I never quite fully understood the designation “Minority” given mostly to people of African ancestry in the United States.
Yea , yea, I understand that because Blacks do not make up the majority we are referred to as minorities. There is just something in that word which seemed disparaging and pejorative .
Okay I also understand your claim that I am too sensitive about race but I did not create the game I am just playing the hand I was dealt.
According to http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ The world’s population is roughly 7.4 billion.
According to the ultra conservative website Vdare.com Whites Down To 10% Of World Population By 2060— Does It Matter? In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population and Africans 9 percent, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same. But the colors will be reversed. People of African ancestry will be 25 percent of the world‘s population. People of European descent will have fallen to 9.8 percent. More arresting is that the white population is shrinking not only in relative but in absolute terms. Two hundred million white people, one in every six on earth — a number equal to the entire population of France, Britain, Holland and Germany — will vanish by 2060. The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans.
We are heading toward the day when whites will no longer make up the majority of the population in the United States . And U.S. children will get there soon,
according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. The agency also say the overall U.S. population will grow older — and grow more slowly — in coming years.
The loss of Caucasian numbers in the United States are paralleling Caucasian numbers in general globally.
When you hear the loudmouth Fascists Donald Trump and the other neanderthals in the Republican Party demagogue immigrants , don’t for one moment believe this is simply a matter of immigration policy.
You know the common refrain “secure the borders , we are not opposed to legal Immigration , we are only opposed to illegal immigration” ? No one can argue with any nation when they say they want to secure their borders. Set the real and present danger of terrorism aside, it is a legitimate argument as it relates to uneducated, sick, unskilled and God knows who else comes in if the doors are thrown open. No country no matter how rich can afford to do business that way.
However we found out that the argument about securing the borders before Republicans would work with President Obama was a fraudulent ruse. Obama took the bait, he placed more Border patrol agents at the southern borders than Bush or Clinton did combined. Additionally Obama deported more immigrants who made mistakes, more who committed crimes and more whose only sin was wanting a better life, than the two presidents which preceded him.
It still was not enough to bring Republicans to the table to discuss a comprehensive Immigration reform bill. In fact President Bush 43rd was supportive of Immigration reform, his party did not support him . His brother Jeb who is now a candidate for President once supported a path to citizenship through immigration reform he doesn’t mention it anymore.
So too was Marco Rubio the son of immigrants, now he doesn’t mention it anymore he simply parrot the right wing talking points of hatred and xenophobia.
The more President Obama did in meeting the demands of the right the more they moved the goal post until he was forced to recognize that no matter what he did they were not genuinely interested in coming to the table in support of comprehensive Immigration reform, so he proceeded with an Executive order.
WHY…
The Islamaphobia we hear from the Fascist-right is attributable to the fear of terror carried out in the name of Islam. That is a whole separate debate. The Xenophobia however is attributable to the declining number of whites in the world and more-so in America.
“Making America great again” means, ” making America white again”.
The rise of a political neophyte a total buffoon, has nothing to do with the carnival barking buffoon. If a dog was saying the things the carnival barking buffoon was saying they would be lining up behind that dog. It has nothing to do with the messenger and everything to do with the message.
The Republican party underwent a complete purge after Barack Obama took office in 2009. Gone are all of the rational thinkers, those who remained have had to sell their souls, (what they had left) al la John McCain to appear far right. Others like Jeb Bush , well you be the judge.
FEAR.…
Republicans are unafraid to turn on each other if the litmus test is not met, if anyone in the party dare be honest and forthright . There is no place in the republican party for anyone willing to debate with Democrats or more specifically the president, or disagree without rancor and agree when there is no reason to be disagreeable.
Nicky Haley South Carolina’s Republican Governor found out just two days ago when her response to the President’s state of the Union address was not divisive, hateful, and angry enough.
In fact when she spoke about her party’s anger problem right wing hate machine Anne Coulter suggested that Donald Trump deport Nicky Haley the first Indian American Governor who is american by natural birth and cannot be legally deported anywhere..
That kind of rhetoric offers a window into the soul of the party which is now largely an outright white Supremacist party.
The few others in the party not of Caucasian blood-line seem to be doing everything not to be noticed or mentioned al la Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz .
Of course Trump is not going to give Cruz a pass he is gonna let him know what he believes constitute a real American.
And it certainly is not a Canadian born Hispanic who took on the persona of a southern Caucasian.
The Republican Party has no place for anyone not a white Anglo-Saxon . Just ask Secretary of State Colin Powell, Former RNC chairman Michael Steele and a whole slew of others.
The Republican party is the party of big Corporations and white Supremacy , it’s no wonder they believe in the two, most of the wealth in America is controlled by white men.
That Party is going to be a lot more rabid as the number of non-whites in America increases. Look for the rhetoric to become a lot more belligerent and caustic , it’s just getting started.