Thanks for the thread, bravenak.

I noticed the author on HBO Latino recently and you can watch it with the subtitles on and watch the segments about Hispanic Actors and Artistic types. I love that channel. GOT is great in spanish.

Thanks for another awesome piece.

That was the sound of white supremacists shitting their pants as they read this article.

Mass suicides or more terrorism is my fear. I hope they just decide to stop paying their KKK memberships and start trying to assimilate into the population.

I like how they added people in interracial relationships and those with minority children and close family in with minorities. It makes perfect sense to add them in with us since they are a big support system and it feels wrong to separate them and place them in different catagories.

k and r

They thought i was joking and just being mean. I was off by twenty years it seems when you add people closely related to or married to minorities. They want to be included with us and i love that idea more than they do. I just told my mother in law that she's one of us now, and she's says she was before i was born and i need to catch up, i'm slow on the uptake.

Some of these racist pieces of shit have been seriously losing it recently. If only their fucked upness only resulted in themselves being harmed, instead of the innocent people around them.

Thats why they have been acting all militant for the last few years. It's true that i worry about them harming others. This is where their communities and leaders need to step in and provide good role models for them and education so we can prevent the spread of w. right wing violence. With this rash of YWM violence tearing through the country in think they need to have a discussion about gun thug violence. And find a way to get the community leaders to pay attention.

are place in the same catagory. They are close relatives. And as you know Lgbt are a small minority and they experience much bigotry and i see no problem putting them in the minority catagory.

Then we're probably there already.

I'll take them.

We must still strive to economically empower these minority groups with fairer tax policies and creating jobs, even when they are collectively the majority.

What you say is very intersting and i think you are right that we can and should do more to empower economically depressed groups, and i would include poor whites in this group that need targeted relief. Many have been poor for many generations and lived along side other poor groups since before the end of segregation. Poor white trash as they used to be called got treated some times much worse than a coveted slave with a trade like blacksmithing and were looked down upon ( by slaves and masters alike) and refused help and employment at times.

Without socio-economic mobility, we'll stagnate and sink back to the Middle Ages.

As for South Africa, I read this last year:

We really have to make sure our people are more informed and pick the right leadership. I can understand the frustration with corporate centered Democrats, and we need to get enough voter to take back the house in order to give our politician permission to effect change by demanding that they do. We have to get angry. We have to be resolute. And i think we may have to get out there and march on Washhington and stay until they notice us. And not an astroturf movement, something real and broad and diverse. I hope it happens soon.

We are a beautiful melting pot. Our colors are vibrant and we blend so very well together.

A rich and vibrant future, and it is going to be here tomorrow. I look forward to that.

Thanks bravenak!

That is why America is the beautiful.

My husband was Made in Japan, I can see the label if I look on the bottom.

You are one of the funniest people sometimes.

I always read your posts like a groupie.

At least some people like me. thank you.

and it's almost always the only imported bottom in the intercity buses I ride.

guess I've done my part

She is pretty, and i also like her face.

my middle daughters b-day is July 4

I have two. I bet the one on fourth of july has a kick ass party every year. I know i would. i still want two more kids , but i think i might wait a few years or until just before i'm 40. Or never. I forgot about the poop for a second.

I was almost 41 when he was born my oldest was a couple weeks shy of 20, so if I'm a breeder I took my time about it

My mom had two before 20 and got and iud and gave up. I'm glad i had fun before i decided to have any . And i had fun like you wouldn't believe. One day i'll write an op on my seedy past and get everyone in a tizzy.

we'll just call my son 'baby surprise' or as I've put it that moment when the Dr came back into the room and said guess what it's not menopause

but in all honesty I can say that I was a much better Mom at 41 than I was at 21

I remember overhearing one of my daughters telling her little brother "look boy if you're going to try to pull something on Mom you're going to have to be really good your #4 and she already knows all the tricks"

I missed that part. I need to look that up and check it out. It is so hard being born during the reagan revolution. All my childhood filled with right-wing nonsense. They left so much out of the history books that i missed so many things i should have learned. Like the labor/union movement was one chapter with ten pages. I had to look it up at Loussac Library.

At least that's what the yard signs read.

They worry about sad crying clown hordes taking over? LOL!

Race relations isn't that simple. I've known Latinos that are just as racist against blacks as whites can be. So to suggest this really changes anything is a bit naive.

