Face of America keeps changing
Lewis DiuguidThe face of America continues to change, becoming more like the land that existed before Columbus.
The U.S. Census Bureau today reported that for the first time, the number of infants of color outnumbered those of whites.
The census found that “50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011.”
“This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010,” the census noted in a news release.
The census also reported that people of color in this country edged up to 36.6 percent, or 114 million people. In 2010 it was 36.1 percent. A population greater than 50 percent minority is considered “majority-minority.”
“There were five majority-minority states or equivalents in 2011: Hawaii (77.1 percent minority), the District of Columbia (64.7 percent), California (60.3 percent), New Mexico (59.8 percent) and Texas (55.2 percent).”
Wyandotte County is a majority-minority community. The change should be embraced and accompanied with a new emphasis on education, diversity and cultural awareness training, and opportunities extended to all races.
What’s clear is this country cannot afford its costly and centuries-old practice of discrimination and racism. If only more people could be made aware of that simple fact.
Steven Fetter
66223
1 year agoWhen the majority-minority replaces the minority-majority and becomes a majority at the expense of the minority, then the US will truly become a Garden of Eden.
In the meantime, all those with 1/32 of ancestral color genes may continue to claim victimhood. The rest of us continue to be confused by the labels and fractional math offered up as evidence against us.
George Hunsucker
Northland
1 year agoearth to lewis #13…
It is hard to extend “opportunity to all” when you libs insist on keeping affirmitive action and setasides, which are of course discriminatory too… But that doesn’t count libs, does it?????
Charles Purvis
1 year agoWhat kind of Animal Farm twisting of the language is this?
“Minority-majority.” That is a majority, plain and simple. You cannot keep insisting on your ‘minority’ special treatment because you are not one anymore.