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A white nationalist rally over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, has once again thrust America's long history of racism into the national spotlight, casting the country's troubled record on rights for nonwhites as not a problem of the past but an ongoing, festering wound that continues to disenfranchise significant swaths of U.S. citizens.

The "Unite the Right" rally in Virginia was aimed at protesting the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a Confederate hero. Protesters waved Confederate flags and chanted, "You will not replace us," [ and also Jew will not replace us ] a statement pointing to the growing fear among certain white nationalist leaders that the U.S. will be a majority-minority nation.

These fears are not unfounded, depending on whom you identify as white.

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The nation's great thinkers have for decades pointed out the fallacy and racism inherent in grouping people by the color of their skin, particularly in a nation where the South's "one-drop rule" meant anyone with a black ancestor could be sold into the slave trade, regardless of how many white grandparents the person had.

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates examined the nation's tortured history in his probing autobiographical Between the World and Me, through his repeated use of phrase "people who believe they are white." "Some of these straight-haired people with blue eyes have been 'black.' ...Virginia planters obsessed with enslaving as many Americans as possible are the ones who came up with a one-drop rule that separated the 'white' from the 'black,' even if meant that their own blue-eyed sons would live under the lash," he wrote in the 2015 best-selling book.

Decades earlier, social critic and writer James Baldwin challenged the nation's obsession with racial categories in in a 1963 television segment titled "The Negro and the American Promise." "What white people have to do," Baldwin said at the time, "is try to find out in their hearts why it was necessary for them to have a nigger in the first place. Because I am not a nigger. I'm a man. If I'm not the nigger here, and if you invented him, you, the white people, invented him, then you have to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that. Whether or not it is able to ask that question."

Baldwin often sought to remind white America of its malleable racial differences, referring to African-Americans as the nation's “bastard” children. “The truth is this country does not know what to do with its black population,” he once said. “Americans can’t face the fact that I am flesh of their flesh.”

Further back, Mark Twain explored the skin-deep racial policies of the South in Pudd'nhead Wilson, his 1894 novel that tells the story of a slave and a white aristocrat, both fathered by the master of the house, who are switched in infancy and forced to live under the social roles of the time, regardless of their similar appearances.

Nevertheless, under the current racial demographics widely accepted across the U.S., white people have seen signs that their dominance over the general population might be waning. The Census Bureau announced in 2012 that non-Hispanic whites made up a minority of births in the U.S. for the first time. That year, minorities made up 50.4 percent of the nation's infants, in part because of a booming Hispanic population.

Some demographers have predicted the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation by 2050, with African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics and other minority groups outnumbering the people we call white.

The shift in the nation's racial demographics have already been stark. In 1965, whites represented 85 percent of the population, with the other 15 percent made up of African-Americans. These days, white people make up just 60 percent of the nation, while Hispanics account for 18 percent and Asians about 6 percent.

"The forces behind this transformation are a mix of immigration, births and deaths. The United States is more than four decades into what has been, in absolute numbers, the biggest immigration wave in its history–more than 40 million arrivals. Unlike previous waves that were almost entirely from Europe, the modern influx has been dominated by Hispanic and Asian immigrants," the Pew Research Center concluded in 2012.

And that's exactly what white nationalists fear.

Richard B. Spencer, one of the nation's leading white nationalists who has backed President Donald Trump, has called for protecting the “heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world” by creating a white “ethno-state.” He supports doing so through “peaceful ethnic cleansing” that would remove minorities from the U.S.

After Trump condemned people protesting Nazis at the Virginia rally over the weekend, Spencer said this week he didn't think the president was truly denouncing neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.

"His statement today was more kumbaya nonsense," said Spencer. "Only a dumb person would take those lines seriously."


http://www.newsweek.com/white-nationalists-are-right-america-becoming-less-white-651541
 
A white nationalist rally over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, has once again thrust America's long history of racism into the national spotlight, casting the country's troubled record on rights for nonwhites as not a problem of the past but an ongoing, festering wound that continues to disenfranchise significant swaths of U.S. citizens.

The "Unite the Right" rally in Virginia was aimed at protesting the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a Confederate hero. Protesters waved Confederate flags and chanted, "You will not replace us," [ and also Jew will not replace us ] a statement pointing to the growing fear among certain white nationalist leaders that the U.S. will be a majority-minority nation.

