john fernbach <fernbach1948@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Dan <dnada...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>> Kevin Loughmiller <phantomK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>> Whites Drop to 66% of US Population
>>>>> Posted on: 2006-08-15 17:23:17
>>>>> According to an analysis of the latest Analysis of Census Bureau
data
>>>>> by William Frey, Brookings Institution, Whites have dropped to 66
>>>>> percent of the total American population, down from 76.6% in 1990.
>> Yes, and?
>>>>> Only six states (Maine - 96.0%; Vermont - 96.0%; West Virginia -
>>>>> 94.6%; New Hamp****re - 93.9%; Iowa - 91.5%; and North Dakota -
>>>>> 90.9%) are still more than 90 percent White,
>> And this means, what, exactly?
> Among other things, this would seem to mean that white Americans had
> better learn to get along with are darker-skinned neighbors and fellow
citizens.
They've been doing that for hundreds of years.
> Otherwise the society breaks down in chaos
Bet you cant list even a single modern first world country
where that has happened due to a problem with that.
> -- into the kind of insane ethnic warfare that has
> occurred recently in Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan, etc.
Even someone as stupid as you should have noticed that that was
entirely between the various dark skinned neighbours and fellow citizens.
> I'm a white guy and somewhat racist in my reflexes and reactions,
unfortunately.
> I can well imagine that less apologetically racist white people
> -- the National Vanguard crowd, the neo-Nazis, etc. -- must
> be alarmed as hell over the tipping racial balance.
Have fun explaining why we havent seen any chaos in any of the states
where the ratio of whites has dropped significantly in the time listed.
> And if you look at things from their perspective,
> you can't completely blame them for being alarmed.
Their alarm is completely irrelevant.
> But the big question is - do we want to have a big racial war in
> the USA that pits 2/3 of the population against the remaining 1/3?
Taint gunna happen.
> Do we want this in an age where people on both sides are probably
> going to have access to AK-47s, tanks, airplanes, and when it comes
> right down to it, probably also chemical & biological & nuclear weapons?
Taint gunna happen.
> I think not.
You did manage to get that bit right, presumably by accident.
Nothing viable to think with.
> We have a fairly integrated military establishment, and
> gun owner****p is fairly widespread in American society.
> If we get into a big racially motivated civil war,
Taint gunna happen. Bet you cant list even a single
modern first world country thats ever had one of those.
> people of all races are going to go through sheer hell.
Nope, because it aint gunna happen.
> Let's not do this; it's a bad idea.
It aint gunna happen.
> It may be hard to work for a more peaceful outcome
Nope, just doing nothing special sees that happen regardless.
> and a lot of us might not like racial compromise and racial integration
> much -- but as Martin Luther King Jr. said once, "We must learn to
> live together as brothers, or we will die together as fools."
That last is just plain silly in the modern first world.
> Let's not die together as fools.
Taint gunna happen.
> Like the willow tree, as opposed to the oak, we're all going
> to have to bend with the wind so that we don't get broken by it.
No modern first world country ever does get broken.
We've got a system that works.
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