Dear Black and Brown People Who Will be Taking Over the Country Soon,

[lostnfound]

Please, I’m begging you, please make it quick. It can’t happen soon enough.
Please.

Sincerely,
One disgusted and embarrassed white person.

PS America 2019 is the textbook illustration of the absurdity and fallacy of “white supremacy.”

[AJT]

1. I second that emotion....

[bdamomma]

2. Me too

take these white nationalists, white supremacists', . neo Nazis, insecure bastards to hell.

We are a society in moral decay.

[Dan]

3. There is some humor in this request because

America truly is a mixed country.

Checking out your DNA has lots of surprises for some of us.

When POC take over, hopefully, we’ll say - this Country is our Country, all of us. So, no reason to transfer control - just keep on being Americans. One family with many different branches in our tree.

[dem4decades]

4. And once you're in power, just so you know, i have a red hat but

It says Wentworth, and had a leopard on it.

[Wounded Bear]

18. I also have a red hat, with a USMC emblem on it...

I don't wear it.

[RobinA]

5. What Makes You Think

black and brown people will do any better than white people? People are people.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Very true.

[Disaffected]

8. As my wise mother used to say,

the oppressed become the oppressors.

[SharonAnn]

15. See Animal Farm. Checks and balances are important.

[lostnfound]

9. When you hit bottom, nohere to go but up. Nt

[uponit7771]

14. Fair question, some people don't think it can get worse so try what's new. But it will get worse ...

... cause Red Don isn't going be less of a traitor.

[LanternWaste]

20. I think a lot of us are done with the devil we know...

And, before anyone reads something that's not there, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know" is an idiom meaning that when faced with two options, it is better to choose the more familiar one, even if it is undesirable.




(and, before someone gripes that idiom means I'm making fun of someone's uncle: Idiom, (noun) a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

[at140]

27. After visiting 36 countries, it shocks me how similar people are

everywhere. They may speak a different language, but people strive for the same things.

[misanthrope]

31. Bingo

Most people never realize just how dehumanizing the over romanticization of other cultures can be. We're all messy, complicated and mostly tragically flawed.

[brush]

6. We're not about to take over. It's projected that around 2035-40 the US will be a majority/minority.

country, meaning that whites will no longer be more than 50% of the population. We will all still have to deal with each other, hopefully in humane ways.

What's going on now is that trump and his white nationalist base know that this demographic shift is approaching and that's why all the insanity on the border as they try to keep brown people from applying for asylum. They see them as eventual Dem voters, which is where that racist "replacement" theory comes from—remember the chant of the nazis at Charlottesville—"Jews will not replace us."?

And trump keeps the racist stuff coming with his denigration of Haiti and African countries. Now he's even moved on to American cities with his verbal attacks on Baltimore and Rep. Cummings.

Fasten your seat belts as the racists/white supremacists aren't going to give up what they see as their entitlement to be top dogs without a fight.

[Beringia]

10. Mexico absorbed the Spanish

Although I hear there are classes there based on elitism, I think related to how Spanish you are, with Amerindians being at the bottom. They have horrible problems with corruption.

I wonder how many other countries who are not multicultural will ever evolve too, to not being nationalistic, like China, Japan, Russia.

[Igel]

12. It's a reasonable question to ask.

And there are lots of data to get to an evidence-based answer.

The problem is, the evidence-based answer isn't the one acceptable answer.

One common solution is to gut the meaning of "culture." That's a dodge, for people who think that form is so much more important than substance.

[Beringia]

13. Your answer is intriguing, but I can't make head or tails of it

[Progressive Jones]

22. A friend from Mexico has told me things that verify your first paragraph.

He is of Spanish, French, and German descent. Born and raised in Mexico city
He is considered to be from an elite level of society.
He said that the racism among his family, and similar families, is astounding.

[Beringia]

34. Thanks for sharing

I know some of this first hand, from dating a Mexican guy when I was young, but I really don't know how that country works socially.

[at140]

28. Those 3 countries are the least diverse racially!

In China, with 1500 million people, there are only about 100 surnames!