These fears are not unfounded, depending on whom you identify as white.

Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now

The nation's great thinkers have for decades pointed out the fallacy and racism inherent in grouping people by the color of their skin, particularly in a nation where the South's "one-drop rule" meant anyone with a black ancestor could be sold into the slave trade, regardless of how many white grandparents the person had.

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates examined the nation's tortured history in his probing autobiographical Between the World and Me, through his repeated use of phrase "people who believe they are white." "Some of these straight-haired people with blue eyes have been 'black.' ...Virginia planters obsessed with enslaving as many Americans as possible are the ones who came up with a one-drop rule that separated the 'white' from the 'black,' even if meant that their own blue-eyed sons would live under the lash," he wrote in the 2015 best-selling book.

Decades earlier, social critic and writer James Baldwin challenged the nation's obsession with racial categories in in a 1963 television segment titled "The Negro and the American Promise." "What white people have to do," Baldwin said at the time, "is try to find out in their hearts why it was necessary for them to have a nigger in the first place. Because I am not a nigger. I'm a man. If I'm not the nigger here, and if you invented him, you, the white people, invented him, then you have to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that. Whether or not it is able to ask that question."

Baldwin often sought to remind white America of its malleable racial differences, referring to African-Americans as the nation's “bastard” children. “The truth is this country does not know what to do with its black population,” he once said. “Americans can’t face the fact that I am flesh of their flesh.”

Further back, Mark Twain explored the skin-deep racial policies of the South in Pudd'nhead Wilson, his 1894 novel that tells the story of a slave and a white aristocrat, both fathered by the master of the house, who are switched in infancy and forced to live under the social roles of the time, regardless of their similar appearances.

Nevertheless, under the current racial demographics widely accepted across the U.S., white people have seen signs that their dominance over the general population might be waning. The Census Bureau announced in 2012 that non-Hispanic whites made up a minority of births in the U.S. for the first time. That year, minorities made up 50.4 percent of the nation's infants, in part because of a booming Hispanic population.

Some demographers have predicted the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation by 2050, with African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics and other minority groups outnumbering the people we call white.

The shift in the nation's racial demographics have already been stark. In 1965, whites represented 85 percent of the population, with the other 15 percent made up of African-Americans. These days, white people make up just 60 percent of the nation, while Hispanics account for 18 percent and Asians about 6 percent.

"The forces behind this transformation are a mix of immigration, births and deaths. The United States is more than four decades into what has been, in absolute numbers, the biggest immigration wave in its history–more than 40 million arrivals. Unlike previous waves that were almost entirely from Europe, the modern influx has been dominated by Hispanic and Asian immigrants," the Pew Research Center concluded in 2012.

And that's exactly what white nationalists fear.

Richard B. Spencer, one of the nation's leading white nationalists who has backed President Donald Trump, has called for protecting the “heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world” by creating a white “ethno-state.” He supports doing so through “peaceful ethnic cleansing” that would remove minorities from the U.S.

After Trump condemned people protesting Nazis at the Virginia rally over the weekend, Spencer said this week he didn't think the president was truly denouncing neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.

"His statement today was more kumbaya nonsense," said Spencer. "Only a dumb person would take those lines seriously."


http://www.newsweek.com/white-nationalists-are-right-america-becoming-less-white-651541



America is definitely losing it's White ethnocenticity. The americans really need to look after their own people rather than worrying about abd getting involved with the Middle East, Pakistan and other Muslim countries.
 
The % goes down but the actual number goes up. There are now about 200 million whites in America, which is not a small number by any means.
 
Its really depends on how Hispanics are counted. If they are counted separately (like they are now and in the article) then yes the US and A will see White's become a minority. If on the other hand Hispanics are counted not as an ethnicity but by races, meaning black, Mestizo and European origin are counted separately, then the US is about 82% White, which is about the same percentage its been for a century. I think WHite Latinos are actually a majority of all Latinos. Remember Martin Sheen, Alexis Bledel (of Gilmour Girls) and even Jeb Bushs kids are of White Latino ancestry.
 
Its really depends on how Hispanics are counted. If they are counted separately (like they are now and in the article) then yes the US and A will see White's become a minority. If on the other hand Hispanics are counted not as an ethnicity but by races, meaning black, Mestizo and European origin are counted separately, then the US is about 82% White, which is about the same percentage its been for a century. I think WHite Latinos are actually a majority of all Latinos. Remember Martin Sheen, Alexis Bledel (of Gilmour Girls) and even Jeb Bushs kids are of White Latino ancestry.

