Children of color will be the majority of youth this year. That means that the majority of teens, young adults, and America's future will be non-white going forward from this year. This seismic demographic is set to happen around the middle of 2020 according to US Census Bureau. I am both optimistic and somewhat worried about what this means for the fate of this nation.
A majority black/brown/yellow America is good overall. Our main allies/frenemies this century will be India, China, Brazil, Japan. Western Europe will start to fade into our rearview mirror. America will be dealing with more complex societies, gov structures, and values than the white Anglo-Saxon paradigm. If we are to succeed, we can't have a nation looking like and thinking like Trump's old white man cabinet. America will need to get leaner, younger, and browner to thrive this century. But all changes are met with huge resistance...especially when it comes to race.
There will be growing waves of hate against these truths b/c logic and historical perspective never stopped bigots. We are entering the age of the backlash. While we try to move away from white supremacy model, there will be white-guy Alamo standoffs in our culture: dead-enders, suicide bombers, lone gunmen, white nationalist terrorists, and Broadway producers still trying to resist the inevitable some will take down huge institutions and destroy lives rather than see a different future.
The white 'cowboy' fatalists will be the biggest threat to our safety and security for the next century. You didn't think the psychological model based around the murdering white knight would go silently into that sweet night, did you? The white cowboys will collaborate with our enemies, shoot up our schools, work with foreign govs, employ twisted logic for destroying America in order to make it 'great again.' They will burn down the village to 'save it,' rape the woman to 'cleanse her,' and turn our gov into an oligarchy to honor the democracy. These radicals will come from both the alt-right and the 'woke' left because the artificial race-based supremacy runs much deeper than political parties. It's woven into our cultural fabric and psychosis. The 'I marched with King' white racists will switch over to the 'I voted for Obama' shields to hide their deep-seated fears that their tribe is being eliminated.
And just a final warning....just because POC become the majority doesn't mean that's the end of the current model. White supremacy can exist without a white majority. Just look at colonial South Africa or India, Alabama, Mississippi...or just look your window. Brooklyn, Iowa City, San Antonio, Chicago, it doesn't matter. No matter the racial makeup of your street or collection of friends, you are still living under a model of white capitalist supremacy.
A majority black/brown/yellow America is good overall. Our main allies/frenemies this century will be India, China, Brazil, Japan. Western Europe will start to fade into our rearview mirror. America will be dealing with more complex societies, gov structures, and values than the white Anglo-Saxon paradigm. If we are to succeed, we can't have a nation looking like and thinking like Trump's old white man cabinet. America will need to get leaner, younger, and browner to thrive this century. But all changes are met with huge resistance...especially when it comes to race.
There will be growing waves of hate against these truths b/c logic and historical perspective never stopped bigots. We are entering the age of the backlash. While we try to move away from white supremacy model, there will be white-guy Alamo standoffs in our culture: dead-enders, suicide bombers, lone gunmen, white nationalist terrorists, and Broadway producers still trying to resist the inevitable some will take down huge institutions and destroy lives rather than see a different future.
The white 'cowboy' fatalists will be the biggest threat to our safety and security for the next century. You didn't think the psychological model based around the murdering white knight would go silently into that sweet night, did you? The white cowboys will collaborate with our enemies, shoot up our schools, work with foreign govs, employ twisted logic for destroying America in order to make it 'great again.' They will burn down the village to 'save it,' rape the woman to 'cleanse her,' and turn our gov into an oligarchy to honor the democracy. These radicals will come from both the alt-right and the 'woke' left because the artificial race-based supremacy runs much deeper than political parties. It's woven into our cultural fabric and psychosis. The 'I marched with King' white racists will switch over to the 'I voted for Obama' shields to hide their deep-seated fears that their tribe is being eliminated.
And just a final warning....just because POC become the majority doesn't mean that's the end of the current model. White supremacy can exist without a white majority. Just look at colonial South Africa or India, Alabama, Mississippi...or just look your window. Brooklyn, Iowa City, San Antonio, Chicago, it doesn't matter. No matter the racial makeup of your street or collection of friends, you are still living under a model of white capitalist supremacy.
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