Race relations is far more complex than population numbers. The question concerning the future is not which race has the most people...but will fair-skinned or white-skinned people (regardless of their race) still be privileged in society more than dark-skinned or black-skinned people? That's the giant question..... The raw numbers alone doesn't change the privilege issue. There are several countries where a racial/ethnic minority holds all the power.

You know who started that stuff and now we live within that framework.
It includes whites with connections to minorities and lgbt and their families in the group with minorities. Also, i cannot take credit for the article, i did not write it.
Some latinos are black. Look at my pic. There you see a woman who speaks spanish and has an hispanic surname. And first name. My middle name is Arab.
I am accepted in the hispanic community and yes there are issues between hispanics and Blacks because they get pitted against each other.
We need to work on the privilege issue but i think we will have less trouble in the future than we did in the past.

The OP/ED that the OP is based on fudges the numbers intentionally. The US census bureau estimated last year that the country will reach the 50/50 ratio by 2043, not this August. By the measure of the OP, my white brother in law is a minority because his wife is African American. That is just plain ludicrous.

On purpose. Also the parents of minority children are grouped in with their children instead of separating parent from child and placing them in separate catagories. It makes perfect sense to me to group close relatives together instead of counting them separately. August is the date.

Your OP is a whole lotta wishful thinking. It says more about you than anything else.

They are a minority.

No matter how much you wish they were. Neither is my white brother in law, no matter how much you wish it so. Your obsession with Caucasians, and endless attempts, in OP after OP after OP after OP, at fomenting racial division in the Democratic party says more about you than them.

So you think i'm obsessed with white people huh? I live in a white nation. I am black and i am white. I guess my white part doesn't count. I have to only talk about black stuff. I wonder if my native american part counts.
The anger you have at me discussing things that affect me is very telling. Who are you to tell me that i am not white enough to speak? I just as white as i am black and near about that much native american. 1/3, 1/3, and 1/3. I can speak on issues if i please. If the majority would accept their mixed offspring as one of them i would not have this problem to discuss.
You can trash the thread.
Have you ever thought that maybe i just find white people fascinating? Could be i'm just attracted to them.

Since when are gay people and their families automatically not white? Since when are people who marry minorities not white? Since when are people who live in proximity or support diversity (whatever that means)

This has to be a joke. Don't forget the Irish they aren't really "white" either.



Article seems more like a Klan member wrote it talking about how "race traitors" aren't white.

Good grief.

Maybe they read it, maybe they didn't.

I hope you're having just the loveliest day possible .

I am. Sunshiny day to you!

I claimed you, you are a part of the pack. Live with it.

So I get to go to the secret meetings now right?

Fair warning, I will NEVER get the handshake down.

Now that we are coming up in the world we must not be vulgar. Dap will do just fine.

But I might be able to master one of those "terrorist fist jabs".


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/fox-anchor-calls-obama-fi_n_106027.html

Terrorist fist jab!

Wow i am not surprised at all. The lines are blurred and i discovered that republicans recently are not actually mostly racists. They mostly hate poor people.

She is lovely and i am sure Boehner is proud and waiting for a grandchild from the union. I secretly think he's one of the normal republicans and the crazy ones just get most of the attention.

He is a jerk in many ways, but almost like a baby in others. And jerks are by their nature immature, IMO. I believe he really does respect Obama but he's in bondage to his patrons.

Boehner is a follower, not a leader. He just was in the right place at the right time to get a wealthy patron and he's lived off that.

I think when he looks at PBO he wonders what his life might have been if he followed the right path.

It won't change a thing for years to come.

People with disabilities are the largest minority (about 20%) and growing because of disability acquired through age.

I once had a conversation with my sister where she said "I know you think you're a minority." I asked how can you argue that I'm not there are fewer people who have disabilities than those who don't.

It seems that there are people here who have trouble counting, too.

... presenting the GOP as the "default political party"; that is, the "real" party no matter who the majority is in Congress or who the POTUS is; the political party by which the "other party" (i.e. the Dems) is measured.

Lazy, complicit, MSM.

I rarely watch news anymore, i prefer to look for it on the internet.

on our way to being a political majority. I cannot wait and I am white.

Or women. . But family members of minorities and lgbt are included. So you probably fit in one category or another.

why all the consternation about privilege?

Many times my fellow liberals confound me as they sound just as tone deaf as conservatives talking about entitlements.