We'll get the hang of it soon I'm sure.
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.
That may well be. But in the areas where looting did occur (from south central to the fringes of Beverly Hills and the valley), most of the looters were Hispanic (and very often non-citizens).
We'll get the hang of it soon I'm sure.
America has been a cultural cesspool since it was founded. Sure we have our Hemingways and Ellingtons, but they have always been outnumbered by the Yellow Press, Pulp Novels, "reality shows" and other such dreck that have dominated mass culture from the beginning.
My fear is that we are letting in too many POOR people who will vote us into Socialism. I fear that there is no hope, even if we started a ZERO immigration policy tomorrow.
As far as the "cultural" aspect, there are some negatives, but I could care less what language you speak, what music you listen too and what food you eat. All I ask is that you don't claim that I OWE YOU A LIVING and that you leave ME the f--k alone!
Your estimate keeps going up, dear. It's nowhere near that. Improvements have made the supposed value higher. No matter how you spin it, taxes ARE too high. You seem to defend high taxation and illegal immigration. Why?
NOT true. Most Mexicans are mixed Amerindian and white, with the Amerindian side predominating. Puerto Ricans and Dominicans tend to be mixed African and European. While it is true that most Cubans are white (reflecting the upper and middle classes who fleed Castro), most other Latinos are a mixture of races.
When I go into a store or call a firm with a sales inquiry, I like to be able to communicate with the person who's servicing me.
And you've seemed to ruin your "The elites..." position, Leona.
The "great melting pot" was an invention of the 1920s and was promoted by the liberals of the time. It would after all, be easier to initiate Socialism if we united as "one people." The Right at the time supported immigration restrictions, but could care less what happened in the respective ethnic communities. The leading antiimmigrant group of the time (one that had one of the largest marches on DC in history in the 1920s) had no desire to assimilate the "Koons, Kikes and Katholics," if you know what I mean.
My parents live in Palm Beach County Florida, where there is NO native born working class. You have affluent, older whites who hire Haitians, Guatemalans and Mexicans to do the drudge work. A similar situation to what you describe here.
Here in New York, the question has become, "where are they (the white working class) going to flee to now? I live in a neighborhood where houses sell for $400,000 and up, but where the rentals are filled with immigrants, legal and illegal. Anyone who wants a starter home in metro NYC for under $350,000 has to either live in the ghetto (and even this is getting more difficult. Or move WAY out to "Outerwhitelandia." You now have NYPD cops who (illegally) commute 75 miles from Eastern Pennsylvania to NYC. I think that's insane, but its their choice.
?? I don't get it.
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