A television news story last week said that by 2062, the white European population of the United States will be a minority. This is the result of low birth rates among the middle and upper class white population, and the high birth rates among lower class minorities and immigrants. The news reporter and commentators were positively shaking...you know…the ones who love to classify Americans into various ethnic groups…the ones who view white European Americans as evil and will now get their just desserts.
It was kind of disgusting. They mused as to what this would mean politically to America. How wonderful that the minorities would take control. Then what? They didn’t finish that thought. Perhaps they were afraid to verbalize their distorted belief that America’s salvation is in its non-white population.
Their whole premise is bogus. These folks who insist on hyphenated Americans are obsessed with what has been described as white man’s guilt. This guilt is being taught in the school in the form of the white man raping the land, Columbus killing the natives, slavery, subjugation, annihilation…it goes on and on. Unbelievable!!
Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for the rest of us, they got it wrong. While they are busy classifying Americans and encouraging ethnic warfare, most of us go about our business just being Americans. At the end of the day, America will continue to be the great melting pot as those seeking opportunity and freedom continue to come here for a better life. The color of skin or country of ethnic origin is ultimately, and triumphantly, irrelevant.
All Americans are descendants of immigrants, except for native Americans…who actually immigrated here from Asia over the land bridge. In a sense, even they are immigrants to our continent. And although on the surface it appears that humans segregate themselves into protected groups, at the end of the day, it breaks down. We work together. We play together. We make friends together. We intermarry. Our kids go to school together. As the generations go on, the ethnic identity disappears except for some remnants. I am 100% Italian. My son is 50% Italian with the balance being a mixture of English, Irish, Welsh, German, and according to family lore, native American!!! Quick, call that Swedish babe at Harvard running for Senate who claims to be a Native American.
Even the definition of “race” these people bandy about is suspect. Take "Hispanic." The Trayvon Martin case gave us a new ethnic group: white Hispanics. What is that? Cubans are different than Mexicans are different than those who emigrate here from Central America who are different than those that may come from Argentina or Chile where they will probably have some Italian or German mixed in.
And what about those who come from Spain? These are the most Hispanic of Hispanics…and they are Caucasian. Why are they different from other Southern Europeans like Italians and Greeks…and let’s not forget those from southern France which also is located on the Mediterranean. The descendants of those that come here, no matter from where, will end up being American. They will be assimilated and accept American values of hard work and success if allowed to by those who would divide us.
This isn’t a racial issue. It is a political issue ginned up by a party and ideology that needs racial winners and losers in order to propagate their power and feed their guilt about American success…not just the white man’s success.
Will America’s skin color change? Of course it will. More and more Americans will be different shades of all sorts of colors as we all intermarry and have children. Who cares? The politics will be no different than things are now. Our values transcend race. We all want the same things for our families, and America, if allowed, can provide these things. That’s the genius of America and Americans. I feel sorry for those who are willing to overlook it…or are willing to destroy it.
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