NOTE FROM INDY:
Think of this video as the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down.
Glimpses from the most recent U.S. Census
1. The population of white children younger than 5 is now only 50.1 percent of that category, with 49.9 percent being of African, Asian, or Latino extraction.
2. Deaths now exceed births among white Americans. This “natural decrease” occurred several years before the government’s original projection, a sign of the onrushing decline of the white majority in America.
3. The government projects that in five short years, minorities will make up more than half of all children under 18 in America.
These facts will alarm a lot of whites who will immediately decry “the erosion of our nation, the beginning of the end.” But I don’t see it that way at all. I believe our best years are yet to come. It seems to me that White Americans are not nearly so determined or self-sacrificing as we were just a couple of generations ago.
My observations are limited to Central Texas, admittedly a microcosm at best, so I don’t pretend to know the condition of the nation at large. But my inescapable observation during the past 9 years of Academy construction has been that young “non-white” workers are typically more reliable, focused, hard-working and determined than their white counterparts. These young, “non-white” workers remind me of the original Land of Opportunity immigrants who came here from Europe not many generations ago.
What, exactly, is the difference between those downtrodden European refugees from whence “White America” was extracted and these downtrodden Latino, Asian and African refugees from whence will come the majority of our nation tomorrow?
Yes, I count today’s African-American population as refugees. To my way of thinking, they only recently escaped from a nation that horrifically oppressed them. And that nation was pre-Kennedy America.
Don’t dare call me unpatriotic. Don’t dare even to think it.
And now you’re angry.
I’m sorry, but I like refugees. I like immigrants. And I like Teddy Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King… flawed men, all.
But not so deeply flawed as me.
– Roy H. Williams
with special permission from Indiana Beagle,
Supreme Ruler of the Rabbit Hole and all things contained herein.
P.S. One of the first actions of Teddy Roosevelt upon being sworn into the office of the President was to invite Booker T. Washington to dinner in the White House. White Rage was ignited across the South. Teddy responded only by saying, “If I have erred, I have erred in the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln.”
October 16, 1901 – Roosevelt had an evening meeting scheduled with
Booker T. Washington to get his advice on some cabinet appointments.
He suspected the meeting might go long and he also had a family dinner booked with an old friend, so TR decided to combine the events.
Booker T. Washington hesitated before accepting. Both men were aware this was a big step. To be invited to such a gathering implied social equality and women were going to be present — Mrs. Roosevelt and three of their children.
When a White House reporter sent news of the dinner out to the wire service, it unleashed a tidal wave of fury, with stories printed that are unrepeatable today. Both men received death threats.
You gotta love the Tedster.
– Indiana Beagle