Mexicans are mostly Aztecs. You can tell they look Asian. Mexicans are by no means white. White is European.
 
A lot of white people in America actually have one or more black ancestors in the past few hundred years. And vice versa for black people.

So the great irony is that a lot of the "white" Neo-Nazi and white supremacist Donald Trump supporters probably have recent ancestors that are of African descent.
 
Trump promised a wall; there is no wall. As a result, illegal immigrants are going to continue flood into the United States as usual ... contributing to America being less "white". As I often say, make Mexico great again!
 
The % goes down but the actual number goes up. There are now about 200 million whites in America, which is not a small number by any means.

Wrong.

The raw number is also going to go down. Deaths outnumber births in Americas European/white population :)

Its really depends on how Hispanics are counted. If they are counted separately (like they are now and in the article) then yes the US and A will see White's become a minority. If on the other hand Hispanics are counted not as an ethnicity but by races, meaning black, Mestizo and European origin are counted separately, then the US is about 82% White, which is about the same percentage its been for a century. I think WHite Latinos are actually a majority of all Latinos. Remember Martin Sheen, Alexis Bledel (of Gilmour Girls) and even Jeb Bushs kids are of White Latino ancestry.

Lol, you are so out of touch with demographic reality than its kind of sad.

America being 82% white?! :lol: Even if you add ALL hispanics to white population---even then whites remain below 80%.

Reality is that hispanics is America are overwhelmingly non-whites from Mexican and Central America. They are not going from Argentina but from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salavador etc etc

Furthermore, non-Hispanic whites also include Arabs, Turks, Iranians etc etc.

So actual percentage of European-whites in America is between 55%-60% and decreasing. :coffee:

Meh. There is only 1 race. Human race.

I agree. :cheers:
 
The raw number is also going to go down. Deaths outnumber births in Americas European/white population :)

Incorrect. Non Hispanic White total population increases. Only the % is going down because Mexicans have 10 kids per family.

1990 pop 188,128,296
2000 pop 194,552,774
2010 pop 196,817,552
2012 pop 197,243,423

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites
 
Incorrect. Non Hispanic White total population increases. Only the % is going down because Mexicans have 10 kids per family.

1990 pop 188,128,296
2000 pop 194,552,774
2010 pop 196,817,552
2012 pop 197,243,423

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites
That's a little extreme ...

Mexicans are mostly Aztecs. You can tell they look Asian. Mexicans are by no means white. White is European.
Are you serious?

Pretty racist argument here ... most Mexicans are Mestizos (around 50% white) ... have you seen how an acutal native looks like? No one claimed Mexicans are white

Its really depends on how Hispanics are counted. If they are counted separately (like they are now and in the article) then yes the US and A will see White's become a minority. If on the other hand Hispanics are counted not as an ethnicity but by races, meaning black, Mestizo and European origin are counted separately, then the US is about 82% White, which is about the same percentage its been for a century. I think WHite Latinos are actually a majority of all Latinos. Remember Martin Sheen, Alexis Bledel (of Gilmour Girls) and even Jeb Bushs kids are of White Latino ancestry.
Get your facts right. You obviously have no idea of how a census is conducted. Some my friends have very little Cherokee ancestry but under your definition, they would all be Amerindian. The US is not 82% white by any means ... period.
 
White people are good with science and technology, so they flooded America with harmful man made chemicals like detergents, pesticides, toothpaste, coca cola etc. which reduce fertility and have few kids. Mexico don't have those chemicals so Mexicans have lots of kids. So Mexicans can flood America with millions of people and vote white people out.
 
Incorrect. Non Hispanic White total population increases. Only the % is going down because Mexicans have 10 kids per family.

1990 pop 188,128,296
2000 pop 194,552,774
2010 pop 196,817,552
2012 pop 197,243,423

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites
It's basically stalled due to idiocy on the Clinton/Bush/Obama administration when it came to illegal immigration. Back in 2006 when ppl criticized illegal immigration, they were branded as racists and ignorants by the libs. Now look where it has got our country ... now many street signs have Spanish and students are forced to learn that language ... way to go America!
 
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