Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by 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.
Of course not, he chose a black lady for a running mate.
Oops, sorry ... I forgot, she was a "communist". (/sarcasm)
The simian-faced Irishman was Thomas Nast's trademark depiction of "Paddy" who was often depicted with a flask of liquor in his back pocket.
Other minorities did not fare much better in Nast cartoons. The caption of this catoon was "The Ignorant Vote" which implied that the Black Republican vote in the South was the equivalent of the Irish Democrat vote in the North.
Ironically, Nast was himself an immigrant from Germany.....An ethnic group that was not particularly liked in the Union Army where German Americans were disparaged as being incompetents and cowards especially after the XIth Corps' unfortunate encounter with Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Of course, by the 20th Century, German Americans were considered God's gift to the U.S. military.
On a more positive note, Nast contibuted the modern day American image of Santa Claus, the Republican Elephant and the Democrat Donkey.
The government doesn't classify them as a race but it treats them as an economic class which is no better.
The real problem lies in a lack of common goals and a common language.
God is being crowded to the far recesses of our public arena, only allowed to make cameo appearances; whether this is good or bad depends on how people react to it.
Oh? Your German is as poor as your math. In 2000 (four years ago, you see 2004-2000=4) US Census found:
281 421 906 Americans, of whom 211 460 626 (75.1%) were white and no other race. Additional 5 million Americans were combination of white and other race.
Today, America is typically reported to be 69% non-Hispanic white. As for your dishonest criticism of my German, all it proves is that you are either not a German speaker, or you are a liar.
CIA Fact Book for Cuba: mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%
Wardaddy said "immigrants". He did not say "those who stayed behind in Cuba".
The Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook for 1958 lists the racial makeup of Cuba as follows:
White.........72.8%
Black..........12.4%
Mulato.......14.5%
Asiatic........0.3%
During the 1930's, my paternal grandparents and their teenaged children left Cuba for a few years to live in Washington, D.C. where they lived in a white neighborhood. A few years ago, my aunt was visiting Washington, DC and drove by her old neighborhood to see if any old neighbor families still lived there. When she got to the old address, it dawned on her that no whites had lived in that neighborhood for the last 30 years.
Demographic change with time. There was a "white flight" out of Cuba to the U.S. just as there was a "white flight" out of D.C. into the Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
That's why the liberal media loves him so much.
Yep there were plenty of signs saying "Irish need no apply".
Pat Buchanan of today would put up signs "Hispanics need not apply".
Race politics played from the left and the Pat Buchanan right is one word, ugly.
Too bad Buchanan doesn't just leave "race" out of it --- because he'd find a lot of support among many of our hispanics with regard to immigration. This was an interesting editorial in a border paper yesterday --- written by a teacher in about as close to a 100% school as there is ---
"Stated differently, the thrust of the law would bring farm workers and laborers out of the shadows of a dubious work force.
Several weeks back, I introduced the proposed law to students in my class, being careful not to color the facts with any of my opinions, and asked them to write about it.
The responses were singularly striking for the vehemence with which students opposed the president's proposal. Confining their arguments to the regional milieu, many students held forth the notion that the law would encourage more people from Juárez to cross into El Paso, with disastrous consequences.
There would be an increase in drug dealings and drug killings, the streets and highways would become unsafe with reckless drivers (no one follows any rules over there, one child wrote), and our city would become "simply chaos."
President Bush was doing this only to get Hispanic votes, one child railed, while another pointed out that Bush had stolen the election from Al Gore in Florida."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1109656/posts
It's interesting when hispanic kids -just 5th graders -- growing up along the border who know what is coming over from Mexico can clearly see the dangers in unlimited immigration from that country but our leaders cannot.
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