Knowledge concerning race is one thing, doing something is quite another.
One of the most intense changes in America’s demography this century will be its changing racial and ethnic composition. The acceleration of immigration from the southern hemisphere and Asia, the higher fertility of most non-white peoples and the slow regeneration of America’s aging white population will have profound impacts on the nation’s demographic profile, with significant repercussions for the voting public. The importance of these changes; the impact on racial identity politics, new ethnic alliances and reactions to immigration has already been seen in 2007 by the anti-immigration / amnesty uprising and the current 2008 presidential voting process. Nonetheless, these shifts are insignificant to what can be expected in future election cycles as Asian, Hispanic and black Americans make up increasingly larger shares of the people entitled to vote.
Additionally, in the last 50+ years this nation has never seen or heard of blacks, Mexicans or Asians saying foolish belittling things about themselves in terms of race. It seems only whites do this and plenty of them do it pretty often. Why do they stress that racial purity is a myth when in reality anyone who considers themselves a pro white activist is not staying up at night agonizing about racial purity, an obsessively ridiculous past time? Far too many white Americans believe if you have a trace of off-white melanin in your genetic procession going back five or six generations, does that prohibit you from claiming the label Caucasian?
And again would a black, Mexican, or Asian having examined their personal biological pedigree ever say it disqualifies them as black, Mexican or Asian? No, of course not and rightly so. Only white Americans seem to be obsessed with such self destructive thought patterns that later translate into demographic suicidal behavior. While certain sectors of today’s political parties are either ambivalent about this phenomena or are actively working to maintain it, the fact that something so profound has taken place in such a relatively short period of time – to one demography alone and no other – belies that something outside the universe of acceptable discourse has taken place.
Unless and until a strong assertive bloc of openly pro European American voters and activists explores their ongoing dispossession in terms of demography — in no uncertain terms — there may come a time when there will be no point in asking any more questions. Without a doubt race is the final frontier in modern day America.