“America/>/>, a generation from now, will still be the same country; we’ll just be a little darker.”
This was a comment I received a while back from a very bright fellow student of mine when I expressed my dismay over the demographic conquest of America/>/> by the third world. I’m not being sarcastic; he really is a bright young man, but when it comes to racial issues, he doesn’t quite get it. The statement, “we’ll just be a little darker” is, frankly speaking, idiotic. Last time I checked, if you were born White, in all likelihood, you will be White for the rest of your life, and other than by getting a sunburn/tan or by covering yourself with black paint, there is no natural way to get darker. Then again, it depends who exactly he meant by “we”.
This same man, in treating the issue of mass immigration from Mexico/>/>, pointed out “we need them; they’re the only ones having the babies”. Now, before I examine the folly of that statement, I need to point out a few seeming contradictions that will serve as food for thought. One is that somehow, the United States/>/> is both under-populated – and over-populated – at the same time. I was discussing with one young European-American lady her plans for the future (marriage, family, etc.), and she proudly told me that she isn’t going to have any children of her own because there are enough children in the world already. Rather, she told me, she wants to adopt Asian children, because there are so many of them in need of a home. I, personally, plan to get married and have as large a family as my economic circumstances will allow, for reasons that I will explain later.
When I shared this with a certain elderly couple at a church I was visiting, they inquired why I would do such a thing, angrily retorting “aren’t there enough children in the world already?” So there you have it, our country is over-populated. But then, when the issue of Mexican immigration comes up, suddenly, our country is under-populated, as the young man said. Also, somehow, we suffer from both a shortage of jobs and a shortage of labor. Working class, European-American men like myself, are finding it increasingly difficult to support a wife and children with a single salary and to maintain the traditional family structure. Finding descent work has become increasingly difficult, but yet somehow, we need third world immigrants because, without them, who else would take the jobs?
Obviously, we have two seeming contradictions that need to be reconciled. First of all, a country cannot be both over-populated and under-populated; that goes against the simple law of non-contradiction which states that “something cannot be, and not be, at the same time, and under the same aspect”. Perhaps there are too many people on welfare draining our economy, and under that aspect the U.S./>/> is over-populated, while there are not enough working, tax paying citizens to support the economy, and under that aspect the U.S./>/> is under-populated. Secondly, a shortage of jobs and a shortage of laborers should cancel each other out. Fewer jobs, fine; less need for laborers. Fewer laborers, fine; there’s no need for them if there aren’t enough jobs anyway, right?
I’m going to attempt here to give some straight answers. With regard to the population issue, the United States/>/> and the world ARE over-populated. Considering the scarcity of resources, rising food prices, and the impending peak oil crisis, the last thing we need is more mouths to feed. Still, European-Americans only constitute 66% of the U.S./>/> population today, compared to 90% in 1960, while European-derived people as a whole only constitute about 10% of the world’s population today, compared to 25% in 1960 and 33% in 1900. Case-in-point: over-population is a legitimate concern, but it’s not our problem; frankly speaking, we’re not the ones doing the over-populating. In fact, Europeans are the only race of people that are reproducing below replacement level. So, how is it that the United States/>/> is under-populated? Well, this is where the job and labor shortage issues come in. The truth of the matter is that there IS a shortage of jobs, at least for American workers, and the last thing we need is more non-Whites coming into the country and taking jobs away when it’s already difficult enough for a hard-working, European-American man to find decent work as it is. The problem is that capitalist elites only want cheap labor. Never mind the fact that there are plenty of blue-collar, White folks out there, desperately in need of work. Because they won’t work as cheaply as non-Whites from the third world, they’re not profitable enough. That’s right. Better to bring a flood of non-Whites into an already over-populated country if it makes a profit, than to lend a hand to a fellow European-American in need of work.
Now that I’ve brought these issues into the light, I’d like to focus a little more on the main issue.
