America no longer white, united, English-speaking

The Miami Herald ^ | 02 April 2004 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[MegaSilver]

In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.

We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.

We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.

In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.

By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.

Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.

Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.

Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.

Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?

Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.

Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.

America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.

If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.

[Luis Gonzalez]

The people indigenous to the area couldn't possibly be Hispanic.

[ladyinred]

Where does Pat get the impression that the republican party is conservative???? The elites own and operate both parties.

Who are they again? You know, these mysterious elites who run the world from behind a curtain and are out to destroy us all? I forget, because I seem to notice a big difference between parties.

[ladyinred]

Jolly ole guy isn't he?

[austinTparty]

Ay ay ay! America is no longer white??? That's weird, I could have sworn that it never was... Hmm. Between Native Americans who were here before anyone else, then the slaves who were dragged over, the Chinese who built the railroads... the mythical apartheird America they dream of never existed.

Pero estoy segura que ya sabes esto, no? ;o)

[Luis Gonzalez]

But I do like the YingYang thing...

[Luis Gonzalez]

I used to be white before I got here.

[ronnieb]

You notice a big difference in the two parties....better look closer, the only dif is judges, abortion, school prayer, school choice and a few, at the end of the day no big....the real differences, the large macro-economic issues,no dif...Clinto signed Nafta, signed welfare reform...look a little closer...you'll see that on the bigs no dif...

[ronnieb]

oh please, spare us all your ridic musings, America was desinged and built by Europeans, it is a fact, if that conflicts with your view of the future...tough, rewrite history in the privacy of your own mind, spare us who know better your fantasies!

[Clemenza]

The Amerindians of the western hemisphere do have similar characteristics. However, if you put the average Dominican (70% African/30% European gene pool) against the average Mexican (genetic makeup 80% Amerindian/20% European) you will notice a distinct difference.

[Clemenza]

My blonde Vasco-Cubano boss sure looked white to me...

How about the Jews? They migrated out of the middle east (eventually to Boca Raton), so I guess they aren't white...

This whole American racial classification racket must end now.

[TLI]

Albright, O Donald and Reno.

A dimwit, a communist and a serial murderer.

No agenda there, no sir. hahahahahahahahaha!

Once again it's proving my point. NO ONE questions the white photos. Many seem to just go bonkers “proving” this or that on photos of damn near anything else. Must be some kind of racial memory/jealously thing.

[cyborg]

Lots of spanish speaking people say that. I don't know what to make of it other than that classifying people is a crock and the government should stop confusing itself.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"A dimwit, a communist and a serial murderer."

I thought you were concerned about racial purity, not political agenda?

Or would you also eliminate dimwits, etc. from your master race's gene pool?

What will it be?

Work camps?

Progroms?

Let's discuss agenda Adolph...you post pictures of Indians and call them Hispanic?

Now run along.

Don't you have a hood to iron, or a cross to burn or something?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Europeans designed America.

To build it, they imported Africans, Chinese, and a spattering of other races as a workforce.

[Luis Gonzalez]

I don't think that the person acknowledging the contribution of the many different people who eventually became Americans, is rewriting history.

I do think that fantasizing about America being built strictly by Europeans, and ignoring the obvious contributions of non-Europeans is rewriting history.

[norton]

You are right about San Antonio. You'd also be right to point out that most of the towns south of there have Tejano mayors, chiefs of police, etc. Unfortunately, Buchanan's reference to Lost Angeles is dead on the mark. I've stated here before that there are great differences in the 'hispanic' population of America. I've also stated that mexico is our enemy.

The trick is to convince the legal and contributing 'Americans of mexican heritage' that the old country is just that ... it should NOT be allowed to spring north lest it destroy what they themselves value here.

[rebelyell]

They will destroy our country as they have done their own. Of course, for having the audacity to speak the truth, one will be branded a racist! Oh, the horrors! Even on our beloved Free Republic. The handbasket is beginning it's descent.....

[William Terrell]

The people indigenous to the area couldn't possibly be Hispanic.

What does "hispanic" mean?

[William Terrell]

The American indians have been traditionaly called the "red man". Why? At the time of the settling of the area now known as Mexico, what did the indiginous people in South America look like?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Here's a clue:

Buchanan has a problem with Central and South Amerindians.

Ameridians are not "white" either North or South of the border, but Pat takes it to an illogical level when he lumps all Hispanics (descendants of Europeans) in with the Amerindians, and claims that because of a shared language, all Hispanics are no longer "white".

To follow Pat's claim to its logical conclusion, since the North American Amerindians learned English from the Anglo-Saxon settlers of North America, Americans were never "white" either.