(08-31-2020, 09:40 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-30-2020, 01:33 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(08-30-2020, 11:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Racism offers the visceral fear that a precious white daughter might have a daughter who looks like this:
(Jasmine Sanders, supermodel. African-American father and a German mother.
Somehow, I can't seem to summon up the proper amount of shock and horror.
In a hundred years, that may be the predominant 'look' of an American: mutts as we are.
It's even more complicated than that. There has been a significant Mexican-American population in certain parts of the southwestern quadrant of the US annexed what would become California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and western Colorado. By law such people were treated as white even if they had large amounts of First Peoples' ancestry. About a century ago the US got large numbers of Mexican immigrants as a consequence of the chaos of the Mexican Revolution that happened during the WWI boom in the American economy. Today, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans are everywhere and in larger numbers in places that had only small Mexican settlement (most of Arizona, California and Texas; such cities as Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Reno, Las Vegas, Austin, Fort Worth, and Dallas did not exist in Mexican times; Denver has a large Mexican-American population even though it was never within Mexican territory. Even such cities within Mexico were little more than mission-and-garrison communities, including most California cities named after saints and San Antonio and El Paso, Texas.
There has never been as much white antipathy toward Mexican-Americans in any part of America than against blacks. Intermarriage between Anglo whites and Mexican-Americans is often an interracial marriage if the Mexican-American spouse has significant ancestry among First Peoples. Note also that some Asian-American populations are doing quite well...
...It is time for white Americans to grow up on 'race'. It matters far less than do character, creativity, rationality, work ethic, and opportunity. The people most proud to be white almost are as a rule people who have the fewest traits worthy of admiration or are simply crazy or deluded. Anyone proud to be white is proud of nothing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.