The argument that we need Mexican immigrants because they’re the only ones having the babies is completely idiotic. The United States/>/> is already over-populated, so, all the more reason to halt immigration from Mexico/>/>. Even if the U.S./>/> were under-populated, it would be worth taking a look at which population is dwindling. If European-Americans are not having enough children, the answer is not to fill in the gaps with new comers from south of the border; the answer is for European-Americans to have more children. Simple as that. In truth, if European-Americans aren’t having enough children, importing non-White foreigners will only hasten our demise by filling in the gaps and thus taking pressure off of White people to have children. Because so many third-worlders residing here in the West are on welfare, and that welfare is taken care of at tax-payer’s expense, it is becoming even more difficult for White couples to have children even if they wanted to. It’s not just a matter of numbers either. Many of these third-world immigrants inter-marry with Whites and produce racially-mixed children. So not only are we going to be outnumbered, but we are also going to be bred out of existence. Some wonder how this is a problem. If America/>/> is a racially divided country, then inter-marriage between races will help to bridge the gap and the mixed-race children will help to bring everyone together, right? Wrong. It will only produce a new race of people, without any clear identity, thus complicating the racial divide, not healing it. But why is the racial divide an issue in the first place? Can’t we all just get along, put our differences aside, and live together peacefully? Wouldn’t we all be happier if we just ignored our problems and pretended that everything was okay? I think my sarcasm makes the answer obvious. Our problem solving strategies need to be based on realizing and analyzing the issue at hand in an honest and objective manner and then acting accordingly.
I believe that a racially divided country is a problem, and a very serious one that must be addressed and fixed. Many well-meaning, but ill-informed people believe that there is some way to heal the racial divide. If only we were more mixed, more integrated, and more colorblind, then the wounds of division would be healed and we could all live happily together in an egalitarian utopia. Indeed, healing the racial divide is a nice idea; and really, that’s all it is, a nice idea.
If America/>/> is so divided racially, can it really be said to be one nation? Or is it really anything more than a collection of different nations living in the same geographical territory under the same government? A little bit of careful observation should make that obvious. The answer to the problem of a racially divided country is to grant to the ethnic groups in question self-determination. Rather than futilely trying to get the races to melt and mold together, why not give each group it’s own ethno-state, or some measure of separate living space combined with political autonomy? Think about it: how much ethnic conflict can there be in a mono-ethnic society?
Unfortunately, the person I was dealing with seemed to be a believer in racial relativism: the idea that people are people, and we’re all the same under the skin. According to that type if logic, if Whites aren’t having enough babies, it makes perfect sense to bring in non-Whites to fill in the gap. Since we’re all the same under the skin, anyone can be an American. If only they learn some English and adopt some of our cultural habits, they will be just like us, only a little darker. Unfortunately for the believers in racial relativism, science and history are not on their side. Because the races for thousands of years have lived on separate continents under drastically different living conditions, the peoples living on those continents adapted to their respective living conditions. These living conditions have shaped their way of life, their culture, and their social organization. In addition to that, Europeans, Africans, Asians, and Amerindians were physically separated by oceans, desserts, and mountains; racial mixing on a large scale just didn’t happen. Therefore, since people’s reproductive options were limited to other people within their territory, the people within these territories grew genetically closer to other people within the same territory, and further apart from everyone else.
Every person is a reflection of his or her genetic make-up and every civilization is a reflection of its population make-up. Therefore, every civilization is a reflection of its collective genetic make-up. So, it makes perfect sense that the more third-worlders come to live in the United States/>/>, the more the United States/>/> will come to resemble the third world. I realize that there are a number of different economic forces at work, but these cannot be divorced from the racial problem. Why is it that the White nations of North America/>, Europe/>, and Australia/>/> have become flourishing, first-world countries while most of the rest of the globe is third-world, or second-world at best?
When my friend said “we’ll just be a little darker”, I think what he meant to say was “our future will be a little darker”, although given present trends, I would disagree; our future will be a lot darker.
A darker future – is that what we want?