuss the Hispanic gangbangers who shoot African Americans because of their race. Because in your world the Hispanic can never be anything but a victim, get over it.     Not every white belongs to the KKK. Not every African Americans picks on Hispanics. Every race has assholes, but in your myopic world you can not see that.   .

• You are a selective reader of our paper, and that's sad. Google "Alex Bernal Gustavo Arellano" and let me know what you think!

• Okay - "racial covenants" - got it.  Do you have evidence of this type of covenanent being used in Orange County.

• Wow, you really do live in a cocoon—sad...

• Never have, because I never do—but hey, keep on with your smamming fantasies!

• Always playing the victim.  Do any real Mexicans ever ask you to stop portraying them as the underdog, the abused, the downtrodden? 

• "..read about the history of racial covenants .." - what the hell is that? White flight .. where did the brown people flee from?

• Well, not ALL, the Gabachos, but perhaps I'm misreading your comment and you're specifically referring to the deniers who refuse to admit that there might be something to learn from the sins of our past. Just because I try not to be anymore of an asshole than I absolutely have to be doesn't meat there's nothing I can learn.

• And continues to follow the series, ja ja ja! Just another loyal reader apparently.

• Please read about the history of racial covenants, then go on and get yourself a book about the history of white flight. Come on, junior: I know you're not a racist asshole like some of the other trolls here, but your comment is incredibly ignorant.

• Whose fault is that? 

• Gustavo, How much of the blame for a segregated society of the early and mid 20th century would you ascribe to self segregation - the desire of people of the same race, any race, to live amongst their own?

• asshole ..

• Congrats! You win for stupid comment of the day!

• And yet, you comment. Who's the tiresome fool again?

• The funny thing is that then you were the first commentator, like the pendejo you are haha

• So we can scalp those invading pioneers like the great Apache of Oklahoma. Slice and Dice baby.

• It was never a white nation, but a pluralistic society in which the minority were muffled in participation in our great democracy. We have a long road in defining that great society, when you deny other people's accomplishment and the contributions to this country, you are denying America. Period.

• Maybe if you knew your history, and I mean real American History the people in power during the 1920's to 1950's the majority were european white americans who not only controlled the federal, state, and local government but also controlled school districts. The rest is history.

• Really, what do you expect from a town that is right next door to La Habra (where Richard Nixon had his law practice)? The other side of Brea is where Dick is buried, at his Library (Yorba Linda). 

• You cannot change the past, therefore why dwell on it. What happened in the past obviously   happened because it was a white nation. Get over it!

• Man, just like there must be a few thousand buried bodies just outside of Vegas, there must also be a gazillion of these O.C. kkk-segregationist stories still to tell. Every O.C. city, every town, shit even every pinchi church probably has a sad racist past to admit to. Schools, streets, buildings, and parks have been named after kluckers. No wonder all these gabachos have a difficult time accepting facts. Frat dudes, just take it like a man in prison does: don't fight it, accept it, and learn from it. Maybe next time you won' repeat the crime, verdad?    

• the OC Weekly is full of the new KKK.......LA RAZA LA RAZA LARAZA THE NEW KKK

• Bring 'em back!!

• This is really getting tiresome Gustavo - 3 more years? - shit.

• "Many educators during the 1920s belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and took the KKK's philosophy of white supremacy to heart by creating Mexican-only schools with subpar education." So what you're saying is Mexicans depend on the white man for a decent education.  

• Ha!  The only commenter to this "article" is automated spam.  LOL.

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