[Beringia]

33. Wow, only 100!

[Oregon1947]

35. Russia is one of the most diverse..read up. the other 2 are not. NM

[at140]

41. Agree because Russia extends through

What 6 time zones? There are Muslims, Christians, Caucasians, orientals...

[Hortensis]

11. :) Can't help thinking it'd have to be an improvement, for a while.

But be careful what you wish for. No superior race means a whole mess of all-too-human people.

At least half are conservatives by nature and/or upbringing, with both all the flaws of the white ones and many, many scores to settle. Regardless of what liberal AAs and Hispanics would want, there's no reason to just assume their cons would react to power by allying with white liberals when they'd have so much more in common with the right.

[Mosby]

17. If Hispanics don't start voting at higher rates

The demographics won't matter. As it is dems outnumber reps, but our base doesn't turn out like the reps, plus they cheat.

[NNadir]

16. Yeah, please do. This old fat bald White guy sure misses...

...having a black guy running things.

[Demonaut]

24. nice

[HAB911]

19. Please treat us better than we treated you

Amen

[sheshe2]

29. Posted this the other night.

The vast majority of Americans are disgusted by Trump’s descent into vile racism. The swing voters who gave Democrats the House will not be won back by calls to blood and soil. They voted Democratic in reaction to those calls for race purity.

The decades before the Civil War involved an argument between white people. Slaves weren’t given agency to determine their own fates. The situation is different now. We are a rainbow nation. And people of color aren’t waiting to be invited to the discussion. They are taking the reins and making sure their voices are heard. And many times what they say is painful to hear, especially if, as a white person, you consider yourself “woke”. Even though I’m Latino, I know I have white privilege because of the color of my skin, and I take in everything, even when it’s painful.

But this is good. We are way past the days when the conversation was just among the members of the dominant group. The formerly voiceless are not keeping quiet. What’s happening now is proof that our country has changed, and irrevocably. The frightened attendees at Trump’s rallies can rail and fulminate all they want, but they will have to adjust to a new reality, where people who don’t look like them or worship like them demand their seat at the table. And they won’t be able to stop the emerging majority.

https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/7/18/send-her-back

[HAB911]

36. +++++++++++

[2020Junker]

21. Never underestimate gerrymandering and the electoral college

Even as demographics shift, the money in this country will fight tooth and nail to concentrate as much power as possible for as long as they possibly can. That's what the Census kerfuffle was all about. It was merely one shot among an incoming barrage that we will be grappling with for at least the next three decades.

As the country transitions from white dominance to a more pluralistic political landscape, things will get uglier.

I reckon a lot of it won't settle down until 2050 or 60 or so. And even then, whoever is in power will still be human, and they will be susceptible to all the venality white politicians have ever been.

I always feel like it's a little patronizingly racist to believe people of color are somehow fonts of wisdom and won't have the same human failings. It plays a bit into the old racist Noble Savage trope. Not a particular fan of the train of thought. People are people. We must always be a check against those who seek and hold power, no matter their color.

[Progressive Jones]

25. K & R

[lostnfound]

32. A bit tongue in cheek. But trump and the GOP are SOOOO AWFUL

and I am SO sick of them.

But if you look at the voting records of black women, they do seem a little wiser.

Bad apples are everywhere in every group (Clarence Thomas) But it’s my opinion that Barack Obama was possibly the finest president we ever had, certainly one of the top two or three, and that means POC are batting 100%... 😉 sample size of one.

[2020Junker]

40. You're not wrong

Black women are the most solid of our voting blocs in our base.

And let's be honest. In this country, as it currently operates, black women have seen some shit.

[Demonaut]

23. wtf

[handmade34]

26. "absurdity...of white supremacy"

yes... not much proof that there is anything superior about white

[Tertullian]

30. Absolutely.

And we can expedite the process by getting active and getting radical.

[brooklynite]

37. the math doesn't quite work that way...

While ethnic minorities IN AGGREGATE will be a larger group that Caucasians, Caucasians will still be the largest single block. Will Blacks and Hispanics be able to work together to acquire political clout?

[mcar]

38. +1000!

[Yavin4]

39. It may never happen.

Projections do not always come to fruition. We could easily see a major slowdown in the birth rates in another couple of years.