Posted on 06/04/2016 10:05:21 AM PDT by Petrosius
Donald Trump's white America exists only in the minds of the panicked and fearful who have made him the GOP nominee
Donald Trump was born 70 years ago this month, at the very beginning of the baby boom. At that time, America was, in every sense, an unambiguously white country.
First, in demographic terms, nearly 90 percent of the population was categorized as white. Groups that in the not-too-distant past had been considered only partially or imperfectly or not really white – such as Irish and German Catholics, Italians, and Jews – had by now been largely granted white status, as part of a melting pot ideology which claimed to transform a multi-ethnic population into a society in which race and ethnicity were subsumed into a single American identity. (That this ideology could flourish in a culture that still featured massive legal discrimination against African Americans indicates the extent to which white America managed to avoid even thinking about the existence of black people.)
Second, the political, economic, and cultural dominance of white America was so taken for granted by white Americans that it was, as a social matter, invisible to them. At that time, whiteness in America was what sociologists call an “unmarked category.” For example, if a white person had been shown a photograph of the Senate, it’s practically certain that he or she would simply not have noticed that it was made up exclusively of white people. (Nor would the observer have noticed that all these people happened to be men, but that’s a different topic.)
In other words, “white” and “American” were essentially synonyms. Hispanics made up less than two percent of the population, and they outnumbered Asian-Americans ten to one. Basically everyone in America was either white or black, and while in theory black people were full citizens too, in practice they weren’t, most obviously in the Jim Crow south, but in reality in the rest of the country as well.
That country no longer exists: or rather it only continues to exist in the increasingly panicked imaginations of the sorts of white people who have – it still seems incredible when one puts it into words – made Donald Trump the Republican party’s presidential candidate.
Today, barely three out of five Americans are non-Hispanic whites. In another two or three decades, “white” people, as traditionally defined, will make up less than half the population. White America is in the process of disappearing, and it’s no surprise that tens of millions of people who thought of this as their country are frightened by the thought that it isn’t any more.
All this helps explain incidents such as Trump’s claim this week that a federal judge who has ruled against him in a lawsuit is a “Mexican,” even though the judge was born in Indiana. Clueless journalists treated this as yet another example of Trump’s apparently bottomless ignorance, when in fact it’s obviously a strategic choice on his part.
To Trump’s supporters, a person of Mexican ancestry is Mexican, rather than American, because Americans are white, and “Mexicans” aren’t. To the overt racists who make up Trump’s – and to a significant extent, the contemporary Republican party’s – electoral base, non-whites are at best Americans by courtesy or sufferance, because America has always been a white country.
A few years ago, Trump discovered that there was an enormous untapped market, as he would think of it, for overt racism in mainstream American politics. This is why he laid the groundwork for his presidential run by constantly repeating paranoid nonsense about Barack Obama not really being an American. He was, as they say in the business schools, establishing his “brand.”
It is very important to keep in mind that Donald Trump is now the leader of the Republican party, and that this means the Republican party is now the party of overt racism, in pretty much the same way the southern wing of the Democratic party was the party of overt, unreconstructed racism seventy years ago, when Trump first began to contaminate the planet.
Saying so isn’t considered polite, because that would imply that, as long as it’s the party of Trump, and, more important, Trumpism, being a Republican is no longer a respectable thing to be. It isn’t.
Well, we are being conquered by Third World trash. H*ll, the Americans even voted one in as President. Trump is not strong enough. A strong man would be leading people to throw them out. Tragic!
I'm less concerned about the 'white-race': Adam & Eve, and Noah (and especially Jesus) make that a total non-issue for me.
What I am concerned about is Liberty and the distinct [classical] American values/culture: the one which was highly distrustful of authority (from today's perspective), which put in place the Constitution designed to actually restrain government.
(can I say that?)
Mexicans and othe South Americans are F@cking WHITE! They have the same ancestry as those who populate North America. A mix of European, Native and African decent.
MOST upper classes in South America are as White and the pure driven snow. Look at the home page of Telemundo. It looks like an add for Norway!
Jorge Ramos has blond hair and BLUE EYES. He is not a person of color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The case involves Trump University according to my Internet search.
I trust the lawyers used to set up the university did a proper incorporation job.
I should add that it is in the interest of all US citizens of Mexican ancestry that illegal immigration be stopped.
These people sit in the same economic shoes as US citizens who do not have Hispanic or Mexican ancestry.
“White America is in the process of disappearing, and it’s no surprise that tens of millions of people who thought of this as their country are frightened by the thought that it isn’t any more. “
If San Jose is any indication of our future then the fear is completely justified.
They’re going to hammer “racist” until it sticks.
Are you not aware that is a uniquely white political construct?
It originate in, and is sustained by white people. And, to be fully honest, one which has been adopted by many non-whites.
Still, eliminate white people and it's one which will cease to exist.
Don't look now, but we are trending and the statistics are disturbing:
New York city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white) (Wikipedia).
The author of the article is correct. But he gleefully thumbs his nose at us rather than admit the status is not natural but due to the malfeasance or negligence of our elected officials.
Everything is about race with the political left. They claim to that everyone is equal (which by the way is absolutely true) and then tare us apart along identity lines in the very next sentence. Sorry, lefties, Trumps rise is not some sort of new wave white power movement. His rise is a response to a federal government that does nothing about the federal deficit, entitlement reform, border protection, and a PC culture that is trying to give us transgender showers.
Usually, none of this truly important stuff gets done in the name of race ‘equality’ or gender ‘equality’. This, of course, makes it easy for the political left to say “the political right wants this important stuff to get done in the name of ‘racism.” It’s a game the political left has played well for 50 years....and intelligent people are pissed.
We can’t help it if a lot of minorities fall for the liberal babble and race-baiting the left puts out there. I wish they didn’t and that they would come over to the side of common sense. Still, the fact that most minorities crave the bussom of big government does not make the political right racists. It makes the political left look like the Borg from Star Trek.....mind numb, compliant, obedient....and down right evil as they destroy everything in their path.
That just happens to be the Leftist’s agenda for the nation. So far, it is on track. Trump will in fact be the last stand for the nation.
What were the countries like where the non whites lived ? Just a thought. Sal n is having another dream of America without whitey. Sad, they live a loser life.
To: Paul Campos
Re: Being Mexican
Anybody who associates, belongs to, or supports an organization called LA RAZA is a mexican AND a racist.
Mexicans are the only group I have ever heard discuss the lightness or darkness of one of their own babies skins.
Their conversations were not kind about the darker skinned babies, in fact they would have embarrassed an old southern racist with their vitriol.
Just remember senor Campos, La Raza means THE RACE.
I believe their motto goes something like “EVERY THING FOR THE RACE, NOTHING FOR ANYONE ELSE”.
I am all of the above (and a few extras i’m sure) and PROUD OF IT.
Is Salon racist much?
Australia, New Zealand, and Japan still have common sense.
Google their immigration requirements. In short, don’t bother unless you have serious cash.
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